(1) To widespread relief, the music of the Bee Gee does not feature among the "sticky” tunes that an American scientist has found to be lodged permanently in the human brain, replaying over and over again. (2) But only barely two decades ago the trigger phrases "Staying alive, staying alive” and "Night Fever” were burnt into the neural circuits of an entire generation. (3) The group’s music for the film "Saturday Night Fever” helped to launch the disco craze and a million of sad imitations to John Travolta. (4) The era ended with a stale taste in the mouth: listening to Bee Gees and being reminded of flashing dance floor mirror balls was like devouring an old mince pie over a week after New Year’s Day.
(5) Like Abba, however, they have been rediscovered again and clasped to the nation’s bosom. (6) The group’s rehabilitation probably owed a lot of to Barry Gibb’s unlikely confession in 1998 that the brothers had never been to a disco and didn’t know how to dance.
Keys: (1) again (2) barely (3) — (4) over (5) again (6) —
From: "Yummy English"
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