I was not impressed by the Bee Gees or any disco music. I think the music is immature and the lyrics even worse.

However, this story and what happened to the group and the individual members of it, is a sad reflection on the frailty and impermanence of the popular music industry.

It's honest and amazing natural roots in blues, jazz, rock-a-billy and black music were soon usurped by money worshipping entrepreneurs, few of whom had 'music' at heart but rather, just wealth.

Sadly, the excitement and appeal to the newly affluent middle class teenagers also meant that many were persuaded to follow the same materialist notion of success.

From that time on, what is really simply the 'folk' music of a time has become the province of wealth manipulators, corporations and impostors.

Yes, what I've written is a generalisation and, within its truth, there are the exceptions that 'prove the rule', i.e. honest, talented, creative and innovative musicians and lyricists who would probably have pursued their craft whether paid well or not.

None-the-less, in my view, it is an unfortunate symptom of the way materialism has taken over the aspirations of many and allowed control of content, presentation and even direction by those with no particular passion for the artists or product, but only for how many $$$ they will generate.