While the Bee Gees – brothers Barry, Robin and Maurice Gibb – are best known for the disco tunes that propelled the ‘Saturday Night Fever’ soundtrack to the top of the charts, the Aussies hoped to become part of the British Invasion in 1967. The Bee Gees were touted by manager Robert Stigwood as the “next Beatles” upon the release of their first U.S. single, ‘New York Mining Disaster 1941.’

Atco Records sent DJs copies of the single with blank labels to create the impression that it was a new Beatles’ song. “If you sounded like the Beatles and also could write a hit single, then the hype of the machine would go into action,” Barry recalled in ‘The Bee Gees: Tales of the Brothers Gibb.’ “Your company would make sure people thought you sounded like the Beatles or thought you were the Beatles. And that sold you.”

The Bee Gees in a way became the Beatles when they starred as the reformed eponymous band in the 1978 film ‘Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.’ The brothers gamely performed a number of Beatles’ tunes with Peter Frampton but couldn't save this megaton bomb of a movie.