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Robin Gibb, Bee Gees Co-Founder, Dead at 62
« on: May 20, 2012, 06:37:39 PM »
Rest in peace Robin, you were a true talent and will be missed :(

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Re: Robin Gibb, Bee Gees Co-Founder, Dead at 62
« Reply #1 on: May 20, 2012, 07:21:44 PM »
Barry Gibb is the only one left.




Robin Gibb, Bee Gees Co-Founder, Dead at 62

Singer had been battling cancer


By David Browne
 
May 20, 2012 6:35 PM ET
 
Robin Gibb, one-third of the Bee Gees, died Sunday after a long battle with cancer, his spokesperson has confirmed via a statement. Gibb was 62 years old.
 
"The family of Robin Gibb, of the Bee Gees, announce with great sadness that Robin passed away today following his long battle with cancer and intestinal surgery," reads the statement. "The family have asked that their privacy is respected at this very difficult time."
 
Two years ago, Gibb battled colon and liver cancer, but despite making what he called a "spectacular recovery," a secondary tumor recently developed, complicated by a case of pneumonia in April. The singer was hospitalized last month and fell into a coma at one point, although he was later said to have regained consciousness and communicated with family members.
 
Gibb was born in the Isle of Man in 1949, along with twin brother Maurice. (Maurice died in 2003 of complications from a twisted intestine; eerily, Robin had surgery for the same medical issue in 2010.) Along with their older brother Barry, the brothers began harmonizing as a trio in Australia, where the family moved in 1958. Although the Bee Gees had some success in Australia – they hosted a weekly variety show there – they didn't truly arrive until they returned to England and signed with manager Robert Stigwood. Robin's quivering, vulnerable voice was featured prominently on several of the group's earliest and most Beatles-eque hits, including "New York Mining Disaster 1941," "I Started a Joke," "Massachusetts," and "I've Gotta Get a Message to You."
 
Although he looked and sounded like the meekest Bee Gee, Robin grew into the family rebel. By 1969, he and Barry were feuding over whose song should be singles, and Robin, then 20, was declared a "ward of the state" by their father when his drinking and partying seemed to take over his life. "It happened so fast that we lost communication between us," Gibb later recalled. "It was just madness, really."


Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/robin-gibb-bee-gees-co-founder-dead-at-62-20120520#ixzz1vSX1uzbx

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Re: Robin Gibb, Bee Gees Co-Founder, Dead at 62
« Reply #2 on: May 20, 2012, 07:22:12 PM »
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Re: Robin Gibb, Bee Gees Co-Founder, Dead at 62
« Reply #3 on: May 20, 2012, 07:23:56 PM »
I posted this in general discussion already, because I wasn't sure if I could post it in news. Can someone merge them?

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Re: Robin Gibb, Bee Gees Co-Founder, Dead at 62
« Reply #4 on: May 20, 2012, 07:25:34 PM »
I posted this in general discussion already, because I wasn't sure if I could post it in news. Can someone merge them?
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Re: Robin Gibb, Bee Gees Co-Founder, Dead at 62
« Reply #5 on: May 20, 2012, 07:28:44 PM »
-1 for complaining.

I wasn't complaining. I was saying.  :-)

In anyway, another great talent is gone.

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Re: Robin Gibb, Bee Gees Co-Founder, Dead at 62
« Reply #6 on: May 20, 2012, 07:30:30 PM »
Who was the one that sounded like a girl?

Don't these things come in threes?  Gloria Gaynor better watch out.
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Re: Robin Gibb, Bee Gees Co-Founder, Dead at 62
« Reply #7 on: May 20, 2012, 07:33:36 PM »
Who was the one that sounded like a girl?

Don't these things come in threes?  Gloria Gaynor better watch out.

Sheesh, I try to help keep the forum clean of double posts and I get slapped.  :-)

I know what you mean, Donna Summer and now Robin Gibb. I am waiting to see who is next.

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Re: Robin Gibb, Bee Gees Co-Founder, Dead at 62
« Reply #8 on: May 20, 2012, 07:34:27 PM »
No you didn't... you're still at -155.
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Re: Robin Gibb, Bee Gees Co-Founder, Dead at 62
« Reply #9 on: May 20, 2012, 07:36:20 PM »
No you didn't... you're still at -155.

Drat! I was hoping you did.  :lmao:

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Re: Robin Gibb, Bee Gees Co-Founder, Dead at 62
« Reply #10 on: May 20, 2012, 07:36:33 PM »
It was only a suggestion.
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Re: Robin Gibb, Bee Gees Co-Founder, Dead at 62
« Reply #11 on: May 20, 2012, 07:39:52 PM »
It was only a suggestion.

Now there are two things I am sad about today.  :bawl:

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Re: Robin Gibb, Bee Gees Co-Founder, Dead at 62
« Reply #12 on: May 20, 2012, 08:12:04 PM »
Lets keep this on topic please.

I grew up listening to him and his brothers and am very sad as well as feeling old.
I know many hated the disco era but his music was so much more then those few years,songs people know without even realizing it was the Bee Gees recording or writing them.

We are losing quickly true artists,those that could stand up and actually sing without the aid of studio tricks.
Feelings and emotions put to music and delivered flawlessly live.

A part of me and my life has died with him.

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Re: Robin Gibb, Bee Gees Co-Founder, Dead at 62
« Reply #13 on: May 20, 2012, 08:35:11 PM »
Lets keep this on topic please.

I grew up listening to him and his brothers and am very sad as well as feeling old.
I know many hated the disco era but his music was so much more then those few years,songs people know without even realizing it was the Bee Gees recording or writing them.

We are losing quickly true artists,those that could stand up and actually sing without the aid of studio tricks.
Feelings and emotions put to music and delivered flawlessly live.

A part of me and my life has died with him.

I loved the Bee Gees. I also think that Barry Gibb is one of the greatest song writers in music history.

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Re: Robin Gibb, Bee Gees Co-Founder, Dead at 62
« Reply #14 on: May 20, 2012, 09:13:50 PM »
RIP Robin....for better or worse, the BeeGees are a good part of my memories growing up.  Matter of fact, I have a Greatest Hits CD in my car.
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Re: Robin Gibb, Bee Gees Co-Founder, Dead at 62
« Reply #15 on: May 20, 2012, 11:23:12 PM »
Didn't Barry also die recently ?
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Re: Robin Gibb, Bee Gees Co-Founder, Dead at 62
« Reply #16 on: May 20, 2012, 11:25:43 PM »
Didn't Barry also die recently ?

No, that was Maurice (He died in 2003). Him and Robin were fraternal twins. Andy Gibb died in the 80's. Barry is the only one left.

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Re: Robin Gibb, Bee Gees Co-Founder, Dead at 62
« Reply #17 on: May 20, 2012, 11:28:07 PM »
No, that was Maurice (He died in 2003). Him and Robin were fraternal twins. Andy Gibb died in the 80's. Barry is the only one left.
I could have sworn there was a Gibb death thread here other than this one in the last 2 to 3 weeks.
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Re: Robin Gibb, Bee Gees Co-Founder, Dead at 62
« Reply #18 on: May 20, 2012, 11:35:01 PM »
I could have sworn there was a Gibb death thread here other than this one in the last 2 to 3 weeks.

I'm not sure. I haven't seen one.

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Re: Robin Gibb, Bee Gees Co-Founder, Dead at 62
« Reply #19 on: May 21, 2012, 04:01:43 AM »
I could have sworn there was a Gibb death thread here other than this one in the last 2 to 3 weeks.

Robin was on death's doorstep about three weeks ago, but came out of the coma he was in.
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Re: Robin Gibb, Bee Gees Co-Founder, Dead at 62
« Reply #20 on: May 21, 2012, 06:11:28 AM »
Lets keep this on topic please.

I grew up listening to him and his brothers and am very sad as well as feeling old.
I know many hated the disco era but his music was so much more then those few years,songs people know without even realizing it was the Bee Gees recording or writing them.

We are losing quickly true artists,those that could stand up and actually sing without the aid of studio tricks.
Feelings and emotions put to music and delivered flawlessly live.

A part of me and my life has died with him.

I confess to loving some disco during the times.  I loved to dance and the BeeGees were one of my favorites to get moving.  Who could sit still if "Stayin' Alive" was playing? 

These losses are depressing and sad.  So much talent gone.     

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Godspeed Robin ^0^