African-American acts such as Hamilton Bohannon (“South Africa Man,” “Disco Stomp”), The O’Jays (“992 Arguments,” “I Love Music”) and Eddie Kendricks (“Keep On Truckin ...
They had drinking and drug problems, and their albums weren’t selling. Their label was “about to drop us,” Barry Gibb recalls in a 2020 HBO documentary, “The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart.