Robin Gibb
Robin Gibb
Robin Hugh Gibb, CBEwas a British singer, songwriter and record producer, best known as a member of the group Bee Gees. He gained worldwide fame with his brothers Barry and Maurice Gibb. Their younger brother Andy was also a singer. Gibb joined his first band the Rattlesnakes which formed in Manchester, England...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPop Singer
Date of Birth22 December 1949
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Maurice walked into that place complaining of a stomachache. He had eaten breakfast and hadn't been ill the day before that. They took one x-ray, gave him a painkiller... That was 4 p.m. Thirteen hours later, he was brain dead.
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I left on the Saturday morning. The doctors were saying there was still a chance that they'd get him back. You hope against hope that they're right.
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I hadn't accepted he was seriously ill. The idea that someone so close to you couldn't wake up was utterly incomprehensible. Then the doctor came in... Maurice had no brain left. There wasn't any activity at all.
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The real world was just too real, and we didn't want to be a part of normal life. We wanted to create a magical world for the three of us.
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You're looking at the Bee Gees right now.
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You realize that however much you don't think about death - or think that's for other people - you're just an organism living from day to day. I'm just grateful I'm here.
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One morning I'd woken up about 4 a.m., feeling nauseous. The feeling lasted about an hour. It was at the time Maurice was in hospital with pains in his stomach. It was probably some indication that something was wrong, because I have never, ever had that feeling before.
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We will pursue every factor, every element, every second of the timeline, of the final hours of Maurice's life. We will pursue that relentlessly. That will be our quest from now on.
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In the beginning, Barry and I couldn't decide if we were going got go forward with the name of the Bee Gees or just as Barry and Robin. Now we've decided to continue as the Bee Gees because we feel we can, and Maurice would have wanted it.
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I think for anybody, any family, and I know there are families out there that are going through this even now, that it is the hardest thing in the world. Nobody is ever prepared for it.
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I'd never try to be that distinctive from the Bee Gees' sound. I'm very proud of being a Bee Gee and am always aware that I'll be identified as a Bee Gee.
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Rarely do I attach guilt to something pleasant. Life's too short.
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The Bee Gees, to us, was the three brothers. In Maurice's name, we would respect that and not be the Bee Gees anymore.
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Nobody will ever take Maurice's place, and he'll go on with us and he'll go on our music. He'll go on with us as the Bee Gees, and Maurice will always be with us.