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Bald-headed, muscle-bound brothers Richard and Fred Fairbrass formed the dance-pop duo Right Said Fred in England in 1989. Within two years they had produced the song around which their entire career would be based: “I’m Too Sexy.” The song topped the Billboard charts, making the Fairbrass brothers the first UK act to debut at No. 1 in the U.S. since the Beatles. —Jeff Royer (Photo: Dave Hogan, Getty Images)
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All in the Famil...See which famous bands of brothers succeeded and which went down in flames. —Jeff Royer (Photos: Getty Images)
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The Bee GeesBrothers Barry, Robin and Maurice Gibb ruled the 1970s with a string of disco hits driven by R&B falsetto vocals. They sold an estimated 200 million albums in their career -- as their Rock and Roll Hame of Fame citation reads, "Only Elvis Presley, The Beatles, Michael Jackson, Garth Brooks and Paul McCartney have outsold the Bee Gees." A younger brother, Andy, also found success as a teen idol. Maurice passed away in January 2003. —Jeff Royer (Photo: Sydney O'Meara, Hulton Archive, Getty Images)
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Kings of LeonBrothers Caleb, Nathan and Jared Followill launched Kings of Leon in 1999 after spending their childhoods on the road with their father (and the band’s namesake), a traveling preacher. Upon signing a deal with RCA, they recruited their cousin Matthew Followill and started work on their breakthrough EP. Twelve years and five albums later, they are one of America’s biggest bands. —Jeff Royer (Photo: Dave J Hogan, Getty Images)
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HansonTaylor, Isaac and Zac have managed to outlive the one-hit-wonder stigma following the colossal success of their 1997 single “MMMBop,” which reached No. 1 in 27 countries and made Hanson an instant household name. The band is still a successful touring act, and Hanson’s 2010 album, “Shout It Out,” cracked the Billboard Top 30. —Jeff Royer (Photo: Mark Mainz, Getty Images)
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OasisLiam and Noel Gallagher have one of the music world’s most legendarily contentious (and well documented) fraternal relationships. After building Oasis into one of the biggest bands ever to emerge from England, the two couldn’t seem to spend more than a few months together (or in some cases, a few minutes) without one of the brothers walking out. In 2009, Noel departed from the band for good. The remaining members, renamed Beady Eye, released the album “Different Gear, Still Speeding” in February 2011. —Jeff Royer (Photo: Dave Hogan, Getty Images)
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Jonas BrothersNick Jonas got an early start in music, performing on Broadway by the age of 7. He was first signed by Columbia Records as a solo artist, but an astute executive also saw talent in Nick’s brothers Joe and Kevin. The Jonas Brothers released their first record in 2005, and soon became one of the most successful teen acts in history, thanks to some help from Disney. —Jeff Royer (Photo: Tasos Katopodis, Getty Images)
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ParamoreBrothers Josh and Zac Farro hitched their wagon to Hayley Williams’ star in 2004. Two hit records and three Grammy nominations later, Paramore was one of the biggest bands on the planet. That, apparently, wasn’t enough for the Farros, who bailed in December 2010 and later attacked their former bandmates through their personal blogs, claiming that Paramore was nothing more than “a manufactured product of a major label.” —Jeff Royer (Photo: Handout, Getty Images)
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Jackson 5Jackie, Tito, Jermaine, Marlon and Michael Jackson began performing as the Jackson 5 in 1964. Success was immediate, with the band’s first four major label singles (“I Want You Back,” “ABC,” “The Love You Save,” “I’ll Be There”) shooting to the top of Billboard’s Hot 100. Their stint on Motown made them a crossover hit, and set the stage for Michael to become one the most famous people on the planet. Despite Michael Jackson’s death in 2009, the group has never officially broken up, but hasn’t performed since 2001. —Jeff Royer (Photo: 2001 Tribune Entertainment, Getty Images)
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The KinksLed by brothers Ray and Dave Davies, The Kinks were one of the greatest and most influential bands of the British Invasion era, scoring major American hits in the mid-1960s with songs like “You Really Got Me” and “All Day and All of the Night.” The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame calls Ray “almost indisputably rock's most literate, witty and insightful songwriter." The band ultimately split in 1996 after decades of heated quarreling between the two brothers. Dave summed up their complicated relationship in an interview the Independent in March 2011. “Ray is a vain, egocentric, narcissistic a**hole,” he said. “[But] I won't have anybody call him that except me. Because I love him to death. He is my brother." —Jeff Royer (Photo: Central Press, Hulton Archive, Getty Images)
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The StoogesResponsible in large part for the rise of punk, metal and alternative music, The Stooges blasted out of Ann Arbor, Michigan, in the late 1960s to the befuddlement of most of their early audiences. On a quest to invent a new type of blues music, brothers Ron and Scott Asheton teamed up with human firecracker Iggy Pop and friend Dave Alexander. The result was a sonic middle finger that, some 40 years later, landed them in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In 2009, Ron was found dead in his home, the victim of an apparent heart attack at the age of 60. —Jeff Royer (Photo: Matthew Peyton, Getty Images)
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Beach BoysComprised of brothers Brian, Dennis and Carl Wilson and their cousin Mike Love (and friend Al Jardine) and managed by the Wilsons' father, Murry, The Beach Boys were a true family affair. Widely regarded as America’s first rock band, The Beach Boys’ impact on popular music cannot be overstated. Brian Wilson’s struggles with mental illness were well publicized, resulting in his diminished role as the band’s primary creative force in the late 1960s. He is the only Wilson brother still living. Dennis drowned in 1983 following years of substance abuse. Carl died in 1998 following a battle with brain and lung cancer. —Jeff Royer (Photo: Hulton Archive, Getty Images)
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Allman Brothers ...In 1969, brothers Gregg and Duane Allman launched what would become one of southern music’s (and jam music’s) greatest bands. Within two years of forming, they produced “At Fillmore East,” widely considered one of the best live albums ever produced. That was the beginning of the Allman Brothers Band’s commercial success. Tragically, just a few months later, in 1971, Duane was killed in a motorcycle accident. Gregg continues on, backed by a stable of modern legends including Warren Haynes and Derek Trucks. —Jeff Royer
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RadioheadFeaturing brothers Colin and Johnny Greenwood on bass and guitar, respectively, Radiohead broke into the mainstream in 1992 with the single “Creep.” Nineteen years and seven albums later, Radiohead are considered one of rock’s leading artistic influences. Through a series of inventive marketing ploys, the band has also single-handedly redefined the business model for musicians in the post-major label world. —Jeff Royer (Photos: Lucy Nicholson, Getty Images)
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Van HalenSince forming Van Halen in 1974 with singer David Lee Roth and bassist Michael Anthony, brothers Eddie and Alex Van Halen have been the band’s only constants. Roth was replaced in 1985 by Sammy Hagar, who was himself replaced in 1996 by Gary Cherone. In 2006, the band reunited with Roth, but at the same time replaced Anthony with Eddie’s son, Wolfgang, making Van Halen a multi-generational family business. —Jeff Royer (Photo: Michael Buckner, Getty Images)
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AC/DCBrothers Malcolm and Angus Young weren’t the first famous musicians in their family. Older brother George played in an Australian band called the Easybeats, which scored an international hit single. Inspired by George’s success, the younger Youngs started a band of their own in 1973, naming it AC/DC after seeing those letters on a sewing machine. The band has since sold more than 200 million albums worldwide. —Jeff Royer (Photo: Getty Images)
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Stone Temple Pil...Robert and Dean DeLeo got their start playing together in a Long Beach, Calif., band called Mighty Joe Young with drummer Eric Kretz and a gruff-voiced singer named Scott Weiland. Six years later, the band changed its name to Stone Temple Pilots, sold a brisk 8 million copies of its debut album and became one of the faces of the burgeoning grunge rock movement. During Weiland’s stint as singer of Velvet Revolver, the DeLeos, formed a new band, Army of Anyone, with former Filter frontman Richard Patrick. Stone Temple Pilots has since reformed. —Jeff Royer (Photo: Scott Gries, Getty Images)
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Good CharlotteBrothers Benji and Joel Madden bridged the pop and punk worlds with 2002’s “The Young and The Hopeless,” which sold nearly 5 million copies on the strength of the mega-hit “Lifestyles of the Rich and the Famous” – a subject they would soon know a good bit about. The band’s success quickly waned, although Joel Madden has continued to serve as tabloid fodder thanks to high-profile relationships with Hilary Duff and reality star Nicole Richie, whom he married in 2010. —Jeff Royer (Photo: Brendon Thorne, Getty Images)
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The Black CrowesOn the back of a hit cover of Otis Redding’s “Hard to Handle,” Chris and Rich Robinson struck it rich with The Black Crowes’ 1990 debut album. The band became one of the jam scene’s (and pot scene’s) most beloved bands, selling more than 30 million albums. But the Robinsons also became nearly as famous for their feuds as their music. Their scuffles have resulted in multiple breakups and at least one scrapped album. In 2010, The Black Crowes released a double acoustic album, after which it announced yet another “indefinite hiatus.” —Jeff Royer (Photo: Ethan Miller, Getty Images)
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My Chemical Roma...Gerard Way formed My Chemical Romance in 2001, inspired by his reaction to the 9/11 World Trade Center attacks. It wasn’t until the band had recorded its first demo that the singer’s brother, bassist Mikey Way, was convinced to drop out of college and join the band. Within three years, the band scored its first platinum album and, rightly or wrongly, became the poster children for the burgeoning emo movement. —Jeff Royer (Photo: Cory Schwartz, Getty Images)
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The Jesus and Ma...Scottish brothers Jim and William Reid launched their now-legendary noise-rock band The Jesus and Mary Chain in 1983, inspired by bands like the Sex Pistols and Velvet Underground who bucked convention in favor of challenging, often abrasive art. They would ultimately serve the same role for a generation of bands to follow. As AllMusic summarized, “The British group made the world safe for white noise, orchestrating a sound dense in squalling feedback which served as an inspiration to everyone from My Bloody Valentine to Dinosaur Jr.” —Jeff Royer (Photos: Jim Dyson, Getty Images)
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Everly BrothersDon and Phil Everly built an empire in the late 1950s and early 1960s on the strength of gorgeously simplistic harmonies. With No. 1 singles including “Wake Up Little Susie” and “All I Have to Do Is Dream,” they transformed the country sounds of their childhood into a rich and accessible form of vocal-centric rock and roll that directly influences bands like the Beatles, Simon and Garfunkle and the Byrds. —Jeff Royer (Photo: Keystone, Hulton Archive, Getty Images)
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ChevelleChevelle Brothers Pete, Sam and Joe Loeffler struck hard rock gold in 2002 with “Wonder What’s Next,” which yielded several mainstream rock hits, including “Send the Pain Below,” which hit No. 1. When Joe quit the band in 2005, Chevelle kept the business in the family by recruiting brother-in-law Dean Bernardini to fill in on bass. —Jeff Royer (Photo: Frank Micelotta, Getty Images)
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Louvin BrothersBrothers Ira and Charlie Loudermilk, better known as the Louvin Brothers, brought to popularity the aptly-titled country sub-genre known as “close harmony.” The two released a string of hit country singles between 1955 and their breakup in 1962, including the No. 1 song “I Don’t Believe You’ve Met My Baby” and the oft-covered “Cash on the Barrelhead.” Ira was struck and killed by a drunk driver in 1965. Charlie died on January 26, 2011 at the age of 83. —Jeff Royer
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Creedence Clearw...Tom and John Fogerty’s musical relationship underwent a role-reversal in the early 1960s. John originally performed as a backing musician for Tom, who was three years his senior. However, John’s own group, then called the Golliwogs, eventually landed a record deal of its own, and Tom eventually signed on as rhythm guitarist. After changing its name to Creedence Clearwater Revival, the band sold more than 26 million albums and earned a spot in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Tom died in 1990 of AIDS, which he contracted during a blood transfusion. —Jeff Royer (Photo: Evening Standard, Hulton Archive, Getty Images)
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30 Seconds to Ma...In the mid-1990s, actor Jared Leto became a cult hero for his role as the guitar-wielding slacker Jordan Catalano in “My So-Called Life.” In 1998, life imitated art when Leto formed the band 30 Seconds to Mars with his brother Shannon on drums. With a revolving cast of bandmates, the two infiltrated the emo-rock world, scoring a platinum album with 2005’s “A Beautiful Lie.” —Jeff Royer (Photo: Dave J Hogan, Getty Images)
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The NationalFeaturing brother Aaron and Bryce Dessner, The National has enjoyed a slow burn over the past 10 years as one of indie rock’s literate brooders, keeping company both literally and figuratively with bands like Grizzly Bear, Modest Mouse and R.E.M. The band’s most recent release, “High Violet,” debuted at No. 3 on the Billboard 200. —Jeff Royer (Photo: Gareth Cattermole, Getty Images)
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PanteraFormed by the Abbott brothers, Vinnie Paul (drums) and Dimebag Darrell (guitar), in 1981, Pantera transcended the hair metal and speed metal of its early years to become one of the preeminent metal bands of the 1990s. After enduring an on-again, off-again relationship with singer Phil Anselmo that handicapped the band in its prime, the Abbott brothers officially broke up Pantera in 2003. On December 8, 2004, Dimebag Darrell was shot and killed while performing on stage with his new band, Damageplan. —Jeff Royer (Photos: Scott Gries/ Donald Bowers, Getty Images)
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Isley BrothersThe Isley Brothers have redefined the term “family affair” over the course of their 57-year-career, with lineups that included different combinations of six brothers and one brother-in-law. The group first found success crossing from the gospel world into secular music, scoring hits with “Shout” and “Twist and Shout,” later famously covered by the Beatles. The 1969 single "It's Your Thing" was one of the earliest hits of the then-fledgling funk genre. —Jeff Royer (Photo: Chris Ware, Hulton Archive, Getty Images)
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Right Said FredBald-headed, muscle-bound brothers Richard and Fred Fairbrass formed the dance-pop duo Right Said Fred in England in 1989. Within two years they had produced the song around which their entire career would be based: “I’m Too Sexy.” The song topped the Billboard charts, making the Fairbrass brothers the first UK act to debut at No. 1 in the U.S. since the Beatles. —Jeff Royer (Photo: Dave Hogan, Getty Images)
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Arcade FireArcade Fire catapulted from “biggest band you never heard of” to household name status when they snagged the award for Album of the Year at the 2011 Grammys. The band was founded in 2001 by Win Butler and future wife Régine Chassagne. Butler’s brother, William, joined in 2003, making an already cozy situation even cozier. Eight years later, the familial gang is one of rock and roll’s brightest hopes. —Jeff Royer (Photo: Kevork Djansezian, Getty Images)
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JetCruising on the tailwinds of The Strokes’ garage-rock hysteria was Jet, an Australian band featuring brothers Nic and Chris Cester. The band notched a U.S. rock hit in 2003 with the ubiquitous “Are You Gonna Be My Girl,” and struck gold again with “Cold Hard B*tch.” The album that spawned those singles, “Get Born,” sold a tidy 3.5 million copies. —Jeff Royer (Photo: Lisa Maree Williams, Getty Images)
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NelsonThe tow-headed twin sons of teen idol Ricky Nelson scored a No. 1 hit in 1990 with “(Can’t Live Without Your) Love and Affection” from the album “After the Rain.” More than 20 years later, Matthew and Gunnar continue to perform, both as Nelson and as a tribute act for their father titled Ricky Nelson Remembered. The Nelson family is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the only family to notch number one records in three successive generations, beginning with grandparents Ozzie and Harriet Nelson. —Jeff Royer (Photo: Amanda Edwards, Getty Images)
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The DarknessSince forming The Darkness in 2000, brothers Justin and Dan Hawkins have continued to toe the line between hair metal parody and true classic rock heroes. A confused world embraced the band’s 2003 debut, “Permission to Land,” which sold millions of copies on the strength of the single “I Believe in a Thing Called Love.” In 2006, Justin split from the band to complete his drug rehab, and eventually started a new band called Hot Leg. In March 2011, The Darkness announced its reunion. —Jeff Royer (Photo: Dave Hogan, Getty Images)
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The ProclaimersScottish twins Charlie and Craig Reid hijacked American radio in 1993 with the inescapable single “I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles),” which hit No.3 on the Billboard Hot 100 -- despite the fact that several lines are unintelligible due to the brothers’ thick accents. The song had been a hit in the U.K. four earlier, but The Proclaimers didn’t break the U.S. until their music was featured in the Johnny Depp movie “Benny and Joon.” —Jeff Royer (Photo: Dave Hogan, Getty Images)
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BauhausIn 1978, brothers David J and Kevin Haskins became half of the band that essentially gave birth to goth rock with what MTV called “a minimalistic, overbearingly gloomy style of post-punk rock driven by jagged guitar chords and cold, distant synthesizers.” It was a short-lived ride – frontman Peter Murphy split in 1983 – but it’s hard to overstate the band’s influence on future generations, from Nine Inch Nails to AFI to Bloc Party. NME once summarized, "Bauhaus are to goth what Radiohead are to prog." Bauhaus reunited in 1998, and then again in 2005, both times with all four original members. —Jeff Royer (Photo: Beggars)
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The Avett Brothe...North Carolina brothers Seth and Scott Avett became an Americana sensation with the release of 2007’s heralded “Emotionalism,” a collision of bluegrass and country aesthetics and raw pop songwriting. The San Francisco Chronicle characterized the band’s sound as having the "heavy sadness of Townes Van Zandt, the light pop concision of Buddy Holly, the tuneful jangle of the Beatles, the raw energy of the Ramones." After debuting at No. 16 with the Rick Rubin-produced “I and Love and You” in 2009, the Avetts enjoyed a victory lap at the 2011 Grammys with a performance alongside Bob Dyan and Mumford & Sons. —Jeff Royer (Photo: Karl Walter, Getty Images)
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