Massachusetts by Bee Gees - Songfacts
www.songfacts.com › facts › bee-gees"Massachusetts" went to #1 in the UK on October 11, 1967 and stayed on top for four weeks. For Robin Gibb, memories of this time were bittersweet; on November 5, with the song still at #1, he was riding a train when it crashed in Lewisham near Hither Green Depot, killing 49 people in one of Britain's worst rail disasters.