BEFORE THE BEE GEES BECAME A DISCO PHENOMENON, “EDISON” REVEALED A STRANGER AMBITION. On their 1969 double album Odessa, Barry, Robin, and Maurice Gibb turned a biographical idea about Thomas Edison into ornate late-sixties pop, wrapped in the kind of orchestral storytelling that made their early work so unusual. This was the Bee Gees before the dance-floor myth, writing songs that felt like portraits, fables, and small theatrical scenes. Odessa gave them room to be grand, curious, and beautifully odd, and “Edison” shows how seriously they treated pop as a place for imagination. When you hear it now, does it change the way you think about what the Bee Gees were before the world recast them?
Introduction BEFORE THE BEE GEES BECAME A DISCO PHENOMENON, “EDISON” REVEALED A STRANGER AMBITION When...