| No popular music act of the '60s, '70s, '80s, or '90s attracted a more varied audience than the Bee Gees. Beginning in the mid- to late '60s as a Beatlesque ensemble, they quickly developed as songwriters and singers to create a style of their own that carried them from psychedelia to progressive pop. Then, after hitting a popular trough, they reinvented themselves as perhaps the most successful white soul act of all time. What remained a constant throughout their history is their extraordinary singing, rooted in three voices that were appealing individually and melded together perfectly. |
在60-90年代，比吉斯樂(lè)隊(duì)擁有最廣泛的歌迷，這在當(dāng)時(shí)的流行樂(lè)壇上是無(wú)可比擬的。從60年代中后期的披頭士風(fēng)格開(kāi)始，這個(gè)組合很快成長(zhǎng)為創(chuàng)作歌手，開(kāi)創(chuàng)了他們自己的風(fēng)格：從迷幻音樂(lè)一路走到了前衛(wèi)流行。接著，在經(jīng)受了流行音樂(lè)陷入低谷的沖擊之后，他們重整旗鼓，造就了史上最成功的靈魂樂(lè)。縱觀比吉斯樂(lè)隊(duì)成長(zhǎng)的歷程，永遠(yuǎn)不變的是那獨(dú)特的唱腔，他們的聲音獨(dú)具魅力，同時(shí)又絕妙地融合在了一起。 |
| The Bee Gees were a singing trio of brothers — Barry, Robin, and Maurice Gibb. The group was successful for most of its forty years of recording music, but the trio had two distinct periods of exceptional success: as a harmonic "soft rock" act in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and as the foremost stars of the disco music era in the late 1970s. |
比吉斯樂(lè)隊(duì)由三個(gè)骨肉相連的親兄弟組成，包括巴里·吉布、羅賓·吉布和莫里斯·吉布。40年來(lái)，這個(gè)組合成功錄制了很多唱片，其中有兩個(gè)時(shí)期尤其突出，分別是：60年代末期70年代初期的輕柔靈魂樂(lè)和70年代末期最耀眼的迪斯科舞曲。 |
| Born in the Isle of Man to English parents, the family lived in various locales that included Chorlton, Manchester, England and Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, where they began their musical careers. After early chart success in Australia, they returned to the United Kingdom where producer Robert Stigwood promoted them to a worldwide audience. It has been estimated that the Bee Gees' record sales total more than 200 million, making them one of the best-selling music artists of all time. They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1997; fittingly, the presenter of the award to "Britain's first family of harmony" was Brian Wilson, historical leader of the Beach Boys, America's first family of rock harmony. Their Hall of Fame citation says "Only Elvis Presley, The Beatles, Michael Jackson, Garth Brooks and Paul McCartney have outsold the Bee Gees". |
比吉斯三兄弟出生在馬恩島的一個(gè)英國(guó)家庭，曾在查爾頓-哈迪區(qū)、曼徹斯特、英格蘭、布里斯班、昆士蘭和澳大利亞生活過(guò)，也正是在澳大利亞開(kāi)始了他們的音樂(lè)生涯。早期獲得成功之后，他們重返英國(guó)，并以羅伯特·斯蒂格伍德?lián)谓?jīng)紀(jì)人，從此，比吉斯在全球名聲大震。據(jù)估測(cè)，比吉斯的唱片銷(xiāo)量已經(jīng)超過(guò)兩億張，他們因此成為歷史上唱片最暢銷(xiāo)的音樂(lè)家之一。1997年，比吉斯被列入“搖滾名人堂”；恰好，給這個(gè)“英國(guó)首家和聲組合”頒獎(jiǎng)的是樂(lè)隊(duì)“海灘男孩”的核心歌手布萊恩·威爾遜，這個(gè)樂(lè)隊(duì)正好又是美國(guó)首個(gè)搖滾樂(lè)和聲組合。搖滾名人堂里如此評(píng)價(jià)：“比吉斯是僅次于貓王（艾維斯·普萊斯利）、披頭士、邁克爾·杰克遜、加思·布魯克斯和保羅·麥卡特尼的第6位最暢銷(xiāo)歌手?！?/span> |
| Following Maurice's sudden death on 12 January 2003, Barry and Robin Gibb temporarily ended the group after forty-five years of activity. On 7th September 2009, Robin Gibb revealed that he and Barry Gibb had agreed that the Bee Gees would reform and perform again. |
2003年1月12日，莫里斯不幸逝世，巴里和羅賓宣布比吉斯45年來(lái)的樂(lè)壇活動(dòng)暫告結(jié)束。直到2009年9月7日，羅賓·吉布和巴里·吉布才決定重新出山，比吉斯因此重組后再次登場(chǎng)了。 |
| The surviving members will perform on the BBC's Strictly Come Dancing on October 31st, 2009. |
2009年10月31日，比吉斯的現(xiàn)有成員將會(huì)在英國(guó)廣播電視公司的《舞動(dòng)奇跡》節(jié)目上進(jìn)行演出。
（China.org.cn 汪瑋 譯）
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