With that "accident," Barry frees himself and his brothers from imitation, from false performance, from false ceremony, from living a lie in front of the congregation. When Barry enters the temple - The Gaumont Theater - in a moment of apostasy, he drops the sacred object he smashes it to the floor. But that precious object also contains falsity - under the spell of that falsity, the boys will deny their gifts and only pretend to sing. Barry, the eldest, the Alpha, the most ambitious, the one with the guitar, bears the precious object - the record. "As every great origin myth must, this tale features the perfect Jungian symbolic moment. Yet, not only does the author say the oldest brother Barry was carrying it, he accuses him of dropping it on purpose to manipulate his brothers. I have watched two taped interviews with the Bee Gees where the youngest brother, Maurice, admits to having been the one to carry and hold the record, and the one then to drop it, when they were off to their first gig to Mime along as the Rattlesnakes when they were kids. I want to give an example of why I don't like the book. It has 27 pages of Notes, 14 pages of selected Bibliography, 3 pages of Acknowledgements, 2 pages of Source Acknowledgements, and a 19 page Index. It's obvious that the author never meet any of the Gibb Brothers, and he comes across as not even liking them. It's not the subject matter, the Bee Gees. Really needs a zero or negative star rating. It's like the author went on an internet cut and paste spree. They will never know that they are just reading what amounts to lies to sell a very poorly written book of miscellaneous articles and interviews taken out of context and thrown together. The sad thing is, non-Bee Gee fans will not recognize the factual errors and will take them as true fact. If you really want to learn about The Bee Gees, read The Bee Gees Tales From The Brothers Gibb by Hector Cook, Melinda Bilyeu, and Andrew Mon Hughes. It needs to be re-titled BeeGees, A Fictitious Account. Not only is this the WORST biography on the Gibb family, it is the worst biography I have ever read. I just found exaggerations of rumors and whispers. There is no new information or great revelations in this book that are reliable. It is like he took The National Enquirer and just reworded every article ever printed on the Bee Gees and Andy Gibb. Meyer has enraged Gibb fans all over the world. Da Capa Press, the publishers of this book should be ashamed of themselves to allow such a travesty to be put to print. I could go on and on about the mistakes in this book. This are but a few of the factual errors to be found. This song was released after Andy's death on a greatest hits album. Also, one of the weirdest errors was the identification of the song "Man on Fire" as being included on the After Dark album. Other errors within the same chapter include the author identifying Andy's full name as "Andy Roy Gibb". And, yes they were brown, not "piercing, sparkling blue." His brown eyes were the last thing I saw when I went to sleep at night and the first thing I saw in the morning. I know this because those brown eyes looked down on me every night for many years. Andy had BROWN eyes like all of his brothers. On the second page of this chapter, not only does the author mis-identify the color of Andy's eyes as "piercing, sparkling blue eyes", he goes on for the rest of the page talking about how those "piercing, sparkling blue eyes" entranced many a television interviewer. I was prepared for whatever crap Meyer had to fling. I have to admit, when I got the book, I skipped to page 225, the chapter "Andy Gibb", the love of my teenage years. But I have to admit, my curiosity got the best of me, I had to have Bee Gees the biography by David Meyer.Īs stated by other reviewers, this book is riddled with not only spelling errors of the worst kind (ie Barry Gordy for Berry Gordy), but also factual errors that even the casual reader could spot. I was told by Barry Gibb himself on Twitter that this book was trash.
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