The Bee Gees wrote all of their own hits, as well as writing and producing several major hits for other artists. In , Robin announced that he and Barry had agreed the Bee Gees would re-form and perform again. Robin died in May , aged 62, after a prolonged struggle with cancer and other health problems, leaving Barry as the only surviving member of the group. We want to apologise publicly to Robin for the things that have been said. In , they hit No. By , however, the Bee Gees were in a rut. When it, too, failed to attract much interest, Mardin encouraged them to work within the soul music style. The brothers attempted to assemble a live stage band that could replicate their studio sound. The band liked the resulting new sound. The album peaked at No.
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The Bee Gees were a music group formed in Their lineup consisted of brothers Barry , Robin , and Maurice Gibb. The trio were especially successful as a popular music act in the late s and early s, and later as prominent performers of the disco music era in the mid-to-late s. The Bee Gees wrote all of their own hits, as well as writing and producing several major hits for other artists. The Bee Gees are widely referred to by many critics, media outlets and fellow artists as the " Kings of Disco ". After achieving their first chart success in Australia as the Bee Gees with " Spicks and Specks " their 12th single , they returned to the UK in January , when producer Robert Stigwood began promoting them to a worldwide audience.
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Stigwood's confidence in his newly acquired Gibb brothers was quite remarkable given that he'd only first heard the band's demo tapes—which had been shipped to his office by Gibb family patriarch, Hugh—about twelve weeks earlier by chance. We just got very lucky that Robert had received the demos sent by my father and became interested. We didn't know where he was, but he found us. It all happened very, very quickly. While their initial rise to fame under Stigwood's wing may have appeared meteoric, the Bee Gees' arrival into popular consciousness was nearly a decade in the making. They'd been performing together in some capacity since December , when brothers Barry, Robin, and Maurice sang in public for the first time in between films at the Gaumont Theatre in Manchester, England. The fledgling Gibbs, despite their unsettled adolescent voices, demonstrated a stunning natural ability to effortlessly harmonize—that pure, raw vocal talent was evident on their earliest of records even if they lacked the compositional complexity and nuance of their later material. After the Gibb family emigrated to Australia in the summer of , the brothers began performing nearly anywhere that would have them to support their financially fragile household.
More Images. Please enable Javascript to take full advantage of our site features. Edit Artist. They were born on the Isle of Man to English parents, lived in Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Manchester, England, UK and during their childhood years moved to Brisbane, Australia, where they began their musical careers. Their worldwide success came when they returned to the UK and signed with producer Robert Stigwood.
