Showing posts with label Andy Gibb. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Andy Gibb. Show all posts

Monday, May 26, 2014

Poignant! Barry Gibb: The last Bee Gee goes it alone, by Anthony Mason via @cbsnews #SundayMorning; @GibbBarry #resilience :-)






My last post on Robin Gibb and all things Bee Gees was on April 15, 2012, with a nod to the title of their Spirits Having Flown album, which came out right before I turned 18, and was titled: 
Tears soon to be flowing like rivers: Robin Gibb remains near death in a coma in a west London hospital, just days after his 'Titanic Requiem' premiered at Westminster Central Hall on Tuesday http://hallandalebeachblog.blogspot.com/2012/04/tears-soon-to-be-flowing-like-rivers.html


Anthony Mason's interviews with iconic music figures always bring out something special, just like his great piece on Glen Campbell did, which I recounted here on June 26, 2012 in a blog post titled, As a beloved music icon begins to leave the stage for good, due to Alzheimer's, we stop and wonder if a more beautiful song could possibly be sung about two such incongruous words? "Wichita Lineman," et al - Glen Campbell's Long Goodbye makes us so very sad and wistful; see him while you can...
http://hallandalebeachblog.blogspot.com/2012/06/as-beloved-music-icon-begins-to-leave.html

Saturday, February 12, 2011

Robin Gibb on the sad state of pop music -a lot of karaoke!- and raising $ for the RAF Bomber Command Memorial, on BBC's HARDtalk with Stephen Sackur; @StephenSackur @BBCHARDtalk #popstars



BBC's HARDtalk, January 3, 2011

Robin Gibb interviewed by
Stephen Sackur, Part I
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On the army of packaged pop stars created by TV reality shows and how the talented young brothers were better able to handle fame than performers who just sing in part because they were also gifted composers.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbVb8COFOpM
"Natural is better"




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BC's HARDtalk, January 3, 2011

Robin Gibb interviewed by
Stephen Sackur
, Part 2

Robin shows his deep knowledge of pop culture to make some excellent points, and reminds everyone what really killed Andy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IU1UMqsn0g0


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BC's HARDtalk, January 3, 2011

Robin Gibb interviewed by Stephen Sackur, Part 3
Robin discusses big plans in the U.S. next year, and his efforts to see a new national monument erected in London to honor the memories and sacrifices of the RAF Bomber Command forces during WWII, which included men and women from the United States.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-6BPGE8Lbs

To see designs of architect Liam O’Connor plans for the Bomber Command Memorial planned at Hyde Park Corner, near Buckingham Palace, in central London in mid-2011, please see:
http://www.theheritagefoundation.info/index.html



For more information on the Bomber Command Memorial, see:


http://www.theheritagefoundation.info/robingibbtea.html


http://www.rafbombercommand.com/

http://www.rafbombercommand.com/memorialfund/
http://www.theygaveeverything.com/



To contribute now to the Bomber Command Memorial Fund, please send a cheque, payable to 'Bomber Command Association' to:
Doug Radcliffe, MBE
The Secretary, Bomber Command Association
RAF Museum, Grahame Park Way
Hendon, London NW9 5RR
Telephone 020 8358 4841