DAVID BURKE
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The brothers Gibb – Barry, Robin and Maurice – cut their musical teeth as The Rattlesnakes on the Manchester skiffle scene of the mid 50s, having relocated to the north of England metropolis from their native Isle of Man. But it was another move – this time to Australia – that birthed the Bee Gees, and the beginning of a glorious career spanning seven decades. Early triumphs down under included Wine And Women and Spicks And Specks, They returned to Blighty in 1967, at the behest of impresario Robert Stigwood, who, describing them as the year’s “most significant new talent”, signed them to Polydor Records.