when barry gibb appeared at polydor's offices in london, rennie immediately contacted stigwood, whom he thought would be ideal to sign the group to polydor and manage them. stigwood had just begun his eleven-month period with nems, and the boys' father hugh gibb had already sent an lp and acetates of their demo recordings to stigwood in an effort to sign the group to nems. stigwood signed the bee gees to a five-year deal in february and took their contract with him when he separated from nems in december.