Robin Gibb Dead at 62

By On 05/20/2012 · 49 Comments · In American Idol

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Via Rollingstone Magazine:

Robin Gibb, one-third of the Bee Gees, died Sunday after a long battle with cancer, his spokesperson has confirmed via a statement. Gibb was 62 years old.

“The family of Robin Gibb, of the Bee Gees, announce with great sadness that Robin passed away today following his long battle with cancer and intestinal surgery,” reads the statement. “The family have asked that their privacy is respected at this very difficult time.”

Two years ago, Gibb battled colon and liver cancer, but despite making what he called a “spectacular recovery,” a secondary tumor recently developed, complicated by a case of pneumonia.

Robin is survived by brother, Barry Gibb. Twin brother, Maurice, died in 2003. The youngest of the Gibb brothers, Andy passed in 1988.

Robin and Barry made an appearance on American Idol in 2010.

RIP Robin.

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  • Incipit

     hillstreetblooz, a perfect song to link. “Everything we are will never die…”

    Those brother’s voices could blend in a way that created an unforgettable sound; how sad for Barry to lose the last of his siblings.

    Sad for me too – another piece of my musical history is gone. RIP Robin. 

  • Anonymous

    Another musical icon is gone… geesh, that’s so depressing.  Thank goodness for recorded music, that we’ll still be able to enjoy true genius for years and decades to come. RIP Robin, one of the greats.

  • Anonymous

    Damn! Clay was amazing on that song!

  • Reflects On Life

    If it happens in 3s, and John Travolta is next (God forbid!), we’ll know that this was the week that Disco Died.

    RIP Robin.  So sad today.
    “How Deep is Your Love” is a song that I sung as a lullaby when putting my kids to bed.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_PSHFTD4YV3QOE3INABJUXZSWMU hillstreetblooz

    I’m just a sentimental old music loving fool at heart… Been a bad couple of years for sentimental old music loving fools … MJ… Whitney… Donna… Robin…Maurice… I even shed a little tear when Gerry Rafferty passed last January – I really liked him too…  *sigh* i’ll be better tomorrow, tonight ima reminiesce, listen to some REAL music by some of these greats, and squeeze a little work i’ve been avoiding in too, lol…  

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_PSHFTD4YV3QOE3INABJUXZSWMU hillstreetblooz

     Seeing that list in black and white… depressing… i know all the cliches – life must go on blahblahblah, but this is sad… we have got to stop snarking and trying to relegate our icons to the scrap heap just because they may not be burning up charts, or looking as cute as they did in their prime. buy their music, listen and learn something from them… we still have a lot of icons and tresures that need to know while they are living how much they are appreciated… i may be old by some folks standards, but i thank goodness i lived in a time when there was respect and reverence for music and the musicians that sang, wrote and recorded it. I hope we will begin remembering that, before the next icon leaves us… tonight ima keep my boogie shoes on, pull out the original vinyl copies of Donna Summer and the Bee Gees – me and my baby are going down memory lane :)

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_SYFK77IYLRQIVATQ2MJKSW2J7Y Pam

    I really hated to come here and see this headline.  Yes, there has been a ton of loss this year.  It’s just truly heartbreaking.  I remember when we got the news of Dick Clark’s death about Robin in the hospital in a coma and the doctors not expecting him to make it and then one day see the headline that he had awoke from his coma and it was said the first thing he asked for was ice cream.  His doctors and the entire family were truly shocked by it.  At the time, I couldn’t help but wonder how much longer he truly had.  I really feel sorry for Barry right now with him being the only one of his four brothers left.  All four brothers had the highest of highs with their chart success and at other times, the lowest of lows at times with drug and alcohol addiction but they were all extremely talented in their own way and you couldn’t help but love their music.

    I send my deepest condolances to Barry and the rest of the Gibb family.   

    Of the entire Bee Gee’s catalog, I suppose this one song that stands out in my mind is this one because we saw it performed on AI during the season 6 HW rounds.

    RIP Robin you will be missed.

    LINK

  • Anonymous

    Don’t forget they were pretty prolific songwriters too…
    RIP
    Prayers are with Barry and the Gibb clan tonight

  • Anonymous

    This makes me so sad.  I love the Bee Gees music.  I was stunned when I read this earlier.  I thought he was recovering.  I read earlier in the thread about how he was blessed to have had the time after waking from his coma so that he could say what he needed to say, and just to have that time with his loved ones.  It was a blessing.  We are blessed that he left a lasting legacy of great music with his brothers.  Only Barry remains.  How sad to watch your siblings go before you, all before their time.  God bless him, and the family.

  • merkureye

    The Bee Gees are one of my favorite groups of all time.  Hard to believe that two-thirds of the group whose sound may have defined the culture of the late 70′s and 80′s are gone (first Maurice ’03 and now Robin).  Fanny Be Tender With My Love and Love So Right are a couple of the pre-Satureday Night Fever songs that I never grow tired hearing.  Robin’s vocals are prominent on early classics like Massachusetts and I Started a Joke.  I loved Robin’s distinctive vocal quality.  It seems in later years Barry was the dominant lead singer.  I always kind of wondered why. I can’t argue with success.

    Songs penned by the Brothers Gibb are innumerable.  If I Can’t Have You-SNF Soundtrack; Woman in Love-Streisand; Hearbreaker-Dionne Warwick; Islands in the Stream-Kenny Rogers/Dolly Parton and on and on. 

    We still have Barry with us but, Robin Gibbs is too soon gone.

    Side note: Barry Gibbs sings falsetto on almost all of BG’s later hits.  Deandre, are you listening?

    I’m feeling, a Bee Gees theme for AI Season 12. 
      @Eileen99:disqus

  • iani

    So sad, few days ago Donna Summer, now another Bee Gees brother, musicians that had a big contributions to create and improve a musical era. The good thing is they go to the place with no pain and sorrow to RIP quietly. I’ve really liked BG’ music, a collection of hit-songs in, but 2 of them have always stood for me from the rest, one is “Tragedy” and this one sung by Robin “Massachusetts”  http://goo.gl/3zYpY. Undeniably a special band with an unique style!

    ETA: Thank you Incipit for the video link, almost 2h of good music. Looking at that list I see another song that I’ve really liked “Too Much Heaven”

  • Guest

    THAT (Clay’s “To Love Somebody”) is one of the absolute MOST BEAUTIFUL songs EVER sung on Idol – whatever anyone thinks of him, his voice cannot be denied as one of the best ever.

  • Anonymous

    RIP Robin.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_PSHFTD4YV3QOE3INABJUXZSWMU hillstreetblooz

    Found this gem… put on those dancing shoes – let’s jam to the Bee Gee’s! Um, Um John Travolta was the MAN after this movie… I think he owes the Bee Gee’s a lot of credit for his career, lol….

    You Should Be Dancing
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JoZS6LgqYI&feature=related

  • getaway1

    This is sad.  I know he fought really hard.  His music will live on.  Best to his family during this difficult time.

  • Anonymous

    Favorite Bee Gees song:” How Can You Mend a Broken Heart”.  Such beautiful harmonies. 

  • Anonymous

    I don’t know; that didn’t go over very well back in Season 6. And yes, DeAndre could learn a lot from the Brothers Gibb (or now, just Barry). It’s been a rough week in our house; my dad loved Donna Summer’s music so much, and my mom is a huge Bee Gees fan.

  • Anonymous

    That’s my favorite one, too; that and “Stayin’ Alive” (it will never get old).

  • Incipit

    The Brothers Gibb -  Prolific songwriters, amazing performers, with an unforgettable sound all their own. This full-length concert was shot at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas on November 14, 1997 and is one of very few Bee Gees performances ever filmed. They do a 30 year retrospective, here’s the set list:

    1. You Should Be Dancing
    2. Alone
    3. Massachusetts
    4. To Love Somebody
    5. I’ve Got To Get A Message To You
    6. Words
    7. Closer Than Close
    8. Islands in the Stream
    9. One
    10. Our Love (Don’t Throw It All Away)
    11. Night Fever/More Than A Woman
    12. Still Waters
    13. Lonely Days
    14. Morning of My Life
    15. New York Mining Disaster 1941
    16. Too Much Heaven
    17. I Can’t See Nobody
    18. Run To Me
    19. And The Sun Will Shine
    20. Nights on Broadway
    21. How Can You Mend A Broken Heart
    22. Heartbreaker
    23. Guilty
    24. Immortality
    25. Tragedy
    26. I Started A Joke
    27. Grease
    28. Jive Talkin’
    29. How Deep Is Your Love
    30. Stayin’ Alive
    31. You Should Be Dancing

    Expect to get chills when Robin does #26 – “I Started a Joke”.

  • http://twitter.com/constance0128 Connie
  • http://twitter.com/constance0128 Connie

    Live By Request Part 1 (of 22) Beautiful show

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1svPGboepj0

  • Anonymous

    This is such sad news. I am a huge fan of the Bee Gees.  RIP Robin.

  • Anonymous

    Love the Bee Gees, love the Gibb brothers….they have their music that will last for sure….AI shld do a tribute to all the music greats who have recently passed….they have had plenty of great music….

  • Axxxel

    Thank you for the clip ! Great  rendition by Clay ! Must have been inspiring for Clay to hear those words from Robin Gibb himself !!! wow !!

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