The Bee Gees were a music group formed in 1958. Their lineup consisted of brothers Barry, Robin, and Maurice Gibb. The trio were especially successful as a popular music act in the late 1960s and early 1970s. They have sold over 120 million records worldwide, making them among the best-selling music artists of all time.
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The Bee Gees were a music group formed in 1958. Their lineup consisted of brothers Barry, Robin, and Maurice Gibb. The trio were especially successful as a popular music act in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and later as prominent performers of the disco music era in the mid-to-late 1970s. The group sang recognisable three-part tight harmonies; Robin’s clear vibrato lead vocals were a hallmark of their earlier hits, while Barry’s R&B falsetto became their signature sound. They have sold over 120 million records worldwide, making them among the best-selling music artists of all time. They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1997. Barry and Robin retired the group’s name after 45 years of activity in 2009. Robin died in May 2012, aged 62, after a prolonged struggle with cancer and other health problems, leaving Barry as the only surviving member of the group. The Gibb brothers moved to their father Hugh Gibb’s hometown of Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Manchester, England in 1955. They formed a skifflerock-and-roll group, the Rattlesnakes, which consisted of Barry on guitar and vocals, Robin and Maurice on vocals and friends Paul Frost on drums and Kenny Horrocks on tea-chest bass. In August 1958 the Gibb family, including older sister Lesley and infant brother Andy, emigrated to Redcliffe, just north-east of Brisbane in Queensland, Australia. The name Gibb was not specifically a reference to Gibb, but to Goode’s and Barry’s initials.
By 1960, the group had started to feature on television shows, including their performance of the song “Time Is Passing By”. In the next few years they began working regularly on the coast of Queensland. The brothers would throw money onto the track for the crowd at the speedway to keep the money they collected from the crowd. In 2009, Robin announced that he and Barry had agreed that the Bee Gee would re-form and perform again. They are the third most successful band in Billboard charts history after the Beatles and the Supremes. Only Elvis Presley, the Beatles, Michael Jackson, Garth Brooks and Paul McCartney have outsold the BeeGees. They won five Grammy Awards for Saturday Night Fever, including Album of the Year. The story is told that they were going to lip-sync to a record in the local Gaumont cinema, but as they were running to the theatre, the fragile shellac 78-RPM record broke. The brothers had to sing live, but received such a positive response from the audience that they decided to pursue a singing career. In December 1957 the boys began to sing in harmony. In May 1958 they formed Wee Johnny Hayes and the Blue Cats, with Barry as \”Johnny Hayes\”. In August 1960 the brothers would perform at the Brisbane-presenter jockey Bill Gates’ speedway.
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