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Here at Last... Bee Gees... Live

1977 live album by the Bee Gees

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 1, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Here at Last... Bee Gees... Live is the first live album by the Bee Gees. It was recorded on 20 December 1976 at the LA Forum and was released in May 1977 by RSO Records. It reached No. 8 in the US, No. 8 in Australia, No. 1 in New Zealand, and No. 2 in Spain.

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The public source identifies “Here at Last... Bee Gees... Live” as 1977 live album by the Bee Gees. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Here, Last and Gees.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1976, 1977—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Here, Last and Gees providing the first useful test.
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Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 1, 2026. The first chronological checks are 1976 and 1977.

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This entry incorporates text from “Here at Last... Bee Gees... Live” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.