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Why doesn't the page say 'The Bee Gees were a British musical group'...like on every other wiki page for a band originating in the United Kingdom? - Romano23 (10:27 GMT 11/02) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.110.230.249 (talk) 10:28, 11 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Doesn't really answer the question. The trio were from the UK - why aren't they described as such? All their individual wiki pages say 'British'. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.110.230.249 (talk) 12:58, 11 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
This issue is complex. It has caused massive, sometimes unpleasant debate in the past. There are good arguments for them being Australian, and good arguments for them being British. Best we encourage people to read all the details about the origins of the Bee Gees so they get the full picture, rather than a simple, potentially misleading, one word description. HiLo48 (talk) 03:01, 12 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
The band name Bee Gees was coined in Australia in the early 1960s. Two early members of the band were Vince Melouney and Colin Peterson, both Australian. So, not as simple as you might think. WWGB (talk) 02:27, 22 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
And this thread illustrates the point. We've been over this so many times, and this has been the best solution. By the way, at least two of them, maybe all three, were American citizens and lived in the US longer than anywhere else, so an argument could be made that they are an American group. I'm not making that argument, but the history of this article makes it clear that the only way we are able to reach some stability is to spell it out the way we have. Tvoz/talk21:17, 23 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
The Gibbs may have lived for a time in Australia and started the group there, but they're all ethnically English, they were all UK citizens and the vast majority of their music career was based in either the UK or USA. There shouldn't be any problem with describing their origin as British or British-Australian right up front. At least one would think. 2600:8801:710E:7E00:17:8D63:94B2:7CE1 (talk) 04:23, 13 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]
And this thread illustrates the point. We've been over this so many times, and this has been the best solution. By the way, at least two of them, maybe all three, were American citizens and lived in the US longer than anywhere else, so an argument could be made that they are an American group. I'm not making that argument, but the history of this article makes it clear that the only way we are able to reach some stability is to spell it out the way we have. Tvoz/talk21:17, 23 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Should we state "Redcliffe, Queensland, Australia (or maybe a different specific place in QLD) as this band's origin, since the adoption of the name taking place there per article sources? Or should we state Manchester, England per the inital founding place of The Rattlesnakes (1950s band)? My view is this was a seperate band, with the Bee Gees being formed in Queensland.
Due to a history of edit warring, I feel an RfC is necessary for community input. It makes sense to leave the field blank if no consensus has been reached yet, but I hope this RfC will resolve it. Of course no individual editor is in a position at this time to fill the field, in my view. --IWI (talk) 01:13, 23 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I've been editing this article continually since 2006, and as one of the lead editors I can tell you that the history of edit warring ended long ago when a strong consensus was reached and reaffirmed many many times that we should not indicate a specific origin place for this band in the infobox or in the text. The repeated consensus has supported not using the "origin" field of the infobox and using the specific wording that is now the second paragraph of the introduction, describing their somewhat complex origin history. Take a look at the archives to get a sense of how this came to be, and at the edit notes embedded in the text. We know it is not the standard use of the infobox origin field or of the typical "The XX are an [Australian] [Manx] [English] band" in the first paragraph, but this was an intentional decision that successfully ended the wars among the factions. Please let's not re-litigate settled consensus. Nothing has changed, and I hope we can move on and continue respecting the consensus-driven precedent of many years. Tvoz/talk04:08, 24 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
these things don't seem to add up:
Bee Gees formed in 1958...
Maurice's sudden death in 2003 aged 53...
Robin died in 2012, aged 62,
which implies the group formed when two of the brothers were 8
then we have this:
Born on the Isle of Man in the late 1940s, the Gibb brothers...
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