It’s almost a week since President Obama won a second term so it’s about time I loaded up a relevant song to The Roxborogh Report to mark the occasion. I’ve gone with what became the campaign theme song, Bruce Springsteen’s We Take Care Of Our Own from his most recent album Wrecking Ball. The song…
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Barry Gibb & Spirituality: One Of His Most Emotional, Revealing Interviews
One of the most beautiful albums in the Gibb cannon, 1981’s Living Eyes. Two days on and the feedback from Barry Gibb’s interview on Sunday evening’s episode of The Two has been overwhelming. That said, it’s fair to say that after all previous interviews I’ve done with Barry stretching back to 2005 (this is interview #5), the response…
The Greatest Album The Band Never Recorded – Bee Gee Barry Gibb Joins ‘The Two’.
This Sunday evening’s episode of The Two (Newstalk ZB, 9pm-midnight) features my biggest hero as our special guest. Barry Gibb is the last man standing; the only surviving Gibb brother; a man who has experienced success so astonishing as to make him the second most successful pop songwriter in history after Paul McCartney (according to…
How To Win Over People Ignorant About The Bee Gees
The good news: Barry Gibb has included a concert in Napier, New Zealand on February 23rd as part of his Mythology world tour. The bad news: Idiots still have access to the internet. I know I shouldn’t get defensive about online nonsense written about the Gibbs, but every now and then it’s fun to engage…
Barry Gibb’s First Solo Tour – The Time The Bee Gees Did Simon & Garfunkel Better Than Simon & Garfunkel
With advance tickets to Barry Gibb’s first solo concert tour (Australia, February next year) having just gone on sale, I couldn’t not draw attention (yet again) to one of the lesser known treasures in the Gibb catalogue. The Mythology tour will be tinged with sadness with Barry coming to terms with the fact he is…
Barry Gibb At The Grand Ole Opry – An Emotional ‘How Can You Mend A Broken Heart’
Barry Gibb at the Grand Ole Opry Barry Gibb: “He brought me through the darkness and I’m smiling.” After much speculation about what three songs Barry Gibb would perform in his debut appearance at Nashville’s Grand Ole Opry, he showed what has always been the case with his writing: that a great song is a…
Barry Gibb At The Grand Ole Opry – The Top 10 Bee Gees Country Songs
A few hours ago the last surviving Bee Gee, Barry Gibb, walked off the the most hallowed stage in country music, the Grand Ole Opry. He performed three songs alongside country star Ricky Skaggs and received a standing ovation. As far as late career moves go, this is a home-run for Gibb. No other A-list…
The Meaning Of Don Henley’s ‘The End Of The Innocence’
On last night’s episode of The Two (myself and Pam Corkery, Newstalk ZB, Sundays 9pm-midnight) we ended the show with Don Henley’s melancholy masterpiece, The End Of The Innocence. The reason being was Henley’s 65th birthday and the fact it has always being my favourite of his solo works, but there’s also something about The…
Bee Gee Robin Gibb’s Sad, Beautiful Funeral
Barry Gibb laying a rose for brother Robin A few hours ago Bee Gee Robin Gibb was finally laid to rest with his funeral in Thame in Oxfordshire. The only surviving Gibb brother Barry spoke and spoke beautifully, his voice trembling with emotion. Barry talked of his brother’s “magnificent mind and beautiful heart,” who was…
Robin Gibb Dies – The Fight For The Bee Gees’ Legacy
I heard the news about Robin Gibb yesterday without even reading his name or that of the Bee Gees. On holiday in Bali, I borrowed a friend’s iPhone and checked my Facebook for the first time in a couple of days and saw I had dozens of notitifications of condolences. The first one I read said…
Donna Summer Dead At 63 – Her Finest Forgotten Song
Yet another music great has died and died too soon with Donna Summer succumbing just a few hours ago to cancer at the age of 63. In a refreshingly un-rock star finale, her life ended as a happily married grandmother with a devout Christian faith. But make no mistake, Summer was a rock-star, with a…
Death Of Levon Helm – 3 Stunning Songs
Just as Robin Gibb of the Bee Gees clings on to life, we recently learned that Levon Helm from The Band has lost his battle with cancer at the age of 71. For a group filled with such Americana, Helm was the only member who was actually from the States, with the rest Canadians….
