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The Rattlesnakes were a British skiffle/rock and roll group, formed by Barry Gibb in Manchester in 1955, which eventually evolved into the Bee Gees in 1958. They were one of the many skiffle bands that were formed in the United Kingdom in the 1950s since the revival of the American skiffle in the UK that was originally started in the 1920s, '30s and '40s.〔M. Brocken, ''The British folk revival, 1944–2002'' (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003), pp. 69–80.〕 Barry started a skiffle group and his younger brothers Robin and Maurice Gibb also joined as vocalists, after they returned to their parents' hometown in Manchester, England in 1955. Their friends/neighbors, Paul Frost (drums) and Kenny Horrocks (tea-chest bass) later joined. Their debut performance in public happened in December 1957 in Gaumont Cinema, performing The Everly Brothers' "Wake Up Little Susie". One of their influences at that time were Elvis Presley, The Everly Brothers, Tommy Steele, Buddy Holly and Paul Anka. On 12 January 2003, Maurice died unexpectedly at the age of 53, of a cardiac arrest, while waiting to undergo surgery for a twisted intestine, . On 20 May 2012, Robin died at the age of 62 from liver and kidney failure. On 17 November 2012, Frost died in England after a long battle with cancer at age 64.〔(Brothers Gibb News 2012 )〕 As of 2015, Barry Gibb and Kenny Horrocks remained the only survivors of The Rattlesnakes. ==Early years== In 1955, the Gibbs moved back to Manchester, where they attended school, but Barry himself didn't like school at all, and he and his brothers soon stopped attending school and they only focused on music. Following the family's returning in England, and at that time, the three brothers were influenced by rock and roll as their older sister, Lesley had some records by rock 'n' roll artists as the genre became popular in the 1950s. After that, they formed a skiffle band The Rattlesnakes in 1955.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Barry Gibb: I showed my own doctor a picture of Robin. He said, ‘You’ve got to go and see him...he’s got three to six months’ )〕 According to Horrocks, the name The Rattlesnakes was hand-painted by Barry on the side of the tea-chest bass. During the same time, Barry set the scene for their first performance as he said: "What was happening at the Gaumont Theatre in Manchester - it was probably happening in other theatres too - where, between ''Laurel & Hardy'' and ''The Three Stooges'' and whatever, kids could get out of the audience and go on stage and mime to an Elvis Presley record, 'Blue Suede Shoes', or a Tommy Steele record and we liked this. We'd see this and look at each other and say, 'Oh we should try and do that, that's fun'. I was on my bike going down Buckingham Road in Chorlton-cum-Hardy. A boy called Paul Frost, another called Kenny Horrocks and another called Nicholas were running after me with the twins. We were joking about kids miming to records at the local theatre before the matinee started on Saturday morning. The kids used to mime to Elvis Presley records with plastic guitars. I suggested that we did this with an Everly Brothers disc. It was just nearing Christmas. We asked the cinema manager and he said okay. We decided to do it the week after Christmas". Robin talks about the formation of the Rattlesnakes: I enjoyed my time at Oswald Road. It was the first school where I made really good friends - Paul Frost and Kenny Horrocks. We still get letters today from the school, asking us to pay a visit, and we think of it very fondly. We lived in Keppel Road and had very little money. My father had two or three different jobs at once to support our big family - my sister Lesley, Barry, Maurice, me and, later, Andy.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Rattlesnakes (1955 band)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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