Bee Gees Wembley Stadium London 1998
For my blog entry today I am reporting on another great band and fantastic concert. The Bee Gees have always been a great favourite of mine, and their UK concerts have been quite few over the years. Marie and I were lucky enough to see them in concert once, at a massive Wembley Stadium gig 1998. Massachussetts, I’ve Gotta Get A Message To You, I Started a Joke are all important parts of my childhood. I had a compilation album which had them all on it, and I played and played it. We’d bought best price tickets for the gig, which at £50 each, were very expensive at the time. So we were disappointed to find that our pitch seats were at the front, but right to the side of the stage, with a terrible restricted view. 
So we went along to the box office and asked to have our seats changed. After some discussion, our tickets were swapped for front seats in the balcony, directly opposite of the stage. By this time we’d missed the support act, Tina Arena. The Bee Gees came on stage and were straight into You Should Be Dancing. This was of the best gigs I have ever seen, with the Gibb brothers taking us through their entire career, from those great 60s hits, through disco and Saturday Night Fever, and to the (then) present day.
As I get older I realise just how iconic and important culturally the Bee Gees were. This concert was one of the best I have ever been to and one of the best nights of my life.
Setlist: You Should Be Dancing; Alone; Massachusetts; To Love Somebody; I’ve Gotta Get A Message To You; Words; Closer Than Close; Islands In The Stream; One; Our Love (Don’t Throw It All Away); Night Fever/More Than A Woman; For Whom The Bell Tolls; Lonely Days; New York Mining Disaster 1941; Too Much Heaven; I Can’t See Nobody; And The Sun Will Shine; How Can You Mend A Broken Heart?; Heartbreaker; Guilty; Ellan Vannin (Isle Of Man Anthem); Chain Reaction; Immortality; Tragedy; I Started A Joke; You Win Again; Grease; Jive Talkin’; How Deep Is Your Love; Stayin’ Alive; You Should Be Dancing
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Posted by Marc van der Linden on August 13, 2012 at 1:14 pm
I was there too. Some years before I had a ticket for there concert in Brussels, but unfortunatly this gig was caneceld due to Barry’s back problems. However at last I saw them live. I was very impressed, and emotioned. A bit of a sat back was a guy, who apperiently was forced to come with his girlfriend/wife to the concert, but he did not like it at all, and started to bother me. And she screemed constantly very loud. Enventually I left my seat in search of another place. But I was not allowed by the stuarts to enter another part of the stadium, since my ticket was not for that area. So I think I missed the last couple of songs, although I could here them constantly. I hope to get a video of that evening. The only offical released video of the One Night Only series of concerts is the Las Vegas show. Which I do have of course.
Posted by Marko on September 24, 2015 at 2:27 am
Los Bee Gees son los mas grandes junto a los Beatles
Posted by Patrick on December 30, 2017 at 10:36 pm
I attended and I have never been to a show like it with hit after hit after hit. It was the most expensive ticket I had bought up to that time (with a £5 booking fee on top) and a sign of the way gig going was headed with ‘legends’ no longer having contemporary chart success charging big prices to play their old hits. My seat was amazing though – 8 rows from the front just to the left. I deliberately arrived late to miss the support. The Bee Gees dedicated ‘How Can You Mend A Broken Heart?’ to the people of Omagh. The Omagh bomb had been a month before and it was a nice gesture on their part.
Posted by Lee Meadows on February 11, 2026 at 9:28 am
At tht apoint the beegees were still in the charts with the Still waters album and singles so were still a force on the charts. Maybe thats why the price was still high
Posted by Christina and Paul on December 11, 2021 at 8:51 pm
We were there too. We came on a coach trip which had been allocated seats in a corner, and there were three women behind us in white trouser suits and big wigs who talked CONSTANTLY throughout the show, but despite the negatives we still to this day agree that it is one of, if not THE best show we’ve ever seen. Wembley Stadium full of people all singing Words was absolutely magical and still gives me tingles to this day. Given what’s happened since we consider ourselves SO lucky to have seen them.
Posted by vintagerock on December 12, 2021 at 1:04 pm
Hi Christina and Paul. Yes a great day. For me, it’s “Massachusetts” that always gets me. It took me back to seeing them on Top of the Pops. A magical day. Yes I agree. Certainly one of the best concerts I have ever attended. Happy days Peter
Posted by connor jackson on March 20, 2022 at 11:39 pm
Was there with my mum, got tickets for her birthday, she’d been battling cancer and the day before the gig she was given the all clear, so that day for me is filled with emotion, the bee gees greatest hits with the sepia orange cover was played regularly in our house as mum prepared Sunday dinner, such memories, and I agree, one of the best gigs ever, I think we cried and sang for two hours straight, crazy atmosphere…the power of music, feel so privileged to have seen the bros gibb! rip robin and Maurice
Posted by vintagerock on March 21, 2022 at 12:31 pm
One of the best days of my life Connor. I too cried a lot especially when they played 60s hits like Massachusetts and Gotta Get a Message to You. Happy days Peter
Posted by connor jackson on March 22, 2022 at 2:21 am
When I was 10 I sang First of May solo at our Christmas school play, I was so nervous I felt dizzy but got through it, my mum still likes to bring it up! It was a few days after John Lennon was killed and our music teacher had us learn Merry Xmas war is over as well. Memories. But yeah all those 60’s BG’s hits are just evergreen…
Posted by vintagerock on March 22, 2022 at 10:44 am
Great story, Connor. Yes I am constantly playing 60s music. I am afraid I live in the past but I am not ashamed of it. Happy days Peter
Posted by Elysa on October 5, 2023 at 9:47 pm
Just found my ticket from 30 years anniversary Bee Gees one night only at wembley ❤
Posted by vintagerock on October 6, 2023 at 11:23 am
Hi Elysa yes that was a very special evening and a great concert. Is it really that long ? Happy days Peter
Posted by Marc van der LInden on March 10, 2024 at 3:27 pm
No it was on sept 5. 1998, so now 25 and a half year ago.
Posted by vintagerock on March 10, 2024 at 3:34 pm
And it seems not that long ago! Life moves on too quickly Peter
Posted by Simona Thornton on March 9, 2024 at 8:32 pm
How exactly are the Bee Gees a ”guilty pleasure”? Wtf is this? They’re one of, if not THE best band that ever lived. They’ve written literally dozens and dozens over hits for themselves and other legends. No one can sing perfect harmony like they can. Sold over a quarter of a billion records worldwide, been praised by Elvis Presley, every member of the Beatles, George Martin, Janis Joplin, Nina Simone, I could go on but I won’t.
It’s strange that people of a certain age group use the offensive term ”guilty pleasure” and it is offensive, make no mistake. That’s the kind of term you would mention in the same sentence as The Bay City Rollers or Bros, or The Spice Girls. They weren’t some shitty, here today, gone tomorrow pop band they were a legendary rock outfit, that eclipsed all of their peers. They were still having hit singles and albums in the 2000s, long after their contemporaries were no longer popular.
Their teenage fanbase doesn’t call them a ”guilty pleasure”, so I’m just wondering why their old fans do, but there you go.
Posted by vintagerock on March 10, 2024 at 3:24 pm
You know what Simona I agree with you 100%. On reflection I should not have written that. I now realise, in old age, that my narrowminded view of rock music prevented me from really enjoying or going to see some classic bands. I would not call any band a “guilty pleasure” now. Music is music period. I shall edit the entry to remove this. Thank you for making me realise how narrowminded I used to be. Best wishes Peter
Posted by Gayle Woodall on October 28, 2024 at 9:50 pm
does anyone remember the support? I’m sure it was a ‘super group’ with Andrew Gold. Or am I imagining things??
Posted by vintagerock on October 29, 2024 at 6:27 pm
Hi Gayle I am sure it was Tina Arena:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tina_Arena
Peter