The Renaissance Bee Gees

What if the Bee Gees had existed 400 years earlier?

Mark Starlin
Song Done Wrong
Published in
5 min readMar 14, 2019

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Koncert • Public Domain

Those beautiful harmonies. That sweet falsetto and vibrato. Those infectious grooves. The Bee Gees music is timeless. But what if the brothers Gibb had been born during the Renaissance period in England? What would their music have sounded like then?

Here is my guess.

Remain Vital And Functioning

Well, thou can tell by the way I swagger
I am popular amongst the ladies, no time for banter
Rambunctious music and endearing women
I have suffered abuse since the moment of my birth

But it is of no importance
Thou need not concern thyself
Let us reason together
The meaning of the York town crier

Whether thou art a brother or whether thou art a mother
Thou remain vital and functioning, vital and functioning
The city quakes and the populace shakes
Yet we remain vital and functioning, vital and functioning

Verily, verily, verily, verily, vital and functioning, vital and functioning
Verily, verily, verily, verily, vital and…

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