The Brothers Gibb -- calling themselves the Bee Gees -- soared to renown as one of the most successful British groups after the 1977 film "Saturday Night Fever" starring John Travolta was built around the group's disco songs.
The Bee Gees went on to become the fifth biggest-selling pop act of all time, producing 28 albums and shifting 110 million records in a career that spanned four decades.
While they would never again match their Seventies success, but would find new fans - and a great deal of money - as boybands and new pop groups fell over themselves to cover Bee Gees tunes.
Thousands watched the Isle of Man-born singer unveil the statue in Redcliffe, Queensland, where the Bee Gees signed their first recording deal in 1959.