if the name Bee Gees stands for the Brothers Gibb shouldn,t they be called The Bees Gee ? ( I don,t get out much )
2006-09-14 22:29:04 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music
WHY BEE GEES?
Maurice Gibb: When we were about five or six we decided to call ourselves The Rattlesnakes. Later on, after we moved to Australia, we were singing at a racing event in Brisbane when we got chatting to a DJ called Bill Gates and a racing driver named Bill Goode. They came over to our house and there was my mum, Mrs Barbara Gibb, the brothers Gibb and Barry Gibb, then Bill Gates said there were so many Bee Gees in the room that that was what we should call each other, and it stuck. (OK On Air, 2001)
2006-09-14 22:45:40 · answer #1 · answered by mancunian_nick 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I can see you don't get out much. How long did it take you to notice this? The Bee Gees are a pretty long ago group, after all.
No, I don't think the plural should have been preserved in the way you suggest when they went to initials. And I have to admit it was original and clever of them to convert B G to Bee Gee so that it could be made plural, and was more distinctive.
I also liked their music, although I wish they had not made the "Sgt. Pepper" movie and confused a whole generation of kids. I recently saw a question here about that, and it's pitiful how many people thought the song "Sgt. Pepper" was from THAT MOVIE instead of first being filmed in the cartoon movie, Yellow Submarine, that was made by the Beatles much earlier.
2006-09-14 22:40:15 · answer #2 · answered by auntb93again 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oh, I thought it was short for Barry Gibb's Band. Hence Bee Gees.
2006-09-14 22:31:33 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
the s means the brothers gibbs
2006-09-14 22:32:06 · answer #4 · answered by poony!!! 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You should be the next Prime Minister instead of Gordon Brown.
2006-09-14 22:39:47 · answer #5 · answered by Michael E 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yea me too, I know the feeling. Can we leave their name as it is for at least the next 10 years?
2006-09-14 22:32:41 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think a much better name would have been The Bean Gibbons, personally.
2006-09-14 22:36:56 · answer #7 · answered by J C 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lol bless you!! Erm well I don't really know, some people abbreviate their names to make one name.
2006-09-14 22:31:05 · answer #8 · answered by Scatty 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Obviously but i preffered their original name "Le Tossers"
2006-09-14 22:32:13 · answer #9 · answered by tfd 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Absolutely right, never thought of that before.
2006-09-14 22:31:11 · answer #10 · answered by Yellowstonedogs 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋