Awards & Recognition

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"[6] 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 as well as the ARIA Hall of Fame in 1997.

 Grammy Awards

  • 1977 Best Pop Vocal Performance By A Group - "How Deep Is Your Love"
  • 1978 Best Pop Vocal Performance By A Duo Or Group - "Saturday Night Fever"
  • 1978 Album of the Year - "Saturday Night Fever"
  • 1978 Producer of the Year - "Saturday Night Fever"
  • 1978 Best Arrangement of Voices - "Stayin' Alive"
  • 1980 Best Pop Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal - "Guilty"
  • 2000 Lifetime Achievement Award
  • 2003 Legend Award
  • 2004 Hall Of Fame Award - "Saturday Night Fever"

 Commemorative stamps

In October 1999 the Isle of Man Post Office unveiled a set of 6 stamps honoring their native sons' music. The official launch took place at the London Palladium where the stage show of Saturday Night Fever was playing. A similar launch was held in New York shortly after to coincide with the show opening across the Atlantic. The songs depicted on the stamps are "Massachusetts", "Words", "I've Gotta Get A Message To You", "Night Fever", "Stayin' Alive" and "Immortality".

Discography

 Studio Album chart performance

Title Highest US
Chart Position		 Year Highest UK
Chart Position
The Bee Gees Sing and Play 14 Barry Gibb Songs - 1965 -
Spicks and Specks - 1966 -
Bee Gees 1st #7 1967 #8
Horizontal #12 1968 #16
Idea #17 1968 #4
Odessa #20 1969 #10
Cucumber Castle #94 1970 #57
2 Years On #32 1970 -
Trafalgar #34 1971 -
To Whom It May Concern #35 1972 -
Life in a Tin Can #68 1973 -
Mr. Natural #178 1974 -
Main Course #14 1975 -
Children of the World #8 1976 -
Saturday Night Fever #1 1978 #1
Spirits Having Flown #1 1979 #1
Living Eyes #41 1981 #73
E.S.P. #96 1987 #5
One #68 1989 #29
High Civilization - 1991 #24
Size Isn't Everything #153 1993 #23
Still Waters #11 1997 #2
This Is Where I Came In #16 2001 #6

 Noteworthy

The Bee Gees have sold over 125 million albums world-wide.

The Maurice Gibb album track, "Man In The Middle" was #1 for three weeks in March, 2005 in the country of Turkey.

Limited edition

Ellan Vannin was recorded in 1997 as a 1,000 quantity limited edition single for Isle of Man charities. The song was featured in the Bee Gees World Tour and on ITV's "An Evening With…" but to date has not been released generally. The single was subsequently also available as part of the 1999 Bee Gees Stamp issue.

 

 Band

Barry Gibb plays rhythm guitar.

Robin Gibb does not play any instruments onstage, but plays piano, cello, and other instruments privately.

Maurice Gibb played bass guitar, rhythm and lead guitar, piano, organ, mellotron, and electronic keyboards, synthesizers and drum tracks. From 1966 to 1972 he played multiple instruments on many records. During the late 1970s he played mainly bass guitar. From about 1986 onward he usually played keyboards.

These musicians were considered members of the band:

Here are some other musicians who backed up the Bee Gees live and in the studio:

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