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What Comes After Main Course: Barry Gibb & The Bee Gees on Top Again

Ian Dove, Phonograph Record, April 1976

BARRY GIBB considers Arif Mardin the main ingredient for Main Course's success. He adds: "Quite simply he's the best producer in the world for us. In that studio with him is magic. There isn't any certain kind of technique or attitude that he uses. He's totally like an uncle. He rolls in there with you. As far as a song is concerned, you take it to him. He says the song is fantastic, however put that verse there, that chorus there.

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