Bee Gees

United Kingdom, 1958–2012

Group of the brothers Barry, Robin and Maurice Gibb. After a decade of orchestral pop ballads they moved to falsetto-led dance music, and their Saturday Night Fever soundtrack (1977) is among the best-selling records ever made.

MusicRoots documents 2 artists who influenced Bee Gees and 2 artists Bee Gees influenced in turn. Every connection cites a published source.

Who influenced Bee Gees?

• The Beatles — The young Bee Gees were a Beatles-modelled harmony-pop group — the songwriting and studio ambition of their 60s baroque pop.
• The Everly Brothers — The Gibb brothers' blood-harmony singing descends directly from the Everly Brothers — the close-harmony tradition at the root of everything they did.

Which artists did Bee Gees influence?

• Modern Talking — The falsetto-driven harmonies of the Bee Gees are the direct model for Thomas Anders's high hooks over Modern Talking's disco-pop.
• Céline Dion — The Bee Gees' melodic craft shaped Dion — she grew up on their music and they wrote and produced for her (the album Falling into You and the single 'Immortality').