Robin Gibb
Robin Gibb
Robin Hugh Gibb, CBEwas a British singer, songwriter and record producer, best known as a member of the group Bee Gees. He gained worldwide fame with his brothers Barry and Maurice Gibb. Their younger brother Andy was also a singer. Gibb joined his first band the Rattlesnakes which formed in Manchester, England...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPop Singer
Date of Birth22 December 1949
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You realize that however much you don't think about death - or think that's for other people - you're just an organism living from day to day. I'm just grateful I'm here.
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I was being kept abreast of everything by phone, phoned almost by the hour, so I knew everything that was going on... I still can't come to terms with it now. It's just almost like a dream. It's like a nightmare that you wake up to every day. That's all we can say. It's just devastating. It's going to take a long time even just for it to sink in.
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I refuse to believe my brother is dead.
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I hadn't accepted he was seriously ill. The idea that someone so close to you couldn't wake up was utterly incomprehensible. Then the doctor came in... Maurice had no brain left. There wasn't any activity at all.
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I left on the Saturday morning. The doctors were saying there was still a chance that they'd get him back. You hope against hope that they're right.
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I can't accept that he's dead. I just imagine he's alive somewhere else. Pretend is the right word. Pretend is where I'm at.
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I couldn't stay there. I still find Miami very hard, because from my dock I can see the hospital. I can't stand there and look at it.
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It makes us feel better that everyone out there is thinking of Maurice.
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The illness, and the untimely death of my brothers, has made me conscious of the fact that - rather than just think about it - it's crucial that you do today what you want to do.
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We're both devastated. We've actually been in shock for the last few days since Maurice was taken ill, and so this has all gone too fast for us.
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I don't like rock opera with back beats.
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I don't know what 'home' or 'abroad' is any more.
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You know, we'd just had a birthday, he was... you know, he still had a future out of him, and all I can is he was just one of the most beautiful people in the world... a very gifted man, and it's a loss to the world, not just for us.
kissing giving miracle
We said we'd fly the flag without him and carry on. I didn't give him a kiss because I still hadn't accepted what was happening. I was hoping that some miracle was going to happen. Of course, it didn't. I wish I had kissed him now.