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Did you know those rhythm and blues specialists and masters of blood harmony, the Bee Gees, featuring older brother Barry Gibb and four-yearsyounger maternal twin brothers Robin and Maurice, wrote on the same day the songs Too Much Heaven and Tragedy in an afternoon off from the making of the Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band movie? In the evening of the same day the three of them and younger brother Andy wrote Shadow Dancing for Andy’s second studio album. If you think that is impressive understand this: all three of those songs written on the same day reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1978 and 1979! — mike

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