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Search term. Billboard Pro Subscribe Sign In. Top Artists. Top Charts. Hot Songs. Billboard Top Videos. Top Articles. He was Hide Caption. Bee Gees through the years — Australian musician Colin Petersen, a drummer with the popular disco group The Bee Gees, tinkering under the hood of his car in Bee Gees through the years — The Bee Gees with a bear skin rug.

Bee Gees through the years — The Bee Gees sporting fashionable jackets in Bee Gees through the years — Robin Gibb sings on stage during a concert in London in Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band," in Bee Gees through the years — Maurice, Barry and Robin in Gibb accepted the award on behalf of the Bee Gees. Robin Gibb, one of three brothers who made up the group the Bee Gees behind "Saturday Night Fever" and other now-iconic sounds from the s, died on Sunday, according to a statement on his website.

Gibb "passed away today following his long battle with cancer and intestinal surgery," said the statement, which was attributed to his family.

He died in England at a. ET , according to a post on his official Twitter feed. Overheard on CNN. While most famous bands can trace their formation through collaborations and breakups with other acts, the three brothers who comprised the Bee Gees found their place in music history through the process of growing up in the same home together. Fraternal twins Robin and Maurice followed on December 22, The boys undoubtedly inherited some musical DNA from their parents: Dad Hugh was a drummer and a bandleader, then putting his talents to use at a series of hotels on the island, and mom Barbara was known to be a gifted singer.

Still, by all accounts, the brothers realized their talents and ambitions on their own. Neighbors from this period remember Barry strumming his tennis racket and "performing" on a dock, the twins usually following him around, though recognition of their abilities wouldn't come until after the family moved to Manchester, England, in She offered to turn down what sounded like the radio playing in another room, only to realize that the music was coming from nine-year-old Barry and his six-year-old brothers singing in unison.

Barry received his first guitar that Christmas, a gift that further fueled his enthusiasm by providing an outlet for the songs forming in his head. The brothers also began playing with other friends in the neighborhood, naming their band The Rattlesnakes.

At the time, venue owners in the area commonly gave children the opportunity to play records and mime performances during the intervals between Saturday morning movies. However, one of the Gibbs dropped and broke the record they were to use — reportedly the Everly Brothers' "Wake Up Little Susie" — prompting an impromptu live performance at showtime. A move to another part of the city the following spring brought an end to The Rattlesnakes but not the boys' desire to perform.