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Robin Hugh Gibb CBE (22 December 1949 – 20 May 2012) was a British singer and songwriter. He gained worldwide fame as a member of the Bee Gees with elder brother Barry and twin brother Maurice.
The songs "Words" (1968), "Lonely Days" (1970) and "How Can You Mend a Broken Heart" (1971) were the frequent numbers at Bee Gees concerts. Other keyboards such as the harpsichord on " I Can't See Nobody " (1967), Mellotron on " Every Christian Lion Hearted Man Will Show You " (1967) and Moog synthesizer on "Sweet Song of Summer" (1972) were ...
Sir Barry Alan Crompton Gibb AC CBE (born 1 September 1946 [6] [7]) is a British musician, singer, songwriter and record producer.Along with his younger twin brothers, Robin and Maurice, he rose to worldwide fame as a member of the Bee Gees, one of the most commercially successful groups in the history of popular music.
In the late 1970s, at the same time Pablo Escobar and the Cartel de Medellín were turning Miami, Los Angeles, and New York into dumping grounds for planeloads of cocaine, Andy Gibb, kid brother ...
Bee Gees star Maurice died unexpectedly in 2003, aged 53, due to complications from a twisted intestine. His twin brother, Robin, died in 2012, aged 62, from liver and kidney failure after ...
The Bee Gees were influenced by the Beatles, the Everly Brothers, the Mills Brothers, Elvis Presley, the Rolling Stones, [150] [151] Roy Orbison, [152] the Beach Boys [153] and Stevie Wonder. [154] On the 2014 documentary The Joy of the Bee Gees, Barry said that the Bee Gees were also influenced by the Hollies and Otis Redding.
The deaths of the Bee Gees' original drummer Colin 'Smiley' Petersen and disco-era ... forming the group when they lived in Brisbane, Australia, when Barry was 12 and the twins were 9. ...
Despite Robin's break with the Bee Gees, twin brother Maurice Gibb played bass on the song "Mother and Jack" and piano on "Saved by the Bell", which was recorded around March 1969 with "Alexandria Good Time" and "Janice" but none of the songs was released. Gibb's method of recording was to record himself playing organ accompanied by an ...