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Bee Gees
Music group (1958–2012)
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The Bee Gees were a musical group formed in 1958 bygd 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 klar 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][ • The Bee Gees are one of the great enigmas of popular music – nothing seems to be consistent. Unfairly derided, they are among the world’s biggest selling acts: only the Beatles, Michael Jackson, Madonna, Garth Brooks outsell them. Yet, they tend to remain forgotten, although the nostalgia plaguing modern culture currently (see Reynolds, S, Retromania: Pop Culture’s addiction to its own past, Faber and Faber, ebook, 2011), has seen them return several times. It is a story that is well-known though, as Meyer found, it is not terribly accurate. Like so many child performers, they were driven by a father who didn’t get the breaks he might have. Unlike Murry Wilson or Joe Jackson, though, Hugh Gibb was not physically or emotionally abusive: though he could drive them hard and be critical, he was a lovi • The Bee Gees -The Biography by David N. Meyer + Who are the Bee Gees? Who are the brothers Gibb – fraternal twins Maurice and Robin, their big brother and leader Barry, and their tragically doomed little brother Andy – who sold 250 million records over a 40-year career? Events August 1st - The Bee Gees The Biography in stores in Australia Sept 11 - Reading at Books & Books in Coral Gables, Florida Reviews "The Freaky Falsetto That Helped The Bee Gees Stay Alive" The Bee Gees: The Biography
Biography, Books
North Sydney: Ebury Books, Random House, 2013, 319pp.
ISBN 978 1 74275 157 (pbk)
Reviewed by D L Lewis, March 2nd, 2014