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Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeNew reports claim that filmmaker Ridley Scott is in talks to direct a movie about the hit music group The Bee Gees.The British-Australian trio, formed of brothers Barry, Robin, and Maurice Gibb were one of the best-selling music groups of all time, and will soon be honoured in the form of a movie about their lives and careers.Director Scott, whose last film Napoleon hit cinemas at the…

Ridley Scott is in line to direct a Bee Gees movie, in the latest of a wave of biopics about high-profile music industry acts.According to Deadline, Scott is in negotiations to direct a film about the popular hitmakers, in a project which has sole surviving Bee Gee Barry Gibb on board as executive producer, and Bohemian Rhapsody producer Graham King also involved. No details of the plot or cast have been revealed, but the film will have access to Bee Gees recordings through a deal that the Paramount studio made with the…

"This is our fond farewell to 2023," Chris says of Saturday Night Fever cover Just in time for any New Year’s Eve dance parties, Christine and the Queens have dropped their rendition of the Bee Gees’ “Stayin’ Alive.” The rendition — which arrives days after Barry Gibb was awarded Kennedy Center Honors — hues closely to the Saturday Night Fever classic, with the “Chris Version” putting their own reverbed flourishes on the track. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zgzOxxZw54 “Art heals!…

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,…

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…

40. For Whom the Bell Tolls (1993)The Bee Gees’ biggest 90s hit sums up the pros and cons of their output during the decade. On the one hand, it’s an exceptionally high-quality song, the product of master craftsmen at work. On the other, the production is slick to the point of seeming faintly anodyne.39. Wildflower (1981)The sound of a band still reeling from the 1979 disco backlash – one variant on the Disco Sucks T-shirt also featured the phrase “Kill the Bee Gees” – the album Living Eyes is all over the place. But…

Here’s a new banger to sturdy to, courtesy of BackRoad Gee.Following last month’s “Oh Lord” and his February collab with Chase & Status, “When It Rains”, rising UK rap star BackRoad Gee is back with his brand new single, “Under Attack”. After the teaser received over 9.1 million views on TikTok and 1.2 million on Instagram, the track is set to tear up the festival and club circuits this summer.The accompanying video, directed by Money Mike and Jay Parpworth, complements the dark instrumental—produced by Jackson…