The Bee Gees Group. Bee Gees
Bee Gees ("Bee Gees") British rock band. It consisted of three brothers: lead vocalist Barry Gibb, second lead vocalist Robin Gibb, and keyboardist and guitarist Maurice Gibb.Barry Gibb was born September 1, 1946 in Manchester (England). Robin and Maurice are twins, born December 22, 1949. In 1961 the Gibb family moved from Manchester to Australia. In 1966, the Gibbs returned to England, where they began successful career in rock music (hits Words, etc.). However, by the early 1970s Bee Gees records were no longer successful.
The second phase of the Bee Gees began when the musicians unexpectedly turned to disco music. In 1977, the soundtrack to the film "Saturday Night Fever" was released. Bee Gees became one of the main suppliers of hits for discos in the second half of the 1970s (the hit Tragedy and others). However, by the mid-1980s the band's music, like disco itself, began to lose popularity.
The Bee Gees regained the attention of critics and music lovers in the late 1990s with the release of several traditional rock albums. In 2003, the group ceased to exist due to the death of Maurice Gibb.
Discography
* Bee Gees 1st (1967)
*Horizontal (1968)
*Idea (1968)
* Odessa (1969)
* Best of Bee Gees (1969)
* Cucumber Castle (1970)
* 2 Years On (1970)
*Trafalgar (1971)
* To Whom It May Concern (1972)
*Life In a Tin Can (1973)
* A Kick In The Head Is Worth Eight In The Pants (1973)
* Best of Bee Gees Volume 2 (1973)
* Mr. Natural (1974)
* Main Course (1975)
*Children of the World (1976)
*Saturday Night Fever (1977)
* Spirits Having Flown (1979)
*Bee Gees Greatest (1979)
* Living Eyes (1981)
* Staying Alive (soundtrack) (1983)
*E.S.P. (1987)
* One (1989)
* Tales from the Brothers Gibb (1990)
*High Civilization (1991)
* Size Isn't Everything (1993)
*Still Waters (1997)
* One Night Only (1998)
* This Is Where I Came In (2001)
* Their Greatest Hits: The Record (2001)
*Number Ones (2004)
* Bee Gees Love Songs (2005)
The Bee Gees' career spanned more than four decades, peaking commercial success the ensemble reached twice: the first time - in the late 60s with their ballad-oriented pop-rock, and the second - at the height of the disco era, when the musicians reoriented to this Fashionable style. The basis of the team almost always consisted of three of the five Gibb brothers, Barry (b. September 1, 1946) and the twins Robin and Maurice (b. December 22, 1949). All of them were born in England, and they began to sing already in the mid-50s, filling the pauses between films in one of the Manchester cinemas. In 1958, the Gibb family emigrated to Australia, and there Barry, Robin and Maurice began to work on a professional basis, performing under various signs such as "The Rattlesnakes" and "Wee Johnny Hayes & The Bluecats". By the end of the decade, radio DJ Bill Gates and promoter Bill Goode became interested in the guys' work, who undertook to supervise the ensemble and renamed it "B.G.s" (in honor of the three BGs - Barry Gibb, Bill Gates, Bill Goode). In the future, the name was transformed into "Bee Gees", and its decoding began to mean "Brothers Gibb". Although the Australian press and television gave the brothers increased attention, the records family ensemble were in very moderate demand.
After releasing a number of singles and a couple of albums, the Gibbs realized that they had nothing more to do in the country of kangaroos and decided to move back to England in search of happiness. By the way, in the end, they still managed to bake a real Aussie hit - "Spicks And Specks", and this song, performed in the manner of "Beatles", helped them reach the impresario Robert Stigwood. With his submission, the group received a five-year contract from "Polydor", and in the meantime the official composition of the "Bee Gees" was supplemented by guitarist Vince Meloni and drummer Colin Petersen. The team made their first claim to serious success with the single "New York Mining Disaster 1941", released in April 1967. This minor-key psychedelic-surreal piece reached the Top 20 on both sides of the Atlantic, followed by hits like "To Love Somebody", "Holiday" and the UK-topping EP "Massachusetts".
The first three European full-lengths ("1st", "Horizontal", "Idea") also got into the top twenty, however, disagreements arose among the musicians when recording the next album. The first to leave was Meloni, who gravitated towards the blues, then Robin retreated, who shared lead vocals with Barry, but was angry that Stigwood was pushing his brother into fronting, and finally Petersen was expelled third. Be that as it may, the "Odessa" sessions were completed, and the listeners received a magnificent art-rock album with rich orchestrations. While Robin pursued his ambitions by recording a solo album, Barry and Maurice concocted a Cucumber Castle vinyl pancake under the Bee Gees label. And although the song "Don" t Forget To Remember "reached the second line of the English hit parade, the LP itself had a very modest success. Maurice and Barry immediately fled, but already at the end of 1970, all three brothers reunited and started preparing the disc" 2 years on".
Playing progressive-flavored pop-rock in the spirit of "Moody Blues", the ensemble returned the popularity that had slipped away. So, the composition "Lonely Days" took the third line in the overseas charts, and the song "How Can You Mend A Broken Heart" generally topped the "Billboard". But if in America the business of the "Bee Gees" was moving forward successfully, then in their native England they no longer got high places. Although the stylistically diverse "To Whom It May Concern" was still in good demand in the US, "Life In A Tin Can", which was released without Stigwood's participation, felt a creative stagnation, and the sales curve crept down. Taking advantage of Eric Clapton's offer to work in one of the Miami studios, the brothers recorded the disc "Mr. Natural", which, although it was based on the Americanized R&B and soul, had new sound, developed on subsequent albums.
And if here Barry's signature falsetto had just begun to erupt, then already on the "Main Course" he shone in all its glory. Performed in disco rhythms, this disc was an incredible success and the Gibb family continued to work in their chosen direction. The second half of the 70s became a real renaissance for the "Bee Gees", and their hits rained down like from a cornucopia. During this period, such chart toppers as "Jive Talkin", "You Should Be Dancing", "Too Much Heaven", "Tragedy", "Love You Inside Out" appeared, and the apotheosis of everything was the participation of the group in the soundtrack to the cult disco film "Saturday Night Fever", where her action films "How Deep Is Your Love?", "Stayin' Alive" and "Night Fever" sounded. However, the decade ended rather badly: the public, tortured by the domination of the "Bee Gees", began to organize anti-Gibbian protests, and the musicians themselves pushed themselves into a new crisis by starring in the failed film "Sgt. Pepper" s Lonely Hearts Club Band ". Having issued a mediocre album as a farewell "Living Eyes", the team disappeared from sight for several years and only in 1987 reminded of its existence with the program "E.S.P.".
I must say that with this work, the ensemble regained the favor of European fans, but in the USA the record hung at the end of the first hundred. A similar picture was observed with the release of the albums "One", "High Civilization", "Size Isn" t Everything", but in 1997 the brothers managed to grab luck by the tail once again. The disc "Still Waters" is located in the top twenty on both sides of the ocean , and in the same year the group was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.But if this album still bore the imprint of the disco era, then on "This Is Where I Came In" the trio returned to early (albeit modernized) pop Unfortunately, this studio album was the last for Maurice, who died of a heart attack on January 12, 2003. Left alone, Robin and Barry initially wanted to continue the activities of the Bee Gees, but then decided that without their brother it would be wrong.
Last update 12/16/10Robin Gibb (1949) - vocals
Barry Gibb (1947) - vocals, guitar
Maurice Gibb (1949) - vocals, guitar
In the history of world music, some identify the three most influential giants with the letter "B" (THE BEATLES, THE BEACH BOYS and THE BEE GEES). We will talk about the merits of the latter in more detail, because the Gibb brothers are still standing, they have supported and maintain good weather in the musical horizon of four decades, for which many thanks to the music lovers, and they close the top five great musicians (Elvis, THE BEATLES, Jackson, McCartney and BEE GEES), who managed to sell more than 100 million of their records. At the same time, The Bee Gees wrote their worldwide hits exclusively by themselves, without any outside help.
The history of the creation of this legendary band leads us to post-war Europe, to the British island of Isle Of Man, where the sons of Barry (Barry, b. 09/01/1946) were born in the family of musician Hugh Gibb - he broke through without a queue - and the twins Morris and Robin ( Maurice & Robin, b. 12/22/1949), who had to wait three years and also share a mother's womb. From early childhood, when the Gibbs moved to live in terribly musical Manchester, the whole trio with great trepidation captured every sound that his father extracted from his guitar. He was the leader of a local rock and roll band and often introduced his children to the latest in music. It was to him that the sons owed their early craving for singing and playing the piano. musical instruments. The children listened to the harmony of sounds and since 1955, together with their father, they began to pretend to be a real family rock band in local cinemas.
In 1958 the family emigrated to Australia. There, the kids grew up before our eyes and soon created the BEE group. GEES(according to the abbreviation Brothers Gibb). Their musical career began with performances in the clubs of Brisbane, where they were perceived as nothing more than funny kids on stage. After signing with Australian label Festival Records, the teenage trio of Gibbs began to storm the Australian charts in the first half of the 60s, gaining a good reputation on the Kangurian mainland, but remaining unknown outside.
The Gibb brothers first appeared on one of the Australian TV shows back in 1959, performing a couple of songs. own composition. The second appearance, already in the rank of "stars" of the local scale, took place in 1963 with a simple song in the style of "pseudo-folk" "The Battle Of Blue And Grey" - they formed the basis of the first single Bee Gees. At first, the trinity did not look very presentable - yesterday's large-mouthed teenagers with protruding horse teeth and a frozen smile on their faces, of course, could not compete with their idols - the charming four from Liverpool. However, even then, the individual features of each began to appear, which later allowed Bee Gees acquire their own, easily recognizable face. The charisma and attractiveness of Barry was complemented by the high, slightly trembling timbre of Robin, who for a long time became the "first voice" of the group. As for the shy and almost voiceless Maurice, he was happy to portray a kind of Ringo Starr in the group (whom he began to look like with age). Modesty and a sea of bumbling charm made Maurice as indispensable a member of the group as his more talented brothers.
Responsibilities in the group were distributed simply: Barry took on the hard work of the composer (by the way, he received the first high appreciation of his work back in 1965, when the local radio station awarded him the title of "composer of the year"), Robin was responsible for the vocals, part-time putting his hand to the writings of Barry. Over a four-year Australian career, the brothers have recorded about 60 songs of their own composition, not counting the obligatory rock and roll and hits from popular bands with dearly loved The Beatles at the head. All this material was of quite good quality (as the lucky owners of the two-disc anthology Birth Of Brilliance or the three-disc compilation Rare Precious And Beautiful can be sure of), but not a single song was clearly capable of international hits. However, at first the brothers were content with the title of "Best Australian Group", received in 1966. However, on the eve of returning to England in 1967 - the brothers decided to try their luck at home - the disc "Spicks And Specks" topped the Australian charts.
On January 24, 1967, their fateful meeting with manager Robert Stigwood, former assistant to famed Beatles manager Brian Epstein and director of his firm NEMS. Stigwood had been toying with the idea of raising his own Beatles for a long time, and was very pleased with the happiness that suddenly fell into his hands. He was especially pleased that, unlike most other groups of that time, the brothers themselves wrote their entire repertoire and, subtly capturing the mood of the listeners, presented them with exactly what they wanted to hear. First things first, Stigwood decided to transform the trio into a quintet, bringing in Australian musicians Vince Miluni and Colin Peterson. This was followed by contracts with the English firm Polydor and with the American Atlantic, and the group released their first British single "New York Mining Disaster 1941". Already in this thing, the distinctive characteristics of the musical style of The Bee were visible. Gees: melody, characteristic vocals, surprisingly harmonious combination of voices. This song was a Top 20 single in the US and UK, and the first album was a Top 10 hit in both countries. This was followed by the wonderful ballads "To Love Somebody", "Holiday", "Words" (Elvis Presley also performed this thing) and "I Started A Joke", and "Massachusetts" (1967) and "I" ve Gotta Get A Message To You" (1968) topped the UK charts.
However, a series of triumphs was followed by failures: excessive drug addiction and disputes over leadership inflamed the situation in the group red-hot. At the end of 1968, Miluni left the group, then the brothers quarreled, and Robin - then he was the lead vocalist - decided to start solo career. His single "Saved By The Bell" became one of the most famous British hits in 1969, and the remaining brothers, as it seemed to many, doomed themselves to self-destruction - they drove Peterson away. However, as a duet, Maurice and Barry still achieved success - and equal to the success of Robin - with the song "Don" t Forget To Remember Me ". But soon after the release of this single, Barry Gibb announced his departure, and for some time the group ceased to exist.Then the collapse of the Bee Gees seemed natural to many - the age of beat-groups was clearly ending. However, this clearly did not suit Stigwood, who tightened the bridle and persuaded Barry to stay and Robin to return. Since then - since 1970 - the brothers have not parted, and although each of them releases solo records, the unity of The Bee Gees seems indestructible.
The following year's singles "Lonely Days" and "How Can You Mend A Broken Heart" sold millions of copies in the US. Resurgent Bee Gees changed image and musical style- the melodic beat was replaced by pop in the style of Elton John, flavored with a bit of psychedelia and art rock (this was especially pronounced in the album Odessa) However, after several transatlantic hits, BEE positions GEES reeled again, but for objective reasons. They began to be presented as unfashionable old men who could only cause bouts of nostalgia. This resulted for them in a three-year club imprisonment in the north of England, in places not very suitable for the performance of world stars. Barry recalled that there were many beautiful good people who liked their music but bee GEES they did not want to end their career in a cabaret. Yet the crisis of the early seventies could not but affect creativity, and Stigwood's own company RSO, which was now supposed to release the brothers' products, refused to publish their album, recorded in 1974. However, this was partly due to political motives- in this album, the brothers allowed themselves some careless statements about the war in Vietnam.
Be that as it may, the temporary break with Stigwood did the group good. The Gibbs have taken on a new producer, Arif Mardin, who has refocused their work slightly in the direction of soul and funk. The album recorded under the leadership of Mardin under the joking name "Main Course" and the single "Jive Talkin" ": the album was sold in a million copies, and the single went to the first line of the American and British charts. It was Jive Talkin that became the first in the clip of Bee's disco hits Gees, to which they, in fact, owe their unfading popularity so far. And although Robin's gentle voice was still best manifested in ballads, no one doubted the change in the group's orientation towards dance motifs. Throughout the second half of the seventies, musicians worked in the disco style, and so successfully that in 1977 Stigwood decided to release a film about the "disco phenomenon" with John Travolta in leading role. It was called "Saturday Night Fever", almost all the music for it was recorded and performed by The Bee Gees, and the soundtrack became the most replicated "film album" of all time - this record has not been broken to this day.
Around the same time as the recording of "Saturday Night Fever", another member of the Gibb family, Andy's younger brother, made the grand debut. 19-year-old Andy Gibb kicked off his debut album "Flowing Rivers" and within a short time has become a true teen idol. Andy Gibb is forever marked in history as the first solo artist to consistently reach number one on the charts with three of his singles, which, by the way, like other songs from Andy's five albums, were written by his brothers. So the Gibb family achieved an interesting result by the beginning of the 80s, which was expressed in the permanent leadership of Bee records in turn. Gees and Andy Gibb. Much to our regret, promising Andy sat on the needle in the mid-80s and later went bankrupt.
Now the brothers produced their own work - in collaboration with Carl Richardson and Alby Galatin, and their stuff, which they wrote for other artists (Samantha Sang, Yvonne Elliman, their younger brother Andy), in late 77th - early 78th years occupied all the top lines of American tables. The songs "Too Much Heaven", "Tragedy", "Love You Inside Out" continued the list of their victories, then Barry Gibb wrote the main track for the film "Grease", and the band in in full force starred in Stigwood's Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club. In this tape, Stigwood collected, in addition to Bee Gees, a whole bunch of stars of the first magnitude - Peter Frampton, Aerosmith and Earth, Wind & Fire, Alice Cooper ... The resulting mixed team "played" a very dubious plot based on Beatles songs, and at the same time performed almost the entire repertoire of the Beatles albums Abbey Road and Sgt Pepper itself. The artistic value of the film (and especially the "frozen" game of the Gibb brothers) immediately raised doubts, but the soundtrack turned out to be extremely successful. The Gibb brothers, who were in awe of The Beatles, treated the original songs more carefully than the other participants in the film, and some of their versions still look very worthy.
The last successful album of the 70s was "Spirits Having Flown", which became a kind of quintessence of all Bee's work Gees. By the way, this disc was written just during the filming of "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart Club Band" in a state of severe drug intoxication, and is still considered the most unsurpassed British pop album. After it, Bee Gees released only "Living Eyes", which did not repeat the success of the previous album and generally turned out to be rather weak. In the early eighties, the disco boom came to naught, and with it the popularity of The Bee Gees: the sequel to "Saturday Night Fever", the film "Staying Alive", released in 1983, turned out to be much less successful, the solo projects of the brothers also did not appeal to the public, and during this decade the brothers were mainly engaged in writing music for other artists such as Barbra Streisand, Kenny Rogers, Dionne Warwick and Diana Ross.
They returned to the charts in 1987, recording "You Win Again", received a special award "for twenty years of creative contribution to British music", since 1988 they again began to perform concerts. However, by this time, the brothers' addiction to drugs had reached its logical conclusion - the youngest representative of the Gibb family, Andy, had died. He died of a cocaine overdose at the age of 30, on March 10, 1988, when he already had a new music contract with Island Records in his hands. “Personally, I believe that he is still with us,” says Maurice Gibb. “He went through many tragedies in his lifetime, but now these horrors are over. He is now with his father, and I don’t think of him as dead, I know that he is with us now." A moment of silence. Maurice continues: "Bad. This road leads nowhere. People think that cocaine and ecstasy are one big, fun party. But no one thinks that all the parties end. I remember how it was and marvel at how much of a jerk you have to be to live the way we lived."
For "ESP" (1987) there were more albums - "One", "Size Isn" t Everything ", but the music of Bee Gees as if it lost its expressiveness, became more commercial and, as a result, less interesting. Realizing this, the brothers decided to take a break in 1993, and this break dragged on for a good four years.
1997 was marked by the release of the album "Still Waters", which immediately entered the US Top 10, documentary"Kepple Road: The life and Music of the Bee Gees", 4 international music awards (whose names I will not give, because they will not tell you anything anyway) and huge profits from the sale of the old album "Best Of The Bee Gees", which also hit the top ten, but already in England. On the same day as the release of Still Water Bee Gees were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland. A wave of remixes rained down, made fashionable dance groups N-Trance, Take That and Boyzone, from which the tribute album We Love You Bee was soon released Gees. The first single "Alone" from "Still Waters" was one of the most beloved tracks by radio listeners around the world in 1997, and the album itself sold well, clearly lamenting the return of the Gibbs to their favorite Ray Charles and Stevie Wonder rhythm and blues and provoking another public nostalgia for the good old Bee Gees. And then the 20th anniversary of "Saturday Night Fever" arrived in time. Robert Stigwood, producer of the original film version and soundtrack, decided to make a theatrical production of the same name, and the Bee classics Gees revived again. Plus, the brothers wrote for her another song "Immorality", which was performed by Celine Dion. The role of Travolta was played by one young Australian actor. In the fall of the same year, the band embarked on the most ambitious tour of their career across four continents. The Las Vegas concert was their favorite, and 25 of his songs are featured by Gibbs on their new live compilation "One Night Only", which comes out September 7th. In short, and now the old men bee GEES livelier than all the living, so please enjoy their harmonious music to your health and do not forget to ask your parents in what year this or that song was popular. History needs to be known.
Albums:
Bee Gees sing and play 14 Barry Gibb songs Polydor 1965
Bee Gees 1st Polydor 1967
Horizontal Polydor 1968
Idea Polydor 1968
Rare, precious and beautiful, vol. 1 Polydor 1968
Rare, precious and beautiful, vol. 2 Polydor 1968
Rare, precious and beautiful, vol. 3 Polydor 1969
Odessa Polydor 1969
Cucumber Castle (Barry and Maurice Gibb) Polydor 1970
Two years on Polydor 1970
Trafalgar Polydor 1971
To whom it may concern Polydor 1972
Life in a tin can RSO 1973
Mr. Natural RSO 1974
Main course RSO 1975
Children of the world RSO 1976
Here at last..Bee Gees..Live RSO 1977
Saturday Night Fever RSO 1977
Sgt. Peppers lonely hearts club band RSO 1978
Spirits having flown RSO 1979
Living eyes RSO 1981
Stayin' alive RSO 1983
E.S.P. Warner 1987
One Warner 1989
Tales of the Brothers Gibb (4 cd/lp/mc) Polydor 1990
High Civilization Warner 1991
Size Isn't Everything Warner 1993
Still Waters Polydor 1997
Solo albums:
BARRY-GIBB
Now Voyager (1984)
Hawks (1988)
ROBIN-GIBB
Robin's Reign (1970)
How Old Dare You (1983)
Secret Agent (1984)
Walls Have Eyes (1985)
ANDY GIBB
Flowing Rivers (1977)
Shadow Dancing (1978)
After Dark (1980)
As they say, it is impossible to create the same impression twice. However, the BritishBee Gees group (BeeGees) completely refuted this view. After all, having achieved fame, the guys for some time “lay down at the bottom” of show business, in order to return again for a new dose of public love. During its existence, the team has sold more than one hundred million copies of records. This makes it one of the most successful bands in the history of modern music.
BeeGees group created by the three Gibb brothers. The leader and vocalist was the eldest - Barry. And, here, the twins Robin and Maurice were the second vocalist and keyboardist-guitarist, respectively.
Even in early childhood, the brothers loved to listen to their father for a long time, who played in a local rock and roll band and thus taught his children to music. As follows, from the nextbiographies of Bee Gees members his efforts were crowned with success and a few years later, since 1955, the children, along with their father, played on the same stage.
After emigrating to Australia in 1958, the guys already create their ownmusic group Bee Gees (according to the abbreviation BrothersGibb). To begin with, they played the club scenes in Brisbane and were not taken seriously at first. Indeed, if you look atphoto Bee Geese of those times, we see a rather funny picture, the guys looked like fledgling chicks, no longer teenagers, but not yet men. And, nevertheless, already then the bright individuality of each began to appear.Member of the Bee Gees. The undoubted charisma and visual appeal of Barry complemented Robin, with his slightly trembling voice and charm. The third brother, Maurice, did not possess any outstanding abilities, either external or vocal, he nevertheless became an indispensable member of the group, like his brothers. These and other abilities of the trio made it possible to create their own image, so unique and adored by millions of fans for decades.
After living in Australia for eight years, in 1966 the Gibb family returned to good old England, where they beganmusical career of the Bee Gees. Their first album, which was designed by Klaus Wurmann, was released in 1967. Since then, the guys have become very famous among fans of psychedelic pop. But, it was at that time that this style was popular among the hippie communities.Photos of Bee Gees adorn the walls of their fans. So,BeeGees musicians won the love of thousands of young Europeans. Their compositions Holiday, TurnOfTheCentury, ToLoveSomebody and others became real hits, and records were sold at an incredible rate. However, with the advent of the 70s, the BeeGees albums ceased to interest the public.
The second wave of fame began when the musicians suddenly moved away from the psychedelic and began to perform disco. In 1977, the film Saturday Night Fever was released, in which the composition Stayin' Alive sounded. After some time, she hit the leading lines of many charts, which once again reminded the world of the BeeGees. And again numerousarticles about Bee Gees vying to praise and sing of their talent.
It was this song that became the musical quintessence of the entire disco culture. In addition, doctors believe that this single is the perfect accompaniment for chest compressions. The rhythm of the song is 103 beats per minute, and in cardiopulmonary resuscitation, you need to press on the chest about 100 times per minute.
With the advent of the 80s, disco began to be gradually forgotten andBee Gees performers started playing rock. Until 2003, they still released several albums, but due to the death of Maurice, they ceased to exist. Then, of course, there wasinformation about the Bee Gees group, that they would be reborn again, but Barry and Robin felt it was better to remain legends of "that" time than to try to achieve popularity again.
And, unfortunately, on this moment this becomes impossible, since in the past 2012, the second brother, Robin, died of cancer, almost until his death, he worked, despite his poor health.
Undoubtedlymusical trio Bee Gees made a great contribution to the development of the world music industry. For this they were awarded not only a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, but also the love of millions. They remained the most prominent representatives crazy 80s.
In 2005, the book "The Complete Biography of TheBeeGees" was published in Russia. "Tales of the Brothers Gibb", its authors Bilie M., Cook G. and Hughes E., it describespersonal life of Bee Gees members , unknown facts from their lives, various funny cases that fans of the group will appreciate.
Bee Gees discography is a record in its number and has more than 60 albums, including solo albums, which were released by each of the brothers, numerous compositions for films, and just a lot of good music. For this music, the trio was repeatedly awarded various prestigious awards, they were once inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Barry Gibb was born September 1, 1946 in Manchester (England). Robin and Maurice are twins born on December 22, 1949, 35 minutes apart. In 1958, the Gibb family moved from Manchester to Australia. In 1960, they performed on several television shows and also in resorts in Australia, despite being underage. Australian star Kol Joy was inspired by Barry's songs and helped the brothers get a record deal with a music label in 1963. The band's name was changed to "Bee Gees". The trio released two or three singles a year. At the same time, Barry managed to write songs for other Australian artists. In 1966, the Gibbs returned to England, where they began a successful career in rock music (hits Words, etc.). However, by the early 1970s. Bee Gees records were no longer successful.The second phase of the Bee Gees began when the musicians unexpectedly turned to disco music. In 1977, the soundtrack to the film Saturday Night Fever was released, the most famous composition of which was the title track "Stayin' Alive". Thanks to its incredible popularity, the Bee Gees immediately soared to the first lines of the charts, in fact becoming the living personification of the disco era and one of the main suppliers of hits for discos in the second half of the 1970s (the hit "Tragedy", etc.)
In 1979, the band received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for their achievements and contributions to the field of music.
In the 1980s, the band members were mainly engaged in solo projects. Robin was especially lucky in this field (hits Juliet, Boys Do Fall In Love, etc.). In 1987, the group released the album E.S.P., which became quite successful. The single You Win Again from this album topped the UK and European charts. The Bee Gees regained the attention of critics and music lovers in the late 1990s with the release of several traditional rock albums (the last in 2001). In 2003, the group ceased to exist due to the death of Maurice Gibb.
Six years later, at the end of 2009, Barry and Robin announced the revival of the Bee Gees. However, the band never made any new studio recordings. With the death of Robin Gibb in 2012, the hope for a Bee Gees revival finally faded.
