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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 19 January 2025. Music group (1958–2012) "BGs" redirects here. For other uses, see BG (disambiguation) and BGS (disambiguation). Bee Gees The Bee Gees in 1977 (top to bottom): Barry, Robin and Maurice Gibb Background information Also known as BGs (1958–1959) Genres Pop soul disco rock soft rock ...
The Andy Gibb Memorial Foundation contributes to charities that Gibb supported, such as the American Heart Association, the American Cancer Society, and the Diabetes Research Institute. [34] The song "Wish You Were Here", which was a track on the Bee Gees 1989 album One, was dedicated by his brothers to Gibb. [35] [36]
Maurice Gibb's earliest musical influences included the Everly Brothers, Cliff Richard, and Paul Anka; the Mills Brothers and the Beatles were significant later influences. [6] During the Bee Gees' temporary break-up in 1969–1970, Maurice released his first solo single, " Railroad ", but his first solo album, The Loner , has never been released.
In the late 1970s, at the same time Pablo Escobar and the Cartel de Medellín were turning Miami, Los Angeles, and New York into dumping grounds for planeloads of cocaine, Andy Gibb, kid brother ...
Sir Barry Alan Crompton Gibb AC CBE (born 1 September 1946 [6] [7]) is a British musician, singer, songwriter and record producer.Along with his younger twin brothers, Robin and Maurice, he rose to worldwide fame as a member of the Bee Gees, one of the most commercially successful groups in the history of popular music.
Petersen joined the group when the Gibb brothers moved to London in 1966. Before Petersen’s death, Robin died in 2012 at the age of 62, and Maurice died in 2003 at the age of 53.
Apart from Maurice, he had one sister, Lesley Evans, and two brothers, Barry and Andy. [12] As children in Manchester, Gibb and his brothers began committing crimes such as petty burglary and arson. [13] Their neighbour in Willaston, Isle of Man, Marie Beck, was a friend of his mother and her sister Peggy. Helen Kenney, another neighbour, was ...
Hugh Leslie Gibb [1] (15 January 1916 – 6 March 1992) was an English drummer, bandleader and the father of musicians Barry, Robin, Maurice and Andy Gibb. [2] Barry, Robin and Maurice would go on to form the Bee Gees , one of the most successful musical groups of all time, while Andy was a solo performer.