Robin Gibb DEAD

[The Politics Of Dancing]

http://viptattler.wordpress.com/2012...s-passed-away/

Not another one.

[POP!]

I heard this on ABC news the same time I was reading the title of this thread

Young but considering his health issues he lasted a bit longer than anyone expected

[Agnetha]

As much as we knew this was coming, it's a DISCO WIPEOUT at the moment...

[Star]

Awww

[Agnetha]

STAYIN' ALIVE just came up on random on my iTunes. Beautiful irony.

[chlamydia92]

He wrote How Can You Mend a Broken Heart, didn't he? I do love that song.

RIP.

[RobotBoy]

Awww

I worked with him quite a few times. He was quite a diva, as he should well have been, but a nice guy.

[TurnerPrize]

Aw

I'm having a Bee Gees spotify session in tribute.

[TurnerPrize]

Oh FOR FUCK'S SAKE

His wikipedia page already has a quote about his death from PAUL FUCKING GAMBACCINI

WHEN WILL HE DIE?! Vultures take more time to TURN UP

[Robbie]

They're dropping like flies at the moment.

Possibly the best voice of the Bee Gees, Robin is the one who sang lead vocals on most of their 60s songs.

If you want to hear a good song, listen to New York Mining Disaster 1941. Such a brilliant song.

[POP!]

Notable musician deaths of 2012:

3 January - Bob Weston, Fleetwood Mac guitarist (aged 64)
17 January - Johnny Otis, American singer and musician (aged 90)
20 January - Etta James, Soul Singer (aged 73)
11 February - Whitney Houston, Pop Singer (aged 48)
29 February - Davy Jones, Singer, percussionist of The Monkees (aged 66)
19 April - Greg Ham, flautist Men At Work (aged 58)
19 April - Levon Helm, drummer The Band (aged 71)
4 May - Adam Yauch, rapper, musician Beastie Boys (aged 47)
13 May - Donald "Duck" Dunn, musician, producer, songwriter (aged 70)
16 May - Chuck Brown, singer, musician (aged 75)
17 May - Donna Summer, singer, songwriter (aged 63)
18 May - Peter Jones, drummer Crowded House (aged 45)
20 May - Robin Gibb, singer, songwriter The Bee Gees (aged 62)

[Donna Winter]

Awwww

But as with DEAR DONNA, WHAT a LEGACY to be LEAVING BEHIND

[Donna Winter]

In a moment, we're going to talk to the DJ and JOURNALIST PAUL GAMBACCINI

NO JUST FOR ONCE LET'S FUCKING NOT

*adopts patronising tone as if to impart great wisdom to audience of idiots*
"The Bee Gees had number one hits in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s..."

[Donna Winter]

"GOOD?"

That's a BIT HARSH EVEN FOR HERE

[monsta]

If you thought Michelle Gayle commenting on Amy's death was inexplicable enough, we've just had ANTHONY COSTA leading the tributes on Daybreak.

[Loufoque]

R.I.P.

[Loufoque]

LOVE this remix

[Halli]

Sophia Brown and now Robin

[ameraal]

[Andricicle]

Awww His voice may have been the textbook example of an acquired taste but by jove, did it work magic on some of those sixties miserablist anthems, "I Started a Joke" in particular.

Coincidentally only the past week I played two of his solo albums back-to-back! His cult debut opus Robin's Reign which was apparently near-impossible to find legally for about 40 years until it was finally released on iTunes last year and his 1983 synthpop offering How Old Are You? with "Juliet", smash hit across the continent but a mighty old flop in Britain. I actually prefer its follow-up single "Another Lonely Night in New York", a simply gorgeous song, and the title track (whose lyrics admittedly come dangerously close to being a nonce anthem).

R.I.P. Robin. At least he's reunited with his twin brother in the afterlife, if he should have believed in such a thing.

[Andricicle]

My iPod shuffle has just thrown up "Sir Geoffrey Saved the World", the rather whimsical B-side to "World" with Robin on lead vox.

[Christian]

He was quite a diva, as he should well have been, but a nice guy.

Precisely how I'd imagine him to be to be honest - I'm quite pleased to have it confirmed.

His(/their) legacy truly is stellar. SNF might have firmly posited them in the naff camp but you genuinely cannot argue with the killer tunes they churned out

[Andricicle]

Caught the re-run of the 2001 TOTP2 special on the Bee Gees in tribute of Robin last night. Didn't know that they wrote "Sacred Trust" for Backstreet Boys, but it got rejected by their people! At least it eventually got recorded by their UK equivalents, One True Voice

It's impossible to watch latter-day interview clips of the three of them together and NOT think of Rock Profile though, isn't it? SILENCE NUMBER THREE *wags lion's tail*