24 luglio 2009: grande sorpresa al "Bee Gees Variety Club Silver Heart Awards", : un'esibizione a sorpresa di Barry e Robin Gibb, che hanno cantato dal vivo ALCUNE canzoni. Il live dei due Gibb non era previsto nel programma ufficiale della serata di beneficienza, nel corso del quale i Bee Gees sono stati premiati con il "Silver Heart", la più importante onorificienza del circuito benefico "Variety Club". Alla serata hanno preso parte anche la vedova di Maurice ed il figlio Adam, e la madre dei Gibb, Barbara. Nel corso della serata Ronan Keating ha cantato "Words" ed altri artisti hanno cantato altre canzoni dei Gibb. A detta dei presenti l'esibizione dei Gibb è stata ottima. "New York Mining Disaster", "Massachussets", "To love somebody", "Words" ,"You should be dancing" ed "How can you mend a broken heart" le canzoni che componevano il set dell'esibizione a sorpresa dei Gibb, ammirata da circa 600 persone che hanno preso parte all'evento benefico. (Foto di Stuart Moser)
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Barry & Robin: surprise live appearance in Manchester
Barry and Robin Gibb sang five songs at the "Bee Gees Variety Club Silver Heart Awards", in a surprise live show. The songs were: "New York Mining Disaster", "Massachussets", "To love somebody", "Words" , "You should be dancing" and "How can you mend a broken heart" . (Picture by Stuart Moser)
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Stampa“The Heart Knows” è il titolo della canzone che Barry Gibb ha inciso insieme ad Olivia Newton John. Il duetto sarà inserito nell'album " THE GREAT WALK TO BEIJING - A CELEBRATION IN SONG", Olivia Newton-John & Friends."
La canzone è stata scritta da Barry, insieme ai figli Ashley e Steven, nell'agosto del 2007
Barry ed Olivia, da sempre grandi amici, hanno duettato per la prima volta nel 1984 in "Face to face", inserita nell'album di Barry , "Now voyager".
Le collaborazioni fra Olivia Newton-John e i fratelli Gibb sono molteplici.
La storia inizia nel lontano 1976 quando Olivia incide una cover di "Come on over" (canzone dei Bee Gees inserita in "Main course") per inserirla nel suo omonimo album. La canzone riscuote un ottimo successo nelle classifiche country USA.
In seguito, nel 1980, Olivia canterà con Andy Gibb le canzoni "I can't help it" (#12 in USA) e "Rest your love on me". Le due canzoni sono inserite nell'album "After dark" di Andy Gibb.
Nel 1981 incide la splendida "Carried Away" scritta da Barry, e la include nel suo album di maggiore successo, "Physical".
Il nuovo cd di Olivia, di cui si prevede la pubblicazione nelle prossime settimane, accompagna il progetto di beneficienza "The great walk to Behijng", che raccoglierà fondi per il centro di ricerca contro il cancro creato da Olivia Newton-John nel 2003.
Il progetto consiste in una marcia simbolica di 256 km sulla famosa grande Muraglia Cinese che Olivia intraprenderà in 21 giorni, a partire dal prossimo 7 aprile, insieme ad altre celebrità del mondo dello spettacolo (musica, tv, cinema e teatro), intellettuali, artisti e sportivi.
I "camminatori" sono circa 200, e tra gli altri ci sono Cliff Richard, Danni Minogue e la famosa conduttrice statunitense Joan Rivers.
Nell'album correlato al progetto (ed i cui introiti saranno interamente destinati appunto all "Olivia Newton-John Cancer Centre"), troviamo a duettare con Olivia, tra gli altri, oltre al già citato Barry Gibb, artisti come Cliff Richard, Richard Marx, John Farrar, Delta Goodrem , Jann Arden e Keith Urban.
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Olivia Newton John and Barry Gibb duet for "The great walk to Behijng"
"The heart knows" is the title of the song recorded by Barry Gibb and Olivia Newton-John, to be included in the forthcoming album THE GREAT WALK TO BEIJING - A CELEBRATION IN SONG", Olivia Newton-John & Friends."
The song was written by Barry, together with his sons Ashley and Steven, in august 2007.
The album is due in the next week and all the sale profits will be donated to the "Olivia Newton-John Cancer Centre", founded in 2003 by Olivia.
The album will coincide with the walk on the famous "Great Wall of China", that will take 21 days (beginning on 7 april) and cover 228 kilometres. Olivia and many other celebrities (music, tv, arts, culture and sports) will be the walkers. A million steps symbolises the journey cancer patients take in their fight against cancer.
Barry and Olivia has always been great friends, their fist duet was in 1984 in "Face to face", included in album of Barry, "Now voyager".
The collaborations between Olivia Newton-John and brothers Gibb are manifold.
The story begins way back in 1976 when Olivia records a cover of "Come on over" (song originally included in the Bee Gees' album "Main course") to insert it in his homonymous album. The song was an excellent success in country chatrs in USA.
Then, in 1980, Olivia with Andy Gibb sing the songs "I can not help it" (# 12 in USA) and "Rest your love on me." Both songs are included on the album "After dark" by Andy Gibb.
In 1981 Olivia records "Carried Away" written by Barry, and includes it in his most successful album, "Physical."
"The great walk..." album features duets of Olivia with (among others) Barry Gibb, Cliff Richard, Richard Marx, John Farrar, Delta Goodrem , Jann Arden e Keith Urban
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La canzone verrà inserita in un disco che raccoglie canzoni cantate da figli di celebri artisti in dedica a questi ultimi. Il disco si intitola "A Song For My Father" ed include, tra gli altri, canzoni cantate dai figli di Carlos Santana, Ricky Nelson, Leonard Cohen e Bob Marley.
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In this moving anthology, the musically gifted sons and daughters of music's biggest names put a unique and intimate spin on familiar material made famous by their legendary fathers, connecting great songs between two generations. The artists have drawn on the rich classic legacies of their fathers, choosing to perform songs that have a particular personal meaning for each of them. You will gain unique insight into the music and the people who created it as Jen Chapin, Ben Taylor, Carnie and Wendy Wilson, Chynna Phillips, Louise Goffin, A.J. Croce and other talented offspring dig deep to deliver A SONG FOR MY FATHER.
The gifted children of some of music's most legendary artists pay emotional tribute to their fathers on this unique compilation created especially for Target.
Among those featured: Jen Chapin (daughter of Harry Chapin singing the classic "Cat's In the Cradle"); chart-rocking twins Nelson (who salute their dad, roots-pop icon Ricky Nelson); Carnie and Wendy Wilson (daughters of Brian Wilson and two-thirds of the multi-platinum group Wilson Phillips); fellow Wilson Phillips member Chynna Phillips (daughter of Mamas and the Papas founder Papa John Phillips); Spencer Gibb (son of the Bee Gees' Robin); A.J. Croce (son of Jim); Louise Goffin (daughter of influential songwriting team Carole King and Gerry Goffin); Sarah Lee Guthrie (scion of '60s folk-rocker Arlo); Salvador Santana (son of Carlos); Devon Allman (son of Gregg); Adam Cohen (son of Leonard); and Ky-Mani Marley (son of Bob).
Il "Times" e l' "Independent" pubblicano in questi giorni due interessanti interviste di Robin Gibb, in questi giorni più che mai attivo.
L'intervista del Times rivela tra l'altro che il primo ministro inglese Gordon Brown è un fan dei Bee Gees, mentre nell'intervista all'Independent Robin dichiara con forza di pretendere più rispetto per i Bee Gees e per le altre grandi star che contribuito alla grandezza della musica pop e rock inglese nel mondo. Interessante anche il commento (che sottoscrive le affermazioni di Robin) contenuto in un articolo dell'Indipendent , successivo all'intervista.
Inoltre in questi giorni Robin ha registrato una video intervista come testimonial di una campagna lanciata dal governo inglese per incoraggiare i padri separati a restare sempre vicini ai figli. Il sito web del "Times" riporta la sintesi e la trascrizione della video-intervista, che sarà disponibile sul sito http://www.dads-space.com/ a partire dalla fine di maggio.
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Gordon Brown’s secret to stayin’ alive - listen to the Bee Gees
How is the Prime Minister surviving a grim period in office? By listening to the Bee Gees every day, the ever so well connected Robin Gibb reveals
Robin Gibb counts prime ministers past and present among his friends
Will Hodgkinson, (The Times 16-05-20089
Not everyone hates Gordon Brown. “He listens to our music every day,” says his friend, the Bee Gee Robin Gibb. “Gordon likes our music and I like Gordon. I was with him at a dinner recently” – Gibb says this with the air of a man for whom dining with the Prime Minister is all in a day’s work – “and he was asking: who is creating the big song catalogues of today? The answer is no one. Record companies today don’t see the need for creating big catalogues because that involves investing in careers, which they are no longer doing. But great songs are the backbone of music. They transcend the artist and the record and become part of the culture.”
It is not hard to see why Gibb is passionate about the craft of the pop song. The Bee Gees, the band he formed in his teens with his late twin Maurice and their elder brother Barry, are one of the most successful acts of all time. A fair chunk of the world’s population can sing along to Tragedy, Jive Talking and Stayin’ Alive.
The Bee Gees recently became the first band to be made fellows of the British Academy of Composers and Songwriters, for which the flagship event is the Ivor Novello Awards next Thursday. Since the ceremony is all about celebrating the art of the song, Gibb is one of its most vocal supporters.
“The Ivor Novellos [are] the beacon of the songwriting establishment in Britain,” says Gibb, a remarkably thin man with a gentle if slightly cadaverous air about him. “I come from an era when artists wrote their own songs, when people like Paul McCartney and Elton John created a huge body of work. We are in real danger of losing that tradition.”
Gibb lives in a 1,000-year-old former monastery in Oxfordshire with grounds equivalent to a reasonably proportioned London park. And he counts prime ministers past and present among his friends. “Tony Blair is a great friend,” Gibb says of our former leader, who took a holiday at Gibb’s Miami house in 2007. “I respect him tremendously. In this business you have friends from all backgrounds, including prime ministers and princes, and we get on like a house on fire.”
Brown likes the Bee Gees music, Gibb says, “because it talks about human relationships and experience, rather than specific events, and reaches out across the decades.” Brown has told Gibb: “Your music is absolutely timeless.”
Gibb is in fine form, talking rapidly in a Mancunian twang. Interviews have suggested that he feels the Bee Gees are not taken as seriously as they should be – there was the incident in 1998 when all three stormed off the set of Clive Anderson’s television show after the presenter made a joke about their once being called Les Tosseurs – but if this is still the case, he’s not showing it.
“We’re not just performers but also songwriters, which is the important thing,” he says. “I love Mozart because of his emphasis on melody, but in his time he wasn’t taken seriously at all. Now nobody listens to Mozart and says, ‘That’s so 1780s’. What you are left with is the music.”
“The music” has been Gibb’s saviour. He grew up in a poor family in Manchester until he was nine, when the family moved to Australia. The Bee Gees formed soon after, inspired by the broad variety of music they heard on Australian radio. “We didn’t have a pot to piss in when we were growing up – my dad couldn’t hold down a job – but we didn’t feel we were missing out because we had a lot of fun writing songs. We would hear our favourite bands on the radio and then try and write in their style, pretending that we were coming up with their next hit. We never thought about fame or anything like that.”
Does it bother him that the pop song is frequently dismissed as teenage trash? “That’s just an attitude and it doesn’t impact on the quality of the music,” he replies. “Writing a simple melody that people remember and that can be interpreted in different styles is one of the hardest things to do. Look at Islands in the Stream. We wrote that as an R&B tune but Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers turned it into pure country. A lot of classical composers worked in the same way. It’s rumoured that Beethoven sat in Bavarian taverns and stole melodies from travelling folk singers, so concepts of what is high or low art are irrelevant.”
The Bee Gees were writing songs at a farmhouse in France in 1976 when their manager, Robert Stigwood, approached them to provide music for an adaptation of a short story by Nik Cohn called Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night. “We weren’t at all sure about it,” Gibb says. “It’s a dark film about what was really going on in New York at the time, and it has gang rape, suicide . . . Robert Stigwood came over to listen to our new songs while crickets chirped and cows mooed in the background, and he talked about this thing called disco we had never heard of, and between us we came up with this marriage of film and music that eclipsed everything. It was a low-budget film with no marketing at all and yet it captured imaginations.”
At the height of their powers the Bee Gees couldn’t help but write smash hits. “We wrote Tragedy and How Can You Mend a Broken Heart? in one afternoon at our house in Addison Road in Kensington. Both went to No 1, so that wasn’t a bad afternoon’s work,” he says. “We would sit around with a tape recorder and a keyboard and bash out ideas, and I think it worked because we had fun. If you think too hard about what you want from a situation it never works. The secret is to enjoy it.”
Since Maurice died in 2003 a return to that golden age of fraternal hitmaking is impossible. But Robin and Barry are in talks about writing a musical based on their back catalogue, and there are always mainstream pop stars ready to look to a Gibb brothers composition for material – Barbra Streisand, Diana Ross and Destiny’s Child are a few that have already done so.
Gibb’s main concern for the future is that the songwriting culture is in danger of dying out. “Programmes like The X Factor turn the song into a vehicle for celebrity rather than the other way round,” he says. “Our whole lives have been made up of projects that went into creating a catalogue of songs that the world has embraced. I just wish that the world today [was] more like the world we started out in.”
"Jive talkin': Why Robin Gibb wants more respect for the Bee Gees " - Tim Walker meets a famously prickly musician (The Indipendent, 12-5-2008)
Gibb says the Bee Gees should be celebrated for what they've achieved
Interviewing a Bee Gee can be a tricky business. There was the notorious incident on Clive Anderson's talk show when all three brothers Gibb strode off after tiring of their host's wisecracks. And there was the time Robin Gibb, invited on to Radio 4's Front Row to discuss his last solo album with the probing but hardly combative Mark Lawson, peeled off his mic in mid-conversation.
The Gibbs would have made good guests for Graham Norton, but the comedian scuppered that prospect by making a tasteless joke about the death of Robin's twin brother Maurice in 2003. At the time, Robin, perhaps understandably, expressed a wish to rip the presenter's head off.
It's no surprise, then, when our first appointment, due to take place at the star's converted monastery in Oxfordshire, is broken. A second meeting is cancelled, too. Third time lucky: we meet at a private members' club in Cavendish Square in London.
In March, Gibb, 58, was made President of the Heritage Foundation. The organisation, he explains, is devoted to "the recognition of achievement by people across the spectrum of British cultural life", with activities including tribute events, concerts and the unveiling of blue plaques.
Now, Gibb is heading the foundation's Bomber Command campaign. "It's 63 years since the end of the Second World War," he says. "We want the 56,000 guys who lost their lives protecting the freedoms of all of Europe to be honoured with a statue in the centre of London."
Gibb is bothered by Britons' lack of pride in their history. "We whinge about our past, but we're a greatly admired culture. We're the country that produced Shakespeare, for Christ's sake, the Brontës, Winston Churchill."
His home in Oxfordshire is "a microcosm of British history. It's 1,000 years old – older than Westminster Abbey. It survived the dissolution, and during the Civil War it was used by both Royalists and Parliamentarians. In the Second World War, the American army had a base there."
Gibb and his twin Maurice were born on the Isle of Man in December 1949; Barry, the other surviving sibling, was three years their senior. The trio were brought up in relative poverty in Manchester until 1958, when their youngest brother Andy was born, and the family relocated to Australia, where the Bee Gees first found fame.
"As a teenager growing up in Australia," Gibb says, "I realised that the Australians value British history more than the British do. Tony Blair spent a few years growing up in Adelaide and I had the same conversation with him."
Blair, "a good friend", holidayed at Gibb's mansion in Florida last year, sending the tabloids into a tizz. In 1992, Gibb's wife Dwina had been inaugurated as patroness of the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids, a British neo-druidic order. She and Gibb were also candid about the openness of their marriage, a mistake he learnt from. "I don't understand why the press went crazy over that," he says. "They made very unnecessary jibes at my wife. It was a personal attack on her."
Unnecessary jibes are what have riled the band in past interviews: Anderson making the obvious joke about their former moniker, "Les Tosseurs", and Lawson asking Gibb how he felt about the lack of respect afforded the band. The Bee Gees are often treated without seriousness, mocked for the big hair, dismissed as men of the Seventies.
"Nobody ever says, 'Mozart? That's so 1780s!' I think we should see people for what they've achieved. Mozart was a womaniser and a drunk, but we evaluate him on his works," Gibb says. "We've got one of the biggest catalogues in the world. There are songs we wrote in 1968 that people are still singing. Ronan Keating did 'Words', Destiny's Child did 'Emotion'. There's very few artists with that kind of history."
The Bee Gees' record sales top 220 million. The only people who have outsold them are Elvis, The Beatles, Michael Jackson and Garth Brooks. Their compositions have shifted more units than The Rolling Stones, Abba, Elton John or U2. It's unlikely that the Bee Gees will ever be toppled from that top five, even now that the name has – probably – been retired.
Since Maurice's death in January 2003, Barry and Robin have performed together only a handful of times at charity events. The old tales of animosity between the pair are quickly dismissed. "Retiring the name is an emotional decision. We'll decide what we want to do in the next couple of years. We are planning to work together, but what shape or form that will take, it's too early to tell."
The album Gibb is recording for release later this year will, inevitably, be infused with the experience of losing his twin. "In many ways I don't accept that he's gone," he says. "I miss his presence, but it's something I have to live with."
Maurice wasn't the first family member to die unexpectedly. Andy, the youngest Gibb, was a Seventies star in his own right with a string of US solo No 1s. During the Eighties, the prospect of Andy joining the Bee Gees was much discussed, but in March 1988, he died from a heart condition. He was 30. His brothers didn't hide the fact that past abuse of drugs and alcohol had probably contributed. "Losing two brothers at a very early age is one thing, but the fact that both their deaths were unnecessary only compounds it," says Gibb.
Thirty years after its release, Saturday Night Fever is still the best-selling soundtrack of all time. Until then, the Gibbs were best known for their late 1960s ballads, like "Massachusetts". But, says Gibb: "We were dying to get into our soul influences. We wanted to do more than just ballads."
In 1976, they released Children of the World, complete with the No 1 blue-eyed soul single "You Should Be Dancing". They were working on new songs at a farmhouse in France when they got a call from Robert Stigwood. "He called from LA," Gibb recalls, "and said, 'We're making a film with this new guy John Travolta, and we're rehearsing to 'You Should Be Dancing'. Do you have any more songs?'" The rest is history.
"All those songs – 'Night Fever', 'How Deep Is Your Love', 'More Than a Woman', 'If I Can't Have You' – were written in a three-week period at five o'clock in the morning, with the only view from the window being of the cows that needed milking. They were the first to hear 'Stayin' Alive'."
Saturday Night Fever still overshadows the Bee Gees' long career. "Fever was a very important project, but the Gibb brothers were responsible for a wide range of songs," Gibb says, "from 'Islands In the Stream' for Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton, to 'Chain Reaction' for Diana Ross, to 'Heartbreaker' for Dionne Warwick, to 'Woman In Love' for Barbra Streisand. There's only a handful of people with catalogues like ours – the Stones, Elton, Abba and The Beatles.
"I get together with Paul [McCartney] a lot," he continues. "We talk about how we used to record. When we and The Beatles were recording we had no reference points. We just went into the studio and did what came into our minds. Many artists today just go into the studio and try to copy what's in the charts. We saw what was in the charts and said, 'Let's try to do something different.'"
Terence Blacker: These elderly pop stars have a right to feel miffed (The Indipendent, 13-05-2008)
The prejudice has less to do with the music than the way its performer looks, or his views
On the face of it, there are few sillier or unseemly sights in public life than a pop billionaire stroppily complaining that he is not taken seriously enough. Sir Cliff Richard does it every other week. Sir Paul McCartney seems to exude dissatisfaction with his lot. And that high-pitched, perfectly harmonised sound you can hear in the background almost certainly comes from one of the Bee Gees, those perennial chart-toppers in the moaners' hit parade.
A few years ago, they walked when Clive Anderson made a disrespectful, unfunny joke about them. A Mark Lawson interview with one of them, Robin Gibb, on Radio 4 was also terminated abruptly. This week, in The Independent, Gibb complained that it was odd that a group whose records have sold over 220 million and whose compositions exceed the sales of the Rolling Stones, U2, Elton John and Abba (and, he might have added, have suffered their share of misfortune) are still a byword for jokes about hair, teeth and the 1970s. "Nobody ever says, 'Mozart?' That's so 1780s!' I think we should see people for what they have achieved."
He is right to be miffed. By the simplest and most persuasive criteria of artistic success – how much lasting pleasure a work has given – pop musicians like the Gibb brothers deserve respect and gratitude, perhaps even from those who are not particularly fans of their music. The music that they wrote is in the bloodstream of a generation. People grew up, fell in love, married and had children to it. Their songs were taken for granted precisely because they were so ubiquitous.
Music is probably more vulnerable to snobbery than any other art form. For every talented pop composer, there are a thousand Clive Andersons, waiting on the sidelines to say how naff they are. More often than not, the prejudice has less to do with the music than the way its composer or performer looks, or his clothes, hair, views or sexuality. Almost always, the popular success of a musician confirms his lack of coolness to more sophisticated people.
Judgements as to which musicians are culturally acceptable are utterly subjective and, in the long term, meaningless. In the 1950s, when Gerry Goffin and Carole King were writing hits for Bobby Vee and The Drifters, the songs were dismissed as bubble-gum music for kids; a few years later, by some strange alchemical process which only rock journalists will understand, the same songs had become pop classics. A couple of decades later, Abba were seen to be the height of musical vulgarity. Only after they stopped writing and performing was it decided that, in fact, they were rather innovative and ahead of their time.
It must be annoying for someone like Robin Gibb, who has contributed so much to national life, not to mention to the national exchequer, to find that he is still a joke for the usual gang of scoffers. The state now and then attempts to recognise the work of pop musicians by handing out baubles and honours but, as poor old Sir Cliff and Sir Paul have discovered, a knighthood can often merely confirm a person's naffness.
Yet there is something which could be done to strike a significant blow against musical snobbery. Last year the Government announced that a national songbook would be introduced to encourage the nation's children to share and enjoy music. There would be 30 songs which would be the focus of a campaign called "Sing-Up". The project is now in all sorts of trouble. The list was thought to be too short and too prescriptive. Songs from different cultures were introduced in response to accusations of cultural imperialism. When last counted, there were about 600 songs in what has now become the National Song Bank.
Yet the idea was good. If the list had been increased to 50 songs and revised once every two years with the help of teachers and children, it could have engaged schools in understanding what made songs last. Because music has the power to unify, there would surely have been a case for putting the emphasis on songs from the main culture.
The list, as it stands, is dull: too many nursery rhymes and traditional songs. The national songbook should include the best popular songs of the past, whether they are naff or not. The Beatles' "Yellow Submarine" should be there, and so should Ralph McTell's "Streets of London" and Cliff Richards' "Congratulations". Something by the Bee Gees – "Stayin' Alive", perhaps – would certainly be a contender.
There will be discussions and rows but the songbook would be a great, self-renewing celebration of the power of music. It would also be the best way to pass on to future generations songs that have brought us pleasure – however unfashionably – in the past.
"Stayin’ in touch: Bee Gee tips for absent fathers " (The Times , 6-5-2008)
The government has enlisted Robin Gibb, the Bee Gees singer, and Gary Lineker, the sports presenter, to encourage fathers separated from their children to stay close to them.
In an interview to be shown at a launch event this week by Ed Balls, the children’s secretary, Gibb, 58, speaks of having been “very, very nervous” and “horrified” at the prospect of seeing his children, Spencer and Melissa, for the first time after he divorced his first wife, Molly Hullis, in 1980. “‘Out of control’ is the first emotion alienated parents feel when they’re separated from their kids,” says Gibb. “They feel threatened. They feel as if they are not dictating events.”
Gibb says that one of the most difficult parts of reestablishing the relationship with children is knowing there might be another man in their home. “That’s what a lot of fathers can’t deal with,” he says.
The singer, whose interview was filmed for the website dads-space.com, which has received funding from Balls’s Parent Know How programme, has long had links to the government. He lent his Florida mansion to the former prime minister Tony Blair after noticing he looked “haggard” following the invasion of Iraq.
Transcript of an interview with Robin Gibb
This is a transcript of an interview with Robin Gibb conducted by www.dads-space.com, a service helping separated fathers communicate with their children. The full interview will be uploaded on to this website this month.
Quotes from interview with Robin Gibb on Dads Space
Emotionally, you tend to feel like swings and roundabouts; you don’t know what you want to do. You want to take action. You want to take action on your own, you want to take action with lawyers, you want to do this, you want to do that; you feel out of control.
I think that “out of control” is the first emotion that alienated parents feel when they’re separated from their kids. They feel threatened. They feel as if they are not dictating the course of events, someone else is, so it is very, very hard.
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This is a very emotional period and this takes a while to settle down and see the wood for the trees. I think that once you let go of that emotional thing, things happen that become positive.
I became a father at a very early age by comparison to a lot of men – I was 22 years old when Spencer my first boy was born and I was in LA at the time, because in… this was about 1972 – it wasn’t always the thing… it was just… at the dawn of the time when men were supposed to be in surgery watching the child being born. But I was on the plane straight back… and he was premature. He was in an incubator …
I remember seeing him for the first time. It’s an incredible feeling actually producing life and having a child for the first time. And at 22 – I was still a bit of a kid myself. It kinda made me grow up a bit.
I think what you have to do… is that you’ve got to be a friend to your kids and you’ve got to be always there for them and I think more so when you are separated. I think you become more valuable as a father and friend once you’ve been separated. Because there are other people who come into the family structure that may be seen as father-figures – and so therefore you’re competing with that as well.
I think that’s what a lot of fathers can’t deal with as well – that there might be someone else at home who might be a father to the kids, who may spend more time with them and might replace them. In my case that did not happen. I feared it – but it didn’t happen. I’ve always been dad and we’ve always had a very close relationship.
And I think you’ve got to be first and foremost got to be a friend, a confidante to your kids. And not say… dictating too much, disciplinarian and always on their back… but a friend and a confidante – that’s the most important thing.
When I first saw my children afterwards I took them to pantomimes and things like that in Windsor, the usual quality moments, museums, all the things that parents do with kids to try and look for quality bonding moments.
The feeling I had when I first knew I was going to see them was great anticipation, very, very nervous; what would they think of me? Would they see me as Dad and how would their views be formed of me and what’s my role with them. You’re starting from a different reference point. I think a lot of parents go through this; you feel like a stranger with your own kids.
With those nerves that I had about seeing them, I turned them into “well, why don’t I just treat myself as a guy who’s getting to know some other people, like a friend and turn them into friends?” which is what I did, and I think, after a while I gained their respect and their friendship, which is probably something maybe I wouldn’t have had if we’d stayed together.
I think it developed into something more meaningful. All I know is that I was horrified at the time because I hadn’t seen them for a while. I think that any parent who’s going to see their kids after a long, long time is going to feel this, and it’s quite normal. You get over it. It’s just a moment in time but it is very, very nerve wracking.
E' finalmente disponibile nel sito ufficiale di Barry Gibb la versione integrale di All in your name, la canzone realizzata da Barry Gibb e Micheal Jackson nel dicembre del 2002, incisa dai due artisti a Miami (Middle Ear Studios).
La splendida canzone è disponibile mediante download a pagamento dal negozio virtuale di barrygibb.com:
All in your name - Barry Gibb feat. Micheal Jackson
Esiste anche materiale video (circa due ore di riprese), relativo alle sessioni della realizzazione e registrazione del pezzo. Le riprese, principalmente realizzate ai Middle Ear studios di Miami, sono a cura di Ashley Gibb, uno dei figli di Barry, autore delle due brevi clip pubblicate nei mesi precedenti sul sito di Barry, che avevano anticipato la pubblicazione integrale di "All in your name".
Contrariamente alle indiscrezioni dei mesi precedenti, non è ancora noto se la canzone verrà o meno inserita in un eventuale nuovo progetto solista di Barry Gibb o in una ulteriore raccolta di inediti di Micheal Jackson.
Fonte : barrygibb.com
Il nuovo anno si apre con la pubblicazione della ristampa di "Odessa (Deluxe Editon)", il concerto di beneficienza a Londra per celebrare la musica dei Bee Gees, e voci su un presunto futuro viaggio "nostalgico" di Barry e Robin in Australia.
In ordine di data, subito dopo capodanno, si sono diffuse nel web notizie circa un viaggio di Barry e Robin Gibb nei luoghi del loro inizio di carriera, in Australia. Le notizie riportavano un certo disinteresse della comunità di Redcliffe, la città dove i Gibb di fatto iniziarono a scrivere le loro prime canzoni. Un mega tributo ai Gibb invece sarebbe programmato a Sidney, con un concerto pieno di mega-star australiane. Tuttavia, dopo una convulsa serie di iniziative per assicurare un adeguato benvenuto ai Gibb pure a Redcliffe, è arrivata dal management di Barry un parziale ridimensionamento delle notizie diffuse, definite non ancora del tutto attendibili, visto che ad oggi nè Barry nè Robin hanno confermato il viaggio e neanche l'eventuale periodo e modalità di svolgimento. Insomma pare che ci sia stato una semplice maifestazione di volontà non seguita da fatti concreti.
Il 9 gennaio a Londra (Battersea) si è tenuto un concerto di beneficienza in favore dell'Outward Fund Trust, organizzazione benefica di cui è presidente Robin Gibb, che ha coinvolto un gruppo di stelle del pop e del rock britannico, insieme ad una serie di giovanissimi protagonisti, per lo più vincitori di selezioni televisivi simili ad "X-factor". Il tema della serata era la celebrazione della musica dei Bee Gees, pertanto i fortunati (e generosi, visto che l'incasso della serata è di 250.000 sterline) ascoltatori presenti (circa un migliaio), hanno ascoltato i principali successi dei fratelli Gibb (come Bee Gees, ma anche come autori), eseguiti da una serie di grandi artisti della scena britannica. Tra i presenti Bill Wyman (ex Rolling Stones), Mark King (Level 42), Paolo Nutini, Natasha Hamilton (Atomic Kitten), la Spice Girl Mel C , Lulu, la star del soul Beverley Knight e l'ormai immancabile Valerija, la star russa nota ai fans dei Gibb per una sua cover di "Stayin'alive" in cui partecipava pure il buon Robin. Tra le canzoni eseguite anche "Heartbreaker" e "Chain Reaction", mentre il gran finale è stata una versione di "How deep is your love" cantata da tutti i partecipanti all'evento. (Nella foto, da sinistra: Bill Wyman con la figlia Matilda, Valerija, Mel C, Natasha Hamilton, Mark King, Lulu e Robin Gibb).
In alcune dichiarazioni rilasciate subito prima dell'evento, Robin ha fatto riferimento alla realizzazione di un film sulla musica dei Gibb, alla stregua di "Mamma mia", il film basato sui successi degli Abba, uno dei maggiori successi cinematografici del 2008. "L' idea è in sviluppo in questi giorni, seguiranno annunci su larga scala", ha detto Robin al Times, ed ha annunciato che a giugno incontrerà Barack Obama in merito alle problematiche sui diritti d'autore. "Non sarà un remake di "Saturday Night Fever", e comprenderà le canzoni che abbiamo scritto per gli altri", ha aggiunto Robin. In un'altra intervista, Dwina, la moglie di Robin, ha detto con molta chiarezza che Robin è ancora profondamente addolorato, (in uno stato di lutto), per la morte del fratello Maurice, avvenuta il 12 gennaio 2003.
Dal 13 gennaio è disponibile nei principali negozi (online e non) la ristampa (remasterizzata e con inediti) di "Odessa", il doppio album originalmente pubblicato con la celebre copertina di velluto nel 1969. La versione del quarantennale prevede tre CD, di cui uno contiene inediti e versioni "alternative" di alcune canzoni dell'album, per la prima volta disponibili al pubblico. L' album è stato accolto con molto favore dalla critica, raccogliendo recensioni molto lusinghieri, visto che da sempre è stato considerato un lavoro, che, sebbene non accompagnato da vendite esaltanti, contiene alcuni dei migliori momenti compositivi e sperimentali del periodo forse più creativo della carriera dei fratelli Gibb. Recensioni: Billboard, All Music Guide.
(Fonti: Times Online, Google News)
Saturday Night Fever starting to bubble up again
The Mamma Mia! phenomenon has shifted another £300 million into the Abba bank account. But what of their disco-era contemporaries, the Bee Gees? Thirty years after Saturday Night Fever, isn’t it time to revive one of pop’s most hit-packed catalogues for a new film?
“It’s developing as we speak. We are about to make some massive announcements,” Robin Gibb tells us before leading an all-star band, including Bill Wyman and Mel C, through a night of Bee Gee classics at a ball in Battersea to raise funds for the Outward Bound Trust.
Don’t dust off those white flares just yet though – the film won’t be a return to Night Fever. “It will include songs we wrote for other people, like Chain Reaction, Heartbreaker and Islands in the Stream,” Gibb said. He is now lobbying governments to protect songwriters’ royalties. “I am going to speak to Obama at the White House in June.” And the Bee Gee is offering GB the use of his mansion in Miami. “I have a lot of respect for Gordon Brown. Everyone needs a holiday.”
Robin Gibb still grieves for his twin brother Maurice
London, Jan 13 (ANI): Brit singer/songwriter Robin Gibb has still not gotten over the death of his twin brother Maurice Gibb. Maurice, who had been part of the Bee Gees, a band formed by his twin Robin and elder brother Barry, had died six years ago on January 12. Robin was looking pale and thin, as he flew into London from Los Angeles for a charity ball in aid of the Outward Bound Trust at the weekend. “Robin has not got over the death of his twin,” the Daily Express quoted his wife Dwina as saying. “It is something he will never get over. It is on-going really,” she added.
Odessa Deluxe edition out on 13 january
Review. Reprise/Rhino went all-out for their deluxe edition treatment of the Bee Gees' 1969 Odessa album. Disc one of the three-CD set has the album (originally a double LP) in its original mono mix; disc two presents it in its original stereo mix; and disc three, most excitingly for Bee Gees fans and collectors, offers 22 previously unreleased tracks (and one promotional radio spot). It goes without saying, perhaps, that this is a pretty specialized affair even by the standards of deluxe editions, especially as Odessa is not exactly considered a core classic late-'60s rock album by mainstream audiences. It has its merits, however, and even though ownership of both the stereo and mono CDs might not be considered essential by the average Bee Gees fan, fanatics will appreciate having both of them side by side (especially as the mono mixes were made available in the U.S. for the first time here).
The real interest, of course, lies in the abundant previously unreleased material. Most of this, it should be cautioned, consists of alternate versions/mixes and demos of songs that made it onto the album — in fact, there demos or alternate takes for every song from Odessa besides "The British Opera" — although there are two previously unissued tunes, "Pity" and "Nobody's Someone," that didn't make it onto the album in any form. As is the case with alternates on many expanded/deluxe CDs, you'd never put these recordings on par with the officially released versions. Mostly they tend to confirm the Bee Gees' judgment as to what takes and arrangements were used on the final LP, with some obviously hesitant performances and a few songs lacking final lyrical polish. But there are some notable interesting differences in the batch, like the "You'll Never See My Face Again" minus orchestration; an early version of "Edison" with different lyrics, at that point titled "Barbara Came to Stay"; a much sparser, fairly rudimentary demo of "Melody Fair," one of the best and most famous songs on the album; "Never Say Never Again" with an up front heavy fuzz guitar that was erased from the finished master; a demo of "First of May" with nothing more than piano backing; and, perhaps most unexpectedly of all, a version of "With All Nations (International Anthem)" with lyrics, although the one on the official LP ended up being instrumental. As for the two songs with no counterparts on the actual Odessa album, "Nobody's Someone" is a characteristically pleasantly sad, rather sorrowful (if rather lightweight) Bee Gees original that was covered almost 30 years later by a virtually unknown artist named Andrew (no last name); "Pity" is a more upbeat midtempo piano-dominated number, but with a skeletal arrangement obviously in need of completion.
Thorough liner notes explain the origination of the tracks and the differences between the official and previously unreleased versions. Thus overall, this, like Reprise/Rhino's box set The Studio Albums 1967-1968 (which gives a similar expanded treatment to the three previous Bee Gees albums), is a valuable supplement to the group's standard '60s discography. It is a release, however, that will be somewhat limited in appeal to the general pop and rock audience, who might not have the patience to sort through all the multiple versions.
(Source: All Music Guide)
Sul sito ufficiale di Robin Gibb sono disponibili tante notizie ed anteprime sul “Titanic Requiem”, il lavoro al quale Robin e suo figlio Robin John hanno lavorato in questi mesi.
Nell'album, interamente suonato dalla Royal Philarmonic Orchestra, è presente anche una canzone cantata da Robin, “Don’t cry alone” , che è disponibile in anteprima integrale su:
Seguirà breve un comunicato stampa.
La tracklist dell’album:
- Triumph (Ship Building)
- Farewell (The Immigrant Song)
- Maiden Voyage
- New York Suite in C Major
- Sub Astris (Under The Stars)
- Kyrie
- SOS (Tract)
- Distress (Confutatis)
- Salvation (Gradual)
- Reflections
- Daybreak
- Christmas Day
- Libera Me
- Don’t Cry Alone (cantata da Robin Gibb)
- In Paradisum (Awakening)
Fonte: www.robingibb.com
Barry e Robin Gibb si sono ritrovati insieme in questi giorni a casa di quest'ultimo, in occasione di una visita a sorpresa.
Barry era accompagnato dalla moglie Linda, e a quanto il buon Robin dice nel suo blog, c'erano anche David English e Dick Ashby.
Robin, che nelle settimane scorse ha messo un pò tutti in apprensione a causa delle sue pessime condizioni di salute, si è dichiarato felice e "tonificato" da questa graditissima visita, che a quanto pare è stata anche l'occasione per i due fratelli di parlare di nuovo di nuovi progetti.
Nello stesso post Robin evidenzia anche che i figli Spencer e Melissa gli sono vicini in questo momento, molto problematico per la sua salute.
(Fonte: robingibb.com)
Secondo quanto riporta il sito del Barnet Times , Barry Gibb ha appena scritto insieme al suo grande amico David English una canzone country ("Song for Davey"), dedicata al figlio undicenne di English, David Jr. "
E' il mio migliore amico, lo conosco da tantissimi anni ed è un grande uomo. E' mio fratello", ha dichiarato David English per descrivere il rapporto che lo lega a Barry Gibb.
Fonte: (Barnet Times )
"Brotherly Bee Gee makes sweet music"
Music mogul David English is fresh from Miami after another epic recording session with Bee Gee Barry Gibb.
Bearded Mr Gibb enlisted the help of his old friend, who managed the Bee Gees in the 1970s, to write new country tune, "Song for Davey", inspired by David's 11-year-old son, David English Junior.
Junior is, no doubt, thrilled.Mr English, of Nan Clark's Lane, Mill Hill, flew to America still celebrating his appointment as president of Finchley Cricket Club at the end of December.
And it seems Mr Gibb is quite enamoured with the humble cricket bat, as shown by this picture of him clutching one signed by members of Bunbury Cricket Club the celebrity team he founded to play charity matches.
On his visit to America, Messrs English and Gibb enjoyed making beautiful music and working on a film screenplay. Mr English said: "He is my best friend, I have known him for many years and he is a great man he is my brother." (Source: Barnet Times )
Barry e Robin GIbb ricordano l'amico Micheal Jackson, scomparso a 50 anni il 25 giugno 2009.
Micheal Jackson era il padrino di uno dei figli di Barry, (Micheal), ed era nota la grande amicizia e stima dei fratelli Gibb nei confronti del "Re del Pop". Jackson prese parte al funerale di Maurice nel gennaio 2003, accompagnando di persona alla cerimonia funebre Barry e la sua famiglia.
Oltre ad avere scritto insieme per Diana Ross la canzone "Eaten alive", è noto che esistono altre collaborazioni tra i Gibb (in particolare Barry) e Micheal Jackson. Nel dicembre 2002 Barry e Micheal scrissero "All in your name", canzone di protesta per la guerra in Iraq, ma in numerose altre occasioni nel corso degli anni 80 e 90 si è parlato di altre composizioni firmate dai Gibb e Jackson.
"Micheal era mio amico, siamo devastati, abbiamo perso un caro membro della nostra famiglia", ha scritto Barry nel suo sito.
"Questa tragedia ci dovrebbe insegnare a valutare ed apprezzare i regali che tutti abbiamo nel mondo", si legge nel messaggio pubblicato da Robin nel suo sito.
(Fonti: barrygibb.com e robingibb.com)
Barry and Robin Gibb on Micheal Jackson's death
"Michael was my friend, the only recording artist I truly knew and who truly knew me. He was the Godfather to my son Michael. We have lost a dear member of our family, we are devastated. Michael you will live forever in our hearts. Fly away butterfly take it to your journeys end. We will always love you". (Barry Gibb)
"We’ve not only lost a great friend in Michael but also lost a wonderful sensitive human being. The Bee Gees heard music with the same ears. Michael had a great voice and millions of people yet to be born will sing his songs. This tragedy should teach us a lesson to value and praise those gifts while we still have them in the world. If even a small portion of the praise that is bestowed on Michael Jackson now in death was given to him last year in life, he might well still be with us. That is the sad truth. One consolation is that he will triumph by his legacy." (Robin Gibb)
(Source: barrygibb.com and robingibb.com)
Nel sito di Robin Gibb (www.robingibb.com), nella sezione dedicata agli utenti registrati, è disponibile una breve clip di "Instant love", una delle canzoni inserite nel suo nuovo album solista, "50 St Catherine's Drive".
La pubblicazione del citato album (originariamente prevista per la fine del 2009), è stata posticipata a data ancora da definire, per permettere a Robin di concentrare le sue attività per promuovere "The Ultimate Bee Gees" e "Mythology".
"Instant Love" è scritta da Robin con il figlio Robin-John, ed una versione (con parti vocali aggiunte in cui canta Robin-John), sarà ascoltabile nel film "Bloodtype", nel quale è prevista la partecipazione di Robin-John Gibb.
(Fonte: www.robingibb.com )
"INSTANT LOVE": exclusive clip in the Robin Gibb website
An alternate version of "Instant Love", with added vocals by RJ Gibb can be heard in the movie "Bloodtype" in which RJ appears. This cut here, is the original recording from Robin Gibb's unreleased solo CD "50 St Catherine's Drive", and was produced by Peter-John Vettese. The release of Robin's solo CD has been delayed to allow him to concentrate on the promotion of the forthcoming Bee Gees reissues.
La Reprise Records pubblicherà il prossimo 3 novembre due raccolte per festeggiare il cinquantesimo anno di carriera dei Bee Gees.
Si tratta di "Mythology", un boxset di 4 cd e del doppio cd "Ultimate Bee Gees".
I 4 CD di "Mythology" saranno dedicati a ciascuno dei 4 fratelli Gibb (Barry, Robin, Maurice ed, Andy sebbene quest'ultimo non sia mai stato un componente del gruppo. "E' il cinquantesimo anno dei Bee Gees. E per Bee Gees io intendo tutti e 4 i fratelli", spiega Barry Gibb, secondo il quale i quattro cd contengono le canzoni preferite da ognuno di loro. La playlist del cd dedicato a Maurice è stata scelta dalla vedova Yvonne e dai figli Adam e Samantha, mentre le canzoni che compongono il disco dedicato ad Andy sono state scelte dalla figlia Peta.
Il CD di Maurice contiene due inediti, “Angel Of Mercy” e “The Bridge”, mentre il CD di Andy contiene l'inedito “Arrow Through The Heart.” Le tre canzoni sono state ascoltate varie volte dai fan dei Gibb ed esistono varie versioni in numerosi bootleg, ma "Mythology" segnerà la loro prima pubblicazione ufficiale.
Il booklet che accompagna il cofanetto contiene foto di famiglia e tributi da parte di Elton John, Graham Nash (Crosby,Stills, Nash &Young), George Martin (il leggendario produttore dei Beatles), Brian Wilson (Beach Boys) e del loro primo manager Robert Stigwood.
La tracklist di "Mythology":
Disco 1 (Barry): Spirits (Having Flown), You Win Again, Jive Talkin', To Love Somebody, Tragedy, Too Much Heaven, First Of May, More Than A Woman, Love So Right, Night Fever, Words, Don't Forget To Remember, If I Can't Have You, Alone, Heartbreaker, How Deep Is Your Love, Love You Inside And Out, Stayin' Alive, Barker Of The UFO, Swan Song, Spicks & Specks
Disco 2 (Robin): I Am The World, New York Mining Disaster, I Can't See Nobody, Holiday, Massachusetts, Sir Geoffrey Saved The World, And The Sun Will Shine, The Singer Sang His Song, I've Gotta Get A Message To You, I Started A Joke, Odessa, Saved By The Bell (solo), My World, Run To Me, Love Me, Juliet (solo), The Longest Night, Fallen Angel, Rings Around The Moon, Embrace, Islands In The Stream
Disco 3 (Maurice): Man In The Middle, Closer Than Close, Dimensions, House Of Shame, Suddenly, Railroad (solo), Overnight, It's Just The Way, Lay It On Me, Trafalgar, Omega Man, Walking On Air, Country Woman, Angel Of Mercy, Above And Beyond, Hold Her In Your Hand (solo), You Know It's For You, Wildflower, On Time, The Bridge
Disco 4 (Andy): Shadow Dancing, I Just Want To Be Your Everything, (Love Is) Thicker Than Water, An Everlasting Love, Desire, (Our Love) Don't Throw It All Away, Flowing Rivers, Words And Music, I Can't Help It (with Olivia Newton-John), Time Is Time, Me (Without You), After Dark, Warm Ride, Too Many Looks In Your Eyes, Man On Fire, Arrow Through The Heart, Starlight, Dance To The Light Of The Morning, In The End
"Ultimate Bee Gees: The 50th Anniversary Collection" è invece un doppio CD che contiene una selezione di successi di tutte le decadi della carriera dei Bee Gees, ed un medley dal vivo di alcune canzone scritte dai Gibb per altri artisti. La versione "deluxe" della raccolta conterrà un DVD con video inediti dei Bee Gees (speciali televisivi, interviste e video promozionali).
La traclist di "Ultimate Bee Gees: The 50th Anniversary Collection" (potrebbe subire delle modifiche, ancora non è definitiva):
Disco 1 – “A Night Out” : You Should Be Dancing, Stayin’ Alive, Jive Talkin’, Night Fever, Nights On Broadway, More Than A Woman, Tragedy, Love You Inside & Out, You Win Again, Boogie Child, One, Secret Love, Alone, This Is Where I Came In, Spirits Having Flown, Fanny (Be Tender With My Love), Still Waters (Run Deep), If I Can’t Have You, Spicks & Specks,
Disco 2 – “A Night In” : How Deep Is Your Love, Emotion, Too Much Heaven, New York Mining Disaster 1941, To Love Somebody, Holiday, Massachusetts, Words, World, For Whom The Bell Tolls, First Of May, I Started A Joke, Love So Right, Lonely Days, How Can You Mend A Broken Heart, Run To Me, I’ve Gotta Get A Message To You, The Singer Sang His Song, Don’t Forget To Remember, Medley
(Islands In The Stream, Heartbreaker, Guilty, Immortality, Grease).
(Fonti: beegees.com , barrygibb.com , robingibb.com , billboard.com )
Bee Gees' 50th Anniversary Inspires Two New Collections
The Bee Gees' 50th anniversary will be celebrated with a pair of retrospective packages on Nov. 3 from Reprise.
"Mythology" is a four-disc box set curated and produced by surviving Bee Gees Barry and Robin Gibb that will dedicate one disc each to the three brothers in the group, including the late Maurice Gibb, and one to their late younger brother Andy Gibb. Maurice's wife and three children chose the tracks for his disc, while Andy's daughter Peta chose the 19 songs for his section of the package.
Barry Gibb notes that the 81 selections represent "pretty much our personal favorites," and Robin and Maurice's discs will each feature solo tracks as well as Bee Gees songs. Barry's disc, meanwhile, is loaded up with hits such as "Jive Talkin'," "Stayin' Alive," "Night Fever," "Spirits (Having Flown)," "More Than a Woman" an "Tragedy." The accompanying booklet includes family photos and tributes from Elton John, Brian Wilson, Graham Nash, George Martin and Robert Stigwood, the Bee Gees' longtime manager and label boss.
Coming out the same day is "The Ultimate Bee Gees: The 50th Anniversary Collection," a more modest two-disc, 39-track set that closes with a live medley of songs the trio wrote for others -- including "Islands in the Stream," "Heartbreaker," "Guilty," "Immortality" and the theme song for "Grease." A deluxe edition of "The Ultimate Bee Gees" will come with a DVD featuring videos and TV appearances, many unreleased, from throughout the group's career. (Source: billboard.com)
Reprise Honors Barry, Maurice, Robin, And Andy Gibb With MYTHOLOGY, A Four-Disc Boxed Set That Features A Disc Dedicated To Each Brother.
MYTHOLOGY Features Two Previously Unreleased Maurice Gibb Tracks, And One Previously Unreleased Track By Andy Gibb .Simultaneous Release Of ULTIMATE BEE GEES: THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY COLLECTION, A Double-Disc Career Retrospective; Also Available As Deluxe Edition With DVD Of Previously Unreleased Footage.
Both Available From Reprise November 3
(Los Angeles, July 16, 2009) — As members of both The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Songwriters Hall of Fame, winners of both the Lifetime Achievement (2000) and Legend Awards (2003) from the Recording Academy, seven Grammy® Awards, BMI Icon Award, and a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 1997 Brit Awards, it’s hard to overstate the significance of what the Bee Gees accomplished in the 50 years since brothers Barry, Robin, and the late Maurice Gibb began calling themselves the Bee Gees. To celebrate the Bee Gees’ golden anniversary, Reprise honors the singing siblings with a pair of special releases: a four-disc boxed set and a career retrospective that includes a DVD of previously unreleased footage in the deluxe edition. MYTHOLOGY and a ULTIMATE BEE GEES: THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY COLLECTION will both be available worldwide on November 3, at all retail outlets, including www.BeeGees.com, for a suggested list price of $54.98 (CD) and $39.99 (digital) for MYTHOLOGY, and $24.98 (deluxe with DVD), $19.98 (standard CD), and $19.99 (digital) for the THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY COLLECTION. Curated and produced by Barry and Robin Gibb, MYTHOLOGY contains four discs, each spotlighting a different Gibb brother, including one dedicated to Andy, who was not part of the group. The songs were chosen by Barry, Robin, Maurice’s widow Yvonne (and their children Adam & Samantha) and Andy’s daughter Peta. “These are pretty much our personal favorites,” Barry explains in the liner notes. “This is now the Bee Gees 50th Anniversary. And by the Bee Gees I mean all four brothers.” “I always see our songs as ‘just us brothers’ having a good time,” adds Robin Gibb. “When I look back now, it is more about the journey, not the arrival.” MYTHOLOGY also features a scrapbook of family photos, many never-before published, along with tributes from artists such as George Martin, Brian Wilson, Elton John, Graham Nash, and the band’s longtime manager Robert Stigwood. Spanning the Bee Gees’ five-decade career, the set’s 81 tracks touch on several of the group’s best-known hits. But mainly, the collection digs into the Bee Gees’ vast catalog to highlight deep tracks such as the early single “Spicks And Specks” (1966); the title track from the 1969 concept album Odessa; the single B-side “Country Woman” (1971); “Spirits Having Flown” (1979), the title track from the 35 million-selling album; “Overnight” (1987) from the multi-platinum ESP; “Closer Than Close” (1997) from Still Waters; and “Man In The Middle” (2001) from the Bee Gees 20th and final studio album before Maurice’s passing in 2003. MYTHOLOGY also features the debut of a pair of previously unreleased Maurice Gibb tracks: “Angel Of Mercy” and “The Bridge.” The final disc spotlights Andy Gibb, who was not a member of Bee Gees, but worked with his brothers throughout his career before his death in 1988 at the age of 30. Notably, Andy’s first 3 singles all went to #1 in the US, a feat that had never been previously accomplished. The compilation opens with “Shadow Dancing” (1978), a #1 smash cowritten by all four brothers that appeared on Andy’s second album. Nearly all of the songs from his 1977 debut Flowing Rivers are featured, including the back-to-back #1 singles: “I Just Want To Be Your Everything” and “(Love Is) Thicker Than Water.” The set contains “I Can’t Help It,” a duet with Olivia Newton-John that cracked the Top 20 and several tracks from his final studio album After Dark (1980), including the Top 10 single “Desire.” MYTHOLOGY also marks the debut of “Arrow Through The Heart,” a song Andy recorded shortly before his death that was intended for a comeback album.
ULTIMATE BEE GEES: THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY COLLECTION is the second release celebrating the Bee Gees’ 50-year anniversary. The two-disc set features the many hits and chart-topping singles, plus their performances of a selection of hit songs they wrote for others. The DVD, available in the deluxe edition, offers a treasury of unreleased videos, spanning the Bee Gees’ entire career with previously unreleased television appearances, live performances, and promo videos.
(Sources: beegees.com , barrygibb.com , robingibb.com )
In questi giorni esce un album ("All my friends are here") dedicato alla memoria del leggendario produttore Arif Mardin, scomparso nel 2006.
Mardin, di origini turche è stato produttore di album di grandissima qualità per i Bee Gees ma anche di artisti del calibro di Phil Collins, David Bowie, Ringo Starr, Hall & Oates, Carly Simon, Barbra Streisand, Diana Ross, Queen, Patti Labelle, Aretha Franklin, Anita Baker, Roberta Flack, Average White Band, Norah Jones, Chaka Khan, George Benson ed i Manhattan Transfer. Ha vinto 11 Grammy Awards.
Arif Mardin ha collaborato varie volte con i Bee Gees, ma sicuramente l'esperienza più importante con i Gibb è rappresentata dalla sua produzione dell'album "Main Course" (1975) dal quale furono estratti i famosi singoli "Jive talkin'", "Nights on Broadway" e "Fanny (be tender with my love)". Da ricordare anche la co-produzione di Mardin in alcune canzoni di "E.S.P." (1987).
I fratelli Gibb hanno sempre citato Arif Mardin come un loro maestro, specialmente per essere riuscito a fare emergere nei Bee Gees profonde influenze funky e rythm'n'bues. Molti critici (ed in alcune occasioni anche i Gibb stessi) riconoscono ad Arif Mardin il merito della svolta del sound dei Bee Gees verso atmosfere distanti dal british-pop melodico che aveva caratterizzato le produzioni dei Gibb fino agli inizi degli anni 70.
Barry Gibb in particolare ha sempre affermato che Arif Mardin, oltre ad averlo convinto a cantare in falsetto (sonorità per l'appunto molto comune nella scena della musica funky), ha condizionato molte delle sue scelte musicali, che, dopo le esperienze con Mardin, consentirono ai Gibb di riuscire a produrre album e canzoni di successo per numerosi altri artisti. Senza mezzi termini Barry ha più volte detto che Arif Mardin è stata la sua figura musicale di riferimento.
In "All my friends are here", Barry Gibb è presente nella canzone "The greatest ears in town", cantata da Bette Midler ed nella canzone che da il titolo all'album, dove è presente anche Robin Gibb.
La formazione di stelle presenti nell'album (prodotto ed arrangiato dal figlio di Mardin, Joe) è davvero impressionante: oltre a Barry e Robin Gibb, troviamo Daryl Hall & John Oates, Bette Midler, Chaka Khan, Norah Jones, Willie Nelson, Cissy Houston, Lalah Hathaway, Phil Collins,Randy Brecker, l'Average White Band ed i Rascals.
E proprio in presenza di Joe Mardin vediamo Barry Gibb in questi due video (da youtube), nei quali Barry ricorda con affetto e con dovizia di particolari l'amico Arif, i suoi insegnamenti ed alcuni aneddoti.
(Fonte: google news)
Barry Gibb rembering Arif Mardin
"All my friends are here" (released in june) is an album dedicated to the memory of legendary producer Arif Mardin, who died in 2006.
Mardin, of Turkish origin, was a very successful producer of albums and hits for the Bee Gees, but also artists like Phil Collins, David Bowie, Ringo Starr, Hall & Oates, Carly Simon, Barbra Streisand, Diana Ross, Queen, Patti Labelle , Aretha Franklin, Anita Baker, Roberta Flack, Average White Band, Norah Jones, Chaka Khan, George Benson and the Manhattan Transfer. He won 11 Grammy Awards.
Arif Mardin has worked several times with the Bee Gees, but certainly the most important experience with Gibb is represented by its production of the album "Main Course" (1975), from which were extracted the famous singles "Jive Talkin '", " Nights on Broadway "and "Fanny (Be Tender With My Love)". To be mentioned also the co-production of Mardin in some songs on "ESP" (1987).
The Gibb brothers have always said Arif Mardin as their teacher, especially for being able to add to the Bee Gees sound deep funky and rythm'n'bues influences . Many critics (and on occasion even the Gibb) recognize to Mardin the merits of turning the sound of the Bee Gees to the atmosphere away from the british-pop direction that had characterized the production of Gibb until the early 70's.
In particular Barry Gibb has always said that Arif Mardin, as well as convincing him to sing in falsetto (sounds precisely very common in the funky music scene), has influenced many of his musical choices, which, after the experiences with Mardin, allowed the Gibb brothers to succeed in releasing and producing albums and hit songs for many other artists. Bluntly Barry has repeatedly said that Arif Mardin was his musical figure of reference.
In "All my friends are here" Barry Gibb is present in the song "The greatest ears in town", sung by Bette Midler and the song that the title track, where is featured also Robin Gibb.
The list of stars in the album (produced and arranged by the son of Mardin, Joe) is truly impressive: as well as Barry and Robin Gibb, we find Daryl Hall & John Oates, Bette Midler, Chaka Khan, Norah Jones, Willie Nelson, Cissy Houston, Lalah Hathaway, Phil Collins, Randy Brecker, the Average White Band and the Rascals.
And in the presence of Joe Mardin, we can see Barry Gibb in these two videos (from youtube), in which Barry remembers with affection and with great detail his friend Arif, his teachings and some anecdotes.
(Source: google news)
Barry Gibb ha preso parte all'edizione 2008 del "Love and Hope", svoltosi lo scorso 16 febbraio a Miami. Barry, che questa volta non si è esibito, era accompagnato da tutta la sua famiglia (Linda e i figli Steve, Asley, Travis, Micheal e Ali).
A proposito di Barry, da circa due mesi non trapelano notizie sullo stato di avanzamento del suo album country, anche se lui stesso aveva avvertito i fans che se la sarebbe presa comoda. Infatti nel corso dell'ultima chat (a dicembre) disse che l'album sarebbe uscito solo dopo che lui e i suoi collaboratori (Ashley e Steve) lo ritenevano soddisfacente. "Non ha senso farlo uscire con fretta, solo per il gusto di avere qualcosa sul mercato"...
Alcune foto di Barry (apparentemente non proprio...in forma) sono disponibili sul sito "The Bee Gees Forever.
Fonti: diabeteresearch.org e Bee Gees World.
Qualche mese fa, quando Barry Gibb ha acquistato vicino a Nashville (ad Hendersonville) la dimora della leggenda del country Johnny Cash, la comunità musicale di Nashville entrò subito in fibrillante attesa. Le dichiarazioni di Barry in merito alla volontà di risiedere per una parte dell'anno a Nashville per comporre musica insieme ai suoi figli, ed il successivo annuncio di una imminente realizzazione di album di musica country hanno spinto i personaggi più importanti della comunità musicale della capitale del country a tributare un doveroso ed importante benvenuto ad uno dei più importanti compositori della musica contemporanea. Con l'obiettivo di introdurre Barry nei confronti degli esponenti top (autori e compositori) della musica country, la BMI (Broadcast Music, Inc) ha organizzato un ricevimento al quale hanno preso parte gli esponenti più rappresentativi della scena musicale, culturale e polirica di Nashville. Presenti, tra gli altri , i popolari artisti country Ed Hill, TG Shephard, Phil Everly, Duane Eddy e Bobby Braddock.
(Fonte: BMI )
"Nashville’s Elite Offer Barry Gibb a Warm Welcome"
When Bee Gees legend Barry Gibb purchased Johnny and June Carter Cash's lakefront home in nearby Hendersonville, Nashville's music community buzzed with excited anticipation. On Wednesday, Dec. 13, BMI hosted an intimate reception at its Music Row offices for Mr. Gibb, along with his wife Linda and their two sons, Ashley and Stephen. The aim was simple: to introduce one of music's most preeminent songwriters to Music City's finest.
Nashville Mayor Bill Purcell, Hendersonville Mayor Scott Foster, BMI President & CEO Del Bryant, industry executive A-listers, and a slew of blue ribbon songwriters and artists were on hand to personally welcome Mr. Gibb to town. (Among the others, BMI 2006 Country songwriter of the year Ed Hill,TG Shephard, Phil Everly, Duane Eddy and Bobby Braddock)
(Source: BMI )<
Si sono svolti venerdì 8 giugno a Thame, nell'Oxfordshire, i funerali di Robin Gibb, morto lo scorso 20 maggio a 63 anni.
Il feretro, secondo le ultime volontà dello stesso Robin, ha attraversato il paese a bordo di una carrozza di vetro trainata da quattro cavalli neri, tra centinaia di fan e amici.
Alla cerimonia funebre, svolta in forma privata, hanno preso parte, oltre ai familiari, una stretta cerchia di amici di Robin e della sua famiglia.
Barry Gibb, nel suo elogio funebre, ha dichiarato: "La vita è troppo breve. Nel caso di Robin, assolutamente troppo breve. Ha parlato di suo fratello, definito "acuto, spirito intuitivo" prima di accennare a recenti tensioni tra i due.
"Dio sa quanto abbiamo litigato", ha detto. "Fino alla fine siamo stati in contrasto, ma ora questo non significa nulla ". Barry ha esortato i presenti, nella chiesa di St Mary a Thame, Oxfordshire: "Se c'è conflitto nella vostra vita, sbarazzatevene." Parlando di Robin e Maurice, ha detto: "quando sei gemello, sei gemello per la vita", e sono finalmente insieme. Penso che il più grande dolore per Robin negli ultimi 10 anni, sia stato perdere il suo fratello gemello".
Centinaia di persone avevano assistito all'ingresso in chiesa della bara bianca ornata di Robin. In sottofondo "How Deep Is Your Love" dei Bee Gees.
All'uscita della chiesa un lungo applauso spontaneo ha accolto l'uscita del feretro, ed il corteo funebre, guidato da Barry e dal vicario reverendo Alan Garratt. Dopo di loro i parenti più stretti, tra cui la vedova di Robin, Dwina.
Little Snow, la giovane figlia di Robin, nata dalla breve relazione di quest'ultimo con una ex governante, non ha partecipato al funerale, ma è stata menzionata da Barry alla fine del suo elogio nell'elenco dei familiari più strettti.
Barry ha reso omaggio a suo fratello "mente magnifica e bel cuore".
Minuti dopo che il corteo funebre aveva iniziato la sua strada attraverso le strade di Thames, città adottiva di suo fratello, Barry aveva detto: "la vita è troppo breve, in caso di Robin, assolutamente troppo breve. Avremmo dovuto altri 20 anni, 30 anni della sua mente e del suo magnifico bel cuore".
Facendo riferimento a Maurice, ha aggiunto: "Erano entrambi belli. E ora sono insieme. Sono in realtà insieme ".
L'anziana madre Barbara, troppo sconvolta per rimanere in chiesa, ha abbandonato la cerimonia all'inizio dell'elogio funebre di Barry. Suo figlio, unico superstite ha detto: "questa è un'esperienza molto strana per me, dopo aver già perso due fratelli, ed ora Rob. Così tante persone hanno amato questo ragazzo, qui c'è tanta gente illustre che lo amava. E questo è un grande piacere da testimoniare. Noi tre abbiamo hanno avuto tantissime folle, ma io non ho mai visto tanto amore in una folla come quello sto guardando oggi: per Rob, per la musica. Ed è un'esperienza molto intensa per me. Penso che sia un esperienza nessuno di noi dimenticherà. La terremo nei nostri cuori e nelle nostre menti per sempre".
Durante il funerale la vedova Dwina ha letto una poesia, intitolata "My Songbird".
Tra le parole della poesia: "Il mio uccello è volato e la mia anima sospira - ma lui non andrà mai via". E 'stata abbracciata da Barry dopo la fine della sua lettura.
La poesia è stata seguita dalla canzone "Don't Cry Alone", una delle ultime composizioni di Robin, tratta dal "Titanic Requiem", che è stato pubblicato poche settimane prima della sua morte.
Gli ospiti hanno lasciato la chiesa al suono deella canzone dei Bee Gees "I Started A Joke", che comprende le parole "Sono finalmente morto, ciò inizia fare vivere tutto il mondo".
Tra i presenti al funerale alcuni tra gli amici più stretti di Robin: il critico musicale Sir Tim Rice, lo showman Uri Geller, il cantante Peter Andre, il DJ Mike Read ed anche Robert Stigwood, produttore di tantissimi dischi di successo dei Bee Gees e del film "Saturday night fever".
(Fonte: www.telegraph.co.uk)
Barry Gibb: Robin and Maurice have been reunited in heaven
(By Nigel Bunyan, "The Telegraph" )
Barry Gibb said his brother Robin had been reunited with his twin Maurice as he paid an emotional tribute at the Bee Gee's funeral yesterday.
The sole surviving member of the trio spoke of his regret at arguing with Robin right up to the star's death.
In a trembling voice he told the congregation: "Life is too short. In Robin's case, absolutely too short.
He spoke of his brother's "sharp, intuitive wit" before hinting at recent tensions between the two of them.
"God knows how much we argued," he said. "Right up to the end we found conflict with each other, which now means nothing. It just means nothing."
He urged mourners at St Mary's Church in Thame, Oxfordshire: "If there's conflict in your lives - get rid of it."
He said Robin, 62, who died from kidney failure last month after fighting cancer and pneumonia, had finally been reunited with his twin.
Barry recalled the decade of separation endured by Robin since Maurice died in 2003.
"When you're twins, you're twins for life," he said. "You go through every emotion.
"And they're finally together. I think the greatest pain for Robin in the past 10 years was losing his twin brother, and I think it did all kinds of things to him."
Hundreds of mourners wept as Robin's ornate white coffin entered the church to the sound of the Bee Gees' hit How Deep Is Your Love.
Barry and the vicar leading the service, the Reverend Alan Garratt, walked up the aisle ahead of it as a round of spontaneous applause broke out from well-wishers outside the church.
Close relatives, including Robin's widow, Dwina, and his mother followed behind. One woman was so overcome with grief she had to be physically supported as she walked to her seat.
Robin's young daughter Snow, whose mother is a former housekeeper of his, did not attend the service - but was mentioned by Barry at the end of his eulogy as "little Snow" in a list of close family members.
Barry paid tribute to his brother's "magnificent mind and his beautiful heart".
Minutes after the funeral cortege had picked its way through the streets of his brother's adoptive town, he told mourners: "Life is too short; in Robin's case, absolutely too short.
"We should have had 20 years, 30 years of his magnificent mind and his beautiful heart."
Referring to Maurice, he added: "They were both beautiful. And now they're together. They're actually together."
The Gibbs' elderly mother, Barbara, was too distraught to remain in the church as Barry delivered his eulogy.
Her surviving son said: "This is a very strange experience, having already lost two brothers and now Rob.
"I think there are an awful lot of things happening right now that maybe you won't be aware of. And one is how many people came on such a terrible day. It is staggering.
"So many people loved this boy, so many illustrious people are here that loved him. And that is such a pleasure to witness.
"The three of us have seen a lot of crowds but I've never seen so much love in one crowd as I'm looking at today - for Rob, you know, for the music. And it's an intense experience for me.
"I think it's an experience none of us will forget. We will keep him in our hearts and minds forever."
Hundreds of Bee Gees fans lined the streets to bid the singer a final, tearful farewell.
The white, glass-sided carriage bearing his coffin was pulled through the throng by four plumed, black Friesian horses.
Each wore a decorative black cloth emblazoned with a gold treble clef in honour of a career steeped in musical folklore.
Ahead of the horses was a lone piper, behind them relatives and friends, and finally, Gibb's beloved Irish Wolfhounds, Ollie and Missy.
It had been the singer's final wish to "say a final goodbye to fans and his home town of Thame", and he did so in typically flamboyant style.
The cortege emerged from the gatehouse of Robin's estate and then moved slowly up the town's High Street. It was welcomed to the church by the strains of the Bee Gees hit How Deep Is Your Love?
Gibb's widow, Dwina, was at the head of the cortege, together with his mother.
The singer's sons, RJ and Spencer, were joined as pallbearers by Barry's son, Stevie, and Dwina's son, Steven Murphy.
Mourners included Sir Tim Rice, Uri Geller, Peter Andre and the DJ Mike Read.
During the service Dwina read a poem called My Songbird Has Flown.
It included the words: "My songbird has flown and my soul sighs - but he will never go away."
She was embraced by Barry as she returned to her seat.
The poem was followed by a recording of Don't Cry Alone - one of Robin's last compositions, from his Titanic Requiem, which premiered just weeks before his death.
Guests left the church to the sound of the Bee Gees' song I Started A Joke, which includes the line "I finally died, which started the whole world living".
Barry Gibb ha confermato ufficialmente la sua partecipazione alla trenatacinquesima edizione del "Love and hope Ball", l'evento annuale di beneficenza a supporto del "Diabete Research foundation", che si svolgerà a Miami (Westin Diplomat Resort & Spa) il 14 febbraio 2009.
Barry si esibirà dal vivo accompagnato da orchestra, e non è ancora ovviamente definita la scaletta del concerto. Sembra che il set delle canzoni, oltre al repertorio solista e quello dei Bee Gees, dovrebbe comprendere anche alcune cover.
Ancora nessuna notizia circa la pubblicazione dell'album solista di Barry, mentre secondo quanto ha dichiarato il figlio Ashley, il sito web di Barry, attualmente in restyling, dovrebbe riprendere l'attività prima di Natale, arricchito di nuove funzionalità, informazioni e video.
(Fonte: DRI Foundation, foto di Barry: Willy Chan Rivera - aggiunta il 12.12.2008, ellanvannin - Grazie Ana!!)
Barry Gibb to perform at "Love & hope 2009"
Barry Gibb has now officially confirmed his appearance at the next edition of the Love and Hope Ball.
He will perform live, backed by an orchestra. The playlist of the show is not still known, but it seems that the live set will include Bee Gees material, solo stuff and some covers.
Still no news about his new solo album.
Ashley Gibb (one of the sons of Barry), said that barrygibb.com (now in restyling) will be up and running again before Christmas.
It will include new features, information, videos.
(Source: DRI Foundation, Barry's pic - added on 12.12.2008 -: Willy Chan Rivera, ellanvannin - Thanks Ana!!)
Ecco il testo (da barrygibb.com):
Congratulations to Steve and Gloria who gave birth to a healthy baby boy weighing in at a little over 10lbs, no name yet but we will update you shortly with further details.
Molto poco si sa in questo periodo sulle attività di Barry Gibb, che sembra stia completando con i figli Ashley e Steve la scrittura delle canzoni che comporranno il suo futuro nuovo album. Le uniche news provengono dalle chat di sul suo sito, durante le quali peraltro Barry si guarda bene dall'essere chiaro. Infatti Barry, dopo avere lasciato intendere qualche mese fa che il progetto stava cambiando (originariamente era un album country), nell'ultima chat ha enigmaticamente accennato ai tempi di pubblicazione del lavoro, che da quel poco che si è compreso non dovrebbero essere brevi (sicuramente non prima del 2009). Barry ha anche accennato a contatti e conversazioni con Robin, senza tuttavia fornire alcun dettaglio sugli argomenti trattati.
Robin Gibb è al contrario molto attivo. Prosegue la realizzazione del suo nuovo album, nel quale dovrebbero essere ospiti Paul Mc Cartney, George Micheal e la star russa Valerja, secondo quanto riportato da un giornale russo in un'intervista rilasciata da Robin in occasione di un suo recente viaggio a Mosca. Tuttavia, secondo quanto riportato da alcuni fans che lo hanno recentemente incontrato, pare che la pubblicazione dell'album potrebbe slittare, in quanto è ancora in definizione la casa discografica che provvederà alla distribuzione del progetto. Robin è presente sulla scena con varie apparizioni "spot". Dopo avere preso parte (cantando alcune canzoni dal vivo) ad un evento organizzato dal primo ministro inglese Gordon Brown, si esibirà il 28 luglio in Lettonia, cantando tre canzoni nel corso di un festival dedicato ai nuovi talenti. Al festival saranno presenti altri artisti internazionali, tra i quali Al Jarreau e Monserrat Caballe. Il primo agosto Robin parteciperà (cantando anche qui tre canzoni) a Montecarlo alla sessantesima edizione del "Red cross ball", un evento di beneficienza organizzato dalla Croce Rossa internazionale. Per un intero concerto del nostro artista bisognerà attendere il 22 agosto a Berlino (Spandau, Zitadelle). Robin è sempre impegnatissimo nelle attività ricadenti nell'incarico di presidente del CISAC (un'associazione internazionale per la difesa del diritto d'autore) e recentemente ha guidato una delegazione di artisti che avevano inviato un appello al Parlamento Europeo per sollecitare un intervento legislativo sui diritti d'autore. Fra i firmatari (oltre a Robin), James Blunt, Miguel Bose, Bryan Ferry, Robin Gibb, David Gilmour, Maurice Jarre, Mark Knopfler, Paul McCartney, Sade e gli italiani Ennio Morricone, Nicola Piovani. Infine numerosissime sono le iniziative di beneficienza di Robin e le attività inerenti la "Heritage foundation", della quale è presidente. Nel sito ufficiale di Robin tutti i dettagli.
Procedono sicuramente intanto i lavori per il debutto a Broadway del musical dedicato alla vita ed alla musica dei Bee Gees, anche se non si conoscono molti dettagli. Di sicuro sia Barry che Robin stanno contribuendo, e questo, allo stato attuale, sembra essere il solo progetto che i due fratelli hanno in comune.
La versione remasterizzata di "Odessa", il doppio album dei Bee Gees originariamente pubblicato nel 1968, dovrebbe essere pubblicata ad ottobre su etichetta Rhino e dovrebbe contenere un terzo cd con alcuni inediti. Sembra che recentissimamente Robin abbia lasciato intendere (incontro con alcuni fans, vedi sopra), che ci siano possibilità di un cambio della casa discografica per la gestione dell'intero catalogo musicale dei Bee Gees. Potrebbe essere un addio alla Rhino, che, dopo un inizio promettente, ha in effetti modificato inspiegabilmente la programmazione della messa in vendita delle riedizioni degli album dei Bee Gees.
(Fonti: barryigibb.com, robingibb.com e "Words, Bee Gees Mailing List )
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