The Bee Gees Trio
Written by Admin Musician Online on January 11, 2010 – 1:36 pm -The Bee Gees
The Bee Gees were actually a trio of singing brothers namely Maurice Gibb, Robin and Barrry. The trio were victorious in most part of their 40 years of music recording, but they had 2 periods of extraordinary success as harmonic soft rock which came in late 1960s and during early 1970s and they were the top most music stars of the 1970s disco music era. The group has sung 3 part tight harmonies which can be recognized instantly. Robin’s clear lead in vibrato was their hallmark in earlier hits, but during the disco years, Barry’s R&B falsetto was more popular. The 3 brothers wrote together most of their hits as well as producing and writing few major hits along with other artists.
The three brothers were born to English parents in Isle of Man and they lived in Manchester, UK during their initial years and shifted to Brisbane in Australia where they started their music career. After their chart success initially in Australia, they returned to UK where Robert Stigwood, the produced introduced them to worldwide audience. It is said that they made a record sales of more than two hundred million albums making them the best selling music artists of all times. Read more »
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Pink Floyd Band
Written by Admin Musician Online on October 7, 2009 – 1:42 pm -Review of Pink Floyd
Pink Floyd is an eccentric and popular multi-platinum band of rock era, which has made some exceptional cinematic sound effects in their albums “Wish You were Here”, “Meddle” and “Dark Side of the Moon”. It is a famous English rock band who got popular through their psychedelic music during late 1960s and for the progressive rock music during the 1970s after they emerged into a popular band. They are reputed for using philosophical lyrics, very good album arts, amazing live shows and sonic experimentation. They have sold more than 200 million albums overall, which includes seventy four million certified units in US alone.
This band was formed during 1965 with university students namely Bob Klose, Nick Mason, Roger water, Syd Barret and Richard Wright. The group has a great fixture on underground music scene in London and they released to singles “See Emily Play” and “Amold Layne” under leadership of Barret. Their commercial success came with the album “The Piper at the gates of dawn”. David Gilmour a famous singer and Guitarist joined the line-up during 1968 and they removed Barrett from the band owing to his erratic behavior. After the departure of Barret, Roger Waters, who was the singer and bass player became the most powerful figure in the band after which they achieved commercial success with concept albums like Rock opera The wall, Wish You were here, Animals and The Dark Side of the Moon. Read more »
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