Message Spencer Gibb
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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Sunday, December 23, 2018
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:
https://megaphone.link/PPY8511660408
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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***
(source GSI )
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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***
(source GSI )
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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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