During an interview, Billboard’s Chuck Taylor said the Bee Gees’ song “Lonely Days” was akin to a blues song. “Yes, and that was written the day we came back together after our breakup, and ‘How [Can] ...

Feeling a little bit isolated? Vexed by your solitude? Well, you have company, at least figuratively anyway. Songwriters have been mining loneliness for subject matter since pretty much the creation ...

The song was all over the radio in 1977 but surprisingly never cracked the Top 5.

Its message turns loneliness into an invitation to keep going, one that still feels personal half a century later.