Robin Gibb

The Bee Gees’ 40 greatest songs – ranked!

As their worst album, Life in a Tin Can, turns 50, we celebrate the best of a catalogue that spans post-Beatles experimentalism, elegiac psychedelia – and, of course, disco

Alexis Petridis

19, Jan, 2023 @1:50 PM

The Joy of the Bee Gees review – a song of constant reinvention

Lucy Mangan: The Gibb brothers’ saga could have been filled with an endless parade of hits, never mind their turbulent life stories

Lucy Mangan

20, Dec, 2014 @7:00 AM

Robin Gibb's last recorded song to feature on new album

Entitled 50 St Catherine’s Drive, after the house on the Isle of Man where he was born, the album compiled includes his final, unfinished composition, Sydney

Guardian music

31, Jul, 2014 @3:41 PM

Barry Gibb of the Bee Gees: 'I want to keep the music alive'

Barry Gibb is the last surviving Bee Gee – and he's given up retirement to go back on tour. He talks about the backlash to Saturday Night Fever, his troubled relationships with his brothers and how drugs helped shape their distinctive sound

Alexis Petridis

18, Jul, 2013 @6:30 PM

2012 review: notable deaths in music

See what the Guardian had to say about over 30 notable musicians who died this year - from Whitney Houston and Adam Yauch to Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Dave Brubeck and Ravi Shankar

Caspar Llewellyn Smith

24, Dec, 2012 @9:00 AM

Robin Gibb's family planning public memorial

Life of Bee Gees singer to be celebrated in service at St Paul's Cathedral, London, in September

Sean Michaels

28, May, 2012 @10:16 AM

Long live disco

Dancefloor pioneers Donna Summer and Robin Gibb both died recently, but the beat goes on – disco has become the foundation of modern pop

Dorian Lynskey

21, May, 2012 @5:55 PM

Robin Gibb: Twitter salutes the Bee Gees singer

Justin Timberlake and Mick Hucknall are among the famous fans to pay their respects to the late Bee Gee

21, May, 2012 @12:01 PM

Robin Gibb: 'I don't sing with my voice, I sing with my heart' – a classic interview from 1969

To mark the sad death of Robin Gibb, we visit Rock's Backpages – the world's leading archive of vintage music journalism – for this interview with him by Keith Altham, first published after the Bee Gees' temporary split in August 1969 in Top Pops

Keith Altham

21, May, 2012 @10:39 AM

The Bee Gees embodied the decade of hardcore glamour for men

The passing of Robin Gibb brought the 70s rushing back to me in all its snake-hipped, elaborately coiffed glory, writes the Invisible Woman

Invisible Woman

21, May, 2012 @9:45 AM

Robin Gibb, pioneer of disco, dies at 62

Bee Gee who notched up dozens of hits both with his brothers and solo dies after a protracted struggle against cancer

Ben Quinn

21, May, 2012 @12:27 AM

Robin Gibb – a life in pictures

One-third of the Bee Gees and a singer-songwriter who helped to turn disco into a global phenomenon has died aged 62

21, May, 2012 @12:25 AM

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