YEAR
1997
INDUCTED BY
Brian Wilson (The Beach Boys) & Raphael Saddiq
CATEGORY
Performers
We dare you to listen to the high-flying harmonies of the Bee Gees without singing along.
Few bands can say they stuck together for more than forty years, let alone that in that time they sold more than 200 million records. These brothers had an almost supernatural instinct for creating chart-toppers, and their talent in songwriting, production and performance skills lent them an artistic control that established them as Seventies icons.
Robin Gibb
Maurice Gibb
Barry Gibb
HALL OF FAME
ESSAY
By Jim Farber
A great melody travels anywhere – through any age, over any beat, arranged in any genre.
While memorable records can find sharp hooks in rhythm, production impact or even sheer noise, they can’t enjoy the interpretations – and thus the endlessly multiplied lives – of a perfectly rounded tune. No group makes the point more conclusively than the Bee Gees, an act whose magic melodies have weathered thirty years of trends, morphed through a music school’s worth of styles and forged five-hundred covers, all while stressing nothing so much as their hummable core.
