"and 1980s. The Bee Gees wrote all of their own hits, as well as writing and producing several major hits for other artists. Born on the Isle of Man to English parents, the Gibb brothers lived in Chorlton, Manchester, England, until the late 1950s. There, in 1955, they formed the Rattlesnakes. The family then moved to Redcliffe, in Queensland, Australia, and then to Cribb Island. After achieving their first chart success in Australia as the Bee Gees with ""Spicks and Specks"" (their 12th single), they returned to the UK in January 1967, when producer Robert Stigwood began promoting them to"
"of instruments. Born on the Isle of Man, Gibb started his music career in 1955 in Manchester, England, joining the skiffle-rock and roll group the Rattlesnakes, which later evolved into the Bee Gees in 1958 when they moved to Australia. They returned to England, where they achieved worldwide fame. In 2002, the Bee Gees were appointed as CBEs for their ""contribution to music"". Following his death in 2003, Gibb's son collected his award at Buckingham Palace in 2004. Gibb's earliest musical influences included the Everly Brothers, Cliff Richard, and Paul Anka; the Mills Brothers and the Beatles were significant later"
"Barry Gibb Sir Barry Alan Crompton Gibb, (born 1 September 1946) is a British singer, songwriter, musician and record producer who rose to worldwide fame as a co-founder of the group the Bee Gees, one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed groups in the history of popular music. With his brothers, Robin and Maurice Gibb, he formed a songwriting partnership beginning in 1966. Born in Douglas on the Isle of Man, he was raised in Manchester where he became involved in the skiffle craze, forming his first band, the Rattlesnakes, which evolved into the Bee Gees in 1960"
"Barry Gibb Sir Barry Alan Crompton Gibb, (born 1 September 1946) is a British singer, songwriter, musician and record producer who rose to worldwide fame as a co-founder of the group the Bee Gees, one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed groups in the history of popular music. With his brothers, Robin and Maurice Gibb, he formed a songwriting partnership beginning in 1966. Born in Douglas on the Isle of Man, he was raised in Manchester where he became involved in the skiffle craze, forming his first band, the Rattlesnakes, which evolved into the Bee Gees in 1960"
"had migrated from the UK and, in the case of the latter, from continental Europe. Bee Gees had formed in 1960 by the trio of singing Gibb brothers, who had migrated from UK two years earlier, created ""impeccable three-part harmonies"" in a pop and R&B style. In 1963 they signed with Leedon Records which issued their early singles from that year and their debut album, ""The Bee Gees Sing and Play 14 Barry Gibb Songs"", in November 1965. Their most successful Australian-based single, ""Spicks and Specks"", was issued in September 1966, which reached No. 4 on the ""Go-Set"" Australian National"
"retired from cricket. The Bee Gees (Gibb brothers) spent their first few years in Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Manchester, England, then moved in the late 1950s to Redcliffe in Queensland, where they began their musical careers. The five original members of the Easybeats migrated independently to meet in Sydney and take Australia by storm with 'Easyfever'. Lead singer Stevie Wright migrated from Leeds, England. Meanwhile, Harry Vanda migrated from the Hague, Netherlands and George Young migrated from Glasgow, Scotland to become the twin guitars and later the songwriting team that took the Easybeats to the world with Friday on My Mind. George's younger"
"Robin Gibb Robin Hugh Gibb (22 December 1949 – 20 May 2012) was a British singer, songwriter and record producer, who gained worldwide fame as a member of the pop group the Bee Gees. Their younger brother Andy was also a singer. Robin Gibb also had his own successful solo career. Gibb was born on the Isle of Man to English parents, Hugh and Barbara Gibb; the family later moved to Manchester (where Andy was born) before settling in Redcliffe, a suburb of Brisbane, Australia. Gibb began his career as part of the family trio (Barry-Maurice-Robin). When the group found"
"been given as a Christmas present, but on the way Gibb and his brother Robin dropped and broke it, so they sang live. The audience were pleased by their singing, which may have been the song ""Wake Up Little Susie"" by the Everly Brothers. When he was 8 years old, Gibb emigrated to Redcliffe, in Queensland, Australia, with his family. Shortly after, he and his brothers formed the Bee Gees. By January 1963 the Gibbs moved to Sydney. The group's first single was ""The Battle of the Blue and the Grey"" but it failed to chart. Around 1963, the Gibb"
"Cribb Island, Queensland Cribb Island is a former suburb of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, which is now part of the site of Brisbane Airport. The suburb is perhaps best known for being the childhood home of the Gibb brothers, who later became famous as the Bee Gees. ""Cribbie"", as it was known by the locals, consisted of two areas which were made up of Cribb Island and Jackson's Estate. The entire area of Cribb Island which was about long and 400 metres wide was built essentially on a mud flat that faced Moreton Bay. In the 1970s, the land was resumed"
"international debut album, ""Bee Gees' 1st."" This was the first single with Australian drummer Colin Petersen as an official member of the band. On 3 January 1967, the Gibb brothers, with their parents and Byrne, set sail from Australia to England on the ship Fairsky, reaching Southampton on 6 February. The brothers performed on board in exchange for passage. Later, the Gibb brothers auditioned for Stigwood; they passed, and they signed to Robert Stigwood Organisation on 24 February. ""New York Mining Disaster 1941"" was their first song that was written in 1967. The first recording session of the Bee Gees"
"moved to Northern Grove it signalled the departure of Frost and Horrocks. The brothers later changed the name of the group to Wee Johnny Hayes and the Blue Cats. Under that name, they performed regularly in ""Minor 15"", a talent contest for under-fifteens held on Thursday nights from 7:00 to 9:00 PM at Princess Club in Chorlton. At the beginning of August 1958, the Gibb family set sail for Australia from Southampton on the ship ""Fairsea"". Also aboard was Red Symons, future guitarist of Skyhooks, as well as Kylie Minogue's mother. The band later changed its name to Bee Gees."
"the American-born songwriter, producer and entrepreneur Nat Kipner, who had just been appointed A&R manager of a new independent label, Spin Records. Kipner briefly took over as the group's manager and successfully negotiated their transfer to Spin in exchange for granting Festival the Australian distribution rights to the group's recordings. Through Kipner the Bee Gees met engineer-producer, Ossie Byrne, who produced (or co-produced with Kipner) many of the earlier Spin recordings, most of which were cut at his own small, self-built St Clair Studio in the Sydney suburb of Hurstville. Byrne gave the Gibb brothers virtually unlimited access to St"
"The Bees (band) The Bees (known in the United States as A Band of Bees) are an English band from Ventnor on the Isle of Wight. Although their sound is generally classified as indie rock or psychedelic rock, the band have a colourful range of styles and influences, such as 1960s garage rock, country, reggae and jazz. The Bees have released four albums: 2002's Mercury Prize-nominated ""Sunshine Hit Me"", its 2004 major label follow-up ""Free the Bees"" (which was recorded at Abbey Road Studios), and 2007's ""Octopus"". Their fourth album, ""Every Step's A Yes"", was released on 11 October 2010."
"The Bees (band) The Bees (known in the United States as A Band of Bees) are an English band from Ventnor on the Isle of Wight. Although their sound is generally classified as indie rock or psychedelic rock, the band have a colourful range of styles and influences, such as 1960s garage rock, country, reggae and jazz. The Bees have released four albums: 2002's Mercury Prize-nominated ""Sunshine Hit Me"", its 2004 major label follow-up ""Free the Bees"" (which was recorded at Abbey Road Studios), and 2007's ""Octopus"". Their fourth album, ""Every Step's A Yes"", was released on 11 October 2010."
"Ossie Byrne Oswald Russell ""Ossie"" Byrne (1926 – December 1983) was an Australian record producer, best known for producing the early recordings of The Bee Gees, including their first international hit, ""New York Mining Disaster 1941"". The youngest of nine children, he was born into a musical family in Queanbeyan, New South Wales. He learned to play cornet and trumpet in his youth and joined a Salvation Army band. He fought with the RAAF in World War II, being injured and losing an eye in New Guinea. After the war he played with local groups in Canberra and Sydney, as"
"their international hit ""Friday on My Mind"" (1966) in London and remained there for their forays into psychedelic-tinged pop until they disbanded in 1970. A similar path was pursued by the Bee Gees, formed in Brisbane, but whose first album ""Bee Gees' 1st"" (1967), was recorded in London, and gave them three major hit singles and contained folk, rock and psychedelic elements, heavily influenced by the Beatles. Two bands that formed in Adelaide in the mid-1960s also figured prominently in Australian psychedelic pop/rock. The Masters Apprentices started out as a gritty R&B band in the style of the early Rolling"
"Their influences at that time were popular acts such as The Everly Brothers, Cliff Richard and Paul Anka. In May 1958, the group was disbanded as Frost and Horrocks left, and the name changed to Wee Johnny Hayes and the Blue Cats. In August 1958, the family travelled to Australia on the same ship as Australian musician Red Symons. The boys finally changed their name to the Bee Gees, while they were living in Queensland, Australia. The Bee Gees' debut television appearance was in 1960 on Desmond Tester's ""Strictly for Moderns"" when they performed ""Time Is Passing By"". When they"
"young British-born vocal trio, The Bee Gees, who recorded numerous singles and one LP for the label. Although they penned several local hits for other performers, none of their own Leedon recordings were commercially successful, and by 1966 Festival was on the verge of dropping them. However their manager at that time, Nat Kipner had just been appointed to head new Sydney label Spin Records and he was able to negotiate the group's move from Leedon to Spin, in exchange for Festival being granted the Australian distribution rights to their subsequent recordings, a lucrative deal that continued for several years"
"Bee Gees in their Australian phase with Maurice Gibb on lead vocals, but only later made available on compilations such as ""Inception/Nostalgia"" and ""Brilliant From Birth"". Nancy Andrews, an American photographer who dated Starr in the late 1970s, named her photo book after the song ""A Dose of Rock and Roll"". (The book was released in 2008.) Carl Groszman Carl Groszman is an Australian songwriter and musician. He signed to Ringo Starr's own record label Ring O' Records 1975. He is most notable for his song ""A Dose of Rock and Roll"" which was covered by Starr in 1976 for"
"island of Tahiti, where passengers could visit the local surroundings before continuing to New Zealand. Here the ship called at Wellington, again allowing passengers to ""stretch their legs"", before the vessel crossed the Tasman Sea to Sydney. The first female Prime Minister of Australia (2010-2013), Julia Gillard and her family migrated to South Australia from Southampton, UK, arriving at Adelaide, South Australia aboard ""Fairsky"", in 1966. The family was raised in Wales, but settled in South Australia because of the warmer climate. The colossal pop music group, the Bee Gees, their parents Hugh and Barbara Gibb, and Ossie Byrne set"
"proper album. The success of the title track ironically took place just as the band were sailing back to England in 1967 to further their musical career. Nat Kipner brought the Bee Gees to St. Clair Studio, Hurstville (outside Sydney). It was a small place in a strip mall owned and operated by Kipner's friend Ossie Byrne, a sound engineer who was working wonders with even more modest facilities than Festival Studios. Both Kipner and Barry Gibb recall that the recording equipment was just two one-track tape decks and a mixer. But many Festival acts would make the trip to"
"Here at Last... Bee Gees... Live Here at Last... Bee Gees... Live is the first live album by the Bee Gees. It was released in May 1977 (see 1977 in music). It reached No. 8 in the US, No. 8 in Australia, No. 1 in New Zealand and No. 2 in Spain, and sold 4.6 million copies worldwide. ""Here at Last"" was the first official live recording released by the Bee Gees, though many bootlegs have existed throughout the years of earlier performances. The concert was filmed and a TV special was planned, but after reviewing the footage the Bee"
"Chart and they would continue as one of the most popular rock groups in the world through the following decade. The Bee Gees were an English-Australian group which consisted of brothers Barry, Maurice, and Robin Gibb — was a successful harmonic act as the 1970s dawned. Aside from the chart-topping ""How Can You Mend a Broken Heart"" in 1971, the brothers did not make much impact in the US during the first half of the decade and most of their record sales were in Europe, especially on the continent. With the failure of their 1973 album ""Life in a Tin"
"In Our Own Time In Our Own Time is a biography's film of the musical group, The Bee Gees. The story follows the Brothers Gibb, Barry, Robin and Maurice from their roots in Manchester, England through their emigration to Australia in 1958 to their international stardom in 1967, right up to the present, with new interviews done by Barry and Robin and archival footage of Maurice (who died in 2003). Many live performances are featured, along with video clips, TV performances and home movies from their early days. New interviews were filmed in high definition and archival footage is presented"
"for an ARIA Award in the World Music category. Seaman Dan was born on Thursday Island in the Torres Strait Islands Region of far-north Queensland, Australia in 1929. His great grandfather was a sailor from Jamaica in the West Indies and his great grandmother a chief's daughter from New Caledonia. Another grandfather came from the island of Niue in Polynesia. In the late 1940s, 1950s and 1960s, Seaman Dan worked as a boat captain and pearl diver, gathering pearl and trochus shells across the north of Australia. He also did jobs such as mineral prospecting and taxi driving. Dan's singing"
"a worldwide audience. The Bee Gees have sold more than 220 million records worldwide, making them one of the world's best-selling artists of all time. They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1997; the presenter of the award to ""Britain's first family of harmony"" was Brian Wilson, historical leader of The Beach Boys, another ""family act"" featuring three harmonising brothers. The Bee Gees' Hall of Fame citation says, ""Only Elvis Presley, the Beatles, Michael Jackson, Garth Brooks and Paul McCartney have outsold the Bee Gees."" Following Maurice's death in January 2003, at the age of"
"Drawn from Bees Drawn from Bees are an art rock band from Brisbane, Australia. The band is composed of Dan James (lead vocals, guitar), Stew Riddle (bass guitar, vocals), and Matt Wedmaier (drums, vocals). Drawn from Bees are signed to local Brisbane-based record label, Bonefinger Records, distributed via Believe Music, and published by Ink Music/Universal. Forming in April 2008 out of the ashes of a ten-year stint as progressive rock band, Glasshouse, Drawn from Bees launched their first EP, ""The Boy and the Ocean"" less than four months later. Since this time, Drawn from Bees have carved out a niche"
"Bee Gees The Bee Gees were a pop music group formed in 1958. Their lineup consisted of brothers Barry, Robin, and Maurice Gibb. The trio were successful for most of their decades of recording music, but they had two distinct periods of exceptional success: as a popular music act in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and as prominent performers of 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&B falsetto became their signature sound during the mid-to-late 1970s"
"double act in Australia in the 1960s. Bob and Dolly's main interest besides performing was big-game fishing and, between them, they broke some 200 world and Australian fishing records. Bob Dies was born in Hartsville, Tennessee, to Heywood Leahman Dies, a sharefarmer and his wife Delia (née Bell) . In an interview much later in his life with Barry Jones, Dyer spoke of his childhood: Back in Hartsville County my elder brother, a Negro boy and I all grew up together. We walked to school every day and walked back home together, but at the crossroads the Negro boy walked"
"originally from Narromine, New South Wales. At the age of six, Ray and his family moved to Meandarra, Queensland. Ray comes from a musical family; his parents Chris and Angie had their own country band called Itchy Feet. Ray grew up travelling around Australia with his parents, and he would often sleep in guitar cases backstage at venues when his parents were on stage performing. Ray learnt how to play the drums when he was nine years old. At the age of 13, he learnt how to play the guitar and started writing his own songs. Ray and his brother,"
"the interval of meetings (usually on the back of a truck that drove around the track), and in a deal with Goode, any money they collected from the crowd they were allowed to keep. Gates renamed them the BGs (later changed to ""Bee Gees"") after his, Goode's and Barry Gibb's initials. The name was not specifically a reference to ""Brothers Gibb"", despite popular belief. The family moved to a house at Cribb Island which was later demolished to allow the expansion of Brisbane Airport. While there, the brothers attended Northgate State School. By 1960, the Bee Gees were featured on"
"in Australia. This version was recorded at Festival Studios on February 1965 and marked two important firsts for the group - Robin Gibb's debut lead vocal and Maurice Gibb playing organ - the first of many times he would contribute keyboards to the group's recordings. The record was backed with ""You Wouldn't Know"", a Barry Gibb original which was also featured later the same year on the group's first album, ""The Bee Gees Sing and Play 14 Barry Gibb Songs"". Both songs were included on the 1998 anthology of the group's Australian recordings ""Brilliant from Birth"". Every Day I Have"
"this problem.) Drummer Colin Petersen and lead guitarist Vince Melouney, both Australians, were hired to make the Bee Gees into a full band. Both played on the first English album and became official members of the group between its completion and release. Petersen had played with the Bee Gees at St. Clair studio in 1966 on the ""Spicks and Specks"" sessions and was officially added first, accounting for some early photos with him and not Melouney, such as the one later used on the cover of ""Best of Bee Gees"". Melouney had worked with the Gibbs in 1966 in Australia"