Many happy returns to the toothsome Barry Gibb - 65 years old today!
With brothers Robin and the late Maurice, the Bee Gees were at one time completely unstoppable in their dominance of the charts - with the world-beating Saturday Night Fever album, their work with Mega-Babs, Miss Ross and Dionne Warwick, together with hugely successful songs such as Emotion by Samantha Sang and Islands In The Stream (Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers), and myriad cover versions of their own classics like How Deep is Your Love?, the trio remain in the top ten of the best-selling artists of all time across the world.
By way of a little tribute, here's one of my favourite later songs by the mega-group, You Win Again:
Facts about Barry Gibb:
- Often referred to as "Australian", he and his brothers were actually born on the Isle of Man and were brought up in Chorlton-cum-Hardy in Manchester.
- Unlike many contemporaries in the pop and rock world, Barry and Linda Gibb remain happily married after 41 years.
- As a songwriter Mr Gibb has had No.1 songs in the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s and 2000s, when (Barry) Islands in the Stream became Number 1 in the UK as the Comic Relief single for 2009.
Barry Gibb official website
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