Beeb Birtles (born Gerard Bertelkamp, 28 November 1948, in Amsterdam, Netherlands), is a Dutch / Australian musician, most famous as one of the founding members of the Little River Band. His parents emigrated to Australia with Bertelkamp in 1957, settling in Adelaide. He discovered a passion for music while in high school. During his high school days, he was nicknamed "BB Eyes," after a Dick Tracy character, which shortly thereafter became "BB".
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- Beeb Birtles (born Gerard Bertelkamp, 28 November 1948, in Amsterdam, Netherlands), is a Dutch / Australian musician, most famous as one of the founding members of the Little River Band. His parents emigrated to Australia with Bertelkamp in 1957, settling in Adelaide. He discovered a passion for music while in high school. During his high school days, he was nicknamed "BB Eyes," after a Dick Tracy character, which shortly thereafter became "BB". After high school, he formed his first band, Zoot, moving to Melbourne. At this time, he adopted his professional name; bandmate Darryl Cotton shortened his nickname to "Beeb," and he Anglicized the first two syllables of his legal surname to "Birtles. " Zoot broke up in 1971, and Birtles and Cotton performed together as Frieze for a year. Then, in 1972, Birtles was asked to join the band Mississippi, which like Zoot had moved from Adelaide to Melbourne. After Mississippi disbanded in 1975, band members Birtles, Graeham Goble, and Derek Pellicci, recruited Glenn Shorrock and Rick Formosa, plus manager Glenn Wheatley, and formed the Little River Band. After a run of major international success in the late 1970s and early 1980s, Birtles left the Little River Band (LRB) in 1983. In the meantime, he had married the former Donna Brucks, an American who was the assistant to LRB's booking agent, in 1979. They settled in Melbourne and eventually had two daughters, Hannah and Emmie. During this period Birtles produced a number of albums, including the Steve Grace record Children Of The Western World, the first Australian Christian artist album to be certified gold. In 1992, Birtles moved to the U.S. with his wife and children. They briefly settled in Donna's hometown of Jefferson City, Missouri before moving to Nashville, Tennessee, where he and his wife still live (both daughters have since graduated from college in the U.S.). In 1998 Birtles and Bill Cuomo established Sonic Sorbet, a music production company. Sonic Sorbet has produced albums for a number of recording artists, including Birtles' first solo album Driven by Dreams, released in 2000. Birtles continues to write music, and performs with Goble and Shorrock as Birtles Shorrock Goble: The Original Voices of the Little River Band.
- Beeb Birtles, geboren als Gerard Bertelkamp ist ein niederländisch-australischer Musiker. Er ist als eines der Gründungsmitglieder der Little River Band bekannt. Als er 9 Jahre alt war, wanderten seine Eltern nach Adelaide, Australien aus. Während seiner Zeit in der High School entdeckte Bertelkamp sein Interesse für Musik, insbesondere für amerikanischen Blues und englischen Mod. In seiner Schulzeit war sein Spitzname „BB Eyes„“, nach einer Figur aus den Dick Tracy-Comics. Nach dem Beenden der High School gründete er seine erste Band, Zoot. Zu dieser Zeit verkürzte er seinen Spitznamen zu „Beeb“ und änderte seinen Namen in „Birtles“ um. Zoot brach im Jahre 1971 auseinander. Birtles und sein früherer Bandkollege Daryl Cotton gründeten daraufhin die Combo Frieze. Am Ende des Jahre wurde er dann bei der ebenfalls von Adelaide nach Melbourne umgezogenen Band Mississippi engagiert, aus der später die Little River Band hervorging. Nach dem großen Erfolg der Little River Band in den späten 70ern und frühen 80ern verließ Birtles die Band im Jahre 1983. Er heiratete Donna Brooks, die als Sekretärin für die Little River Band arbeitete, und das Paar bekam zwei Töchter. Im Jahre 1992, zog Birtles samt seiner Familie in die Vereinigten Staaten um, nach Jefferson City, Missouri, bevor sie weiter nach Nashville, Tennessee zogen. 1998 schließlich gründete Beeb Birtles zusammen mit Bill Cuomo die Produktionsfirma „Sonic Sorbet“. Birtles macht immer noch Musik zusammen mit Presberger, Goble und Shorrock, die auch bei der Little River Band mitsangen.
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- Beeb Birtles (born Gerard Bertelkamp, 28 November 1948, in Amsterdam, Netherlands), is a Dutch / Australian musician, most famous as one of the founding members of the Little River Band. His parents emigrated to Australia with Bertelkamp in 1957, settling in Adelaide. He discovered a passion for music while in high school. During his high school days, he was nicknamed "BB Eyes," after a Dick Tracy character, which shortly thereafter became "BB".
- Beeb Birtles, geboren als Gerard Bertelkamp ist ein niederländisch-australischer Musiker. Er ist als eines der Gründungsmitglieder der Little River Band bekannt. Als er 9 Jahre alt war, wanderten seine Eltern nach Adelaide, Australien aus. Während seiner Zeit in der High School entdeckte Bertelkamp sein Interesse für Musik, insbesondere für amerikanischen Blues und englischen Mod. In seiner Schulzeit war sein Spitzname „BB Eyes„“, nach einer Figur aus den Dick Tracy-Comics.
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