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In February [1997], they were lined up to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award at the BRITs. Pulp's Jarvis Cocker was set to present them with the award, but Barry [Gibb] asked for someone else, since Jarvis had wiggled his bum for the cameras when Michael Jackson performed an overwrought ‘Earth Song’ at the BRITs two years earlier.

Robin [Gibb] was confident enough to give this as his parting shot in 1973: ‘England is now far behind the rest of the world's music scene.’ Take that, Aladdin Sane.