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Two Bee Gees drummers die within days of one another
The band’s original drummer, Colin Petersen, died four days before Dennis Bryon, who played throughout their imperial Saturday Night Fever phase
He performed on their second studio album Spicks and Specks, released that same year, and played on early hits such as To Love Somebody, I’ve Gotta Get a Message to You and I Started a Joke. Born in Kingaroy, Queensland in 1946, Petersen found early fame as a child actor starring in the title role of the 1956 Australian film Smiley. In 2015 he published the memoir You Should Be Dancing: My Life With the Bee Gees which captured the band’s ubiquity during their peak – one time, while flipping through radio stations during a drive to his Miami home, Bryon claims to have landed on five that were playing songs from Saturday Night Fever album.
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