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
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.
damaged unknown
Unknown to myself, I damaged all my joints.
determined fell home honor incredible love musical plan preserve songs spiritual
This place will always be the spiritual home for the Cashes. My wife, Linda, and I are determined to preserve it, to honor their memory. We fell in love with it; it's an incredible honor for us. We plan to use the home to write songs because of the musical inspiration.
bed five literally living
There were times about five years ago when I literally couldn't get out of bed. I was living in pain.
conversation inspire strikes words
Anything can inspire me - a conversation, something strikes you about words which can end up being a title.
arrived contract recording
After all, when we arrived in London, we had nothing. We were unknown. We had no recording contract and no work.
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.
mentally stay
I think vocally and mentally we've managed to stay intact, somehow.
I want us to go on making records.
causes wrists
Fortunately I can still play the guitar, but I have to strap my wrists up to give them support. It's the twisting of the wrist that causes the pain, so it's OK.
distant dream success
Success like we have now was just a very distant dream in 1971.
family married
But I always wanted to get married and have a family even when I was 13.
destroyed family maybe
It was a family thing with us and that maybe is what destroyed it.