Chapter 59: I Will Survive (June - December 1978)

June 16, 1978

Andy Gibb - Flowing Rivers

Released: June 16, 1978

Recorded: October 1976, December 1977 - February 1978

Producer: Barry Gibb, Albhy Galuten and Karl Richardson

Track listing[1]

Side A

One More Look at the Night
Flowing Rivers
Dance to the Light of the Morning
Fool for a Night
Good Feeling
Let It Be Me
Starlight

Side B

Melody
I Go For You
Come Home for the Winter
Too Many Looks in Your Eyes
Waiting for You
In The End

Andy Gibb's solo debut album had initially been set for a release in 1977, but when some tracks ended up on the Bee Gees' Night Fever that same year, it was put on hold. Starting with December that year and lasting up to February 1978, some new tracks were recorded, along with some tracks co-written with his older brothers Barry, Robin and Maurice (and sometimes with just Barry) that would later end up on the Bee Gees' next album.

Flowing Rivers (#15 UK, #7 US) was finally released in June, backed with the title track as the sole single along with "Let It Be Me" as the B-side (#32 UK, #9 US). The album received generally positive reviews from critics as a solid first attempt from what many have dubbed "the baby Bee Gee". Andy's follow-up album, After Dark, would not be released until February 2, 1980.[2]

July 21, 1978

Peter Frampton performing at Oakland Coliseum Stadium, July 2, 1977.

Several weeks following the release of Andy Gibb's Flowing Rivers, the Bee Gees' film based upon their 1969 album Odessa had been released as a joint production between Apple Films and RSO Records. Directed by Lindsay Anderson, written by Henry Edwards and cinematography by Gilbert Taylor, Odessa was made on a budget of $13 million and made roughly $28.4 million in the box office, just breaking even and with a mixed critical reception. With Odessa having been released the same year as The Wiz (a co-production with Motown) and Superman: The Movie, both scheduled for release later in the year, 1978 was expected to be a big year for Apple Films.

Alongside the Gibb brothers, they were joined on the big screen by Sandy Farina as the love interest, George Burns as the kind-hearted captain of the Odessa, Donald Pleasence as the ambitious chief engineer, Frankie Howerd as the ship's cantankerous cook, Paul Nicholas as the jealous love-triangle rival, as well as guest appearances by Steve Martin as the slightly eccentric doctor (a role he would later repeat for Little Shop of Horrors) and Peter Frampton in a posthumous role as a crazed stowaway.

On June 29 in the Bahamas, Peter Frampton had been involved in a car accident that resulted in him being killed immediately. Prior to his death, Frampton had been in the midst of a commercial peak after having released the then-biggest-selling live album of all time, Frampton Comes Alive in 1976. After that, it was downhill from there; it had started when Frampton had taken a shirtless photo for Rolling Stone, which resulted in critics labeling him as a shallow teen idol. The commercial disappointment of his fifth solo album from 1977, I'm in You, further accelerated Frampton's fall from grace, despite reaching platinum.[3]

With Frampton's unexpected death at the age of 28, his solo career was given a critical reevaluation, and both Odessa and Grease (for which he played guitar on the title track sung by Frankie Valli for the soundtrack of the same name) were dedicated to his memory. His former band, Humble Pie, would later reunite the following year for a concert dedicated to Frampton.

September 15, 1978

Kiss - G.A.P.P.

Released: September 15, 1978

Recorded: February - July 1978

Producer: Kiss (all sides), Sean Delaney (Side Gene), Eddie Kramer (Side Ace), Vini Poncia (Side Peter) and Jeff Glixman (Side Paul)

Track listing[4]

Side Gene

Radioactive
Burning Up with Fever
See You Tonite
Tunnel of Love
Living in Sin

Side Ace

Rip It Out
Speedin' Back to My Baby
Snow Blind
Ozone
What's on Your Mind?

Side Peter

Don't You Let Me Down
That's the Kind of Sugar Papa Likes
Kiss the Girl Goodbye
Hooked on Rock 'n' Roll
I Can't Stop the Rain

Side Paul

Tonight You Belong to Me
Move On
Wouldn't You Like to Know Me
It's Alright
Love in Chains

By 1978, heavy metal rock band Kiss, consisting of Paul Stanley, Gene Simmons, Ace Frehley and Peter Criss, was at a commercial peak. Alive II had become their fourth platinum album in under two years, and the tour that followed had the highest average attendance of 13,550 to date, with the gross income being $10.2 million. So where do they go from there?

PAUL STANLEY: "We wanted to do a solo album each and put then them all out on the same day. Tensions were rising between us at the time, and so doing solo projects and exploring our personal interests in other music genres seemed like a good idea at the time." (2004)

GENE SIMMONS: "Somehow, Casablanca Records [Kiss' label since 1973] didn't like that idea, though we did have a contract that called for four solo records. I don't want to delve too deeply into what went on behind the scenes, but come September 1978, we got half a solo album each on a double album that was credited to Kiss. Not Gene, Ace, Peter and Paul individually. Just Kiss as a collective unit." (1994)

Kiss performing live in Tokyo, Japan, 1978.

ACE FREHLEY: "It just felt like some kind of marketing gimmick, as if they were copying what the Monkees achieved with The Monkees Present back in the late 60s." (1997)

G.A.P.P. (with each initial standing for the first names of the band members) managed to reach #22 in the United States and received divisive opinions from critics and fans alike, with some wondering what they would've been like as solo albums. Others tried to trim it down to make a single band album instead of a collection of solo albums packaged together.

PETER CRISS: "We then wanted to do a movie that would cement our image as larger-than-life rock and roll superheroes, almost like a cross between A Hard Day's Night and Star Wars [released last year on May 4, 1977]. But after hearing of a scrapped Bee Gees project in which they sang Beatles songs, Phantom of the Park never got off the ground. Now that I'm thinking about it, it was probably for the best we canned the project altogether; I dunno what the hell we were thinking trying to accomplish such a movie like that." (2015)

17 November 1978

The Sex Pistols - The Great Rock 'N' Roll Swindle

Released: 17 November 1978

Recorded: February - September 1978

Producer: The Sex Pistols and Chris Thomas

Track listing[5]

Side A

No One is Innocent
Just Another Dream
Religion II
Cheap Emotions
Silly Thing
Annalisa

Side B

The Great Rock 'N' Roll Swindle [ft. Edward Tudor-Pole]
Empty Words
1-2-3
Attack
Burning Sounds
Fodderstompf

In January 1978, Johnny Rotten announced that the Sex Pistols would return to the studio to record a second album. The first single off of their upcoming album, "No One is Innocent" backed with "Cheap Emotions", was released on 30 June and topped out at #3 in the United Kingdom. It had been recorded at an unknown 16-track studio in Rio de Janeiro and was among the first songs to be recorded for the Sex Pistols' sophomore album.

STEVE JONES: "By that time, we had become associated with Edward [Tudor-Pole] and his band, Tenpole Tudor. When we were recording for 'Swindle', Johnny's voice was not in great shape, so we asked Eddie if he could fill in for the recording, and he agreed. The track was credited to both the Sex Pistols and Tenpole Tudor, but we probably should've credited it to the Tenpole Pistols." (2002)

The members of Tenpole Tudor, 1979. Edward Tudor-Pole (stage name Eddie Tenpole) is on the far left.

Tenpole Tudor was later brought to the attention of Apple Records A&R Director Jake Riviera by Paul Cook, who would then have the group signed onto the label by the start of 1979 along with English ska band Madness. The former group would put out their debut single "Who Killed Bambi?"/"Rock Around the Clock" (#14 UK) in March and the latter their debut album One Step Beyond... (#2 UK, #128 US) in October.

The Sex Pistols' second album, The Great Rock 'N' Roll Swindle (#7 UK) was finally released in mid-November, and was backed with the second single "Silly Thing"/"Attack" (#6 UK), before being followed up by the third and final single "The Great Rock 'N' Roll Swindle"/"1-2-3" (#4 UK) in February the following year. While Never Mind the Bollocks would receive wildly critical acclaim in later years, Swindle would be seen as "a slight step down, but with an interesting look into what they could've done had they stayed together into the next decade."

Yes, with new directions the Sex Pistols was taking with their music, it looked as if they were destined to continue for another decade or so. But tragically, the actions of a mentally disturbed fan, as well as his equally disturbed girlfriend, would not only throw a wrench in their works, but shake up the world...

December 15, 1978

The Bee Gees - Spirits Having Flown

Released: December 15, 1978

Recorded: March - November 1978

Producer: Bee Gees, Albhy Galuten and Karl Richardson

Track listing[6]

Side A

Tragedy
Too Much Heaven
Love You Inside Out
An Everlasting Love
Reaching Out
Spirits (Having Flown)

Side B

Search, Find
Why
Stop (Think Again)
Living Together
I'm Satisfied
(Our Love) Don't Throw It All Away

Following the modest success of Odessa, the Bee Gees' next album was pushed forward from the initial January 1979 release to December 15 for the Christmas rush. Spirits Having Flown was preceded that October by the double A-side "Too Much Heaven" and "An Everlasting Love", marking yet another #1 hit for the Bee Gees in the United States. This was followed up by two more #1 hits, "Tragedy" and "Love You Inside Out", and then "(Our Love) Don't Throw It All Away", although that reached no higher than #7.

Spirits Having Flown hit #1 in both the United States and the United Kingdom (their first album to do so for the latter country) and was met with positive reviews. Their next album, Living Eyes, would not come out until October 1981, and it would mark their final album for six years.[7]

Summary of Bee Gees releases, 1978 - 1979

• "Night Fever" / "Down the Road" - February 7, 1978 (#1 UK and US)
• "Shadow Dancing" / "Warm Ride" - April 17, 1978 (#42 UK, #1 US)
• "Too Much Heaven" / "An Everlasting Love" (double A-side) - October 24, 1978 (#3 UK, #1 US)
• Spirits Having Flown - December 15, 1978 (#1 UK and US)
• "Tragedy" / "Until" (non-album B-side) - February 12, 1979 (#1 UK and US)
• "Love You Inside Out" / "Desire" - April 30, 1979 (#13 UK, #1 US)
• "(Our Love) Don't Throw It All Away" / "Spirits (Having Flown)" - July 9, 1979 (#16 UK, #7 US)
• Bee Gees Greatest - October 19, 1979 (#6 UK, #1 US)

Footnotes

1. A straightforward compilation of songs from Flowing Rivers and Shadow Dancing that did not end up on Night Fever or Spirits Having Flown (see footnote 4 below).
2. On After Dark, "Me (Without You)" (from Andy Gibb's Greatest Hits) replaces "Desire", which is now a Bee Gees B-side. The song was worked on during the sessions for Spirits Having Flown, but it was left off for sounding too similar to "Too Much Heaven". Andy Gibb later added in his vocals in May 1979. For TTL, I simply pretended he recorded his vocals earlier.
3. In OTL, Peter Frampton narrowly survived his car accident. Because of the critical failure of the Sgt. Pepper film, he hit a severe career slump and never reached the heights of Frampton Comes Alive again.
4. Each side consists of an abridgment of the Kiss band members' respective solo albums from 1978. I arranged the album by picking out the solo tracks that were generally more popular among Kiss fans; your mileage may vary.
5. Tracks are sourced from the compilation album Flogging a Dead Horse, the Professionals' intended debut album from 1980, Public Image Ltd's Public Image: The First Issue and Rich Kids' Ghosts of Princes in Towers. In addition, for TTL, the tracks have Johnny Rotten primarily on lead vocals with Glen Matlock and Steve Jones occasionally stepping up to the microphone, and they have a more punk edge akin to Never Mind the Bollocks, although with a more experimental sound akin to their individual projects from the late 1970s/early 1980s.
6. All tracks are sourced from Spirits Having Flown, excluding "An Everlasting Love", "Why", and "(Our Love) Don't Throw It All Away", all sourced from Andy Gibb's Shadow Dancing. "Until" is released as a non-album B-side.
7. On Living Eyes, "Time is Time" (also from Andy Gibb's Greatest Hits) replaces "Soldiers", which also ends up becoming a non-album B-side.

Author's Comments

Not much to discuss here; the Bee Gees' story will more or less continue as it did per OTL, only with Andy Gibb as a member and surviving past 1988. Also, since the Sgt. Pepper film doesn't happen, the Bee Gees don't go through the commercial slump like they did in OTL.

I've been planning for Kiss and Yes to have storylines for Strawberry Peppers; in the case of the latter, Jon Anderson doesn't leave the band, and Vangelis will join Yes. I've even thought of having them sign up for Highway 61 Records. I was going to do something regarding their 1978 album Tormato, but I ended up cutting it because I couldn't think of something to do with it. Hopefully when I get to doing Drama (or its equivalent), I'll have something in mind. Other than Kiss having an album in 1978 and not doing Phantom of the Park, I don't know what else to do with them as a result of these changes, but I suppose that change isn't immediately obvious so it could be one of those cases.

Lastly, there's the Sex Pistols; since they've never run into Malcolm McLaren (and with Lord Beeching having told him to sod off like he did with Don Arden), they haven't broken up... yet. I don't think anyone's ever attempted to answer the question of what a follow-up to Never Mind the Bollocks would've sounded like had they not broke up, and if that's the case, then it looks like I might be the first. Your results may vary, and it'll be interesting to see what others can come up with. There will be more to do with them in a later chapter, and chances are it may not be pretty...

Chapter 53: Shower the People (June - September 1977)

June 17, 1977

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Yacht Folks

Released: June 17, 1977

Recorded: 1976-1977

Producer: Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young with Ron and Howard Albert

Track listing[1]

Side A

Shadow Captain
Let It Shine
Carried Away
Fair Game
Anything at All
Cathedral

Side B

Dark Star
Just a Song Before I Go
Fontainebleau
Cold Rain
In My Dreams
I Give You Give Blind

The latest album by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young had a particularly interesting history behind it; recording for Yacht Folks had begun following Neil Young's departure to focus on a solo career, and yet he was only present on two songs ("Let It Shine" and "Fontainebleau"), both of which were recorded during the Long May You Run sessions but were left off at the time. While they had usually maintained a balance between the four members of at least three songs each - with one or two members sometimes getting four - it was Graham Nash who contributed four songs to Yacht Folks, including the lead single "Just a Song Before I Go". Stephen Stills also contributed four songs, with one of them, "Run from Tears", being held back to serve as the B-side to the single, which charted at #4 in the United States and #57 in the United Kingdom. The following single, "Fair Game"/"In My Dreams", came out in September and hit #30 in America.

Yacht Folks received positive reviews from critics, but despite the acclaim, it had stalled at #2 in the United States (and also topped out at #23 in the United Kingdom), being left off of the #1 spot by Fleetwood Mac's Rumours, which would go on to become Apple's biggest selling album of 1977. Yet despite this loss, Yacht Folks still remained Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young's best selling album, only behind Human Highway. Save for touring, the rest of the 1970s were fairly uneventful for the now-trio; the most significant being that they received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for their contributions to the music industry on June 21, 1978. Around that time, they had begun work on a new album under Crosby, Stills & Nash, but it'd be two years before it actually came out, largely due to David Crosby's drug problems. But what about their runaway horse, Neil Young?

July 1, 1977

Neil Young - Chrome Dreams

Released: July 1, 1977

Recorded: November 29, 1975 - April 4, 1977

Producer: Neil Young and David Briggs

Track listing[2]

Side A

Pocahontas
Will to Love
Ride My Llama
Like a Hurricane
The Old Country Waltz

Side B

Hold Back the Tears
Lost in Space
Captain Kennedy
Hey Babe
Powderfinger
Look Our for My Love

Neil Young's first post-CSNY album consisted of a lot of solo material that he had recorded before, during and after the Long May You Run sessions, among the earliest being "Like a Hurricane", representing the more electric side to Young's music. The final sessions, taking place in April, featured backing band Crazy Horse alongside the likes of Ben Keith, Nicolette Larson and Linda Ronstadt, adding a more country sound to the album, further showcasing Young's diverse range of music styles.

Chrome Dreams was released under Highway 61 Records, charting at #15 in the United States and #10 in the United Kingdom, but it performed best in Young's home country of Canada at #8. Since its release, it has received mixed to positive reviews from critics and fans, with one of the tracks, "Will to Love", recorded May 1976, being especially divisive. Some call it one of the highlights of Neil Young's career, while others claim it's one of the worst.

Pre-September 1977

Andy Gibb, 1977. Since joining the Bee Gees, he had often been labeled in the press as the "baby Bee Gee", as he was the youngest of the Gibb brothers, consisting of himself, Barry and twins Robin and Maurice. Andy was younger than the twins by about eight years and two months.

Since switching over to more dance-oriented music, beginning with 1975's Main Course, the Bee Gees had become one of the most popular acts of the 1970s, putting out chart-topping numbers such as "Jive Talkin'" and "You Should Be Dancing". The band had been around since 1958, but had never achieved such great success as they were going through right now, eventually being dubbed the "Kings of Disco". Now, they were about to get even bigger, having recently gotten involved in contributing a few songs to the upcoming film Saturday Night Fever, due for release on December 16 for the Christmas holiday season.

ANDY GIBB: "It was a huge deal for all four of us. I was only eighteen, almost nineteen, in fact, when I joined my older brothers in the Bee Gees. Barry was helping me at the time with a potential solo album, but then Robert [Stigwood] heard two of the songs ["I Just Want to Be Your Everything", "Thicker Than Water"] and said that I should probably hold them back for a Bee Gees album. Whether that was a good move or not, I still haven't figured it out to this day." (1995)[3]

Robert Stigwood, the Bee Gees' manager, head of RSO Records and producer for Saturday Night Fever, had purchased the rights to use the Beatles' music in 1974 for a live Broadway show dubbed Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band on the Road, and had even commissioned Henry Edwards to write a script based around the music. It was later submitted to Apple Corps for approval before starting work on filming in October. To Stigwood and Edwards' disappointment, the script had been rejected by not only Michael Lindsay-Hogg, but the four Beatles as well.

JOHN LENNON: "I've a lot of respect for the Gibb brothers, but that Sgt. Pepper movie idea was just stupid. No way it could've worked. Not then, not now, not ever." (2006)

GEORGE HARRISON: "Had that Sgt. Pepper film come out, I think it would've damaged the Bee Gees' image, their careers, and they didn't need to do it. It's just like the Beatles trying to do the Rolling Stones. The Rolling Stones can do it better." (1979)[4]

Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Brian Epstein and George Martin also had similarly negative views on Edwards' script.

Robert Stigwood (far left) with the Bee Gees, 1970

BARRY GIBB: "Robert was rather upset about the Sgt. Pepper film being rejected, but really, could you blame those at Apple for wanting to preserve the legacy of the Beatles' music? We had to come up with a Plan B pretty fast." (2009)

ROBERT STIGWOOD: "When interest in the Bee Gees had been revived, the label had re-issued their 1969 album Odessa. Critics and fans didn't care for it back then, but when it was re-released, in shortened form, they liked it. So I figured that this should be their film instead jointly produced with Apple Films." (1987)

ROBIN GIBB: "I was skeptical about Robert's Plan B. I didn't even like working on the album back in 1968 and a lot of arguments among myself, Barry and Maurice forced me to leave the group for a while. Still, I was at least willing to try and give the Odessa film the benefit of the doubt." (1994)

The story of Odessa, released March 30, 1969, was intended to be about the loss of a fictional ship in 1899, not dissimilar to the story of the maiden voyage of RMS Titanic in 1912. Disagreements between the Bee Gees regarding the album's direction had changed the final product, and it was a dispute over what should be the main single (it was "First of May", released two months ahead of the album) that forced Robin to leave the group. An early member of the band, Vince Melouney, had also left during that time.

With a new script by Henry Edwards locked down and approved, and with Lindsay Anderson and Gilbert Taylor brought in to respectively direct the movie and do the cinematography, it was now a matter of choosing who to star as supporting cast alongside the Gibb brothers. Among the actors for consideration were George Burns, Frankie Howerd, Donald Pleasence and Paul Nicholas, as well as a relatively unknown Sandy Farina playing a love interest to one of the brothers, plus Peter Frampton as a stowaway. There was even a special appearance written with up-and-coming actor Steve Martin in mind, portraying a slightly eccentric doctor on the Odessa.

September 23, 1977

The Bee Gees - Night Fever

Released: September 23, 1977

Recorded: May 1976 - 1977

Producer: Barry Gibb, Albhy Galuten and Karl Richardson

Track listing[5]

Side A

Night Fever
Words and Music
How Deep is Your Love
Rest Your Love on Me
(Love Is) Thicker Than Water

Side B

I Just Want to Be Your Everything
If I Can't Have You
Emotion
More Than a Woman
Stayin' Alive

Four of the tracks on the Bee Gees' latest album Night Fever - "Stayin' Alive", "How Deep is Your Love", "More Than a Woman" and the title track - would also later turn up on the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack, as well as Yvonne Elliman's version of "If I Can't Have You". "Rest Your Love on Me" had been recorded during the Children of the World sessions, but had been left off before being reused for Night Fever. "Emotion" would later be given to Samantha Sang, and the remaining three tracks - "Words and Music", "(Love Is) Thicker Than Water" and "I Just Want to Be Your Everything" - were all sung by Andy Gibb, with the latter two having writing contributions from Barry.

Night Fever managed to reach #1 in both the United States and the United Kingdom. "How Deep is Your Love", "Stayin' Alive" and "Night Fever" were all also #1 hits in the former country as well. They were later followed up by a non-album single in April the following year, "Shadow Dancing" (with Andy on lead vocals) backed with "Warm Ride", that also hit #1. The Bee Gees were now on a hot streak that almost rivaled the Beatles back in the 1960s. But now they were working on a movie based upon an album that the Bee Gees themselves did in that same decade; could the Odessa movie continue that hot streak or bring it to a grinding halt? Well, it wasn't due for release until July, so only time would tell.

Footnotes

1. All tracks are sourced from CSN (1977), excluding "Let It Shine" and "Fontainebleau", both taken from The Stills-Young Band's Long May You Run. "See the Changes" was already used on Human Highway, and "Run from Tears" is relegated to a B-side.
2. Track listing is based upon what Neil Young was intending for Chrome Dreams in OTL, with some changes made to replace tracks used on previous albums; "Ride My Llama" and "The Old Country Waltz" appear on side one in place of "Star of Bethlehem" (already on Homegrown) and "Too Far Gone", respectively. On side two, "Lost in Space" replaces "Homegrown" (also already on Homegrown), and "Stringman" and "Sedan Delivery" are both removed in favor of "Hey Babe". "Lost in Space" is sourced from Hawks & Doves, "Look Out for My Love" from Comes a Time, and the remaining tracks are from Hitchhiker and American Stars 'n Bars.
3. Some time after the release of Flowing Rivers, Andy Gibb revealed that a lot of people said that it sounded like the Bee Gees.
4. Near verbatim to what George Harrison said about the Sgt. Pepper film. Dialogue was changed to reflect the film being scrapped before filming had even begun.
5. "Words and Music", "(Love Is) Thicker Than Water" and "I Just Want to Be Your Everything" are sourced from Andy Gibbs' Flowing Rivers. "Night Fever", "How Deep is Your Love" and "More Than a Woman" are all sourced from the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack. "Rest Your Love on Me" was the B-side to "Too Much Heaven", recorded 1976 but not released until 1978. The Bee Gees' version of "If I Can't Have You", performed by Yvonne Elliman for the movie soundtrack, was originally the B-side to "Stayin' Alive" before later appearing on Bee Gees Greatest; the extended seven-minute mix of the latter track can also be found on said album as a bonus track. The band's version of "Emotion", originally performed by Samantha Sang, appeared on Their Greatest Hits: The Record, albeit recorded in 1994 for a cancelled album called Love Songs.

Author's Comments

Lately, it seems as though I've been uploading chapters on a fortnightly basis. That's probably not a bad thing, to be honest, as it gives me more time to think about the direction each chapter and story arc will go. In the case of Crosby, Stills & Nash, however, we're not going to be seeing much of them during Phase Three, largely due to lengthy gaps in collaborations and recordings between 1977 and 1988 (save for 1982's Daylight Again). Their peak in quality was certainly during 1968-1976, but since then, it's been kind of downhill from there, finally crashing and burning in 2015 when they broke up for good, largely due to David Crosby being kind of a dick. Granted, the others weren't exactly angels either, but David and his personal problems were certainly a factor. He has offered an olive branch to get together again, but at their age... who knows what'll happen?

Neil Young, on the other hand, is going to be a bit more prominent than the others during Phase Three, largely due to his output being greater in terms of quantity. I think it'll be interesting to see where I take his music in the 1980s, especially with the (soon to come) birth of his son Ben. Maybe his output won't be as controversial as it was in OTL?

Lastly, there's the Bee Gees. Yes, I have effectively removed the Sgt. Pepper movie from existence. Why had I done that rather than try to make it more tolerable? Well, I think all you need to do is see Across the Universe from 2007 and the problem should clear itself up. Plus, considering that Odessa was given a reevaluation in 1976, it probably would've made better sense had a movie been based on that instead. Plus, it spares the Bee Gees the embarrassment of starring in a movie featuring Beatles songs. Earth, Wind & Fire's cover of "Got to Get You Into My Life" can still exist as a non-album single, and I've got an idea in mind for Aerosmith's take on "Come Together". You'll find out what it is soon enough.

Also, Andy Gibb is officially a Bee Gee. I couldn't come up with a reason as to why that happens, but if you have an idea, please let me know. I had the idea of bringing him into the band because the Bee Gees had almost enough material for an entire album, plus Andy's music sounds reminiscent of them in a way, so I pulled a few tracks from Flowing Rivers to flesh out Night Fever to make a ten-track album. There is one other album with Andy on a Bee Gees album, but after that, I'm not sure what happens next.