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At The Back => The Dressing Room => Topic started by: Afghan Dave on May 21, 2012, 01:39:02 AM
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Second only to Lennon and McCartney as the most successful songwriters in British popular music.
I prefered the Bee Gees to the Beatles... :(
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I was sad to learn this. He must have gone through an awful lot with his illness. I am not a fan at all but that doesn't stop my respect for him and his Brothers.
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Yep, I've been a Bee Gees fan since 1970 or so. I originally preferred them to the Beatles as well. The original Bee Gees greatest hits from 1969/70, along with Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison is why I'm a musician now.
The Saturday Night Fever disco stuff was OK (I love Children of the World and Main Course), and I went off them a bit when Spirits came out. But a few years back I collected nearly everything on CD. I still prefer the 60s/early-to-mid-70s material, but everything they turned their attention to has fabulous things hiding in it.
And Robin... :( ... I prefer Barry's songwriting, but Robin's voice was absolutely it as far as I was concerned. I got into rock music later but Robin's voice, and what he got out of it, has always haunted me ever since I started writing songs and singing lead vocals. And he could have been a rock vocalist - listen to "Paper Mache Cabbages and Kings" on "To Whom It May Concern" or "I Can't See Nobody", or the middle break in "Can't Keep a Good Man Down" - when I was getting into rock singers, it was always "oh he's singing like the stuff Robin Gibb does..."
He used to do these "emotion-drenched" middle eights. There'd be one or maybe two on each album. When I was younger and I had "favourite bits" on records, those were the favourite bits on the Bee Gees records. I'm not really aware of any other recordings by any other artist that have affected me emotionally as those bits did and still do.
He's also why I grew my hair - nothing to do with the rock stuff I ended up being involved in, I already had the long hair when I showed up as a Rainbow, AC/DC, Motorhead, Rory, etc fan in 1980 or so.
I don't feel as sad as I was expecting to, I've known it was coming for some time, but I'm pretty bluddy sad about this.
I've got all these tunes going round in my head with Robin's voice on.
RIP Robin.
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i have a story about the Bee Gees, which i don't have time to put here (maybe later). but suffice it to say one of their hits helped me out in a tricky DJing situation. so i will always be grateful to them.
Rest In Peace
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Very interesting post, Andy - I must admit I'm not familiar with any of the Bee Gees' music apart from all the hit singles (and the ones they wrote/produced for other people).
I was listening to the radio last night as the news broke, and it was strange hearing them phone up whichever DJs and music journalists they could rustle up, who then proceeded to try to outdo each other with superlatives and (probably inaccurate) statistics about the Bee Gees' success and influence. They did manage to find some of Robin's actual friends too - some bloke from Amen Corner who was very cut up, good old Whispering Bob Harris, and Mike Read, who sounded like he'd hit the bottle - hard - on hearing the news. He sounded OK again this morning though.
All very sad, even though it had obviously been expected for some time. And sad that now three Gibb brothers have all died relatively young.
RIP
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very sorry to hear that :(
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I feel really sorry for Barry. The eldest outliving all the brothers he saw come into the world and share his life. Sad. :(
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It's a tragedy...
Sorry. Sorry. *gets coat*
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I feel really sorry for Barry. The eldest outliving all the brothers he saw come into the world and share his life. Sad. :(
This was also one of my first thoughts. Must be very hard indeed being the last one standing.
I don't really know too much Bee Gees music other than the big hits. Perhaps I should give them a listen.
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Great musician, mucho respect.
RIP :(
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A talent died too young. We will honour him next gig when we play 'You should be dancing'.
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Sad news RIP