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By trading live performances aboard ship for tickets, Australian pop group The Bee Gees set sail to find fame and fortune in the UK on the S.S.Fairsky.Full article:
Nat Kipner (manager, The Bee Gees] : I had a business in Australia and I didn't want to go. So I gave them their contract back. One of the dumb things I've done.
Barry Gibb (Bee Gees) : The memories I have of Australia were that they were very unfair to us right to the end. Even when we were on the boat, we'd keep getting reports from friends about the record we released before we left which was Spicks And Specks. The record became a hit there while we were on the boat to England, and the local papers had stories like: 'Bee Gees Abandon Australia.' I thought that was unfair.
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Barry Gibb (Bee Gees) : The memories I have of Australia were that they were very unfair to us right to the end. Even when we were on the boat, we'd keep getting reports from friends about the record we released before we left which was Spicks And Specks. The record became a hit there while we were on the boat to England, and the local papers had stories like: 'Bee Gees Abandon Australia.' I thought that was unfair.