Bee Gees (And Me)

I’m beyond excited to be talking today with the three authors of Bee Gees Decades, a new book series about our favorite Brothers Gibb. This first book, focusing on their lives and work in 1960s, will be available on November 12th across the world, December 17th here in the States, right in time for Christmas! The book “The Bee Gees In the 1960s” has left no stone unturned. In addition to getting to the bottom of all of the information they could about these tracks, sessions and albums, spanning multiple decades, the three authors have also created a narrative that will make you feel closer to The Bee Gees, and undoubtedly have a new perspective on the music, the story, and the legacy. Based in Wales, the United States, and Australia, respectively, Andrew Môn Hughes, Grant Walters & Mark Crohan have over fourteen decades of combined expertise and history tied to the Bee Gees’ legacy between them, amassing a lengthy list of credits for their contributions to CDs, DVDs, books, tour programmes, articles,…

This episode is all about Andy Gibb. Even though this is a Bee Gees podcast, I would often get questions or messages about Barry, Maurice and Robin’s little brother Andy, who as you all know, was a musician himself. I would often joke back to those people with something along the lines of, “This is the Bee Gees And Me YouTube channel, you must have confused me with the Andy Gibb And Me channel.” Because, here’s the shocker, I was never a really big Andy Gibb fan. Now, that might be considered blasphemous to some, how could a Bee Gees fan not like Andy too? But the simple truth is, Andy just wasn’t my thing. His 70s teen idol gimmick didn’t interest me as a male teen in the 90s. So while I was insanely obsessed with his older brothers, Andy and his music was always on the periphery. In my world, Andy was celebrated along with the other Gibb side projects like Barbara Streisand, Kenny Rogers, Diana Ross and Dionne Warwick. I didn’t DISLIKE any of that stuff back then, let me be clear. I enjoyed it, but it…

Matt Bower joins me to tell his bizarre story about being lured into the woods by a scary camouflaged-clad man to see a secret inside a wooden trunk. Was Matt murdered, or did he live to tell the tale? (He lived, he's the one telling the story. ) In all seriousness, I thoroughly enjoyed being joined by one of my oldest friends, "Big Matt," for this episode of Bee Gees And Me. Matt and I performed comedy together "back in the day," and he's experienced my Bee Gees fandom firsthand. We talk about some of that in this conversation (and also a good bit about my delicious chili), and the main course, though, is his "Andy Gibb's Guitar" story. AS ALWAYS Be sure to follow me on Instagram and Twitter, @BeeGeesAndMe, like us on Facebook and Subscribe to our YouTube channel for great videos. Everything and more is at BeeGeesAndMe.com. Original T-shirts designed by me are available at BeeGeesTees.com. And please be sure to subscribe here where you listen to this podcast, and rate it 5 stars. It helps SO much. Thank you…

This is a “Superfan Sessions” episode where I have a conversation with a fan about their love of the Bee Gees. It was my pleasure to speak with Daniel Vega, a Bee Gees fan in Honduras. Daniel has been a Bee Gees fan for as long as he can remember, first hearing the Bee Gees as a child because his Dad is a fan. His stories are great, especially his adventure of travelling to the Hollywood Bowl show of Barry’s Mythology Tour. AS ALWAYS Be sure to follow me on Instagram and Twitter, @BeeGeesAndMe, like us on Facebook and Subscribe to our YouTube channel for great videos. And check out my t-shirts dedicated to the music of the Brothers Gibb at BEEGEESTEES.com. That’s bee-gees-tees dot com. And please be sure to subscribe here where you listen to this podcast, and rate it 5 stars. It helps SO much. Thank you for listening to this episode. My name is David Fedor, and this has been Bee Gees And Me.

My guest on my Bee Gees And Me podcast this week is Scott Campbell, an artist who has channeled his love for the Bee Gees into his artwork and then uses that artwork to raise money for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. He’s literally using his time and talents to help sick and dying children. It doesn’t get any more inspirational than this!! Not too long ago he posted his portrait of Barry Gibb on Facebook and it created quite the stir in one of the Bee Gees Facebook groups. The mixed reviews were quite comical, and when Gibb family members started to become involved in the comments section, things got even more interesting! Scott shares some insight into his feelings about all of this during our chat. I like to consider myself an artist, or at least over the years I have dabbled in various forms of art. I used to draw a ton as a kid, super into comic books and all that stuff. My grandfather was an amazing painter and sculptor, but he didn’t really do much of that until he retired. He labored in the…

BUSY TWO WEEKS! The Foo Fighters release their Dee Gees tribute on Record Store Day, the Isle of Man unveil a Bee Gees statue to extremely mixed reviews, and I, personally, have a wild roller coaster of emotions. Hear all this and more, on Bee Gees And Me podcast episode 11. I appreciate you listening to these stories, and we’ll get back to regular episodes with guests on our next episode in two weeks. AS ALWAYS Be sure to follow me on Instagram and Twitter, @BeeGeesAndMe, like us on Facebook and Subscribe to our YouTube channel for great videos. Everything and more is at BeeGeesAndMe.com and BeeGeesTees.com. And please be sure to subscribe here where you listen to this podcast, and rate it 5 stars. It helps SO much. Thank you for listening to this episode. My name is David Fedor, and this is Bee Gees And Me.

Today is a VERSUS episode where we talk about another music group, or musical act, and sort of compare them to the Bee Gees. I got a chance to talk with a fellow Bee Gees fan who I met through social media thanks to this show. His name is Frode Apeland and is from Norway. It was incredible to talk with someone halfway around the world on the other side of an ocean about our love of the Bee Gees who, without the advent of the internet, I would have never been able to meet. But here we are, almost 4000 miles apart, connected not only thanks to the internet, but more importantly, connected by the songs of the brothers Gibb. He’s been obsessed with the Bee Gees for the past 5 years, and before that he was a huge U2 fan. So we took this opportunity to talk about the two bands and how they compare. It’s lots of fun, I think you’ll really enjoy it too. First though, I want to talk about a personal milestone for myself. This past week I got a Bee Gees tattoo!! That’s right, I permanently marked my skin with a…

This is Part 2 of the “Best Bee Gees Song” episode. If you haven’t done so yet, you could check out Part 1 first. In part 1, featuring the first half of this “List Rate Rank” episode, Felicia and I build our Top 10 list and I reveal the Top 10 list that was voted on by you the fans. On this episode, Felicia and I welcome our guest expert Andrew Mon Hughes, who will help us rank our lists 10-1. In addition to being an avid fan and collector, Andrew has worked on and contributed to several books, tv shows, and albums about the Bee Gees. The first installment of his latest book series, Bee Gees Decades, is scheduled to be released in October of 2021. This first book will feature information and stories about every single song from the Bee Gees in the decade of the 1960s. Find them on Facebook by searching for “Bee Gees Decades” and follow them on Twitter and Instagram on @BeeGeesDecades. I’m ridiculously excited to hear some of the never-before-heard stories he has discovered. It’s an almost impossible task,…

This is PART ONE of a special two-part episode of Bee Gees And Me. This is my attempt to get a conversation going around what is THE BEST Bee Gees song. It’s an almost impossible task, narrowing down a career that spanned multiple decades, with albums of songs from different musical styles and genres. And in these episodes, we’re talking about JUST the 22 studio albums of the Bee Gees proper. So not taking into consideration solo albums, work with other artists, and unreleased material, we’re still looking at over THREE HUNDRED songs. And, let’s not forget, enjoying music is a personal and subjective thing. One person’s ‘best’ is going to be different than another’s. AND THAT’S OK. It’s an opinion, and we all know what they say about opinions. ‘Best’ could mean ‘favorite,’ it could mean ‘most weeks at #1,’ it could mean ‘best selling,’ it could be ‘most culturally significant.” It could mean a number of things, and they’re all right. The point of this podcast is not to cause fights or disagreements, it’s…

On today’s episode I talk with my good friend Doug Sell. I’ve known Doug since the late 90s when we met in college and have remained friends ever since, he was a groomsman in my wedding, he’s a great dude. AND, important to this podcast, back in 2014 he went with me to see Barry Gibb at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia. This was Barry’s Mythology Tour, his first solo tour! He had never toured without his brothers before. So it was a big deal, not only for his performance, but also for him personally. He had family on stage with him though, his son Stephen, and his niece, Maurice’s daughter Samantha. So that had to be a huge comfort. The evening paid tribute to the career of him and his brothers. It was quite emotional. Of course, it was a big deal for me, because I had never seen the Bee Gees perform. It’s one of my biggest regrets, not making an effort to see them when I had the chance. I forgive myself because I was young, and there was also no way to know that I would have such a limited time to see…

Exciting episode today, the first of what I’m calling “Superfan Sessions,” where I get to talk to another Bee Gees fan about being a fan, about what it’s like to love the Bee Gees and their music. I’ve told this story before, when I grew up being a fan in the 90s and I was absolutely alone in my fandom. I knew NOBODY ELSE who was a Bee Gees fan. I don’t know why it has taken me so long to connect with fellow fans online, but this show is allowing me to do just that. Geek out with like-minded music lovers a little, figure out why we’re obsessed stuff like that. Today my guest is Lisa Jo Barr. She’s a Bee Gees fan because her DAD was a super fan. She’s going to share with us some amazing stories, some personal and powerful stories. Lisa Jo is a fan of the early Bee Gees stuff, the 60s and the 70s. So it was fun chatting with her since I am partial to their 80s 90s 00s stuff. A fun thing happens, you’ll see during the conversation.

It’s Wrestlemania season, baby! For those of you who don’t know, Wrestlemania is the biggest weekend of the year for professional wrestling. The WWE holds a huge shows all week long, culminating in Wrestlemania, which is like the Super Bowl or World Cup of wrestling. It’s the biggest show, on the grandest stage of them all. So since it’s Wrestlemania, I wanted to do a wrestling themed episode of Bee Gees And Me podcast, because there’s some fun references and influences that the Brothers Gibb had on wrestling over the years. I asked my good friend “Trapper Tom” to be my guest this week, because not only does he work for an independent wrestling promotion based out of Pittsburgh, PA, called the Keystone State Wrestling Alliance, not only is he a wrestling historian, having taught a college course on professional wrestling, he is also a Bee Gees fan. Of course, I am a huge fan of wrestling too. I’ve actually been a wrestling fan for longer than I’ve been a Bee Gees fan. I started watching as a kid in the 80s,…

My guest this week is Jesse Jackson, host of “Set Lusting Bruce: A Bruce Springsteen Podcast.” He and I are kindred spirits. Much like I am a huge fan of the Bee Gees, Jesse is a huge fan of Bruce Springsteen. So it is so super easy to talk with Jesse because we have that same passion about a musical performer, the same dysfunctional brain that makes us obsessed to the point where we have huge collections and create podcasts because we love talking about it. I was a guest on his podcast, Set Lusting Bruce, a few months ago. Even though I wasn't necessarily a Springsteen fan, Jesse likes talking to guests who are super fans of other groups too. We ended up talking for over two hours about the Bee Gees and Bruce and all sorts of things. It was great. There’s links to these episodes on BeeGeesAndMe.com if you’re interested, we share some great stories. ANYWAY, when I was a guest on his show, it was before the HBO Documentary came out, and it was before Barry’s Greenfields country album came out. So we decided…

Judi Lesta is a photographer who spent a whole year with the Brothers Gibb, documenting their work and lives in photographs. Her work has been featured in numerous Bee Gees books, and most recently, also in the HBO documentary “How Can You Mend a Broken Heart.” She was with them at the height of their success, in our conversation you’ll hear about Saturday Night Fever, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, and which of her famous photos you’ll surely know. Also, after my conversation with Judi, I will be introducing a new segment to the show. The Extra Mile. Today I will be talking with my wife about my Bee Gees obsession and how it impacts our lives and our relationship. I hope this doesn’t backfire on me.

In this episode of Bee Gees And Me, I talk with Todd Bisson, one of the executive producers of “To Love the Bee Gees: A Tribute to the Brothers Gibb.” Some of the musical acts on this album include Isobel Campbell, The Silver Seas, Emitt Rhodes, and Martin Carr. It’s really a fantastic album that includes so many different performers from different backgrounds performing in different genres. Worth checking out. You’ll enjoy hearing my conversation with Todd about how this passion project of his came to life. Buy it on Amazon or listen to it on Spotify. AND Find a special episode of Bee Gees And Me, exclusively on Spotify, where we play 8 tracks off the album, and Todd tells us some really cool stories behind the songs. Check it out, exclusively on Spotify. Just search “Bee Gees And Me,” and hit subscribe. If you like this episode and would like to hear us do more, LET ME KNOW. And tell me what album or songs you’d like us to talk about. Connect with me on social media and let me know what you think. Be sure…

It was an honor to have a conversation with Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band star Diane Steinberg Lewis. As "Lucy" in the film, Diane worked closely with Peter Frampton, the Bee Gees, Paul Nicholas and Donald Pleasence as she shined on the screen as the leader of Lucy and the Diamonds. Her rendition of the Beatles classic "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds" with Stargard is a classic in its own right, and her scene stealing performances throughout the film prove to be supremely enjoyable. We discuss what it was like to work with Barry, Maurice and Robin Gibb, as well as being a love interest to Peter Frampton's "Billy Shears." She tells stories of the wild times on set, as well as other memories from that infamous movie musical.