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Robin Gibb 1949-2012


Robin Gibb, one of three brothers who made up the group the Bee Gees died on Sunday, according to a statement on his website.

He was 62.

Gibb passed away “following his long battle with cancer and intestinal surgery,” said a statement attributed to his family.

Diagnosed with colon and liver cancer, Gibb had been in a coma as he battled pneumonia earlier this spring.

The only surviving member of the three Bee Gees is brother Barry, 65.

Robin’s twin brother, Maurice, died in 2003. And younger brother Andy Gibb — who was not part of the group — died at 30 from a heart infection.

Robin Gibb was born in 1949 on Isle of Man off the British coast, and the Gibb boys grew up in Manchester. The family later moved to Redcliffe, Australia, where their group performed on television as the B.G.’s — a moniker they later altered to the Bee Gees. Their father, Hughie, was a drummer and big-band leader.

The family returned to England in the 1960s, and they began to emerge on an international scale. Through the end of that decade and into the next, they crafted melodies that utilized their unique voices to gain acclaim thanks to songs such as “I Started a Joke,” “To Love Somebody” and “How Can You Mend a Broken Heart.”


By the mid-1970s, they transitioned to develop more dance-oriented hits such as “Jive Talkin’ ” and “Nights on Broadway.”

Yet for all these earlier successes, the Bee Gees skyrocketed to new heights with the 1977 release of “Saturday Night Fever.”

In the latter part of the 1970s, the Bee Gees “dominated dance floors and airwaves. With their matching white suits, soaring high harmonies and polished, radio-friendly records, they remain one of the essential touchstones to that ultra-commercial era,” the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame says on its website.

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