Barry Gibb Biography

Fast Facts

• Was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame along with the other members of the Bee Gees in 1997
• Was nominated for the Anthony Asquith Award for Film Music in 1978 along with Maurice Gibb and Robin Gibb for "Saturday Night Fever․"
• Won a number of Grammy Awards with his brothers while they were performing as the Bee Gees, and the group was honored with a Recording Academy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2015
• Started performing with his adolescent brothers in hotels and Returned Servicemen's Clubs in Australia, playing between dog acts and jugglers
• Quote: "I spend a lot of hours being happy about what happened to us, because it may never have happened, any of those hits․ We could still have been playing clubs in Queensland․"
• Quote: "[on retiring] "My bones were creaking, my knees were hurting and with everything that had happened, I thought, maybe it's just time to be Grandad and not worry about it anymore․ But music has to be played and I wanted to keep the music alive․""
• A founding member of the Bee Gees, he found great commercial success both through performance and writing songs popularized by other musicians
• Contributed to the "Saturday Night Fever" soundtrack, which remained the top-selling album until Michael Jackson's "Thriller" and contained such hits as "Stayin' Alive" and "If I Can't Have You․"
• Though he plays guitar right-handed, he is left-handed
• Was depicted as a cartoon lion in the 1979 illustrated biography of the Bee Gees, "The Greatest․"