After Odessa, the Sgt. Pepper’s copy that all Sixties headliners felt driven to attempt (the Bee Gees’ wasn’t bad), the Bee Gees faded, resurfacing occasionally with such ace radio balladry as “How Can You Mend a Broken Heart?” They returned in the Seventies with brilliant, plastic R... 

 Pumped by finger-popping bass and swishing high-hat cymbals, Main Course, Spirits Having Flown, and, most spectacularly, their contributions to Saturday Night Fever didn’t create disco but mainstreamed it with stunning craft. They had gigantic hits, of course. A third bid at stardom seemed to r... 

 Pumped by finger-popping bass and swishing high-hat cymbals, Main Course, Spirits Having Flown, and, most spectacularly, their contributions to Saturday Night Fever didn’t create disco but mainstreamed it with stunning craft. They had gigantic hits, of course. A third bid at stardom seemed to r... 

 Still, they persevered. Driven by the irresistible single “You Win Again,” 1987’s E.S.P. was a huge international hit (stateside listeners remained unconvinced).  

 Still, they persevered. Driven by the irresistible single “You Win Again,” 1987’s E.S.P. was a huge international hit (stateside listeners remained unconvinced). One fared even better.  

 High Civilization, Size Isn’t Everything, and Still Waters found them in a holding pattern, although the brothers’ 1997 induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame sparked a revival of interest.  

 High Civilization, Size Isn’t Everything, and Still Waters found them in a holding pattern, although the brothers’ 1997 induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame sparked a revival of interest.  

 High Civilization, Size Isn’t Everything, and Still Waters found them in a holding pattern, although the brothers’ 1997 induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame sparked a revival of interest.  

 The Bee Gees ended the Nineties with a fairly urgent live album, One Night Only, and entered the new century with This Is Where I Came In. It wasn’t exactly their third coming, but it was one of their strongest albums in years, smartly mixing the AOR-funk of their latter years with melodic pop ... 

 Most Bee Gees newcomers will be interested in their slew of hits, which has been collected most completely on Their Greatest Hits: The Record and Tales from the Brothers Gibb, a four-disc collection that’s a little heavy on filler material.  

 The Bee Gees ended the Nineties with a fairly urgent live album, One Night Only, and entered the new century with This Is Where I Came In. It wasn’t exactly their third coming, but it was one of their strongest albums in years, smartly mixing the AOR-funk of their latter years with melodic pop ...