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Relying on their top-notch songwriting and impeccable vocals, the Bee Gees were able to craft a long-running career that began in the late '50s in Australia. Along the way they became a hit-producing psychedelic pop group in England during the '60s and the biggest disco band in the world in the '70s, and had a late comeback as adult contemporary crooners in the '90s. Their long-reaching influence extended past sales figures and saw their sound and style mirrored in acts as disparate as Justin Timberlake and of Montreal.

Relying on their top-notch songwriting and impeccable vocals, the Bee Gees were able to craft a long-running career that began in the late '50s in Australia. Along the way they became a hit-producing psychedelic pop group in England during the '60s and the biggest disco band in the world in the '70s, and had a late comeback as adult contemporary crooners in the '90s.

The Bee Gees, Live on Air 1967 - 1968 The Brothers Gibb arrived in the UK in February 1967, virtually penniless. They promptly signed with Robert Stigwood and together with bandmates Vince Melouney and Colin Petersen - soon became the hottest new property in pop, fuelled by their own unique songs.

BEE GEES 1971 AUSTRALIAN BROADCAST RECORDING By early 1970, The Bee Gees appeared to be just about finished. Robin Gibb was pursuing his solo-career but Barry, Maurice and Colin Petersen continued on as the Bee Gees recording their next album, Cucumber Castle. The band made their debut performance without Robin at Talk of the Town and had recruited their sister, Lesley, into the group at this time. To accompany the album, they also filmed a TV special which aired on the BBC in 1971. Petersen played drums on the tracks recorded for the album but was fired from the group after filming began His parts were edited out of the final cut of the film. After the record was released in 1970, it seemed that the Bee Gees were finished.

A singing trio of brothers Barry Gibb, Robin Gibb, and Maurice Gibb. They were born on the Isle of Man to English parents, lived in Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Manchester, England, UK and during their childhood years moved to Brisbane, Australia, where they began their musical careers. Their worldwide success came when they returned to the UK and signed with producer Robert Stigwood. The multiple award-winning group was successful for most of its forty years of recording music, but it had two distinct periods of exceptional success: as a harmonic 'soft rock' act in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and as the foremost stars of the disco music era in the late 1970s.

No popular music group from the 60s, 70s, 80s or 90s has experienced more ups and downs in terms of popularity, or attracted such a diverse audience as The Bee Gees. They made their debut in the mid-60s in an ensemble reminiscent of The Beatles, then quickly began to write their own lyrics and develop a more personal style, perfecting along the way a completely singular progressive pop sound. After an empty stint in the early 70s, the band reinvented themselves during the disco era thanks to the soundtrack of the film Saturday Night Fever, which made them the most famous white soul band of all time.

No popular music group from the 60s, 70s, 80s or 90s has experienced more ups and downs in terms of popularity, or attracted such a diverse audience as The Bee Gees. They made their debut in the mid-60s in an ensemble reminiscent of The Beatles, then quickly began to write their own lyrics and develop a more personal style, perfecting along the way a completely singular progressive pop sound. After an empty stint in the early 70s, the band reinvented themselves during the disco era thanks to the soundtrack of the film Saturday Night Fever, which made them the most famous white soul band of all time.

Their Greatest Hits: The Record is the career retrospective greatest hits album by the Bee Gees, released on UTV Records and Polydor in November 2001 as HDCD. The album includes 40 tracks spanning over 35 years of music. Four of the songs were new recordings of classic Gibb compositions originally recorded by other artists, including "Emotion" (Samantha Sang), "Heartbreaker" (Dionne Warwick), "Islands in the Stream" (Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton), and "Immortality" (Celine Dion). It also features the Barry Gibb duet with Barbra Streisand, "Guilty", which originally appeared on Streisand's 1980 album of the same name. It is currently out of print and has been supplanted by another compilation, The Ultimate Bee Gees.

The Bee Gees released their first single in 1963, but they didn't have a hit in their homeland of Australia until 1965. It took another two years for them to crack the Top 20 in the U.K. and U.S., after which the hits came steadily until the band temporarily split in late 1969. The trio would later re-form and experience much greater success, but Ace's 2017 compilation To Love Somebody: The Songs of the Bee Gees 1966-1970 concentrates on the songs they wrote during their first act, a time when they were seen as songwriters as much as performers.