Possible Clues:

• Bee Gees single, released in 1979
• Trojan Women perhaps grew old in Troy, lacking nothing
• 1979 #1 hit for the Bee Gees
• Hear about old play like 'Macbeth'
• "Hamlet," for one
• 1979 UK No 1 Bee Gees song
• Hear about old play like 'King Lear'
• Attempt to conceal old misfortune
• Awful event
• "Hamlet" or "Oedipus Rex"