Bee Gees Music Videos

Active: 1958–2003, 2009–2012
Formed in: Redcliffe, Australia
Albums: 22 studio

Australian-British pop group · 1958–2003, 2009–2012

Three brothers who spent forty-five years writing in close harmony and reinvented themselves completely halfway through. Barry, Robin, and Maurice Gibb were born on the Isle of Man and raised in Manchester before their parents emigrated to Redcliffe, north of Brisbane, in August 1958. They sang for coins thrown onto a speedway track, had their first major Australian hit with Spicks and Specks, and returned to England in January 1967, where Robert Stigwood signed them and had Bee Gees' 1st in shops by July. Massachusetts gave them their first British No.1 that fall, and Horizontal, Idea, and Odessa followed inside two years, built on Robin's vibrato lead and the brothers' three-part harmony. How Can You Mend a Broken Heart brought their first American No.1 in 1971.

Arif Mardin turned them toward R&B on Main Course in 1975, and Barry's falsetto did the rest. The Saturday Night Fever soundtrack, carrying How Deep Is Your Love and Night Fever, sold more than 40 million copies and became one of the best-selling albums ever released. Nine of their songs reached No.1 on the Billboard Hot 100, and they wrote and produced hits for Barbra Streisand, Dionne Warwick, Diana Ross, and Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton, whose Islands in the Stream was theirs. In 1987 You Win Again made them the first group with a UK No.1 in three different decades. Sales figures start at 120 million records and climb from there. Brian Wilson inducted them into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1997. Maurice died on January 12, 2003, and Robin on May 20, 2012. Barry, knighted in 2018, still performs the catalog the three of them built.