With sales of over 120 million albums and 60 million singles to his credit,
Barry Gibb (born on September 1, 1946) can rightfully claim to be one of the
most commercially successful artists of all time, ranking alongside John Lennon
and Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson. After emigrating to Australia as a boy,
he returned to the UK in the late 1960s with his brothers Maurice and Robin and
began working with producer Robert Stigwood. This era was the first of two very
successful songwriting periods for his band the Bee Gees. Many of the group's
early hits such as “Words” and “I'v...