Formed by Barry Gibb with his younger twin brothers Robin and Maurice, the Bee
Gees have had an astonishing career. From Beatle soundalikes, they reinvented
themselves with falsetto harmonies and pounding beats to become the voices of
the 1970s disco boom on the back of their Saturday Night Fever movie soundtrack.
They retained popular appeal through the ensuing decades to become a pop
institution that still survives despite the 2003 death of Maurice Gibb. In 1958
the Gibb family emigrated from the UK to Australia, where they first started
performing as the Rattlesnakes and, by t...