Lyric Sheets

Those other brothers from Manchester, The Bee Gees, won Outstanding Contribution to Music at Monday's Brit Awards. They are also back in the charts at Number Five

The Mancunian Candidates

Thirty years ago this spring

Came home from Australia

Swanned into the hit parade

Carnaby regalia

Barry, Maurice, Robin Gibb

Lachrymose boy wonders

Autopsy on early work

Points to Beatle plunders

Adenoidal acid pop

Enigmatic this is:

John, Paul, George and Formby sing

"Turned out trippy, Missus."

Came the early Seventies

Everything went quiet

As the brothers went to work

On a disco diet

Five years on and back again.

Funky, re-invented

With a brand of music which

Later represented

Hair blown back by wind machines

Flashing lights in places

Millions with medallions and

Collars in their faces

This apart, The Brothers Gibb

Raise a glass or flask

Now it's almost 30 years

Do I dare to ask

One for all the long-term fans

And not just for me?

Which one made that bleating noise

Third track, first LP?