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acknowledgments
My gratitude to my patient and astute editor, Ben Schaffer.
My agent—the all-knowing, stalwart, hilarious Marc Gerald of the Agency Group—is an insightful and devoted Bee Gees connoisseur. I’m honored and terrified that he suggested I write their biography. My enduring thankfulness to Marc, who has never been wrong when he suggested I listen again, more carefully.
Bee-Gees-world is like Fight Club; we all know you don’t talk about Fight Club. More than one person said to me, graciously: “But if I talk to you, Barry will never speak to me again.” My thanks to all those who were brave enough to share so many backstage stories, and who trust me to keep their identities secret.
Devin McGinley and I thank these invaluable resources: the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, the New School research resources, the Institute of Jazz Studies at Rutgers University, the Library of Congress and the Michelle Smith Performing Arts Library at the University of Maryland.
Thanks to Jené LeBlanc for her superb photo research and editing.
Thanks to Justin Lovell and everyone at Perseus Books.
Thanks to Joe Brennan for his indispensable online archive, Gibb Songs: www.columbia.edu/~brennan/beegees. Everyone who listens to the Bee Gees owes Joe for his accuracy, completeness, ceaseless effort and generosity.
I am indebted to the Facebook and Internet Bee Gees community for their passion, helpful information and wonderful videos. Thanks to everyone at Everything Gibb.
Thanks to Sasha Raskin and everyone at the Agency Group.
Thanks to Kendra Kabasele at BEI/REXUSA.
Thanks to Christine Marra, Jane Raese, Gray Cutler, Jeff Georgeson and Donna Riggs at Marrathon Production Services.
Thanks to Random House Australia.
My gratitude to John Schaefer, Joel Meyer and everyone at WNYC’s Soundcheck.
Thanks to Brother Cleve—mixmaster, toastmaster, keyboardist, bossa nova avatar, DJ and SubGenius—for his treatise on the history of disco and for his musical tour through that history.
Thanks to Bruce Bennett for his illegal shout-out on WFMU; you still owe me “The King Is Gone.”
Thanks to Beppe Manca of Manhattan, Creativity Activation Coach extraordinaire, who once again helped me break through my self-made obstacles.
Thanks to my friends for thei
r sometimes bewildered but always steadfast encouragement: Steve Fishman, Debra Drooz, Greg Burke, David Wilentz, Marcos Liberski, Rob Kahn, Jesi Khadivi, Martha Kehoe, Cristina Seckinger, Myk Gordon, Federica Gianni, Jan Cox, Adam Elias, Eben and Jennifer Denton-Walker, Caroline Greeven, Colter and Katy Keller-Rule, Catherine Higham, Oren Shai, Robert (Bob-O) Chapman, Sarah Bass, Dean Rispler, Cullen Gallagher, Jeffrey L. Sapir and Dr. Jeffrey Gross. In the United Kingdom, thanks to Johnny Rogan and Andy Martin.
Thanks to all my Facebook friends who supported me so.
Thanks to my students and colleagues at The New School.
Thanks to my co-workers worldwide at getAbstract.com.
In Los Angeles, two families took me in and looked after me, much to their own inconvenience. In Los Feliz, my gratitude for their wonderful meals, conversation, affection, hospitality and tolerance to the Burk-Drooz family: Greg, Deb and Lily. In Sherman Oaks, inexpressible appreciation for their patience, kindness and generosity to the Reff-Holiday family: Jonathan, Lisa, Annika and Charlotte. I didn’t mean to overstay my welcome.
Thanks to Sarahjane and Dan Murphy for the great concert tickets and insights.
Thanks to Joy Rothke for her research, videos, access to information and perceptive assistance.
Thanks to Darren Paltrowitz for his perseverance, hard work and invaluable research.
Thanks to Kate McCoy.
Thanks to Daniel Baird of Toronto, Canada, and Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, for our brilliant, startling conversations and his unmatched perceptions of music and its social gestalt.
Thanks to Tessa DeCarlo and Julie Ardery for their friendship, inspiration, grammatical perfection and the merciless asperity and loving good humor of their advice, which I strive to follow.
Shalom, love and gratitude to Erica Rauzin of Miami Beach for all her care and encouragement.
Thanks and love to Sarahjane Blum of Minneapolis, Minnesota, for her guidance, editing, hard work and much needed support.
No Devin McGinley; no book. Devin worked with fervor, dedication and discipline; haunted libraries up and down the east coast, read miles of microfiche, mined the Web and brought his perceptions as a musician to bear on all he learned. Devin’s good humor and drive never flagged. My heartfelt thanks to Devin.
Mad love to Jené LeBlanc of Chappaqua, New York, for everything. And I mean everything.
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