In Lecture 106A, we trace the Bee Gees’ improbable journey: from tender ballads to disco dominance, from six straight number ones to being torched in the “Disco Sucks” bonfire at Comiskey Park. Mocked as symbols of excess and overexposure, the brothers were cast out almost overnight. But exile didn’t end them — it forced their greatest reinvention, as the invisible hitmakers behind Barbra Streisand, Dolly Parton, Diana Ross, and more.

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