Tag: Australia
The Bee Gees the King of pop music with 220 million albums sold worldwide. A group formed in Australia in the sixties has melted only definitively in 2012 with the death of Robin following the end of Maurice suddenly took place in early 2003. The band consists essentially of the Gibb brothers, Robin, Maurice and Barry have a extraordinary item and famous for their falsetto. They had the habit of composing almost all songs, which then are recognized very successful, focusing particularly on their talented vocal range, thus making their songs unique, unmistakable and beautiful. The Bee Gees have composed the music really well made for melody and interpretation.
The greater public acceptance is seen in the second half of the seventies when they composed the soundtrack of the film, Saturday Night Fever starring John Travolta and Karen Lynn Gorney. The film was defined as the celebration of disco, dominant music in the seventies and where precisely the Bee Gees were the most representative of the genre. Among the pieces that made up the soundtrack of the film, it definitely shows the song Stayin ‘Alive. But also songs like “How Deep Is Your Love”, Night Fever, More Than a Woman, and others.
Bee Gees le ugole d’oro
I Bee Gees i Re della musica pop con 220 milioni di dischi venduti in tutto il mondo. Un gruppo formatosi in Australia negli anni sessanta si è sciolto definitivamente solo nel 2012 con la morte di Robin che segue la fine di Maurice avvenuta improvvisamente all’inizio del 2003. La band composta essenzialmente dai fratelli Gibb, Robin, Maurice e Barry dotati di una voce straordinaria e famosi per i loro falsetti. Avevano la consuetudine di comporre quasi tutti i brani, che poi si sono rilevati di grande successo, mettendo in primo piano la loro talentuosa estensione vocale, così facendo i loro brani sono unici , inconfondibili e bellissimi. I Bee Gees hanno composto dei brani musicali veramente di ottima fattura per melodia e interpretazione. 
Il maggiore consenso di pubblico si riscontra nella seconda metà degli anni settanta quando composero la colonna sonora del film, la febbre del sabato sera interpretato da John Travolta e Karen Lynn Gorney. Il film fu definito come la celebrazione della disco music, musica dominante negli anni settanta e dove appunto i Bee Gees erano i più rappresentativi di questo genere musicale. Tra i brani che costituivano la colonna sonora del film, si evidenzia sicuramente il brano Stayin’ Alive. Ma anche i brani come “How Deep Is Your Love”, Night Fever, More Than a Woman e altri. 
Stilando una classifica i Bee Gees si piazzono sicuramente fra i primi cinque gruppi più popolari di sempre, affiancando leggende come Michael Jackson. Pensate il loro primo passaggio televisivo risale nel 1960 e grazie alla loro versatilità compositiva, nonché alla semplicità ed efficacia delle loro melodie, sono riusciti a mantenere un grande successo nell’arco di più 50 anni. Negli anni Ottanta, i Bee Gees, si dedicarono a numerose collaborazioni con altri artisti. Nel 1980, Barry produsse “Guilty”, il più famoso album di Barbra Streisand (con il grande hit “Woman In Love”).
Altri album composti e prodotti dai fratelli Gibb, furono “Heartbreaker” di Heartbreaker (1982), “Eyes That See In The Dark” di Kenny Rogers (1983) e, soprattutto, “Eaten Alive” di Diana Ross (1985).
THE AUCTION OF THE CENTURY
The announcement of the Australian family Kidman, who raises cattle for over 100 years, to auction their land holding in Australia, as large as the Bulgheria or Portugal and over a third of Italy has attracted a large interest in the world. It is the largest landed estate in the world owned by a private individual. Usually land of such great extent belong to a state. Obviously many have expressed interest in acquiring this huge property, such as Chinese and Japanese, but requests for purchase involvement were received from the United States, Sweden and Switzerland. The citizens of Australia disagreed and asked the government for a national pride, to find the money to buy this property, so as not to go into foreign hands 2% of the entire continent. It is a land that until now has been used for the breeding of livestock that only to inspect it takes with the plane more than 10 days. Even today, the Kidman family produces 1.3% of exports of Australian beef. The company’s founder Mr. Sidney Kidman at the time was called the “KING OF CATTLE” died in 1935 he left everything to his four sons and the property has remained firmly in the hands of the family for five generations without ever accumulating debts. The size of the territory is very functional for the company as it allows to bring the cattle from the North and South of the continent following the course of rivers with increasing availability of water and forage along the way. The starting price is set at only $ 325 million for many, it is considered a bargain, considering that in the huge territory of 101 thousand square kilometers are also included 500 thousand heads of cows and sheep, and that the price of meat has continuous increase in the international market. Whatever happens it will be remembered in time as an exceptional sale bearing in mind the extent of the territory also easily identifiable on a map at the same strequa of a medium-sized nation.