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Wednesday, October 23, 2019
Monday, October 7, 2019
Barry Manilow about Barry Gibb BBC radio 0ct 6th 2019
Barry marvels at the sheer output of Barry Gibb and the Bee Gees. Literally hundreds of songs! Barry tells the story of the Bee Gees' rise to fame, from their early harmonising as youngsters to their first recording hit ‘Spicks and Specks’. He traces their career through their more sophisticated writing on songs like ‘Massachusetts’, ‘I Started a Joke’ and ‘How Can You Mend A Broken Heart’ to their domination of disco with their most celebrated album ‘Saturday Night Fever’. Barry also discusses how the group survived a mauling by the rock critics and went on to write a succession of smash hits for other artists including Barbra Streisand's ‘Guilty’ and ‘A Woman in Love’, Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton's ‘Islands in the Stream’ and ‘Heartbreaker’ for Dionne Warwick.
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Saturday, October 5, 2019
Moment culte sur TF1 les Bee Gees ambiancent le public de Sacrée Soirée
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Saturday, September 14, 2019
Dan Warner played guitar in Barry Gibb’s band died at 49 on Sept. 4, 2019.
South Florida guitarist Dan Warner wasn’t Latin. But when Latin music superstars like Julio Iglesias, Juanes, Marc Anthony, Ricky Martin and Sebastian Yatra needed a musician with groove — one who was in the pocket in music-speak — there was one fixture on stage with them and in the studio.
Hollywood, Florida-born Daniel Lawrence Warner.
Warner, a Grammy and four-time Latin Grammy award winner who lived in Plantation, died suddenly Wednesday of an apparent heart attack at age 49, according to friends and reports, including USA Today and from Leila Cobo, Billboard magazine’s executive director for content and programming of Latin music.
He died right after doing what he loved to do: playing music.
According to a Facebook post from his friend, Coconut Creek musician Kilmo Doome, the two had just finished jamming in a set at Fat Cats in Fort Lauderdale on Wednesday.
Warner loved playing at the venue after sessions in studios, like North Miami’s Criteria. That’s where he recorded guitar tracks for Julio Iglesias’ 1995 album, “La Carretera,” and, most recently, Marc Anthony’s May release, “Opus.”
“I was privileged to jam with one of the world’s great guitar players last night,” Doome wrote on Thursday afternoon. “We had just finished playing, and were standing at the bar talking about fat groove. His last words were, ‘groove is everything’ before he fell over on me.” When Gibb recorded his 2016 solo album, “In the Now,” at Criteria and performed concerts in support of the project, including their last gig together — Glastonbury in June 2017 — he relied on Warner, along with his son Stephen Gibb, to lay down updated licks on Bee Gees’ “Saturday Night Fever” era classics like “Stayin’ Alive,” “Jive Talkin’” and “Tragedy.”
Arguably, the hardest rocking song in Gibb’s vast catalog, “Blowin’ a Fuse,” from “In the Now,” gets its muscle from the twin guitar and surf riff grooves played by Warner and the younger Gibb.
“We are all devastated by the loss of Dan Warner,” Barry Gibb said on Facebook. “The gentle giant, the brilliant musician, and my friend. I’d like to join his wife, his family, and our gang in paying my respects. Dan wasn’t one of the best, he really was the best! We love you Dan!”
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Sunday, August 25, 2019
Sunday, August 18, 2019
Bee Gees star Robin Gibb's widow writes biography without mentioning his affair
Bee Gees star Robin Gibb's widow writes biography without mentioning his affair (not official confirmed yet)
Robin recorded hours of material for an autobiography on micro cassette tapes before he died, aged 62, in 2012.Now his widow Dwina is using the tapes to write the book for Robin, who had a hit with the Night Fever in 1977.
There will be anecdotes, there will be revelations, after all he had a very tough childhood and he worked with them all.”
Speaking at the launch of TV director Rosemary Reed’s new Sky show, The Power of Women, at London members’ club The Ned, 66-year-old Dwina said: “I’m quarter of the way through.
“I already have an agent. I can’t say what’s on the tapes, as that would spoil it, but it’s going to be good."
But there will be one taboo subject. In his last eight years, Robin had an affair with their housekeeper, Claire Yang, which produced a child, Snow, now aged 11.
Robin left most of his £25.8million estate to Dwina, who was his second wife.
Claire was left a £800,000 house.
Meanwhile it's been reported that the Bee Gees’ lives are set to be turned into a Hollywood film.
Movie bosses including Steven Spielberg and Richard Curtis have already tried and failed to make a biopic about the three brothers Barry, Robin and Maurice Gibb.
But Dwina said: “Our film is in the bag. We want to get the right writers. We are in discussions.
"We have to get agreements from the three families – Barry, Yvonne (Maurice’s widow) and myself. It’ll be interesting.”
The film is expected to chart their rise from child performers in the 1950s, to a Beatles-inspired pop trio in the 1960s and disco kings in the 1970s.
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