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Saturday, December 29, 2018
Sunday, December 23, 2018
Happy Birthday by Spencer gibb
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In honor of my late father and my uncle Maurice, I'm posting the song "Happy Birthday" exclusively on YouTube in advance of its official digital release on January 8th, where it will be available on Spotify, iTunes, Amazon etc...Enjoy! Also, Happy Birthday to my step-mom Dwina, who's birthday is also today, and my step-dad Carl, who's birthday was yesterday!! Much love and hope you enjoy the tune!! Here it is:
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In honor of my late father and my uncle Maurice, I'm posting the song "Happy Birthday" exclusively on YouTube in advance of its official digital release on January 8th, where it will be available on Spotify, iTunes, Amazon etc...Enjoy! Also, Happy Birthday to my step-mom Dwina, who's birthday is also today, and my step-dad Carl, who's birthday was yesterday!! Much love and hope you enjoy the tune!! Here it is:
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Friday, December 14, 2018
Barry Gibb on BBC 1 Take that special Friday 28 December 2018
The special will air on Friday 28th December at 7pm on BBC1 Friday 28 December 2018
Take That: We’ve Come A Long Way, 7pm, BBC 1
Robbie Williams joins the remaining members of Take That to reflect on the last 30 years as a band. Expect appearances from Bee Gees singer Barry Gibb in the studio, and the members’ mums as they recall their favourite memories of the ever-popular boyband.
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Monday, December 3, 2018
Barry Gibb – My Favourite Vinyl
We asked the Bee Gees icon Barry Gibb to dig through his song catalogue and reveal which of his classic hits mean the most to him…
Funnily enough, Dionne Warwick didn’t like Heartbreaker when we first played it to her. She told me, ‘this song doesn’t get me off’.
I diplomatically said, ‘why don’t you do it anyway, and we can always toss it away if you dont like it?’. You have to be pateient in the studio sometimes and this one paid off.”
“This was our young brother Andy’s first No. 1. We never selected who should sing what in the old days, there was no sense of competition, Robin would sing one or I did. The sense of competition came when we had success.
That’s when everyone in the group wanted a bit of individual attention. But this one felt right for Andy and we loved hearing him sing it.”
“This is a new one, it’s my Roy Orbison song, the constant drive upwards, like he did with Crying, which I consider to be the greatest pop song ever.
The shadows are looking through his eyes, but I also suppose it’s me reflecting on the idea that I still see my brothers when they aren’t there.”
“It’s probably his biggest hit but Kenny Rogers stills says to me, ‘I dont understand what Islands In The Stream is all about’. It’s about a No. 1 record, Kenny, get over it! My brothers wanted us to record this one but it was at a time when nobody wanted to hear our music.
I figured we should become songwriters because the most important thing to me was the that the songs got heard.”
“This was our sixth consecutive No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and very special moment. It was Michael Jackson’s favourite song [of ours], we became friends through that song.”
“This song has a life all of its own. We have quite a few songs worthy of closing a live set but nothing quite beats Tragedy. It was a big compliment when Steps recorded it years later but I never learned their dance steps.”
“I always love it when people tell me how they fell in love to a certain song of ours and Words is one of those. It was wonderful when Boyzone revived it.”
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Funnily enough, Dionne Warwick didn’t like Heartbreaker when we first played it to her. She told me, ‘this song doesn’t get me off’.
I diplomatically said, ‘why don’t you do it anyway, and we can always toss it away if you dont like it?’. You have to be pateient in the studio sometimes and this one paid off.”
I Just Want To Be Your Everything – 1977
“This was our young brother Andy’s first No. 1. We never selected who should sing what in the old days, there was no sense of competition, Robin would sing one or I did. The sense of competition came when we had success.
That’s when everyone in the group wanted a bit of individual attention. But this one felt right for Andy and we loved hearing him sing it.”
Barry Gibb – Shadows – 2016
“This is a new one, it’s my Roy Orbison song, the constant drive upwards, like he did with Crying, which I consider to be the greatest pop song ever.
The shadows are looking through his eyes, but I also suppose it’s me reflecting on the idea that I still see my brothers when they aren’t there.”
Islands In The Stream – 1983
“It’s probably his biggest hit but Kenny Rogers stills says to me, ‘I dont understand what Islands In The Stream is all about’. It’s about a No. 1 record, Kenny, get over it! My brothers wanted us to record this one but it was at a time when nobody wanted to hear our music.
I figured we should become songwriters because the most important thing to me was the that the songs got heard.”
Love You Inside Out – 1979
“This was our sixth consecutive No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and very special moment. It was Michael Jackson’s favourite song [of ours], we became friends through that song.”
Tragedy – 1979
“This song has a life all of its own. We have quite a few songs worthy of closing a live set but nothing quite beats Tragedy. It was a big compliment when Steps recorded it years later but I never learned their dance steps.”
Words – 1968
“I always love it when people tell me how they fell in love to a certain song of ours and Words is one of those. It was wonderful when Boyzone revived it.”
Emotion – 1977
Samantha Sang did a great job with this and Destiny’s Child had a huge hit too, years later. I still havent met Beyoncé, my daughter went to see her live. I would love to write a song for her but I’ll wait for the day she asks for it.”
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Sunday, October 21, 2018
Barry Gibb about leaving Middle Ear Studios 2005
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Tuesday, October 9, 2018
How did the Bee Gees survive the fall of disco?
Those falsettos, those white suits, those toothy smiles—you think you know the Bee Gees. But their story goes back much further than the ’70s, and it’s full of twists. From their roots as an eclectic harmony band in Australia and their first wave of Beatlesque fame, through their domination of the disco revolution and their years as a punchline, the Bee Gees stayed alive because of the Gibb brothers’ harmonies and especially their impeccable songs. This month, Hit Parade traces the influence of the Brothers Gibb on virtually every popular genre, from pop to R&B, rock to easy listening, country to … yes, even hip-hop.
Listen to Episode 16 of Slate’s Hit Parade:
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Monday, October 8, 2018
Dwina Gibb about article Daily Mirror
https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/bee-gees-film-in-bag-13375529
Re: The Daily Mirror.
Many people and some of Robin’s music industry friends came to say hello to me at the BMI Awards, (London) and I was pleased to see a lady and a gentleman who had apparently talked to me before about my first play: Last Confessions of a Scallywag. She told me that they rarely see me out anywhere, and she asked me what I was doing now, and I said that I had written another play which is due out next year and she wanted to see it. She asked me if there was going to be a film or production about the Bee Gees lives, and I said that it is in the bag and has been talked about for years even before Robin passed away, but that Barry was making sure they had the right writers for it. I forgot that the term: “it’s in the bag” means something is already finished and in production.
Then she asked if there was music of Robin’s which had never come out. He composed and recorded many parts of songs at home that he had worked on with RJ when they were writing the Titanic Requiem, but also ideas for other songs they had written together those last few years.
I said that many composers writing songs often have a surplus of songs when they write their albums and the rest of the music is usually archived. So, of course, she asked me if the Bee Gees had songs, and I remember Robin telling me that they had an archive of works, published and unpublished, which Barry has now. The rest of the time we talked about “Woman In Love’ which was written for Barbra Streisand, during the time when I first lived with Robin. Consequently, it has cherished memories for me and I was proud when RJ went up to receive the BMI Award for it on behalf of his father who co-wrote it with Barry. It has had over three million broadcast performances. It is an incredibly beautiful song that received a Grammy and many accolades and I have always loved Barbra Streisand’s voice.
I wanted to set the record straight that the newspaper implied that it was unpublished Bee Gees songs that our son RJ was putting together. This is untrue. In fact it is the music RJ was working on with his father that he is preserving.
Love and best wishes,
Dwina***
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Re: The Daily Mirror.
Many people and some of Robin’s music industry friends came to say hello to me at the BMI Awards, (London) and I was pleased to see a lady and a gentleman who had apparently talked to me before about my first play: Last Confessions of a Scallywag. She told me that they rarely see me out anywhere, and she asked me what I was doing now, and I said that I had written another play which is due out next year and she wanted to see it. She asked me if there was going to be a film or production about the Bee Gees lives, and I said that it is in the bag and has been talked about for years even before Robin passed away, but that Barry was making sure they had the right writers for it. I forgot that the term: “it’s in the bag” means something is already finished and in production.
Then she asked if there was music of Robin’s which had never come out. He composed and recorded many parts of songs at home that he had worked on with RJ when they were writing the Titanic Requiem, but also ideas for other songs they had written together those last few years.
I said that many composers writing songs often have a surplus of songs when they write their albums and the rest of the music is usually archived. So, of course, she asked me if the Bee Gees had songs, and I remember Robin telling me that they had an archive of works, published and unpublished, which Barry has now. The rest of the time we talked about “Woman In Love’ which was written for Barbra Streisand, during the time when I first lived with Robin. Consequently, it has cherished memories for me and I was proud when RJ went up to receive the BMI Award for it on behalf of his father who co-wrote it with Barry. It has had over three million broadcast performances. It is an incredibly beautiful song that received a Grammy and many accolades and I have always loved Barbra Streisand’s voice.
I wanted to set the record straight that the newspaper implied that it was unpublished Bee Gees songs that our son RJ was putting together. This is untrue. In fact it is the music RJ was working on with his father that he is preserving.
Love and best wishes,
Dwina***
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Saturday, October 6, 2018
Bee Gees Y-100 special that aired October 6th, 1979. Recorded in Cincinnati September 15, 1979,
Bee Gees fans won't want to miss this one. When I was "The Madame" on South Florida radio from 1977-1985, I interviewed a candid Barry, Robin, and Maurice Gibb at the height of Saturday Night Fever's popularity. It was for a Y-100 special that aired October 6th, 1979. Recorded in Cincinnati September 15, 1979, produced by Y-100's Alan Leininger, with a new introduction recorded February 12, 2016
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Sunday, September 30, 2018
Bee Gees star Barry Gibb will join Take That for TV special marking the band’s 30th anniversary
The supergroup will record a version of the Bee Gees' original hit How Deep Is Your Love, which was covered by Take That in 1996, and one new track
An hour-long programme on the group has been commissioned by BBC One and will show the unlikely five-piece in the studio.
Gary Barlow, Mark Owen and Howard Donald are all confirmed and Robbie Williams also hopes to appear in the one-off TV special to be broadcast later this year.
It is understood they will record a version of the Bee Gees’ original hit How Deep Is Your Love, covered by Take That in 1996, and one new track.
A source said: “Barry may not be your typical boy band member but he’s a British music legend.
From Miami Beach : Dick Ashby, September 30th.:
“Barry recorded his vocal parts while we were in the UK. This new version of ‘How Deep is Your Love’ will probably be on a new ‘Take That’ Greatest hits Album to be released later this year. There was a camera team present in the studio, so some of the footage of Barry recording his parts will likely be included in a BBC ‘Take That’ documentary to be aired in conjunction with... the album release.”.
Gary Barlow:
To celebrate 30 years together as a band we got back in the studio and re-imagined some of our favourite songs. Our new album: Odyssey will be released on November 23rd. We’re all looking forward to getting back on the road next year for our Greatest Hits tour! The album will feature special guests and will be available as a limited edition signed boxset including a booklet and art prints!
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An hour-long programme on the group has been commissioned by BBC One and will show the unlikely five-piece in the studio.
Gary Barlow, Mark Owen and Howard Donald are all confirmed and Robbie Williams also hopes to appear in the one-off TV special to be broadcast later this year.
A source said: “Barry may not be your typical boy band member but he’s a British music legend.
From Miami Beach : Dick Ashby, September 30th.:
“Barry recorded his vocal parts while we were in the UK. This new version of ‘How Deep is Your Love’ will probably be on a new ‘Take That’ Greatest hits Album to be released later this year. There was a camera team present in the studio, so some of the footage of Barry recording his parts will likely be included in a BBC ‘Take That’ documentary to be aired in conjunction with... the album release.”.
Gary Barlow:
To celebrate 30 years together as a band we got back in the studio and re-imagined some of our favourite songs. Our new album: Odyssey will be released on November 23rd. We’re all looking forward to getting back on the road next year for our Greatest Hits tour! The album will feature special guests and will be available as a limited edition signed boxset including a booklet and art prints!
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Monday, September 17, 2018
Bee Gees run to me RARE Color video
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Saturday, September 15, 2018
Spencer Gibb - Empty Room (Official Music Video)
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Friday, August 31, 2018
new video and lyrics SUNDAY FOR LOVIN' - The Tree Gees
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SUNDAY FOR LOVIN
Lyrics: Alex Sammarini
Look out where the rainbow ends
Thinking of the time that never been spent
We leave behind the life that we'd begun
So listen to your beating heart
Split this love in two will tear us apart
Where will we go without a guiding star
There should be sunshine after rain
Saturday is gone but let the love found us again
Sunday for loving
Let your heart rules your head
All the way down
Let the memories flow through your body
Leaving the tears away
You said love needs a blind heart
A feeling it's stronger than who you think you are
Set yourself free and face the truth
Nothing is like as it seems
If your soul is where it’s always been
You can't stand no longer in between
Baby it's too late to turn away
Saturday's gone, but we can still dance one more day
Sunday for loving
Let your heart rules your head
All the way down
Let the memories flow through your body
Leaving the tears away
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SUNDAY FOR LOVIN
Lyrics: Alex Sammarini
Look out where the rainbow ends
Thinking of the time that never been spent
We leave behind the life that we'd begun
So listen to your beating heart
Split this love in two will tear us apart
Where will we go without a guiding star
There should be sunshine after rain
Saturday is gone but let the love found us again
Sunday for loving
Let your heart rules your head
All the way down
Let the memories flow through your body
Leaving the tears away
You said love needs a blind heart
A feeling it's stronger than who you think you are
Set yourself free and face the truth
Nothing is like as it seems
If your soul is where it’s always been
You can't stand no longer in between
Baby it's too late to turn away
Saturday's gone, but we can still dance one more day
Sunday for loving
Let your heart rules your head
All the way down
Let the memories flow through your body
Leaving the tears away
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Saturday, August 25, 2018
Andy Gibb - "I Just Want To Be Your Everything" (1983) - MDA Telethon
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Monday, August 20, 2018
Robin Gibb part of The Frank Skinner Show 28 10 02 with complete transcript
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Frank Skinner: Ladies and gentlemen Robin Gibb.
Robin Gibb: Hi Frank
Frank Skinner: You've been a pop star, would you call yourself that?
Robin Gibb:I think so, yes.
Frank Skinner: For what... 40 years?
Robin Gibb: Since I was a teenager.
Frank Skinner: Not bad, is it?
Robin Gibb: It's a pretty long part of your life, we were little kids when we started back in Australia.
Frank Skinner: We've actually got a clip of you all when you were. I think it was 1960. How old were you then?
Robin Gibb: About 9 years old.
Frank Skinner: Right. Barry looks about three foot taller than you and Maurice.
Robin Gibb: Barry was a very tall chap, and we were actually very small, me and Maurice, cause we were twins. Not that that has got anything to do with size, but they had to put us on boxes, it was our very first television performance. Me and Maurice had to stand on wooden boxes to even out with Barry.
Frank Skinner: Right, and Barry still looks 3 feet taller!
Robin Gibb: He's still very tall, yes.
Frank Skinner: I'll tell you what I like, whenever you read interviews with your brothers, you know when people ask, they say 'so and so was the cheeky one, and he was the funny one', I've read a couple of interviews with your brothers and they've said 'Oh yes, Robin he was the arsonist!'
Robin Gibb: Well, yes. I'm sure it was that word... I think it was because I was a bit of a fire bug when I was about 8 years old, especially around the streets of Manchester, for some unknown reason I used to go around and light fires on golf courses and a few dream homes too perhaps, but that was only if they got in the way, you know. But it was never intentional Frank... It was done with a lot of love and respect... I loved it and I respected it... It was a hobby, I was bored, if I was particularly bored, when I wasn't doing things I used to go and do that, and it was just after that that we emigrated...
Frank Skinner: Yes! Are they still sending criminals to Australia?
Robin Gibb: Ah yes! That's what Pome means, isn't it, 'Prisoners Of Mother England'
Frank Skinner: So what's the best thing you ever burned down Robin? What do you remember with most affection?
Robin Gibb: I actually remember burning down a set of billboards in Manchester High Street, but they were terrible anyway! But they didn't do anyone any harm...
Frank Skinner: No!
Robin Gibb: It was all done with affection.
Frank Skinner: Now you're bringing out a solo album...
Robin Gibb: Yes, I'm bringing out a solo album, actually the album comes out over Christmas, or January, past the Christmas period. It's something I'm doing on my own. The Bee Gees are going to make an album next year and this is just to kind of squeeze this out before we actually start making that one.
Frank Skinner: I've actually got a clip called Please, will it be the new single?
Robin Gibb: Yes, that's the first single
Frank Skinner: It's great actually.
Robin Gibb: Thanks a lot Frank.
Frank Skinner: It's impossible for you to sing a song that doesn't sound like the Bee Gees of course.
Robin Gibb: I don't mind that. I'm very proud of being a Bee Gee and I'm not trying to look for a separate identity. I know that if I do a song it's going to sound like the Bee Gees, but I don't mind.
Frank Skinner: No, it's not a bad thing to sound like...
Robin Gibb: No. Again, it's what I am.
Frank Skinner: Yes, you're a Bee Gee
Robin Gibb: That's what I am, a Bee Gee.
Frank Skinner: Just get over it!
Frank Skinner: Now I have to mention the 70s and the whole disco thing. The Bee Gees were already a big band, but they became disco gods, didn't they?
Robin Gibb: Yes, but it was almost by accident, because we were actually in France when we were writing that stuff. Robert Stigwood rang from LA and said he was making a movie called Trible rights of a saturday night, and we said, do you want music for it? and he said yes, and because that's the name of the film, based on a New York Times article, we're making the film have you got any songs? We had 5 songs, we had How deep is your love, Night fever, If I can't have you, Staying alive written already.
Frank Skinner: Not a bad little batch to have there, was it?
Robin Gibb: Well, we'd been in the studio for a few weeks and he he said we had to change the name of Stayin alive, it had to be Saturday night, and we said there were too many songs called Saturday night, so let's put Night fever on the front of it and call it Saturday Night Fever, it became Saturday night fever.
Frank Skinner: So you actually came up with the title of the movie?
Robin Gibb: That's right.
Frank Skinner: Is it true that you got the idea for Jive talkin from being in a car and the car was going tch tch?
Robin Gibb: Yes, we were going across a bridge in Miami with those tar lines across the road and as were crossing them they made the rhythm sound that was identical with the rhythm of Jive talkin and because we listened to that, we wrote the song or got the idea for the song before we got to the other side of the bridge and we were on the way to the studio, we finished the song when we got there.
Frank Skinner: I know when you get them in old movies, you think people never write songs like that.
Robin Gibb: It's true, they do actually write songs like that and most good ideas do come like that, out of the blue, and it can be anywhere.
Frank Skinner: Now is it true that you've got a model of Stonehenge in your garden?
Robin Gibb: I have, yes. My wife is very sort of into things like that,and I go along with her cause I enjoy it too. There was a tennis court from the 1930s in the house when we got there and we didn't play tennis very much, so we got rid of the tennis court and turned it back into a lawn and then got the idea of having a sort of having these stones brought up from the west country and turning it into a Stonehenge area, so now it's got it's own standing stones.
Frank Skinner: So how big in scalewise is your stonehenge? Is it big?
Robin Gibb: To about there.
Frank Skinner: Oh right, so it's.
Robin Gibb: Yes, it's about the size of a sort of semi-tall man.
Frank Skinner: How beautifully put!
Robin Gibb: But it's different
Frank Skinner: It is different, and if you've got a big house, why not put a stonehenge in the garden?
Robin Gibb: Why not! That's right! Yes! Have a stonehenge!
Frank Skinner: Maybe the pyrimids next year?
Robin Gibb: Maybe, yes...
Frank Skinner: Cause your wife is quite a senior druid, is that right?
Robin Gibb: I don't know what the full name is but she's a patron I think, she's up there, she's a head druidess.
Frank Skinner: Robin you could have found out her official title, for gods sake, she's your wife! So if she has got her own Stonehenge, does that mean that she doesn't have to make the trip every year?
Robin Gibb: Well, yes. It's always full of tourists anyway...
Frank Skinner: Yours or theirs?
Robin Gibb: No, not mine! Theirs, the one down in Salisbury. I don't know too much about it to tell you the truth.
Frank Skinner: You must chat about it when there's nothing on the telly!
Robin Gibb: Well, we don't actually.
Frank Skinner: No?
Robin Gibb: No. It's something that doesn't come up very often..
Frank Skinner: I also read that you live in a very old, is it 12th century?
Robin Gibb: Yes, the house is about 1000 years old.
Frank Skinner: And it's haunted, isn't it?
Robin Gibb: Yes. It's got a font, you know one of those things you put holy water in. It fills up on its own for some unknown reason, every few months, regardless of the weather, and we just don't know how it's done, we've had people in to check it out, and it just fills up on its own, and there are people who have seen things in the house, I haven't seen them myself. You know when you have a house that's that old, there's bound to be some kind of leftover emotions from where people have lived there over time.
Frank Skinner: You think it's just emotion
Robin Gibb: Oh right, Yes! It's possible!
Frank Skinner: Now, you didn't see 'Stars in their eyes' did you this week?
Robin Gibb: No, I didn't no.
Frank Skinner: You missed a treat!
Robin Gibb: Did I?
Frank Skinner: There was three Italian brothers doing the Bee Gees
Robin Gibb: Oh really?
Frank Skinner: Yes! We'll have a quick look, shall we?
Robin Gibb: All right
Frank Skinner: This is the Italian brothers doing the Bee Gees.... Enough of that!
Robin Gibb: Italian?
Frank Skinner: Yes
Robin Gibb: Oh! That's interesting. Where did they come on the rankings?
Frank Skinner: They didn't win , i'm afraid , I think Tina Turner won.
Robin Gibb: Oh
Frank Skinner: Do you feel let down?
Robin Gibb: It's terrible! It's a blow Frank!
Frank Skinner: By the way, when those Italian brothers were interviewed after, they said when they were over here they went up to Manchester to see your old house. And they knocked on the door, and the woman let them in, they had a look in the garden and they found a piece of broken extractor fan.
Robin Gibb: So they were the bastards that were stalking the house!
Frank Skinner: Exactly. They found this piece of extractor fan and they stole it because they thought it might have been there when you lived there.
Robin Gibb: That's a criminal act, isn't it Frank?
Frank Skinner: Yes, exactly... Thank you, the arsonist!
Robin Gibb: Well, you know...!
Frank Skinner: I read that Barry had bought that house.
Robin Gibb: In Keppel road ? Yes he has, I actually read it in the paper, but never asked him.
Frank Skinner: You haven't spoken about it??
Robin Gibb: No, I read it in the paper, so I think it's true.
Frank Skinner: I wonder if he's going to turn it into a Bee Gees museum or something?
Robin Gibb:I don't think he's going to do that but I think there's a problem when you buy houses like that, because there are people living in it, he technically becomes the landlord, doesn't he? He'd be eligible for roof fixing and drains being fixed and all that!
Frank Skinner: Well, yes.That would be great. Barry Gibb coming round your house saying: Never mind that, just give us the rent will you?
Robin Gibb: Yes, and turf them out in the snow if they can't pay...
Frank Skinner: Yes, well there's a woman living there now so clearly...
Robin Gibb: She's in danger!
Frank Skinner: Yes! ButI thought he'd empty it and do something with it, not just buy it.
Robin Gibb: Well you can't do that, it's illegal. You see you can't turn people out.
Frank Skinner: All the old ways are dying out!
Robin Gibb:I know...
Frank Skinner: You could have had a doorbell that went "Stayin alive", wouldn't you want to get that on a car horn?
Robin Gibb: Yes! Good idea!
Frank Skinner: Well, look, best of luck with the solo single, and the album.
Robin Gibb: Thanks Frank
Frank Skinner: Great to see you. Ladies and gentlemen, Robin Gibb.
Robin Gibb: Thanks lot Frank.
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transcript complete interview:
Frank Skinner: Ladies and gentlemen Robin Gibb.
Robin Gibb: Hi Frank
Frank Skinner: You've been a pop star, would you call yourself that?
Robin Gibb:I think so, yes.
Frank Skinner: For what... 40 years?
Robin Gibb: Since I was a teenager.
Frank Skinner: Not bad, is it?
Robin Gibb: It's a pretty long part of your life, we were little kids when we started back in Australia.
Frank Skinner: We've actually got a clip of you all when you were. I think it was 1960. How old were you then?
Robin Gibb: About 9 years old.
Frank Skinner: Right. Barry looks about three foot taller than you and Maurice.
Robin Gibb: Barry was a very tall chap, and we were actually very small, me and Maurice, cause we were twins. Not that that has got anything to do with size, but they had to put us on boxes, it was our very first television performance. Me and Maurice had to stand on wooden boxes to even out with Barry.
Frank Skinner: Right, and Barry still looks 3 feet taller!
Robin Gibb: He's still very tall, yes.
Frank Skinner: I'll tell you what I like, whenever you read interviews with your brothers, you know when people ask, they say 'so and so was the cheeky one, and he was the funny one', I've read a couple of interviews with your brothers and they've said 'Oh yes, Robin he was the arsonist!'
Robin Gibb: Well, yes. I'm sure it was that word... I think it was because I was a bit of a fire bug when I was about 8 years old, especially around the streets of Manchester, for some unknown reason I used to go around and light fires on golf courses and a few dream homes too perhaps, but that was only if they got in the way, you know. But it was never intentional Frank... It was done with a lot of love and respect... I loved it and I respected it... It was a hobby, I was bored, if I was particularly bored, when I wasn't doing things I used to go and do that, and it was just after that that we emigrated...
Frank Skinner: Yes! Are they still sending criminals to Australia?
Robin Gibb: Ah yes! That's what Pome means, isn't it, 'Prisoners Of Mother England'
Frank Skinner: So what's the best thing you ever burned down Robin? What do you remember with most affection?
Robin Gibb: I actually remember burning down a set of billboards in Manchester High Street, but they were terrible anyway! But they didn't do anyone any harm...
Frank Skinner: No!
Robin Gibb: It was all done with affection.
Frank Skinner: Now you're bringing out a solo album...
Robin Gibb: Yes, I'm bringing out a solo album, actually the album comes out over Christmas, or January, past the Christmas period. It's something I'm doing on my own. The Bee Gees are going to make an album next year and this is just to kind of squeeze this out before we actually start making that one.
Frank Skinner: I've actually got a clip called Please, will it be the new single?
Robin Gibb: Yes, that's the first single
Frank Skinner: It's great actually.
Robin Gibb: Thanks a lot Frank.
Frank Skinner: It's impossible for you to sing a song that doesn't sound like the Bee Gees of course.
Robin Gibb: I don't mind that. I'm very proud of being a Bee Gee and I'm not trying to look for a separate identity. I know that if I do a song it's going to sound like the Bee Gees, but I don't mind.
Frank Skinner: No, it's not a bad thing to sound like...
Robin Gibb: No. Again, it's what I am.
Frank Skinner: Yes, you're a Bee Gee
Robin Gibb: That's what I am, a Bee Gee.
Frank Skinner: Just get over it!
Frank Skinner: Now I have to mention the 70s and the whole disco thing. The Bee Gees were already a big band, but they became disco gods, didn't they?
Robin Gibb: Yes, but it was almost by accident, because we were actually in France when we were writing that stuff. Robert Stigwood rang from LA and said he was making a movie called Trible rights of a saturday night, and we said, do you want music for it? and he said yes, and because that's the name of the film, based on a New York Times article, we're making the film have you got any songs? We had 5 songs, we had How deep is your love, Night fever, If I can't have you, Staying alive written already.
Frank Skinner: Not a bad little batch to have there, was it?
Robin Gibb: Well, we'd been in the studio for a few weeks and he he said we had to change the name of Stayin alive, it had to be Saturday night, and we said there were too many songs called Saturday night, so let's put Night fever on the front of it and call it Saturday Night Fever, it became Saturday night fever.
Frank Skinner: So you actually came up with the title of the movie?
Robin Gibb: That's right.
Frank Skinner: Is it true that you got the idea for Jive talkin from being in a car and the car was going tch tch?
Robin Gibb: Yes, we were going across a bridge in Miami with those tar lines across the road and as were crossing them they made the rhythm sound that was identical with the rhythm of Jive talkin and because we listened to that, we wrote the song or got the idea for the song before we got to the other side of the bridge and we were on the way to the studio, we finished the song when we got there.
Frank Skinner: I know when you get them in old movies, you think people never write songs like that.
Robin Gibb: It's true, they do actually write songs like that and most good ideas do come like that, out of the blue, and it can be anywhere.
Frank Skinner: Now is it true that you've got a model of Stonehenge in your garden?
Robin Gibb: I have, yes. My wife is very sort of into things like that,and I go along with her cause I enjoy it too. There was a tennis court from the 1930s in the house when we got there and we didn't play tennis very much, so we got rid of the tennis court and turned it back into a lawn and then got the idea of having a sort of having these stones brought up from the west country and turning it into a Stonehenge area, so now it's got it's own standing stones.
Frank Skinner: So how big in scalewise is your stonehenge? Is it big?
Robin Gibb: To about there.
Frank Skinner: Oh right, so it's.
Robin Gibb: Yes, it's about the size of a sort of semi-tall man.
Frank Skinner: How beautifully put!
Robin Gibb: But it's different
Frank Skinner: It is different, and if you've got a big house, why not put a stonehenge in the garden?
Robin Gibb: Why not! That's right! Yes! Have a stonehenge!
Frank Skinner: Maybe the pyrimids next year?
Robin Gibb: Maybe, yes...
Frank Skinner: Cause your wife is quite a senior druid, is that right?
Robin Gibb: I don't know what the full name is but she's a patron I think, she's up there, she's a head druidess.
Frank Skinner: Robin you could have found out her official title, for gods sake, she's your wife! So if she has got her own Stonehenge, does that mean that she doesn't have to make the trip every year?
Robin Gibb: Well, yes. It's always full of tourists anyway...
Frank Skinner: Yours or theirs?
Robin Gibb: No, not mine! Theirs, the one down in Salisbury. I don't know too much about it to tell you the truth.
Frank Skinner: You must chat about it when there's nothing on the telly!
Robin Gibb: Well, we don't actually.
Frank Skinner: No?
Robin Gibb: No. It's something that doesn't come up very often..
Frank Skinner: I also read that you live in a very old, is it 12th century?
Robin Gibb: Yes, the house is about 1000 years old.
Frank Skinner: And it's haunted, isn't it?
Robin Gibb: Yes. It's got a font, you know one of those things you put holy water in. It fills up on its own for some unknown reason, every few months, regardless of the weather, and we just don't know how it's done, we've had people in to check it out, and it just fills up on its own, and there are people who have seen things in the house, I haven't seen them myself. You know when you have a house that's that old, there's bound to be some kind of leftover emotions from where people have lived there over time.
Frank Skinner: You think it's just emotion
Robin Gibb: Oh right, Yes! It's possible!
Frank Skinner: Now, you didn't see 'Stars in their eyes' did you this week?
Robin Gibb: No, I didn't no.
Frank Skinner: You missed a treat!
Robin Gibb: Did I?
Frank Skinner: There was three Italian brothers doing the Bee Gees
Robin Gibb: Oh really?
Frank Skinner: Yes! We'll have a quick look, shall we?
Robin Gibb: All right
Frank Skinner: This is the Italian brothers doing the Bee Gees.... Enough of that!
Robin Gibb: Italian?
Frank Skinner: Yes
Robin Gibb: Oh! That's interesting. Where did they come on the rankings?
Frank Skinner: They didn't win , i'm afraid , I think Tina Turner won.
Robin Gibb: Oh
Frank Skinner: Do you feel let down?
Robin Gibb: It's terrible! It's a blow Frank!
Frank Skinner: By the way, when those Italian brothers were interviewed after, they said when they were over here they went up to Manchester to see your old house. And they knocked on the door, and the woman let them in, they had a look in the garden and they found a piece of broken extractor fan.
Robin Gibb: So they were the bastards that were stalking the house!
Frank Skinner: Exactly. They found this piece of extractor fan and they stole it because they thought it might have been there when you lived there.
Robin Gibb: That's a criminal act, isn't it Frank?
Frank Skinner: Yes, exactly... Thank you, the arsonist!
Robin Gibb: Well, you know...!
Frank Skinner: I read that Barry had bought that house.
Robin Gibb: In Keppel road ? Yes he has, I actually read it in the paper, but never asked him.
Frank Skinner: You haven't spoken about it??
Robin Gibb: No, I read it in the paper, so I think it's true.
Frank Skinner: I wonder if he's going to turn it into a Bee Gees museum or something?
Robin Gibb:I don't think he's going to do that but I think there's a problem when you buy houses like that, because there are people living in it, he technically becomes the landlord, doesn't he? He'd be eligible for roof fixing and drains being fixed and all that!
Frank Skinner: Well, yes.That would be great. Barry Gibb coming round your house saying: Never mind that, just give us the rent will you?
Robin Gibb: Yes, and turf them out in the snow if they can't pay...
Frank Skinner: Yes, well there's a woman living there now so clearly...
Robin Gibb: She's in danger!
Frank Skinner: Yes! ButI thought he'd empty it and do something with it, not just buy it.
Robin Gibb: Well you can't do that, it's illegal. You see you can't turn people out.
Frank Skinner: All the old ways are dying out!
Robin Gibb:I know...
Frank Skinner: You could have had a doorbell that went "Stayin alive", wouldn't you want to get that on a car horn?
Robin Gibb: Yes! Good idea!
Frank Skinner: Well, look, best of luck with the solo single, and the album.
Robin Gibb: Thanks Frank
Frank Skinner: Great to see you. Ladies and gentlemen, Robin Gibb.
Robin Gibb: Thanks lot Frank.
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Friday, July 27, 2018
Sir Barry Gibb at the RAF Museum july 25th 2018
Sir Barry Gibb, the legendary lead singer of iconic group Bee Gees visited the RAF Museum yesterday. We were delighted to welcome him and to find out that he really liked the
London’s new look.Click on the link below to watch video.
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London’s new look.Click on the link below to watch video.
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Sunday, July 15, 2018
Love and Hope High Rollers Night 2018
Nearly 300 guests tested their luck at the first-ever Love and Hope High Rollers fundraiser at the Miami Beach hot spot Faena Forum, Saturday, April 14, 2018 – and helped raise $320,000 for the Diabetes Research Institute at the UM Miller School of Medicine.
The evening kicked off with a cocktail reception at the coliseum-style room of the unique Faena Forum building’s second floor – which was decorated with oversized dice and casino chips throughout. Guests enjoyed drinks, passed light bites and stations with an assortment of delicious food before heading up to the third floor for the dinner program and casino games.
Love and Hope Executive Chairman Sandra Levy led the program, where she thanked Honorary Chairman Barbara Shapiro and National Chairman Kathy Simkins and her family for their contributions to the Love and Hope committee, event and DRI. She also recognized International Chairman Barry Gibb and his wife Linda, who were among the crowd and will be knighted as Sir and Lady by the Queen of England later this summer.
After a delicious dinner and dessert, the party and games started with Vegas-style showgirls directing guests to the Casino area – where they tried their luck at blackjack, roulette, craps, slots and many more exciting games for a chance to win dozens of luxury and one-of-a-kind items including a guitar signed by Barry Gibb himself.
The fun evening came to a close with the exciting announcing of raffle winners, coffee, cookies decorated like playing cards, and guests dancing the night away.
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Wednesday, July 11, 2018
Läzro & Travis Gibb Release New Single “Take Me Home”
Introducing the new single ‘Take Me Home’, Läzro & Travis Gibb ft. Kyra B deliver a sure-fire player. At a time when women’s voices are being heard louder than ever, comes a power anthem that is glue to the ears. Topliner Kyra B provides a soulful vocal, backed by a magnetic blend of tropical and chill House, by producers Läzro and Travis Gibb.
Läzro (Lazaro Rodriguez) and Travis Gibb are a Miami based production duo with a destiny waiting to unfold. Super rich family history & A-list mentors have shaped their music and vision for what’s next. Laz, the son of a Cuban immigrant musician got his start as a studio tech for Desmond Child & internships at some of the area’s top studios – including ‘Middle Ear Studios‘ owned by world famous Bee Gees, leading to his relationship with Travis.
Growing up watching his father Barry Gibb from the legendary Bee Gees, it was only natural for Travis to follow suit & he was then further inspired by a number of leading dance acts of the 90’s. Following graduating from Full Sale Music School in Orlando, Florida, in the recording studio is where Travis feels most comfortable & his new collaboration with Läzro & Kyra B on ‘Take Me Home’ is testament to just that.
Under the banner of brand new Global Heist Recordings, worldwide support awaits – stay tuned
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Barry Gibb song for Bonnie Tyler
Bee Gees Singer Barry Gibb Has Written a Song for Bonnie Tyler’s New Album
During her recent concert in Finland on Saturday 7 July 2018, Bonnie Tyler announced that Barry Gibb has written a song for her new album.
She said excitedly that it will be released next year in 2019. The album is being produced by David Mackay.
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During her recent concert in Finland on Saturday 7 July 2018, Bonnie Tyler announced that Barry Gibb has written a song for her new album.
She said excitedly that it will be released next year in 2019. The album is being produced by David Mackay.
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Tuesday, June 26, 2018
Sir Barry Gibb being knighted 26 june 2018
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The musician who was born on the Isle of Man said he hopes his late brothers are proud as he left Buckingham Palace.
Sir Barry, the last surviving member of the chart-topping disco pop band, said: “I just don't think this would of happened to me today without my brothers.
"I think the idea of what we did together was something that we shared our entire lives and we were relentless, it didn't matter if something didn't work out we just kept going.
"They should be here today too and I feel their presence, I always do."
He said there is “no question” he would have loved to have shared this special day with his brothers.
The singer, songwriter and record producer was honoured for his services to music and charity.
Maurice Gibb died from complications following an operation to correct an intestinal blockage in 2003.
Robin Gibb, who had a lengthy battle with cancer, died in 2012.
As the Bee Gees, the brothers were one of the most commercially successful bands of all time, with hits including Massachusetts, Night Fever, Stayin Alive, Jive Talkin, How Deep Is Your Love, Words, Tragedy and You Win Again.
With their tight falsetto harmonies and funky beats, they not only scored a series of hits as a family band but also wrote smash hits for some of the biggest names in showbusiness.
Sir Barry said: “Working with Barbra Streisand and different artists has always been special for me.
“I love to write for people. It is not just thinking, ‘Oh, I will write a song today’ but then when someone you admire asks you to write a song that is special motivation.”
Successes for other stars include the Streisand tracks Guilty and Woman In Love, Chain Reaction by Diana Ross as well as Heartbreaker and All The Love In The World by Dionne Warwick.
Destiny’s Child had a hit with Emotion, while Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton enjoyed success with Islands In The Stream.
Sir Barry said he is still trying to get used to his new title, which he is finding “a bit surreal”.
He added: “It is a high award that your culture can give you and that is something I am enormously proud of.”
On the secret of his family’s success, he said: “I think being relentless had a lot to do with it. When you are a kid and you make up your mind to do something.
“You have got to have failure with a lot of success and I think that is what keeps you grounded.”
Sir Barry was born on the Isle of Man before his family moved to Manchester and he grew up in Australia.
He recalled his family came back to England in 1967 “because we were entranced by The Beatles and we wanted to be a pop group like them”.
Sir Barry said: “You always start off by emulating somebody and that way you can find yourself and be inspired by other artists.”
Musical writer Sir Tim Rice has described Sir Barry as a “songwriter of staggering gifts”.
Sir Barry is still making music and performed at the Glastonbury Festival in 2017.
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Thursday, June 14, 2018
Celebrating John Travolta Day in Brooklyn
BROOKLYN, New York (WABC) --
Brooklyn celebrated John Travolta day at the pizza place made famous in "Saturday Night Fever" on Tuesday.Travolta made Lenny's Pizza (1969 86th Street) famous in the 1977 blockbuster movie in which he played Tony Manero and ordered two slices of pizza on top of each other. He ate it as he walked down the streets of Brooklyn. That iconic scene is so popular even today as people still order a double-decker slice. Lenny's has become a tourist destination.
Hundreds of people turned out for a special ceremony outside Lenny's Pizza, which also named a slice in his honor.
Travolta has a few ties to Brooklyn, also starring in the iconic television program "Welcome Back Kotter" in which he portrayed a Brooklyn High School student, Vinny Barbarino.
Tuesday's event also promoted Travolta's new movie, Gotti, opening in theaters on Friday. Travolta portrays crime boss John Gotti in the film, which was partially shot in Brooklyn.
Sunday, May 20, 2018
Thursday, May 17, 2018
Kelly Lang and her song for Barry Gibb the one standing in the rain
The final song from her album Obsession to hit our list and earn a nomination for the Spirit Awards is “Last One Standing In The Rain.” When you first listen to this song, you may think that it is a song about a bad break-up or the loss of a loved one. However, Kelly assures us that it is a song about her friend Barry Gibb and being the last of the Bee Gees left standing on stage.
“I wrote that song about Barry Gibb. I was walking around my pool one day and I had back surgery and I was really down, really blue. I was thinking about him—he had just lost his last brother and he was telling me how sad he was. It’s so weird for him going on stage being the last man, the last man standing. He was so sad, so depressed about it.” solemnly shares Kelly. “I was able to travel with him to Australia to see where his brothers and him grew up, played on the golden shore together, dreamt together, they sang together… he can hear his brothers still in his ears when he is on stage. So that song is all about Barry Gibb and the loss of all his brothers.”
If you listen closely you will here some of the Bee Gee lyrics within the song. When she shared the song with Barry, he was honored but requested that she change the words ‘man’ to ‘one.’
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Wednesday, May 16, 2018
Nick Lowe Covers Bee Gees-Penned Dionne Warwick Track 'Heartbreaker': Premiere
With his own sense of sophisticated pop craft, it's no surprise Nick Lowe might be something of a Bee Gees or Dionne Warwick fan. Those both translate into his version of Warwick's 1982 Bee Gees-written (and produced) hit "Heartbreaker," which is part of the new Tokyo Bay/Crying Inside EP with Los Straitjackets that Lowe releases June 15 via Yep Roc Records.
Lowe tells Billboard the easygoing, laid-back version of the song is "a soundcheck tune...something we might play before the show. I always thought it was a really, really great song, and like a lot of Bee Gees songs it really has got sort of hidden depth. I'm a great fan of the Bee Gees; You don't necessarily know what they're singing about a lot of the time, but they just make this fantastic sound and a lot of their songs are really soulful when you strip them all back. And that song 'Heartbreaker' I always thought was a really soulful song.
"I just started doing it in the soundchecks and then the Straitjackets liked it. They said, 'Let's have a go at doing that' and it really turned out well, I thought
The four-song EP comes in front of Lowe's latest tour with Los Straitjackets -- starting June 22 in Jersey City, NJ -- and represents his first release of new material in five years. "I'd rather gone off the idea of making any more records," Lowe says, partially because of the marketplace and also because touring had become so busy and lucrative recently. Lowe also felt that, "I don't want to be one of those guys who just churns out stuff that's not got much juice in it, one of those old timers. So I wasn't exactly beating a path to the nearest recording studio to inflict my latest stuff on the public. There's such a lot of time and expense in making a record, and I've made so many of them, why would I put myself through them any longer?" Making an EP, however, does return Lowe to the earliest days of his career in England, when "that was a perfectly legitimate thing to do, to just put out an EP." But, he adds, with a laugh, "I don’t know if anyone buys EPs nowadays -- or albums anymore, right? It seems like sort of a strange thing to do, but everything about the marketing of records nowadays is a complete mystery to me."
The EP does allow him to continue his relationship with Los Straitjackets, which began three and a half years ago with his tour to support his 2013 holiday album Quality Street. "They're an extremely good group, very, very good musicians, and also they're extremely agreeable people to tour with," Lowe says of the masked quartet, which shares the same manager and during the spring of 2017 released the Lowe tribute album What's So Funny About Peace, Love and Los Straitjackets.
"The Christmas show was sort of an excuse for us to go out and do a few gigs. It's not very difficult to replace the Christmas songs with some unseasonable material, and it's great to be able to do tunes that I don't do with anybody else nowadays, and that don't really work when I do my solo shows. It's a pretty good rock 'n' roll show we've got." And even better news is that the Lowe-Los Straitjackets association may result in more new music sooner rather than later. "We're doing another session in June, when I come back to the United States," Lowe says. "So we'll record a couple of new songs and maybe another soundcheck favorite, who knows? I feel like with these guys anything is possible."
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Lowe tells Billboard the easygoing, laid-back version of the song is "a soundcheck tune...something we might play before the show. I always thought it was a really, really great song, and like a lot of Bee Gees songs it really has got sort of hidden depth. I'm a great fan of the Bee Gees; You don't necessarily know what they're singing about a lot of the time, but they just make this fantastic sound and a lot of their songs are really soulful when you strip them all back. And that song 'Heartbreaker' I always thought was a really soulful song.
"I just started doing it in the soundchecks and then the Straitjackets liked it. They said, 'Let's have a go at doing that' and it really turned out well, I thought
The four-song EP comes in front of Lowe's latest tour with Los Straitjackets -- starting June 22 in Jersey City, NJ -- and represents his first release of new material in five years. "I'd rather gone off the idea of making any more records," Lowe says, partially because of the marketplace and also because touring had become so busy and lucrative recently. Lowe also felt that, "I don't want to be one of those guys who just churns out stuff that's not got much juice in it, one of those old timers. So I wasn't exactly beating a path to the nearest recording studio to inflict my latest stuff on the public. There's such a lot of time and expense in making a record, and I've made so many of them, why would I put myself through them any longer?" Making an EP, however, does return Lowe to the earliest days of his career in England, when "that was a perfectly legitimate thing to do, to just put out an EP." But, he adds, with a laugh, "I don’t know if anyone buys EPs nowadays -- or albums anymore, right? It seems like sort of a strange thing to do, but everything about the marketing of records nowadays is a complete mystery to me."
The EP does allow him to continue his relationship with Los Straitjackets, which began three and a half years ago with his tour to support his 2013 holiday album Quality Street. "They're an extremely good group, very, very good musicians, and also they're extremely agreeable people to tour with," Lowe says of the masked quartet, which shares the same manager and during the spring of 2017 released the Lowe tribute album What's So Funny About Peace, Love and Los Straitjackets.
"The Christmas show was sort of an excuse for us to go out and do a few gigs. It's not very difficult to replace the Christmas songs with some unseasonable material, and it's great to be able to do tunes that I don't do with anybody else nowadays, and that don't really work when I do my solo shows. It's a pretty good rock 'n' roll show we've got." And even better news is that the Lowe-Los Straitjackets association may result in more new music sooner rather than later. "We're doing another session in June, when I come back to the United States," Lowe says. "So we'll record a couple of new songs and maybe another soundcheck favorite, who knows? I feel like with these guys anything is possible."
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Friday, May 11, 2018
BEE GEES ABOUT ONE FOR ALL TOUR AND DEATH OF ANDY 1989
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Saturday, April 21, 2018
Barry Gibb reveals his long-lost Grease demo for film's 40th anniversary
Writing a hit song can take weeks, months, even years. But sometimes, it turns out, it’s possible to crank ‘em out in a couple of hours. Which is exactly what happened when Barry Gibb was asked to write the title track for 1978’s original high-school musical, Grease.
On the eve of a new 40th anniversary edition of the film on 4k Ultra HD, Blu-ray, DVD, and digital, which is stuffed with more extras than the background of a Rydell High song-and-dance number, we not only spoke to Gibb about recording his still-infectious hit single “Grease” (sung by Frankie Valli in the film), but also landed an exclusive listen to the eldest Bee Gee’s long-lost demo tape of the song. You can listen to it on:
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When we spoke with the 71-year-old Gibb, he was at a disadvantage. He still hadn’t heard the demo in the four decades since he recorded it. But his memory of how the song came about was so clear, he didn’t have to. “I remember doing it,” he says. “I just don’t remember ever hearing it afterwards. I just remember that it all happened in one afternoon.”
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: What do you remember of actually writing the song “Grease”?
BARRY GIBB: I was babysitting and my wife was out. And [Bee Gees manager and Grease producer] Robert Stigwood called up and said. “I have two wonderful new songs by John Farrar called ‘Hopelessly Devoted to You’ and ‘You’re the One that I Want.’ But what we don’t have is a song for the title of the film. Could you come up with a song called ‘Grease’?” I said, “How do you write a song called ‘Grease’? I don’t understand what direction I would take to do that.” And Robert said, “Just Grease duh-duh-duh-duh-duh, Grease duh-duh-duh-duh-duh.” So he wasn’t very helpful. But I understood that they really wanted something that was positive and sunny. It really all happened in that afternoon. I walked on the dock for a bit….
Where was this?Here in Miami, on Biscayne Bay. And so I went out on the dock and walked around thinking, Well, Grease is symbolic of that period with the Greasers and all that. And it’s really my period. My favorite time is the late ‘50s. And so it suddenly occurred to me to write about Grease as a word because it represented a time. So Grease became the word.
So how long did it take to get the lyrics down on paper?
About two hours. Because if I get an idea and my head says to me, “This is good, do it!” then I’ll just go with it. It began to make sense and it just fell into place. I can’t really explain it.
If it only came that easy all the time….It doesn’t. All songs are a little bit different. Some things come all at once — and usually in the middle of the night. Dreams, for me, give me songs. And so I have to then shape the thought. But if the thought in my head says, “You have to do this, this is good”, then I’ll go to work. But my head very often says, “Don’t do this!”
This demo was recently found after four decades. Do you know where it had been all this time?No, I don’t. Universal/Capitol has all of our demos and original recordings in house and I just don’t know what’s in there. They didn’t tell me how they found it.
Can you believe that it’s been 40 years?
Of course, I can. Don’t forget we just went through this same emotion with Saturday Night Fever.
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On the eve of a new 40th anniversary edition of the film on 4k Ultra HD, Blu-ray, DVD, and digital, which is stuffed with more extras than the background of a Rydell High song-and-dance number, we not only spoke to Gibb about recording his still-infectious hit single “Grease” (sung by Frankie Valli in the film), but also landed an exclusive listen to the eldest Bee Gee’s long-lost demo tape of the song. You can listen to it on:
http://ew.com/movies/2018/04/20/barry-gibb-grease-demo-40th-anniversary-blu-ray/
When we spoke with the 71-year-old Gibb, he was at a disadvantage. He still hadn’t heard the demo in the four decades since he recorded it. But his memory of how the song came about was so clear, he didn’t have to. “I remember doing it,” he says. “I just don’t remember ever hearing it afterwards. I just remember that it all happened in one afternoon.”
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: What do you remember of actually writing the song “Grease”?
BARRY GIBB: I was babysitting and my wife was out. And [Bee Gees manager and Grease producer] Robert Stigwood called up and said. “I have two wonderful new songs by John Farrar called ‘Hopelessly Devoted to You’ and ‘You’re the One that I Want.’ But what we don’t have is a song for the title of the film. Could you come up with a song called ‘Grease’?” I said, “How do you write a song called ‘Grease’? I don’t understand what direction I would take to do that.” And Robert said, “Just Grease duh-duh-duh-duh-duh, Grease duh-duh-duh-duh-duh.” So he wasn’t very helpful. But I understood that they really wanted something that was positive and sunny. It really all happened in that afternoon. I walked on the dock for a bit….
Where was this?Here in Miami, on Biscayne Bay. And so I went out on the dock and walked around thinking, Well, Grease is symbolic of that period with the Greasers and all that. And it’s really my period. My favorite time is the late ‘50s. And so it suddenly occurred to me to write about Grease as a word because it represented a time. So Grease became the word.
So how long did it take to get the lyrics down on paper?
About two hours. Because if I get an idea and my head says to me, “This is good, do it!” then I’ll just go with it. It began to make sense and it just fell into place. I can’t really explain it.
If it only came that easy all the time….It doesn’t. All songs are a little bit different. Some things come all at once — and usually in the middle of the night. Dreams, for me, give me songs. And so I have to then shape the thought. But if the thought in my head says, “You have to do this, this is good”, then I’ll go to work. But my head very often says, “Don’t do this!”
This demo was recently found after four decades. Do you know where it had been all this time?No, I don’t. Universal/Capitol has all of our demos and original recordings in house and I just don’t know what’s in there. They didn’t tell me how they found it.
Can you believe that it’s been 40 years?
Of course, I can. Don’t forget we just went through this same emotion with Saturday Night Fever.
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Friday, March 23, 2018
Hear Kacey Musgraves' Bee Gees-Inspired New Song, 'High Horse'
Kacey Musgraves will release her fourth studio album, Golden Hour, on March 30, and she's giving fans another early listen with a new song called "High Horse." This funky jam is a departure from the traditional sound most country fans expect from the singer, featuring infectious beats that bring the Bee Gees to mine.
Zane Lowe of Beats 1 on Apple Music spoke with the singer about the fun jam, which Musgraves admits "was a freaking blast" to write and record.
"I had this title for a while," she says. "We all know that character that is just a little high of themselves. They're just a little bit arrogant. I had this title sitting around for a long time and I have my own ideas about who it's about. Everyone has that character in their life and then I got to write it and oh my gosh, it is the most fun ever."
Musgraves says she was "on a huge Bee Gees kick" when she was making the album and she was intrigued by the idea of a world where the Bee Gees meets country music. She co-wrote "High Horse" with Trent Dabbs and Thomas Schleiter.
"These days I only see music really as falling into two two genres, good or bad. You won't find someone on this earth that loves country music more than me but that also doesn't define all my musical tastes," she adds. "I was inspired by a thought of a world where all these ideas could come together musically and still translate as good songs if I sat down and played them on my guitar."
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Friday, March 16, 2018
New Compilation Pop Career Of Andy Gibb
The spectacularly successful career of the late Andy Gibb is commemorated on the new CD and digital collection The Very Best Of Andy Gibb, to be released on 13 April by Capitol/UMe. From 9 March, pre-orders of the digital album will include instant download and streaming access to his duet version of Gerry Goffin and Carole King’s ‘Will You Love Me Tomorrow,’ with seasoned soul songstress P.P. Arnold.
The 15-track collection includes all three of his US No. 1 singles, ‘I Just Want To Be Your Everything,’ ‘Shadow Dancing’ and ‘(Love Is) Thicker Than Water.’ All three of those chart-toppers were achieved during a tumultuous 11-month period in 1977 and ’78, in which he was part of the unprecedented adulation afforded Gibb and his Bee Gee brothers Barry, Maurice and Robin.
The three further US top ten hits that followed that sequence, ‘An Everlasting Love,’ ‘(Our Love) Don’t Throw It All Away’ and ‘Desire,’ which featured the Bee Gees, are also on the compilation. It also features Andy’s near-top ten singles from 1980, ‘I Can’t Help It,’ featuring Olivia Newton-John, and ‘Time Is Time.’
All but two of the tracks on the retrospective are taken from Gibb’s three big-selling studio albums, 1977’s Flowing Rivers, 1978’s Shadow Dancing — both of which were certified platinum — and 1980’s After Dark, which went gold. The exceptions are ‘Time Is Time’ and the duet with Arnold, which were part of his previous hits release, 1980’s Andy Gibb’s Greatest Hits.
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Monday, March 5, 2018
Peta Gibb remembering her dad Andy
Peta Gibb Weber:
"I choose to remember my father today, March 5, on what should have been his 60th birthday. I wish he was here to celebrate with us and to be the dad to me, the husband to my mother, the pop to his grandchildren and the mate to my husband that we have all needed but he was never given the chance to be.
I won't be commenting further on the 10th. I prefer not to commemorate the events of 30 years ago, events that never should have happened in the first place, took away a young life with so much unfulfilled potential far too soon and caused so much unnecessary pain. What happened in March 1988 remains etched clearly in my mind forever but I have no further wish to talk about it publicly. Just please know that I am now absolutely at peace with how things turned out but I will never forget.
So, happy birthday to my father in heaven. For me personally, this time is not a time for celebration. It is about making sure what happened to Andy Gibb (and too, too many others like him) stops happening. History continues to repeat itself and, with this in mind, if you possibly can, please consider a practical tribute to my father's memory via a contribution to @musicsupport_uk or @musicares. These organisations provide invaluable and tireless support to musicians and others in the music industry struggling with mental illness and addiction.
And finally - let the music live on. For that is all we really have left. I have more news about that coming very, very soon.
Saturday, March 3, 2018
Sunday, February 18, 2018
Monday, February 12, 2018
Spencer Gibb "Let's Start Over" Indiegogo Hidden Perks Announcement!
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Saturday, February 10, 2018
Andy Gibb on Dean Martin Christmas Special 1980 (entire show)
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Sunday, February 4, 2018
Spencer Gibb "Let's Start Over" Indiegogo FAQs!
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Here are hopefully all of your questions answered regarding the Indiegogo "Let's Start Over" Vinyl Campaign! Paying, ordering, shipping and others!! Also, enjoy the outtakes at the end!!:)
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Tuesday, January 30, 2018
Sunday, January 14, 2018
Robin Gibb and Leslie Philips in conversation Living the Life
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This episode of Living the Dream brings together the … quintessentially English, comedic and character actor, Leslie Phillips with Robin Gibb, the music phenomenon – singer, songwriter and part of the one of the most successful bands in history, the Bee Gees. Leslie Phillips – is the legendary British actor with an incomparable 75 years of performing.
During his career Leslie has acted, directed and produced for the stage, television and film. Although he is still well known and well loved for his performances in some of the best-loved comedies of all time including the ‘Carry On’ films and ‘Doctor’ series, he has acted in a whole range of disciplines from playing Falstaff at the RSC to memorably bringing to life the Sorting Hat in the Harry Potter franchise. He has become a Hollywood heavyweight with films such as Venus, and Empire of the Sun. Although still labelled for portraying the lovable British cad epitomised by his catchphrases ‘Hello’ and ‘Ding Dong’ Leslie has suffered tragedies in his personal life. His first wife Penelope Bartley died in a fire, and more recently he had to deal with the death of his alcoholic wife, ex Bond Girl, Angela Scoular in tragic circumstances.
Robin Gibb – makes up one third of one of the most successful groups of all time – the Bee Gees. Known across the world for their distinctive sound and harmonies, they became living legends with the release of their soundtrack to ‘Saturday Night Fever.’ Along with his brothers the group have sold upwards of 100 million albums, cementing their status in pop history. A phenomenal talent, Robin has contributed to writing songs for amongst others – Diana Ross, Beyonce, Dolly Parton and Barbara Streisand.
He continues to embrace his musical talents and is currently writing the score for the ‘Titanic’ requiem which is being recorded by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra to commemorate the 100 year anniversary of the sinking of the titular ship.
During the filming of Living the Dream Robin’s passion for the old English comedies enlivens the pair and before long he and Leslie are enjoying an amazingly intimate and revealing conversation. Watch out for Leslie and Robin talking during the show about: •How Leslie, a young lad from the East End, is sent to the Italia Conti school, to try and make money for his mother and siblings after the tragic loss of his father. •How Robin and the rest of the Bee Gees were made to perform at gunpoint in Jakata, in a thunderstorm, risking being struck by lightning as opposed to being shot by the regime. •How Leslie feels the film he starred in with Michael Caine was ‘slaughtered’ in post production to become unrecognisable to what he had signed up for.
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This episode of Living the Dream brings together the … quintessentially English, comedic and character actor, Leslie Phillips with Robin Gibb, the music phenomenon – singer, songwriter and part of the one of the most successful bands in history, the Bee Gees. Leslie Phillips – is the legendary British actor with an incomparable 75 years of performing.
During his career Leslie has acted, directed and produced for the stage, television and film. Although he is still well known and well loved for his performances in some of the best-loved comedies of all time including the ‘Carry On’ films and ‘Doctor’ series, he has acted in a whole range of disciplines from playing Falstaff at the RSC to memorably bringing to life the Sorting Hat in the Harry Potter franchise. He has become a Hollywood heavyweight with films such as Venus, and Empire of the Sun. Although still labelled for portraying the lovable British cad epitomised by his catchphrases ‘Hello’ and ‘Ding Dong’ Leslie has suffered tragedies in his personal life. His first wife Penelope Bartley died in a fire, and more recently he had to deal with the death of his alcoholic wife, ex Bond Girl, Angela Scoular in tragic circumstances.
Robin Gibb – makes up one third of one of the most successful groups of all time – the Bee Gees. Known across the world for their distinctive sound and harmonies, they became living legends with the release of their soundtrack to ‘Saturday Night Fever.’ Along with his brothers the group have sold upwards of 100 million albums, cementing their status in pop history. A phenomenal talent, Robin has contributed to writing songs for amongst others – Diana Ross, Beyonce, Dolly Parton and Barbara Streisand.
He continues to embrace his musical talents and is currently writing the score for the ‘Titanic’ requiem which is being recorded by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra to commemorate the 100 year anniversary of the sinking of the titular ship.
During the filming of Living the Dream Robin’s passion for the old English comedies enlivens the pair and before long he and Leslie are enjoying an amazingly intimate and revealing conversation. Watch out for Leslie and Robin talking during the show about: •How Leslie, a young lad from the East End, is sent to the Italia Conti school, to try and make money for his mother and siblings after the tragic loss of his father. •How Robin and the rest of the Bee Gees were made to perform at gunpoint in Jakata, in a thunderstorm, risking being struck by lightning as opposed to being shot by the regime. •How Leslie feels the film he starred in with Michael Caine was ‘slaughtered’ in post production to become unrecognisable to what he had signed up for.
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