The eldest brother, Barry was born on September 1^st 1946 and was followed by fraternal twins, Robin and Maurice on December 22^nd 1949. The fourth, and youngest brother Andy was born on March 5^th 1958 in Manchester, England. The family moved to England in the early 1950’s, the birth home of their parents, where the three eldest boys began singing in harmony together on stage, debuting at the local Gaumont cinema in Chorlton cum Hardy, Manchester. The response to the performances was so good that they decided to make music and singing their career.  

In 1958 their father, Hugh and mother Barbara, moved the family to Redcliffe in Queensland, Australia. After taking their singing career to Australia and naming themselves, The Rattlesnakes, Wee Johnny Hayes and the Bluecats they met up with a promoter named Bill Goode and it was then that were named after the promoter and his friend Bill, The B G’s. After eight years of performing in Australia the boys decided to return to England to see how their style of music would be accepted there. At that time they had a number one hit in Australia, “Spicks and Specks” a song written and performed by the group. 

By the time they returned to England “groups” were not as popular as they had been during the days of the Beatles but the boys continued to sing together and their first single in England was “New York Mining Disaster 1941” which was a haunting and macabre recording that became a hit on both sides of the Atlantic. Their agent, Robert Stigwood proclaimed the group “the most significant new musical talent of 1967".Their next hit came from their album, “Bee Gees’ 1^st”, “To Love Somebody”. However, it was the Bee Gees’ next single that really launched their career and put them in the public eye as a group to watch. The single was “Massachusetts” and was swiftly followed by “Words” and in 1968, from their two following albums they released “I’ve Gotta Get a Message to You” and “I Started a Joke”. 

A dispute hit the group when their manager, Bill Goode, announced that he wanted Barry to front the group’s act and Robin decided to leave the group and release a solo album from which he had a sit single, “Saved by the Bell “and the other two brothers released their own album and number two hit in the UK, “Don’t forget to Remember”. 

However, the three reunited in 1970 after realizing that they actually missed performing together and this had been reflected in the solemnest of their music while apart. Although the split had broken their momentum in the UK they had reached stardom in the United States and were having hits with, “Lonely Days”, How Can You Mend a Broken Heart” and “Run to Me’ which was the single that would re-launch their careers in the UK.

By 1973 the Bee Gee’s were slipping from fame in the UK and at Eric Clapton's suggestion, the brothers relocated to Miami, Florida, early in 1975 to record. After starting off with ballads, they eventually crafted more rhythmic disco songs like "Jive Talkin'" and "Nights on Broadway." The latter featured Barry Gibb's first attempts at singing falsetto, in the backing. The band liked the resulting new sound, and this time the public agreed, sending the LP “Main Course” up the charts. Barry Gibb's falsetto would become a staple of subsequent recordings.

After enlisting Albhy Galuten and Karl Richardson this production team would carry the Bee Gees through the rest of the 1970s.The next album, “Children of the World”, was drenched in Barry's newfound falsetto style. Led off by the single "You Should Be Dancing," it pushed the Bee Gees to a level of stardom they had not previously achieved in the USA.The three Bee Gees’ next big venture was in creating the soundtrack for the hit 1976 movie, “Saturday Night Fever” starring John Travolta.Three Bee Gees singles "How Deep Is Your Love", "Stayin' Alive", and "Night Fever" reached number one in the United States and in most countries around the world, launching the most popular period of the disco era.

They also penned the song "If I Can't Have You" which became a number one hit for Yvonne Elliman. Such was the popularity of  “Saturday Night Fever” that two different versions of the song "More Than a Woman" received airplay, one by The Bee Gees, which was the B-side of "Stayin' Alive," and another by Tavares, which was to be the biggest hit.It was the first time this kind of chart dominance had been seen since April 1964, when the Beatles had all five of the top-five American singles.

The trio also had the greatest accolade when they were offered the chance to record three Beatles covers, “Golden Slumbers/Carry that Weight", "She Came in Through the Bathroom Window" and "Sun King" for the transitory musical documentary “All This and World War II”.Following his three brothers into the music business, younger brother Andy enjoyed a very successful singing career being produced by Barry and having all three of his first singles top the U.S. charts.After the late 1970’s the disco bubble burst and the Bee Gees’ career took a nose dive in the U.S. but not in Europe where they remained very popular. However,  they continued writing and producing for artists such as Barbra Streisand, Dionne Warwick, Diana Ross and Kenny Rogers, including Rogers' multi-million seller and U.S. number one hit with Dolly Parton, "Islands in the Stream", a single whose ‘b’ side, “I Will Always Love You” was to be resurrected in the 1992 movie “The Bodyguard” starring Whitney Huston and Kevin Costner.

Tragedy struck the family in 1988 when youngest brother Andy, who had battled drug and alcohol abuse for years was visiting England and was taken ill and died on March 10^th of myocarditis brought on by years of alcohol and cocaine abuse.

Once again in 2003 one of the twins was to die, Maurice, who had been the musical director of the Bee Gees during their final years as a group. He died suddenly on January 12, 2003.

Initially, his surviving brothers announced that they intended to carry on the name "Bee Gees" in his memory. But as time passed they decided to retire the group name, leaving it to represent the three brothers together.The Bee Gees were inducted into The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1997; fittingly, the presenter of the award to "Britain's first family of harmony" was Brian Wilson, leader of the Beach Boys, America's first family of rock harmony.

The Bee Gees were inducted into The Vocal Group Hall of Fame in 2001. Their 1997 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame citation says "Only Elvis Presley, the Beatles, Michael Jackson, Garth Brooks and Paul McCartney have outsold the Bee Gees".