The Bee Gees on This Day in History

The Bee Gees Live in Vegas 1997

This Day In History: This day in history: Robin and Maurice Gibb were both born on this day in 1949. Yes, the Bee Gee brothers were fraternal twins. As a teenager in the 70's I know that the Bee Gees dominated the airwaves. While I was part of the "Disco Sucks" component of that era, in retrospect I have a lot of respect for the Brothers Gibb. With record sales estimated in excess of 200 million units, the Bee Gees became one of the most successful pop groups of all time. Only Elvis Presley, the Beatles, Michael Jackson, Garth Brooks and Paul McCartney have outsold the Bee Gees. The Bee Gees are the third most successful band in Billboard charts history after The Beatles and The Supremes.

It is perhaps the songs they supplied for the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack that catapulted them into superstardom. With 15 million copies sold in the U.S. alone, Saturday Night Fever was the top-selling soundtrack album of all time until The Bodyguard 15 years later. It is the only disco record to win the Grammy for Album of the Year. It was the number one album on the Billboard charts for the entire first half of 1978.