Tragedy by Bee Gees

"Tragedy" is a song by the British-Australian pop group Bee Gees, released as a single in February 1979 from their fifteenth studio album, Spirits Having Flown (1979). It became one of their biggest global hits and a standout of their late-1970s catalog. Background "Tragedy" was written by the Gibb brothers—Barry, Robin, and Maurice Gibb—during the prolific writing sessions for the Spirits Having Flown album. According to the band, the song was composed in a single afternoon .