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.
business pop sick though tired
I like every part of the pop business - though I'm sick and tired of back-biters.
bee gees lost
The Bee Gees will not disintegrate because we've lost Mo.
destroyed family maybe
It was a family thing with us and that maybe is what destroyed it.
bee featured gees gift lives matter member point sooner third
We think that at this point in our lives, the sooner we get back to what we think our gift is, is writing songs... Maurice will be a void, always in our lives and he will always be featured as the third member of the Bee Gees, no matter what we do, but one thing I will tell you is that the Bee Gees will go on.
mind
There's still this overriding thing of being commercial, which is always on your mind.
changed cut dairy eat lifestyle meat red
I've changed my lifestyle and diet. I don't eat red meat and I've cut out dairy products.
arrived contract recording
After all, when we arrived in London, we had nothing. We were unknown. We had no recording contract and no work.
conversation inspire strikes words
Anything can inspire me - a conversation, something strikes you about words which can end up being a title.
agony began lower problems
My lower back problems really began in 1989 on the One For All tour, which was agony for me.
bee bubbles burst gees later sooner stop
But sooner or later these bubbles burst anyway, and I would like for the Bee Gees to stop before we wane.
keeping maybe music
Maybe the way to do it is through music - keeping the music alive.
far proper
No one so far has been able to get the proper feel of a song.
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.