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Disco Legends The Bee Gees’ New Book Reveals The Trio Used To Constantly Argue While Recording ( Photo Credit – Instagram ) Disco legends, the Bee Gees would argue constantly in recording studios, but always made up over a cup of tea, a new book reveals. According to the book ‘Bee Gees: Children of the World’, the ‘How Deep Is Your Love’ singers, Barry Gibb, 76, and his twin brothers Robin and Maurice, knew it was “time to get back to work” once the kettle had boiled, reports Mirror.co.uk. Studio engineer John…

This book contains few new interviews about the “insanely productive” group who sold more than 220m records: it is author-led, meaning we are mainly given Bob Stanley’s opinions about the Bee Gees’ music. But there are few people whose opinions I would rather have. Stanley is a highly articulate proponent of pop rather than rock (his previous book was Let’s Do It: The Birth of Pop) and a practitioner himself, with his group Saint Etienne.Pop has come in out of the cold in recent years, Blondie as likely to be pontificated…

When he was starting out as a young man in bands in the early 60s, Paul Nicholas could only have dreamed that he would still be working more than 60 years on. He is now nearing the end of a seven-month theatre tour. It must be tiring by this stage, I suggest. But no, he says. “It’s really the one thing that I enjoy doing more than anything. Performing on stage is kind of a release for me.” He smiles. “It sounds a bit heavy, doesn’t it?”Nicholas is about to release the audio version of the memoir he wrote during lockdown,…

Researchers have shown that returning foragers of buff-tailed bumblebees use their own passively laid out scent marks, as well as visual information from landmarks, to find their way back to the nest entrance. These results highlight the importance of both vision and odor for guiding the navigation of bumblebees.Get Ready For Another Summer of Invasive Lanternflies | Extreme EarthPut yourself in the exoskeleton of a bumblebee for a moment: your world would be a riot of colors and scents, both essential to guide your search…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Researchers have developed a novel artificial intelligence (AI) model that combines an algorithm based on the scouting and foraging behavior of bee colonies with a fuzzy wavelet neural network to accurately predict road traffic accidents The artificial bee colony…

If evolutionary biologists are the detectives of the natural world’s past mysteries, then the phylogenic tree is their version of a cork board of crime-scene suspects linked together with red string and thumbtacks.And the latest revelations out of this form of biological investigative work is that an insect, but not a bee, that transported the very first package of pollen to another plant some 140 million years ago, kicking off the propagation of flora that has spawned around 400,000 species now occupying nearly 90% of…

Irish author Paul Murray made his debut in 2003 (An Evening of Long Goodbyes) but didn’t find wider attention until his second book, 2010’s boarding school comedy Skippy Dies. Next came The Mark and the Void (2015), a post-crash metafiction involving a writer by the name of Paul. His brilliant new novel lays a plausible claim to Murray being Dublin’s answer to Jonathan Franzen. A 650-page slab of compulsive high-grade entertainment, The Bee Sting is a sharply written family soap opera that oozes pathos while being very…

Disco could be a heavy, unctuous perfume. There were reasons people hated it, and they weren’t all homophobic or racist. On the chart in 1977 was La Belle Epoque’s version of the German/Spanish 60s hit Black Is Black. Originally it had been a hit for another act with a tempting European name, Los Bravos. This 1966 version had been a thing of slab density, a three-note organ riff with a Charlie Watts clone’s monotone drumming keeping it simple as can be, and an unreal human voice, half-crow, telling the world “black is…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Whenever the Scripps National Spelling Bee takes place, parents and children may wonder: What does it take to become a champion? Is it worth the effort? As just about any former Scripps champion could tell you, the contest—which is set to take place May 31 to June 1 this year—involves a fair…

Paul Murray’s second book, Skippy Dies, was one of the standout novels of the previous decade: a riotously entertaining tragicomedy, set in a posh Dublin boys’ school, in which bone-deep sorrow and pathos cut through the teenage hilarity and fart jokes. The Mark and the Void, 2015’s tricksy satire of both the banking crash and the difficult novel-writing business, strayed into metatextual noodling, but with The Bee Sting, Murray is triumphantly back on home turf – troubled adolescents, regretful adults, secrets signposted…