Bee Gees | |
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The Bee Gees performing on Dutch television in From left to right: Barry, Robin, and Maurice Gibb | |
| Origin | Redcliffe, Queensland, Australia |
| Genres | Pop, rock, blue-eyed soul, disco |
| Years active | –, – |
| Labels | Festival Records, Polydor, Atco, RSO, Warner Bros. |
| Past member(s) | Colin Petersen Vince Melouney Geoff Bridgford Barry Gibb Maurice Gibb Robin Gibb |
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The Bee Gees were a British–Australian pop group. For most of its history, the band consisted of three brothers all of whom were born on the Isle of Man, a BritishCrown dependency. The brothers, Barry Gibb (born 1 September ), and twins Maurice Gibb (22 December – 12 January ) and Robin Gibb (22 December – 20 May ), started singing at a young age when living in Manchester. In the late s, the band briefly expanded to include Australian born Vince Melouney and Colin Petersen. When the band reformed after splitting in , Australian born Geoff Bridgford briefly became a member. The Bee Gees existed for almost 40 years They are most famous for their album, Saturday Night Fever, the soundtrack for the movie of the same name. They stopped performing after Maurice died. The two other brothers reunited as a duo in In Robin died. They had a younger brother, Andy Gibb (–), who was also a singer.
The Gibb brothers were born on the Isle of Man, then lived in Manchester, England, before moving to Australia in It was in Australia that the Bee Gees' band was formed. In January , the Gibb brothers returned to England where their band the Bee Gees started to become internationally famous. In , Colin Petersen and Vince Melouney joined the band but by the end the decade both had left and the brothers themselves had briefly gone their separate ways, only to reform in Between and , Geoff Bridgford was a member of the Bee Gees. In , the brothers relocated to the United States.