“Disco Manqué”
Jody Rosen testifies:
Gibb is an old-fashioned song craftsman—a composer of beautiful, harmonically sophisticated pop songs who would have held his own back in the 1930s with Gershwin and Kern and company. This is the funny thing about the Bee Gees disco-era apogee: They were playing dress-up, shamelessly bandwagon-hopping, writing the same great songs that they always did, and tacking on a dance beat. They were disco manqué.
(Note Ed’s stumble over “Maurice.”)
Here’s an earlier post about one of the “greatest rock and roll lung-thrusts,” and more Brothers Gibb genius here.