Barry Gibb
Barry Gibb
Barry Alan Crompton Gibb, CBEis a British singer, songwriter and record producer who rose to worldwide fame as a co-founder of the group Bee Gees, one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed groups in the history of popular music. With his brothers, Robin and Maurice Gibb, he formed a songwriting partnership beginning in 1966...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth1 September 1946
silly men being-silly
Maurice was a silly man. Maurice liked being silly.
night records littles
I have a little dictaphone and if a sound takes my fancy or if a lyric comes to me in the middle of the night I'll just record it there and then.
sky people streets
But even now, when people see me in the street, they point upwards to the sky.
men way use
Well, you can tell by the way I use my walk I'm a woman's man, no time to talk.
insecure people insecurity
I've worked with a lot of people who are more famous than myself who are terribly insecure.
criticism prepared
You are never really prepared for criticism.
ego inferiority huge
I have a huge ego and a huge inferiority complex at the same time.
party boring
I'm Mr Boring, not a party-goer at all.
inspirational teenage idols
Everybody is a teenage idol.
way ends bursting
But all bubbles have a way of bursting or being deflated in the end.
mentally stay
I think vocally and mentally we've managed to stay intact, somehow.
I want us to go on making records.
distant dream success
Success like we have now was just a very distant dream in 1971.
good job numbers recorded somehow songwriter
I think every songwriter must feel as we do, but somehow no one who has recorded one of our numbers has made as good a job as we had hoped.