When The Bee Gees sent a demo tape to The Beatles manager, Brian Epstein, they didn’t realize the chain of events they were kicking into gear. Epstein died shortly after passing the tape to one of the people at his management firm,. Robert Stigwood who would go on to become a famed movie producer taking The Bee Gees on a merry ride around the world. This is just one of the great stories in our second chapter of the 1978 story. Join us and listen to music you’ll remember.

This is the third episode where we roll out stories from 1971, And this time we tell the stories behind hits from The Rolling Stones, Rod Stewart, Paul Stookey, Bread, Kris Kristofferson ... even Andy Williams, for good measure. Behind every song is a great story, causing us to wonder ... Was 1971 the greatest year in Rock ‘n Roll history? We tell the stories, you decide.

In the year's since The Beatles breakup, George Harrison emerged as one of Rock music's finest songwriters. During his Beatles career he was eclipsed by the dynamic duo of Lennon and McCartney. But his really songwriting mentors were across the pond. Tune in and find out how George rose to the very heights of the songwriters world while fighting off frivolous lawsuits and underhanded enemies.

Start with a wild story about a washed up 1960's singer whose career was swept away in the British Invasion of 1964. Almost a decade later he was given the chance to record a song with a group of back-up girl singers. But, they couldn't figure out a way to be in the studio at the same time. Predictably, the result was the year's biggest hit, "Candida" setting Tony Orlando and Dawn on a record-breaking run he thought forever beyond his reach. How it happened is just one story from one of the most significant years in rock history. Join us.

The number one Billboard hit of 1971 was "Sugar Sugar" by the Archie's. But, behind the scenes, their earworm melodies were the result of a bitter business clash between rock impresario, Don Kirshner, and The Monkees of "Pleasant Valley Sunday" fame. In this episode we explore this intriguing story and a host of other stories in one of the most diverse music years in Pop music history. Pull up a chair and join us as The Music Time Machine journeys back to the year 1971, again.

Robert Stigwood, the Australian manager of The Bee Gees, used the group's success to make himself a producer of three major Hollywood movies. Join us as we explore the music that made Saturday Night Fever, Grease and Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band such overwhelming successes.

In 1978 The Bee Gees really set a cold world on fire. This episode looks at their career from a grade school singing group in Australia to international renown amid placing 5 songs on the Billboard Top 100 ... at the same time?

Join us as we explore the stories from behind the scenes at the Woodstock Festival, history's most iconic rock festival. So much went awry that it became something great and the music helps us tell the story.

In 1974, Paul and Linda McCartney were forced to hand over the original demo to their hit song "Band On The Run" to a Nigerian robber with a knife. This is just one of the many stories we explore in Part 1 of our series about the stories behind the music of 1974. Join us.

Love is in the air! Vietnam is finally over and the music of the day became a lot lighter. Join us as we tell the stories behind the hits that were filling the airwaves in late 1979.

In this episode about one of the most formative years in music history, we look at the demise of the Disco Era and the new beats that took its place. Disco died in the chaotic craziness of "Disco Demolition Night" at Comiskey Park in Chicago, home of the Chicago White Sox and filled with people fed up with the hedonism of the disco era. But, out of the ashes of Disco came more memorable music with a dance beat from groups like Earth, Wind & Fire, The Commodores, Gino Vanelli, and storytellers like Kenny Rogers.

In the midwest and east, 1979 started off as the coldest year on record since 1880. But things really heated up when a Texas disc-jockey decided to make a gift for the wife he was divorcing. His mix of two great artists singing the same song ended up becoming the sensation of the year. Tune in to hear the stories behind Barbara Streisand's collaborations with Neil Diamond, Donna Sommer, disco hits by Gloria Gaynor and the height of the Doobie Brothers fame.