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Brothers Barry, Robin, and Maurice Gibb were the founding members of the music group that would become known as the Bee Gees in 1958. The three members of the band had a great deal of success as a popular music act throughout the latter half of the 1960s and the early 1970s, and they went on to become notable performers during the disco music period in the middle to latter stages of the 1970s. Robin’s clean vibrato lead vocals were a characteristic of their earlier successes, while Barry’s R&B falsetto became their defining sound throughout the mid- to late-1970s and 1980s. The trio performed recognizable three-part tight harmonies; Robin’s clear vibrato lead vocals were a hallmark of their early singles. The Bee Gees are widely considered as one of the most significant and influential groups in the annals of pop music history. In addition to composing and producing numerous huge successes for other artists, the Bee Gees have also been responsible for all of their own hits. They have been referred to as Britain’s First Family of Harmony, The Disco Kings, and The Kings of Dance Music in various publications and broadcasts.
The Gibb brothers were raised in Chorlton, Manchester, England up until the late 1950s. Their parents were from England, thus they were born on the Isle of Man. There, in 1955, they established themselves as the Rattlesnakes, a skiffle and rock & roll band. After that, the family relocated to Redcliffe, which is located in the Moreton Bay Region of Queensland, Australia, and then subsequently moved to Cribb Island. After scoring their first chart breakthrough as the Bee Gees in Australia with “Spicks and Specks” (their eleventh song), they returned to the UK in January 1967, at which point producer Robert Stigwood started advertising them to an audience all over the globe. Both the film and the album of Saturday Night Fever had a significant cultural influence all over the globe, which increased the mainstream appeal of the disco movement. The turning point in the Bee Gees’ career was the release of the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack in 1977. They took home five Grammys, including Album of the Year, for their work on the album Saturday Night Fever.
The Bee Gees are among the best-selling musical artists of all time due to the fact that they have sold over 120 million albums all over the globe. Only Elvis Presley, the Beatles, Michael Jackson, Garth Brooks, and Paul McCartney have sold more records than the Bee Gees, according to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s citation for the band’s induction into the hall in 1997. The Bee Gees are the third-most successful band in the history of the Billboard charts, behind only the Beatles and the Supremes, thanks to the fact that they have nine songs that peaked at number one on the Billboard Hot 100.
After 45 years of activity, Barry and Robin decided to retire the group’s name in January 2003, shortly after the unexpected passing of Maurice, who was 53 years old at the time. In 2009, Robin said that he and Barry had reached a consensus over the future of the Bee Gees and that they will reunite to perform again. Following a protracted period of deteriorating health, Robin passed away in May 2012 at the age of 62, leaving just Barry as the lone member of the group who is still alive.
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