8 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About The Bee Gees (But Should)

In the late 1970s, much of the nation was enraptured by every chord and syllable that the Bee Gees produced thanks to the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack, which dominated the U.S. album chart for the first half of 1978 for 24 weeks at No. 1.

Though the brothers Gibb — Australian imports born into a poor but musical family on Britain’s Isle of Man — will eternally be the crown princes of the disco era, true fans know they were also genius songwriters whose musical hearts beat loudest for the raw emotion and complex rhythms of R&B and soul, and who provided chart-topping hits for everyone from Diana Ross to Dionne Warwick to Dolly Parton.