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

Poignant! Barry Gibb: The last Bee Gee goes it alone, by Anthony Mason via @cbsnews http://t.co/f6uhXYFUcH @GibbBarry #resilience :-)
— HallandaleBeachBlog (@hbbtruth) May 26, 2014

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

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

BBC Breakfast: R.J. Gibb on the Titanic music requiem that he and his father Robin have created for the 100th anniversary of the sinking of RMS Titanic. April 12, 2012. http://youtu.be/ZDnR8OhZArQ





RobinGibb video: Robin Gibb discusses his work on The Titanic Requiem (trailer). January 12, 2012. http://youtu.be/6I8Q-maVZyo





RobinGibb video: Robin Gibb - "Don't Cry Alone". March 20, 2012.
http://youtu.be/jY7p1zxBYZI

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.

My last two posts on Robin Gibb both appeared last year, February 12, 2011 and were titled:


a.) 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
http://hallandalebeachblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/robin-gibb-on-sad-state-of-pop-music.html


b.) Robin Gibb and Carola sing "How Deep Is Your Love" on SVT's "Skavlan"; 20-minute interview also!
http://hallandalebeachblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/robin-gibb-and-carola-sing-how-deep-is.html


I urge you to read them and learn more about this amazingly creative and caring man.


One of my favorite record albums that I brought with me from North Miami Beach to IU in the Fall of 1979 and just loved to play -and show-off a bit- whether I was living in my dorm room at Briscoe Quad or in my apt., was an album that friends of a certain musical sophistication never tired of listening to, in large part because no matter where they were from -Fort Wayne, Chicago, Long Island, Kansas City, London, Oman, Santa Monica- they had never heard any of the songs before.


It was great to be the person who had the rarity, which in this case, was an album compilation I'd been given by someone I knew who was a British music producer which consisted of the most-popular songs recorded by The Bee Gees while they were growing-up in Australia, of which this song below is one.


For my friends and I, that album was like the Rosetta Stone of pop music of the previous 25 years, because it gave you an early look at the sounds, rhyming schemes, singing patterns and vocal dering-do of the Brothers Gibb that the world would soon come to know and try to copy once they moved back to Great Britain and began getting international attention.


More importantly, that album gave you the key to unlocking a better understanding of their true genius. And no matter how old the song was or how old they were when recording it, or even sometimes how good or corny the song might really be, there was always that melody and harmony.
ALWAYS!


Today, Robin Gibb and his extended family are very much in our thoughts and prayers in this very trying time.



The Bee Gees "I Was A Lover, A Leader Of Men" 1965
http://youtu.be/U5KR81CCCGg

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/audio/2012/apr/11/robin-gibb-titanic-requiem 


http://www.robingibb.com/ 


http://www.youtube.com/user/robingibb 


http://www.youtube.com/user/bbcbreakfastsalford 

Robin Gibb and Carola sing "How Deep Is Your Love" on SVT's "Skavlan"; 20-minute interview also!

SVT: Carola och Robin Gibb framför "How deep is your love"
Robin Gibb and Carola Häggkvist sing "How Deep Is Your Love" on SVT's "Skalvan", February 2011.
http://svt.se/2.149571/1.2321117/inga-britt_ahlenius_talar_ut_om_fn_och_carola_aterforenas_med_robin_gibb

Frederick Skavlan's TV program on SVT, Skavlan, had popular Swedish singer Carola Häggkvist a.k.a Carola, with singer/composer Robin Gibb, who wrote the songs for Carola's 1986 very popular album, Runaway, which was recorded in Miami.
Here Robin and Carola sing one of the most-popular songs ever recorded, co-written by him, Maurice and Barry, from the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack, How Deep Is Your Love.
This video is available on the SVT Play website until February 12, 2012.

This entire episode of Skavlan from this past week is available at
http://svtplay.se/t/102974/skavlan
It can be seen on the SVT Play website until May 8th.
Robin is the very first guest and the entire interview is in English, with the intro into his segment coming 37 seconds into the program.

The one-and-only original: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpqqjU7u5Yc

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.
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"



BBC'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


BBC'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