The band broke up in 1970 and Petersen took on the role of manager for Kelly. In the Bee Gees' biography The Bee Gees: Tales of the Brothers Gibb (2000), authors Andrew Môn Hughes, Hector Cook ...

Followed categories will be added to My News. The much-loved Queensland-born musician and actor was the original drummer of the Bee Gees. He contributed to the group’s rise to stardom after ...

Dennis Bryon, the drummer for the Bee Gees, has died at the age of 76, becoming the second member of the group to die this week. Just four days after Bryon’s death, Colin ‘Smiley’ Petersen ...

Today brings the strange news that two longtime Bee Gees drummers have died within the past week. The Age reports that Frederick Colin Petersen, the Bee Gees’ original drummer, passed away on ...

Two different drummers from the Bee Gees have died, according to social media posts from former bandmates and a tribute group. Colin "Smiley" Petersen, 78, the original drummer for the group ...

Bryon’s death last Thursday came just four days before the death of fellow Bee Gees drummer Colin “Smiley” Petersen aged 78. Blue Weaver – who played alongside him in another band named ...

By Sara Ruberg Two drummers for the Bee Gees — one during the long-running Anglo-Australian pop group’s early days of hit-making ballads, the other during its white-hot disco superstardom ...

Frederick Colin Petersen, the Bee Gees’ original drummer, has died. Credit: Best of the Bee Gees As a child he starred in 1956 Australian comedy film Smiley. He was a member of the Bee Gees from ...