Barry Gibb’s Wild Ride with the Bee Gees | Broken Record (Hosted by Rick Rubin)

Few bands have experienced such extreme highs and lows as the Bee Gees. Throughout their decades-long career, the band of brothers managed to be both grossly underrated and one of the best-selling acts of all time. Barry Gibb and his younger twin brothers Maurice and Robin started out in the late ‘50s as a teenaged pop group in Australia. Their impeccable three-part harmony caught the ear of the prominent UK manager Robert Stigwood, who had a heavy hand in molding the Bee Gees into a world renowned group. After some fits and starts, the Bee Gees found themselves directionless through most of the early ‘70s… until they found new levels of success in 1976 when Barry Gibb discovered his famed falsetto. Their classic run of disco hits followed including the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack which was the highest-selling soundtrack of all time until The Bodyguard in 1992. On today’s episode, Rick Rubin talks to Barry Gibb about his new Dave Cobb-produced album, which features country music-inspired renditions of