Here are 25 reasons, records and scarcely believable achievements to make seeing the sole surviving Bee Gee Barry Gibb on his six date North American tour a no-brainer. While emotional, the Mythology Tour is far from maudlin and is more-so a celebration of the incredible legacy of all the brothers, Barry, Robin, Maurice and Andy Gibb….
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45 Years Since The Bee Gees Released 1 Of The Great Double LPs Of The 60s, ‘Odessa’
Barry Gibb’s Mythology tour begins its US leg this month – see below for details. It’s the first of May so it would be rude not to play the Bee Gees 1969 UK top 10 hit of the same name. First Of May was the only single released from the Bee Gees Odessa album –…
Sophie Madeleine Covers The Bee Gees ‘You Win Again’ – Why This Is Complex, Unusual Pop Music
Sophie Madeleine. To celebrate Barry Gibb’s announcement of his first solo American concert dates, here’s a charming little cover of the Bee Gees 1987 UK #1 hit You Win Again. Performed by British singer Sophie Madeleine in 2011, it was part of her 30 Covers 30 Days project. On her YouTube site she explains: “Being…
The Real Barry Gibb Appears On The Barry Gibb Talk Show: The Symbolism Of It All + What He Was Wearing Around His Neck
Justin Timberlake (Robin Gibb), Barry Gibb & Jimmy Fallon (Barry Gibb). *SEE JANUARY 6TH UPDATE BELOW. Christmas has come early, the real Barry Gibb has just performed on the beloved Saturday Night Live skit The Barry Gibb Talk Show. And what was he wearing around his neck? The pounamu (greenstone) he was given in New…
20 Years Since The Bee Gees ‘For Whom The Bell Tolls’ – Their Finest Post-Fever Song?
Maurice, Barry and Robin Gibb – 1993. This November marked 20 years since the Bee Gees released one of the strongest ballads of their career with a song that – had it not been for the likes of Mr Blobby – may’ve even been a UK Christmas #1. As it turned out, the brothers had…
When David Frost Took On Margaret Thatcher – My Tribute Plus A Poignant Bee Gees Song
Sir David Frost with Richard Nixon – 1977. Just 15 minutes before the end of last night’s episode of The Two we heard the sad news that one of the finest British broadcasters of them all – Sir David Frost – had died of a heart attack aged 74. Pam and I were already planning…
Kenny Rogers’ 75th Birthday – 2 Songs The Bee Gees Wrote For Him Just As Good As ‘Islands In The Stream’
Barry Gibb & Kenny Rogers, 1983. A quick post to say Happy 75th birthday to Kenny Rogers for yesterday and to draw your attention to two of the other songs (aside from Islands In The Stream) from his Bee Gees’ written album Eyes That See In The Dark. 30 years ago Rogers teamed up with…
The Great Shame Of The New Bee Gees Biography, Plus 10 Of The Best Post Disco-Era Gibb Songs
Maurice, Robin & Barry Gibb – 1979. I can’t let this slide, I’m sorry. Half-way through David N. Meyer’s new and “definitive” biography on the Bee Gees I was thinking that despite the constant factual errors and the presumptions, it was gripping writing and unique analysis. I even contacted the author to point out several…
Barry Gibb Reveals Who He’d Most Like To Write A Hit With
Barry Gibb was recently asked who’d he like to co-write a number one hit with, answering either Chris Martin from Coldplay or Paul McCartney. In England to accept a lifetime achievement award from the Nordoff Robbins 02 Silver Clef Awards, Barry also did several interviews promoting the September UK / Ireland leg of his Mythology tour. In…
Where To Stay In Sydney & Melbourne If You Love Historic Hotels
Melbourne’s Hotel Windsor. Yesterday the Herald On Sunday published two of my articles in a very swish looking two-page spread. I’ve been ducking across the Tasman a bit lately and figured it might be fun to seek out a couple of not just luxurious hotels, but places with genuine points of difference. Click here for…
The Bee Gees 1972-74 – A Hidden Gem From Their Most Forgotten Era
For Anzac day I was trying to think of an appropriate song and funnily enough, a Bee Gees song popped on my iPod and there it was, the perfect song. A slow, almost genteel acoustic ballad, King And Country ranks as one of the Gibbs’ great forgotten works from their transition period in the early…
Andy Gibb With A Country / Pop Song John Denver Would’ve Been Proud Of
I wrote a post yesterday about it being 25 years this week since the death of Andy Gibb and mentioned that many music fans might be surprised to learn much of his songwriting was in the country vein. This taps into the endless frustration I have with people’s idiotic appraisal of late 70s music in…
