I think every songwriter must feel as we do, but somehow no one who has recorded one of our numbers has made as good a job as we had hoped.
"Barry Alan Crompton Gibb", is a musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer who rose to worldwide fame as a founder member of the Bee Gees, one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed groups in the history of popular music. With his brothers, Robin Gibb/Robin and Maurice Gibb/Maurice, he formed a Barry, Robin & Maurice Gibb/songwriting partnership from 1966.
Born in Isle of Man, and raised in Manchester where he became involved in the Skiffle#Skiffle in Britain/skiffle craze, forming his first band, The Rattlesnakes (1955 band)/the Rattlesnakes, which evolved into the Bee Gees in 1960 when they moved to Redcliffe, Queensland, Australia. They returned to England where they achieved worldwide fame. He was also known for his high-pitched falsetto singing voice. Gibb shares the record with John Lennon and Paul McCartney for consecutive Billboard Hot 100/Billboard Hot 100 number ones as a writer with six. Guinness World Records lists Gibb as the second most successful songwriter in history behind Sir Paul McCartney.
If you enjoy these quotes, be sure to check out other famous musicians! More Barry Gibb on Wikipedia.It is not the money but the self-respect and wanting to create good music.
But all bubbles have a way of bursting or being deflated in the end.
We could have been sleeping on park benches now but fortunately everything turned out well, much better than we had ever hoped."
They know that no group lasts forever.
I much prefer staying at home with the wife and kids, watching TV or reading a book.
There were times about five years ago when I literally couldn't get out of bed. I was living in pain.
Well, we're not really doing anything at the moment except writing songs.
I'm the eldest at 51, and if the Stones can drag themselves around once more, then there's a few more albums in us.
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