![]() ![]() He and Robin, in particular, had always had a fractious relationship. We weren't being intimate in those last days of each of their lives." He was, he says, shattered not merely by Robin's death, but the nagging thought that he wasn't on particularly close terms with any of his brothers when they died: "That's the one biggest regret, that we didn't speak, we weren't really speaking very much to each other. That's all my brothers."īarry Gibb performing at Sydney Entertainment Centre in February 2013. My doctor said: 'Go and see him, he's got maybe six months.' I thought, Jesus. ![]() "Nobody was telling me anything, so I showed a picture of Robin in the papers to my doctor, because he didn't look well. The Bee Gees no longer exist, because all his brothers have died: Andy – who Barry had suggested join the band after his solo career began to fade – died in 1988, aged 30, after years of drink and drug addiction Maurice in 2003 of a heart attack and Robin last year from colorectal cancer, an illness Barry claims Robin tried to hide from him. His hair is grey and thinning at the front, but, at 67, he would still definitely be described as a man in possession of a mane: he's also in possession of a pair of sunglasses that no one except an enormously rich and successful rock star would wear indoors. Barry, the eldest and most hirsute of the three, was a lion.Īs he walks into the lobby of a London hotel 34 years later, Barry Gibb still looks suitably leonine. Robin was a red setter, while Maurice was a badger. Perhaps unexpectedly, and in evidence of a self-mocking sense of humour they would later be accused of lacking when they came into contact with irreverent interviewers, the illustrations in the biography depicted the Gibb brothers as cartoon animals. In the preceding four years, they had had eight US No 1 singles helmed the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack – at the time, the biggest-selling soundtrack album in history – and written a succession of global hits for other artists: Samantha Sang's Emotion, Tavares's More Than a Woman, Yvonne Elliman's If I Can't Have You, Frankie Valli's Grease, not to mention three No 1s for younger brother Andy Gibb. It was called The Greatest, which was both slightly immodest and a pretty accurate representation of their commercial standing. In 1979, the Bees Gees authorised an illustrated biography. ![]()
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