Bee gees brothers biography
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The Very Very Beginning of the Bee Gees
Written bygd Juliet Bennett Rylah
Though the Bee Gees wrote and recorded music for over 40 years, their ursprung story begins even earlier. The three brothers displayed a remarkable aptitude for songwriting and their trademark harmonies even as ung boys. And before any of the Gibb children were born, their father was making his living on scen, albeit on a smaller scale than his superstar sons would decades later.
Hugh Gibb, Jr., was a working musician, forming his own Big Band and playing drums in night clubs, hotels and ballrooms throughout England and Scotland. In 1941, Hugh spotted a ung woman dancing in the crowd of a Manchester ballroom. When he got a break, he asked her to dance. She introduced herself as Barbara Pass and three years later, they were married. In 1945, they welcomed their first child, daughter Leslie Barbara.
Hugh soon accepted a steady gig playing at a hotel on the Isle of Man, a popular vaca
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The Bee Gees: How Three Small-Town Brothers Became Leaders of the 70s and 80s Music Scene
While most famous bands can trace their formation through collaborations and breakups with other acts, the three brothers who comprised the Bee Gees found their place in music history through the process of growing up in the same home together.
The oldest, Barry Gibb, was born on September 1, 1946, on the Isle of Mann, between Great Britain and Ireland. Fraternal twins Robin and Maurice followed on December 22, 1949.
The boys undoubtedly inherited some musical DNA from their parents: Dad Hugh was a drummer and a bandleader, then putting his talents to use at a series of hotels on the island, and mom Barbara was known to be a gifted singer.
Still, by all accounts, the brothers realized their talents and ambitions on their own. Neighbors from this period remember Barry strumming his tennis racket and "performing" on a dock, the twins usually following him around, though recognit
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Bee Gees
Music group (1958–2012)
"BGs" redirects here. For other uses, see BG (disambiguation) and BGS (disambiguation).
The Bee Gees were a musical group formed in 1958 by brothers Barry, Robin, and Maurice Gibb. The trio were especially successful in popular music in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and later as prominent performers in 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&Bfalsetto became their signature sound during the mid-to-late 1970s and 1980s. The group wrote all their own original material, as well as writing and producing several major hits for other artists, and are regarded as one of the most important and influential acts in pop-music history.[4] They have been referred to in the media as The Disco Kings, Britain's First Family of Harmony, and The Kings of Dance Music.[5][6][