Barry Gibb - The Great Songwriters

For decades now, whenever the Bee Gees or a solo Gibb brother announces a new release, the music media finds itself engaged in odd ritual acts of contrition. This curious journalistic exercise involves snarky descriptions of previous works, alongside dutiful accounting of sales figures and statistics (seven chart-topping hits in 1978 alone!) intended to show just how inescapable the Bee Gees were in the 1970s.