Posted on 04/14/2012 11:18:59 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
(Reuters) - Singer Robin Gibb, a founding member of the disco-era hit machine the Bee Gees, is in a coma surrounded by members of his family in a London hospital, British media reported on Saturday.
A spokesman for the 62-year-old, who has been battling cancer and recently contracted pneumonia, was not immediately available to comment on the reports.
"Our prayers are with Robin," an unnamed family friend told the Sun newspaper, which first reported the news.
"He has kept so positive and always believed he could beat this. Sadly, it looks like he has developed pneumonia, which is very bad in his situation."
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Andy Gibb sounded awful in live performances. One can only imagine how that hag Barbara Streisand hung in there on the duet they did. I thought the only time Andy sounded halfway decent was when singing with his brothers who carried him by drowning him out.
I wonder how long until we get to the point where there will no more surviving members of the bands we grew up with?
I am trying to think of any now.....I think all of the original Ramones are gone, other than that I can’t think of any.
Huge fan.. beams and prayers to the Gibbs.
One of my earliest record buys (a 45RPM, of course) was ‘New York Mining Disaster 1941’. It was the first I heard of them, but then they followed with a string of hits before kind of fading by the mid-’70s. ‘Saturday Night Fever’ brought them back to the top with a vengeance. A lot of terrific songs. Everything they touched turned to gold. Here’s a treat from the late ‘60s. That’s Robin singing the opening stanza (which, oddly, was the only stanza he sang in this great song):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGIiJCd3voM&feature=fvsr
Thanks for the great music.
She and Barry Gibb did a duet on "Guilty" the title track from her album of the same name which he wrote and produced.
Andy didn’t sing with Babs.
Barry did.
Brings tears to my eyes....It was a long time ago.
I seem to remember Andy and Babs singing together on a TV show once and Andy was off-key. Maybe I was wrong...
CJ the 2nd bass player is still going strong.
Just pulled that up on Youtube. It’s like I’m 8 years old again. Doesn’t get any better than that.
Part of the soundtrack of my life .. Godspeed Robin
When the Bee Gees were virtually unkown they penned a song for the star Aussie group, the Seekers. However, Judith Durham had already decided to leave the Seekers and pursue s single career so the manager rejected the song without even running it by the Seekers.
So, the Bee Gees decided to record the song themslves and that song, Massachusetts, became a big hit for them.
Prayers up. The brothers Gibb were good singers and song writers.
From 1989 in Melbourne .. outstanding !
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