After achieving their first chart success in Australia as the Bee Gees with "Spicks and Specks" (their twelfth single), they returned to the UK in January 1967, when producer Robert Stigwood began promoting them to a worldwide audience. The family then moved to Redcliffe, in the Moreton Bay Region, Queensland, Australia, later to Cribb Island. There, in 1955, they formed the skiffle/rock and roll group the Rattlesnakes. The Bee Gees have occasionally been referred to as The Disco Kings.īorn on the Isle of Man to English parents, the Gibb brothers lived in Chorlton, Manchester, England until the late 1950s.
The Bee Gees wrote all of their own hits, as well as writing and producing several major hits for other artists. 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 and 1980s. The trio were especially successful as a popular music act in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and later as prominent performers of the disco music era in the mid- to late 1970s. Were a music group formed in 1958, featuring brothers Barry, Robin and Maurice Gibb.