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.