British guitarist analyses the Bee Gees live in 1974! 

Let haters hate, but the Bee Gees were tight live and so such good song writers

It’s great to see the lads finally get a great analysis on RU-vid. I have to say and I may be biased here but I’ve seen some of the most incredible singers perform live over the course of my life and yet no one could touch them. Every damn night on stage, the studio or just jamming in the living room. Just shockingly good...and unlike some of his contemporaries, Dad still delivers every song flawlessly to this day in the original keys. I couldn’t be more proud of them. Thanks for doing this. 🙏🏻

The Bee Gees unfairly suffered the brunt of the disco backlash that happened in the U.S. They were so incredibly talented. Love their early stuff.

Im a huge Bee Gees fan. Barry's voice is unbelievably strong.... and I've never heard him sing a bad note. The Brothers Gibb including Andy are what you call "class" and 'professional" and master artists." They always sounded terrific live-- as good as recording.

Bee Gees stand the test of time... like the Beach Boys and the Beatles. Thanks, Fil, for your analysis.

Barry Gibb is vastly underrated. A genius- those pre-disco lush orchestrations were the perfect showcase for that spectacular harmony. Love him, and RIP to Maurice and Robin.

For those of you who hate the genre of disco, that’s one thing...but The Bee Gees actually had the talent to pull it off. Their disco music, Saturday Night Fever, was actually very creative and the best of the disco music. That music was very well done.

I'm a metal head, and love the Bee Gee's. Always thought it was unfair they are always going to labeled a "Disco Band", when in fact, they were much, much more.

Another great analysis.... the Bee Gees are simply one of the best groups ever.

"It doesn't matter where you come from, there's a song by the Bee Gees you can connect with". Well said Fil :-).

I can’t believe Barry is the last of them. They were the sound of my youth. Great stuff!!!!👍👍👍😢

Little known trivia. In 1964, Bobby Darin, who was Wayne Newton's manager, had gotten hold of a Barry Gibb composition called "They'll Never Know" which Wayne recorded for his RED ROSES FOR A BLUE LADY album released in 1965. Barry Gibb was 17 years old when he wrote it.

Why are your analysis videos so addictive? My opinion - You find the good in everything. You truly love music and it shows. Any type of music is appreciated by you. You can't hold back your enthusiasm and appreciation for other artists. If the sound was off, your smile would say it all. You really love music. Awesome channel. If I did an analysis channel for Wings of Pegasus, I would just smile the whole time. Keep it up.

what I find impressive is how Barry gives this song his all. After watching it, there is no doubt in my mind that he brought every thing that he had to this performance.

This young man's analyses are truly excellent: clear, comprehensive, thought provoking and quite original...worthy of a radio or TV program, provided it's a quality outlet: BBC, NPR (here in the states). Great Job!

I love the Bee Gees with every molecule of my being. The haters can hate, but they laughed their super talented, multi-platinum selves to the bank for decades.

It doesn’t get any better than Fil analyzing The Bee Gees. ❤️

Most musicians respect the bee gees, great artists through every sense of the word

Lord how I love the Brothers Gibb! Loved Robin's voice so very much. RIP to Robin, Maurice and Andy! Beautiful voices and SO much more than disco.

Their earlier stuff (pre-Disco era) are pure gold. My favorite is “I Started a Joke”.

Wow Fil you really get around man, I don't mean that in a joking way at all. You've gotta be the most honest musician and person on the Intire interweb. You would make a fantastic interviewer. Rock on brother, YER THE MAN🤘

There will never be another group as talented as The Bee Gees

Anybody that can turn 'Massachusetts' into a song are a Talent unto Themselves..UNMATCHED !!!

I saw them live in 1979 and they sounded like the recorded album. I was amazed at being so close to people known by almost everyone on the planet!

I always love me some Bee Gees! I feel for Barry, being the last brother standing. That's the crap part of getting older.

Damn. This dude can peel and dissect a song down to its nucleus.

Beegees great. Better than any band that u have ever looked over

As I’ve gotten older, I appreciate more and more how talented The Bee Gees were. Great songwriting and harmonizing. Fil, Your analysis is so insightful as well!! Thanks!

They all have great falsetto’s. Such great harmony and multi talented. Not to mention Barry looked great in polyester.😎🤟🤟

Always loved their harmonies, not to mention their distinct sound. I still listen to them often. Thanks, Fil, for this analysis❣️

The Bee Gees were BRILLIANT---PERIOD. Many of their songs are simply ADDICTIVE. This song being one of them. I could listen to this song on repeat! I know they got a lot of flack towards the end of the 70's, when people began to rebel against Disco. No one can deny their talent---song after song. If a singer has one hit song in their career, they are estatic. These guys had TONS and wrote hits for others too!

As the oldest of 4 brothers, my heart goes out to Barry as the last man standing. I can't even imagine losing all my brothers. I love the early Bee Gees at least as much as the later. Sibling harmonies are the best!

You don’t know how happy it makes me to see a young person love the music of my youth!

I saw them in concert in Cincinnati, OH in the late 70's. Saw Barry perform in Boston a few years ago. My mouse pad is a picture of the BeeGees. You can't play a BeeGees song and not get on the dance floor. Even people who didn't care for the BeeGees...they still got on the floor!

I have to say that for me, I love the fact that the Bee Gees went to great lengths to make many of their songs sound like the original recordings is absolutely amazing.

My boys ! I actually went out to Florida to rehearse with them . A dream come true to be a part of their entourage! Sadly , the tour I was going to play guitar and some keys on was canceled due to Mo’s necessity to rehab . He had gotten very ill toward the end of the rehearsal sessions . I’ll never forget listening to them harmonize ( without backing ) just their voices and Barry’s guitar . Or a cappella ... They were so very good ... so good

The BeeGees are one of if not the greatest bands ever and it's so sad that they lost Morris and Robin so young and also Andy their younger brother but their music will life on forever.

Fil--FYI--Early in their career Maurice sang falsetto. I started going to college clubs in summer 1967 and they were playing New York Mining Disaster on the sound system when bands were taking a break. No one else sounded like them and no one seemed to know much about them. Then they exploded with Massachusetts. I bought their first Greatest Hits album in 1979 and just couldn't get enough of Nights on Broadway. I saw both Barry and Maurice sing in falsetto on that song in later years. What a talented family and how sad they have experienced so much tragedy.

Man, Barry Gibb is a hook writing machine. Just an amazingly talented pop songwriter. Love the Bee Gees and glad you gave your thoughts about them Fil, giving them the respect that they most deservingly earn.

Bee Gees were the soundtrack of my childhood. 👍

I'm going to repost this reply to a comment, as the Bee Gees were very influential in the 80's music scene. 1980 Guilty by Barbra Streisand, 1982 Heartbreaker by Dionne Warwick, 1983 Eyes That See In The Dark by Kenny Rogers, and 1986 Eaten Alive by Diana Ross were all Barry Gibb productions, the 3 brothers having written nearly all the tracks together, Barry on guitar and singing backing vocals and providing horn section arrangements on all 4 albums. Maurice played bass, synthesizer and backing vocals for Kenny's album which includes Islands In The Stream duet with Dolly Parton. In 1980, Barry did 2 duets with Barbra on her album, Guilty and What Kind Of Fool. All 4 albums were recorded at the brothers Middle Ear Studios in Miami with Barry and his production team at the helm. Michael Jackson did backing vocals and cowrote the title track on Diana Ross's Eaten Alive.

I really love these reviews. I am almost 62 years old and lived through many of these performances. Thank you.

Phil, just love your reaction while these legends play!

I saw the Bee Gees in concert in Atlanta in 1979 at the Spirits having Flown concert. They were fantastic and their music was so great! Robin was my favorite!

The songs on Fever were actually written by them for their next album before the movie. Robert called them asking if they could write some songs for a “little movie” he was working on. They told him that they had 4-5 songs that they had written for their next album, but he was welcome to them if he liked them and the rest is history!

Their early stuff is sadly overlooked,superb songwriters and vocalists...

I don’t know whether I got more joy out of listening to the recording or watching the joy on your face Phil.

I’ve loved them my whole life, Barry is still damn handsome!!!!!

Barry’s voice is so powerful & beautiful in this song ❤ handsome Barry

Barry really belted it out... Great harmonies...

Talent was oozing out of these guys. So many great songs that was the soundtrack of many lives. Great review.

The thing I like about Fil’s commentary is that it’s clear he is well-read and quite knowledgeable about many artists. I have read quite a few biographies on musicians and am probably twice Fil’s age, so I know the amount of knowledge he displays took a ton of reading and interest on his part.

This song is timeless. It sounds just as good today as it was when it was released. The Bee Gees were a great group who are very much under appreciated today. They were great songwriters and performers.

Effin A. What a vocal performance. What a songwriter Barry is.

I watch a lot of "reaction" videos from young people. They are finding the BeeGees and it is so wonderful to see the younger people getting a musical education just from listening. They can't really analyze it, and they don't know " jack" about the history. But they are helping beautiful music stay alive and relevant.

Beautiful and distinctive vocal harmonies, iconic songs, sublime melodies. The Bee Gees are one of the best pop band ever. Very good analysis.

I rarely have a day pass without listening to Brothers Gibb or watching an interview with them. They are timeless, intuitive, naturally intelligent, spiritual and gorgeous!

Been on a Bee Gees kick lately, and it's a gas to see how they developed from childhood (those TCN-9 Bandstand clips from Australia are adorable), to the last single "This Is Where I Came In". I'm a 70s child, so when I was little in 1978/79, I only knew the disco stuff (my fave is "You Should Be Dancing"). I thought they were just singers who had a band behind them. The biggest revelation was Maurice. He played acoustic very well on their last single. Then I learned that Mo' was the bassist on the disco tracks. He was damned good! Then that he did indeed play piano and bass on "Idea". Then seeing him handle a 12-string at 15 for "Wine and Women" and "I Was a Lover, a Leader of Men", I thought, _Wow! this kid!_ He really seems to have been the engine of the group. And none of them could read music! He was also apparently the glue in the relationship between Barry and Robin (who I'm sure loved each other, but as Barry has said, they don't seem to have been the best of friends). It's amazing what they accomplished together, but no, there was no way Barry and Robin could continue after Maurice died.

I was a teenager when the movie came out. At the instigation of a classmate, a few of us decided to go watch the movie together and it was one of the first times if not the first that we'd done that because there was so much buzz about the movie. I hadn't much of an idea what the movie was about except that it was a musical. But even before we had watched the movie, the music had started to explode across the pop charts. When we came out from the movie, we were a little stunned; it was the kind of movie that defined a part of your life. We were immediately looking at the schedule to get a ticket to watch it again the same week. Life didn't look the same again; there was just so much to look forward to growing up. SNF was a phenomenon.

Wow! What a great choice. Opened my eyes to the Bee Gees (who I already knew where awesome).

Miss these guys....poor Barry....Robin had a incredible voice.....

The Bee Gees seems to be one of those bands people either love or hate. I'm one who is a huge fan. I'm old enough to have seen Saturday Night Fever in the theater when it came out way back when. I was hooked. One of the best Christmas presents I ever received was when my kids got me their One Night Only concert on DVD a few years ago. I still pull it out occasionally and have a listen. It's just as good every time. Thanks for this analysis. Excellently well done. You brought up some great points. Nicely done.

I couldn't figure out why this great video had only 5,000 views. Then I noticed it was posted just yesterday. This is the good stuff -- it'll have bunch of views in a few more weeks. The Bee Gees are amazing.

love the bee gees but especially love their early music!

Thanks so much Fil for giving these guys the recognition they deserve. Barry’s voice was so powerful that he always stood about 2 feet from the mic. Don’t even get me started about his looks. All so talented !!!!

The Bee Gees are just the best of all times. Excellent and accurate analysis, dude!

The Bee Gees are the only band ever in history to have 5 songs in the top 10 at the same time. They sang together for over 50 years until Robin died, the other 2 brothers died before Robin and Barry is the only Bee Gee left. They wrote all their own songs and songs for other bands. I think they are the best band ever. Even the Beatles as popular as they were and with so many songs weren't together even 10 years, they broke up in 1969 and did things on their own after that.

Great stuff! I was a fan of the Bee Gees when I heard "How Can You Mend A Broken Heart" Loved it!

Through every stage of the Bee Gee's career, I have LOVED these guys!!! I grew up in a musical home, surrounded by musicians who loved all genres of music...including the tremendously talented Bee Gees. The Bee Gees were heard daily in our house. Long live the Bee Gees as outstanding song writers, singers & all-around awesome musicians ❤❤❤!! Thank you Fil for another wonderful review.

Thank you so much! The Bee Gees were the soundtrack of my youth.

I love The BeeGees! They were amazing! Not only were they hot to look like, they were also very talented! Each one had his own sound and it was amazing with the three together. They were gorgeous in their different ways. ❤️🌹❤️

Oh, how I miss them! They were soooo intervating! They had a wonderful gift of song writing second only to the Beatles. Many may think they were even better. After '66 the Beatles stopped making harmony and the Bee Gee's never stopped. Their songs were easier to sing along with.

Lovely harmonies, songwriting and one of the best falsettos in the business. Huge tragedies and huge talents. Only one brother standing😢

Fil....Thank you so much for covering this classic. For me, they remain one of the greatest bands ever and still underrated despite their great success. Their “later period” recordings (1987-2001) deserve to be discovered by music lovers that aren’t familiar with these songs since those albums seem to be harder to find these days. Thanks for the video and your great presentation!

The Bee Gees marked the times of my life. They had so many great songs you could sing to. Good job Fil, the Bee Gees are legends.

I've seen some footage of the Bee Gees in the studio. They were amazing songwriters and had a unique vision of their own sound. Guilty pleasure😎

Love, LOVE, L - O - V - E the way You analyze tracks - and, the back story that You tell about them! (It was Mo [Maurice...] that dropped the records [that they were going to sing along to in the movie theater...], and they broke into pieces when hitting the pavement. So, in actuality, the Bee Gees somewhat owed their amazing career to Mo, "The Man In The Middle").

The Bee Gees had two careers. Old Testament Bee Gees (1966 - 1974) and New Testament Bee Gees (1975 - ?). The '66 - '74 version of the group was the one worth fawning over. So many pop masterpieces! Their strength was clearly the hit single, but in 1973, they quietly issued an LP that was as good as anything else at the time, Life in a Tin Can. It was a rather acoustic album for them, warm and melodic. Not a weak song in the bunch. But nobody cared. Two years later, they would shift to disco and the rest is history. Today, many folks only know the disco Bee Gees and are unaware of the pop-rock Bee Gees that preceded the disco incarnation. This video clip catches the group just before the transition. Great topic choice, once again, by Wings of Pegasus!!

Man, they were tight!! Barry was my first rock crush. I love and admire them to this day.

Oh hell yeah wish you would of done nights on Broadway

What allows this version to be the best is the orchestration in the background. It shows the power of being a classic. Wish I could find a setting that displays the orchestra. The original 1967 (in black and white!) release is superb. The harmony is the best around.

Still Incredible all these years later!!

Waited all song for Robin to have that small falsetto live, love his voice combined with his twin Maurice during the chorus.

Nice review! Lot there I never knew. The Bee Gees had a two part career. Their early stuff was amazing but often forgotten.

Maurice broke the record in that story FIL! The BROTHERS GIBB wrote HIT SONGS plain and simple! Great work again here FIL!

My first song I ever heard from the BeeGees was Massachusetts then I Started a joke. I was very, very young born in 1959. My older cousins were listening to them at the time. That was my introduction to these 2 songs. It was so hauntingly beautiful. I've loved their music over the years. Robin's voice just stayed in my heart and soul. So beautiful and just made your heart ache. I find that now in my mid 60's that my love for music takes me back to the music from my youth as a young child and then teen. So for me now BeeGees, Queen and David Bowie just hold my heart. This is MUSIC.... music that just simply touch you. One of my happiest memories is at one of my parents dancing to a Bee Gee tune. My parents have past on but when I hear their music I have such wonderful memories in my mind of them dancing or us singing to their songs in the car. Thanks Robin, Barry and Mo.

One of the most beautiful melodies ever. Saw them live twice. 1970 and 78. Great live!

Yes! That blood harmony and musicianship was just amazing, plus songwriting! I had no idea about most of these stories, what a full tilt great analysis!

I must admit, I hated disco at first. I was a rocker through and through with The Beatles, Stones and of course Black Sabbath at the top of my list. Then at 15 in 1975 I found out I loved to dance! It was on, but I tended to migrate toward the Black musicians, The Isley Brother, Al Green, Marvin Gaye and so many more. I didn't care for the Bee Gee's until they made the move to change it up. Unfortunately it was in my later years I came to fully appreciate them. I still got those goosebumps and the hair on my scalp stood on end. Man what talent.

Under rated talent from the brothers Gibb. An amazing talent! Loved regardless of what they played. Those harmonies, the falsettos, they had it all. I had the amazing opportunity to meet Barry years ago. That man can write a song with words and music while walking down to the elevator. Tremendous genius.

Not only is Fil a great musician, but also a great teacher of music and band history.

Out of the many many songs that they've done this one will forever be my favorite!

Love that Fil gives background, context, and bio along with his musical analysis.

How could you not like the Bee Gees, especially Barry Gibb. One of the most extraordinary songwriters of our time ! Thank you !!!

I still get chills when I hear this performance. Just an amazing band. I've always been a rocker, but OMG how can you not love the Bee Gees. Barry always plays Guild guitars. I've ended up with a couple too because of him. I've followed the Bee Gees career since 1967. Thanks Fil for this one!!

The first song I heard by The Bee Gees was "New York Mining Disaster 1941," which is a song I really enjoyed as a kid (and still do). I had no idea about any of the disco stuff that made them more popular until a couple of years later. I couldn't believe it was the same band. The Bee Gees are incredibly underrated.

The Bee Gees are a very underrated and under-appreciated group. I'm not saying they were the best of all time but they made their mark on popular music and did an amazing job at it. When I hear Stayin' Alive, I always do a bit of a strut like Travolta did in Saturday Night Fever or bob my head to the beat of the song. Thank you Fil for doing this video.

Vocal harmonies - so vital, yet so underappreciated. SNF put them on the map, but for me, the high water mark was "Too Much Heaven". Not so much the song in it's entirety (the chorus repeats too much at the end), but how the song touches you, especially the second bridge: "You're my life, I can see a new tomorrow. Everything we are will never die; Loving's such a beautiful thing." Those harmonies over that chord progression...the spectacular arrangement...there are no words to explain what it does. It's magic.

The harmonies of the Bee Gees were amazing.

The Bee Gees were my generation. After "One Night Only" I was blown away by how much better their songs were when done acoustically. I always regretted that "Nights on Broadway" wasn't recorded in full, just a one minute sample.