Bee Gees - Musical Evolution 1960-2016

I've got a degree in the Bee-gees-- lol... or if there was such a thing I'd have one.. :D I've followed their careers since they were kids even though they were ten years older than me...

They were born in the UK on the Isle of Man, their parents moved them to Australia when they were quite young, and they took up their singing career on radio and local tv there.. Barry was 3 years older then the twins... 1946.. and 1949 respectively...

Eventually they returned to the UK again, and made it huge in the music industry...

here they are in 1963 as kids.. the twins were 14 and Barry 17.. you can see even in the early days Maurice was not as confident as his twin Robin...

 
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I wasn't keen on the Bee-Gees disco era.. but I liked every other song they ever wrote ( and they wrote for many famous singers)... and every other song they had hits with I enjoyed.

I had a passion for Maurice ... while everyone else was pashing on Barry....

My 3 fave songs of theirs are, in no particular order..


Maurice at his most gorgeous in this song...


...and this
 
Barry Gibbs is doing country music now:
Barry Gibb: COUNTRY-SOUL MELODY

(excerpt)
Barry Gibb has come full circle. From the folk-rock trio with his brothers to adapting Philadelphia soul into the Bee Gees’ distinctive disco, and now as a country crooner who at the age of 74 says his musical journey has been along the same arc from the beginning.

Gibb’s new album, Greenfields: The Gibb Brothers’ Songbook, Volume 1, and the new HBO documentary The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart show how his decades of melody-driven songwriting and astonishing harmonies with his late brothers Robin and Maurice have traversed genres and many different cultural roots.

For him, it all fits together.
 
I've got a degree in the Bee-gees-- lol... or if there was such a thing I'd have one.. :D I've followed their careers since they were kids even though they were ten years older than me...

They were born in the UK on the Isle of Man, their parents moved them to Australia when they were quite young, and they took up their singing career on radio and local tv there.. Barry was 3 years older then the twins... 1946.. and 1949 respectively...

Eventually they returned to the UK again, and made it huge in the music industry...

here they are in 1963 as kids.. the twins were 14 and Barry 17.. you can see even in the early days Maurice was not as confident as his twin Robin...

I used to love listening to the Bee-gees but never knew their story. Thanks holly dolly for sharing the videos here. What a fascinating family of singers!:)
 
I love the Bee-Gees! A couple of things I learned about them recently (forgive me if already mentioned in this thread) ...
They wrote many songs for others, including Barbra Streisand, and for Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers, the great song Islands In The Stream. One of my many favorites, Massachusetts, was written before they ever set foot in Massachusetts! LOL (-8
 
The brothers have written songs performed by more than 2500 different acts,. here's a few of them
  • Diana Ross (“Chain Reaction” - they also sing backing vox on this one)

  • Frankie Valli (“Grease” - a Barry Gibb composition, which he’s also sung himself live)

  • Olivia Newton-John (both solo - “Come On Over”and with the youngest Gibb brother Andy on “I Can’t Help It”)

  • Barbara Streisand (“Woman in Love” plus “Guilty” & “What Kind of Fool” as duets with Barry)

  • Dionne Warwick (“Heartbreaker” - another where Barry chips in on backing vox)

  • Yvonne Elliman (“Love Me” & “If I Can’t Have You”)

  • Andy Gibb (the youngest Gibb sang several of his brothers’ hits, including chart topper “Shadow Dancing”)

  • Cilla Black (“Words”)...and then a hit for the Bee-Gees

  • Kenny Rogers & Dolly Parton (“Islands in the Stream”)

  • Raul Malo (The Mavericks front man did a cover of “Run to Me” in 2006)

  • Billy Corgan and Robert Smith ( “To Love Somebody”!)

  • Al Green (“How Can You Mend a Broken Heart”)

  • Faith No More (“I Started a Joke”)...also a huge hit for Robin Gibb

  • Matthew Sweet and Susannah Hoffs (“Run to Me”)

  • Candy Staton (“Nights on Broadway”)

  • La Roux & Whyte Horses (“Mr Natural”)

  • Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band “Stayin’ Alive”,

  • Celine Dion (“Immortality”)

  • Jimmy Ruffin (“Hold On To My Love”)

  • “Destiny’s Child (“Emotion”, which was first released by Samantha Sang & Barry G in 1978).
 

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