The defiant, drum-led anthem landed at Number 1, their fifth in the UK, making them the first group to claim a chart-topping single in three consecutive decades: the '60s, '70s and '80s. The track featured on their Children Of The World album, and the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack a year later.Īfter going seven years without a hit single, the Bee Gees made a glorious comeback in 1987 with You Win Again. You Should Be Dancing (1976)Ĭredited as the song that launched the Bee Gees into disco, You Should Be Dancing saw Barry Gibb delivering the song in what would become his trademark falsetto. In a 2017 interview, Barry Gibb said it was his favourite song he'd written for its clear and emotional message. The group's second single was a minor hit in the UK, but it success has endured over the years and remains one of the most popular songs of the 1960s - covered by everyone from Nina Simone and Janis Joplin to Rod Stewart and Michael Buble.
MORE: ABBA's Official Top 20 biggest songs 7. Despite having never set foot in Massachusetts, the track was their first global hit - and has the small claim to fame as the second song ever played on BBC Radio 1 following its launch that year. The group's first UK Number 1 was originally written with Australian group The Seekers in mind. The track was originally titled Drive Talking, inspired by the sound rhythm made by their car. The lead single from their 1975 album Main Course (and later featured on the 1977 Saturday Night Fever soundtrack), Jive Talkin' was seen as somewhat of a comeback for the group after a three-year absence from the charts. 20 years after its release, Tragedy landed at the summit once again thanks to Steps. The track became their fourth UK Number 1 and was also a chart-topper in America, where it knocked I Will Survive by Gloria Gaynor off Number 1. Tragedy (1979)īy the time Bee Gees released hook-laden Tragedy they had been regulars at the top end of the Official Singles Chart for well over a decade.
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MORE: Bee Gees' Official UK Chart history in full 10. The full Top 20 appears at the bottom of the page, but first, here's a closer look at the Top 10. Barry Gibb's new album, a c ollection of country reinterpretations of Bee Gees' biggest hits titled Greenfields, is the latest chapter in the brothers' hugely successful career that spans over 50 years and 31 Top 40 singles.Īs Gibb's latest collection - the first of what he's hopes to be a trilogy of releases - heads for Number 1 on the Official UK Albums Chart, we're revealing which of the Bee Gees' hits stand up in the streaming age.
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