A beautiful pop time capsule is the Bee Gees playing “Words” in high definition on Ed Sullivan. Due to their involvement with the soundtracks of Saturday Night Fever and Staying Alive, the Bee Gees are deservedly acknowledged as disco legends for their move to the genre in the late 1970s.
The Gibb brothers, of course, had a career prior to disco, putting out a dozen or so albums before they completely transitioned from psychedelic rock to soft pop, funk, and soul.
And one of their very greatest songs came nearly a decade before they went disco, of course, with the standalone single ‘Words’ being a massive international hit, and their third UK top 10 in 1968.
To support the release in the US, the Bee Gees performed it on The Ed Sullivan Show on March 17, 1968.
