BeeGeesForever

Maurice: "Then, having said they liked it before they discovered it was The Bee Gees, it was hard for them not to play it."

Maurice: "Then, having said they liked it before they discovered it was The Bee Gees, it was hard for them not to play it."

Maurice: "Robert came up with a way around it, which was that he sent out some unmarked cassettes to DJs and critics. They wouldn't know who it was, so they'd only come back to us if they liked the music."

Maurice: "Stigwood was fighting with them, telling them they were mad and it was a guaranteed Number 1 single, and we were getting secret phone calls from the record company asking us if we could talk Stigwood out of [releasing it]."

Maurice: "We were over the moon with 'Jive Talkin''. But when we played it to people at the record company, they didn't want it. They said it wasn't a good single because it was so different to what we'd done before. Yet they were the very ones who'd told us we had to change."

Maurice: "We were calling it 'Jive Talkin'. But being British, we thought jive was a dance, so the opening line was 'Jive Talkin', you dance with your eyes ...'. It was Arif who said to us, 'Don't you guys know what Jive talk is?'"

Robin: "Ahmet [Ertegun] was so quick to turn off to us. We thought, Fuck it. They aren't going to give us a chance. They were burying us. Only Arif, of all the 'Atlantic' people, kept faith in us."

Blue: "I played a synth bass line on ['Jive Talkin''], w/c was unusual at the time & hv it a distinctive 🎵, but that happened by accident. Usually Mo would play bass 🎸, but he was away from the studio that night, so I found a bass 🎵 on the ARP 2600 & laid a bass line for him."

Maurice: "We were calling it 'Jive Talkin'. But being British, we thought jive was a dance, so the opening line was 'Jive Talkin', you dance with your eyes ...'. It was Arif who said to us, 'Don't you guys know what Jive talk is?'"

Maurice: "He explained that it was black slang for bullshitting, so we changed the lyric to 'Jive Talkin', you're telling me lies."

Maurice: "We were calling it 'Jive Talkin'. But being British, we thought jive was a dance, so the opening line was 'Jive Talkin', you dance with your eyes ...'. It was Arif who said to us, 'Don't you guys know what Jive talk is?'"