Barry Gibb
Barry Gibb wrote songs that held the number one spot on the American Billboard Hot 100 for 27 of the 37 weeks between the 24th of December 1977 and the 2nd of September 1978. Many of those records were not sung by him. He is a British and American musician, the older brother of a pair of twins, and a founder of one of the most commercially successful groups in popular music. His voice could climb into a piercing falsetto, yet his name often sat in small print on other people's records. This documentary asks how he came to stand behind so many songs. It asks what held three brothers together and what pulled them apart. And it asks what a songwriter does with a lifetime of melodies once the voices that blended with his are gone.
Jane Crookall Maternity Home in Douglas, on the Isle of Man, is where Barry Alan Crompton Gibb was born on the 1st of September 1946. His father Hugh was a drummer who worked in hotels around Douglas. His mother Barbara stayed home with the children. Both parents were natives of Manchester, and Barry had an older sister named Lesley Evans. His middle name honoured his father's youngest brother, who had died in infancy. Hugh liked to say that the name Crompton honoured an ancestor called Sir Isaac Crompton. The ancestor was actually Samuel Crompton, so even the family legend mixed fact with fiction.
A hot teapot nearly ended Barry's life before he turned two. His mother had just set it on the table, and he reached up and knocked it over. He spent about two and a half months in Nobles Hospital. Years later he said that gangrene set in and that he had perhaps 20 minutes to live at one point. Medicine of that era, he explained, had no skin grafts for a scald like his. The stranger part was what he could not recall. Of those two years he said, "I've got the scars but I have no knowledge."
On the 22nd of December 1949, his brothers Robin and Maurice were born. The family moved often around Douglas, from Chapel House on Strang Road to 50 St. Catherine's Drive, then to Smedley Cottage in Spring Valley. In 1952 they settled for two years at 43 Snaefell Road in Willaston. Barry began at Braddan School on the 4th of September 1951, three days after his fifth birthday. On his seventh birthday in 1953 he started at Desmesne Road Boys School, one of several classrooms he passed through before the family left the island.
The Rattlesnakes were a skiffle group, and Barry sang and played lead and slide guitar in it. Robin and Maurice sang and played acoustic guitar, while their friends and neighbours Paul Frost and Kenny Horrocks added vocals. By 1957 the group played songs by Cliff Richard, Paul Anka, Buddy Holly and the Everly Brothers. Their first professional gig took place on the 28th of December 1957 at the Gaumont Cinema. Barry said the first song they ever played was Paul Anka's "I Love You, Baby". In 1968, however, he remembered it as the Everly Brothers' "Wake Up Little Susie".
Around 1958, Paul Frost accidentally broke Barry's guitar, which he described as "broken in the middle". By May 1958 the family had moved to Northern Grove, and Frost and Horrocks left the group. The brothers renamed themselves Wee Johnny Hayes and the Blue Cats. Under that name they appeared in Minor 15, a talent contest for under-fifteens at the Princess Club in Chorlton. It ran on Thursday nights from 7:00 to 9:00 pm.
At the beginning of August 1958, the Gibbs sailed from Southampton to Australia aboard the ship Fairsea, under an assisted migration scheme. Red Symons, a future guitarist with Skyhooks, was on board. So were the parents of Kylie Minogue. In 1959 the brothers began singing between races at the Redcliffe Speedway to earn money. Their voices caught the ear of a radio deejay named Bill Gates. After hearing Barry's own songs "Let Me Love You" and "(Underneath the) Starlight of Love", Gates asked for more.
Barry quit school in September 1961, and the family moved to Surfers Paradise. The brothers spent the summers of 1961 and 1962 playing hotels and clubs around the Gold Coast. By September 1962 Barry had auditioned songs for Col Joye. At the start of 1963 the family moved to Sydney, where the group signed to Festival and was assigned to its Leedon label. Their first single, "The Battle of the Blue and the Grey", was written by Barry. He wrote every one of the group's singles from 1963 to 1966.
Other Australian singers soon wanted his songs too. In July 1963 Lonnie Lee recorded "I'd Like To Leave If I May", said to be the first rock and roll recording of a Barry Gibb song. Radio preferred the flip side. In 1964 Jimmy Little took Barry's "One Road" to number 2 on the New South Wales chart and number 32 on the Kent Music Report. Bryan Davies reached number 25 on the New South Wales chart with "I Just Don't Like to Be Alone". Trevor Gordon, Noeleen Batley, Anne Shelton, April Byron, Ronnie Burns and Lori Balmer also recorded his work. In 1966 Radio 5KA gave Barry its award for the best composition of the year, for "I Was a Lover, A Leader of Men".
On the 24th of February 1967, the Bee Gees passed a live audition with Robert Stigwood and signed to his organisation. That same day, Polydor released "Spicks and Specks" as a single in the United Kingdom. Stigwood became the group's manager, and drummer Colin Petersen and lead guitarist Vince Melouney joined the line-up. Their first international LP was Bee Gees' 1st. Its second single, "To Love Somebody", featured Barry on lead vocal. It has since been covered by hundreds of artists.
On the 30th of March 1967, Pete Townshend led Barry through London's Speakeasy Club to meet John Lennon. Lennon was still wearing his outfit from that day's Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band photo shoot. Townshend announced the introduction, and Lennon answered "Howyadoin'" and went back to his conversation. Barry laughed about it later. "So I met John Lennon's back", he said, "I didn't meet his front."
Fame came at a cost. In 1967, Barry and Robin collapsed from nervous exhaustion on a flight from Australia to Turkey. On the 23rd of December they left England for Australia again. Barry joked that because of the time difference they arrived on Christmas Day, so "we missed Christmas Eve altogether!" They spent the holiday with Stigwood's family. At the start of 1968 the brothers were competing to steer the group's sound, and the strain showed in the studio and on stage. That year they made their first US television appearances, on The Smothers Brothers Show and The Ed Sullivan Show, to promote Horizontal.
The break came in 1969. Robin announced his solo plans, and the group released "Tomorrow Tomorrow", its first single without him. In the summer Petersen left, which left only Barry and Maurice. Pentangle drummer Terry Cox helped record another 12 songs, but only five appeared on the album. The group announced its split at the start of December 1969. Barry spent January 1970 writing songs for a solo album to record the following month.
That album, The Kid's No Good, never came out. Its single "I'll Kiss Your Memory" missed the charts in both the UK and the US, though it reached number 16 in the Netherlands. The remaining songs surfaced only on bootlegs. In April 1970 Cucumber Castle was released, with only Barry and Maurice. That July Barry gave a magazine interview in Australia and said, "Obviously, we're still brothers, but we are no longer as a group". He also said he hoped to act and had received offers.
His private life shifted in the same stretch. He had married Maureen Bates on the 22nd of August 1966, when he was 19, and the couple divorced in July 1970. While taping the BBC's Top of the Pops, he met the former Miss Edinburgh Linda Gray. They married on the 1st of September 1970, his 24th birthday. They have five children, including Stephen, and seven grandchildren.
The brothers reunited in August 1970, and "Lonely Days" and "How Can You Mend a Broken Heart" came out of their first reunion session. The second song, released in 1971, became the group's first American number one. By 1972 Barry had put aside any idea of a parallel solo career and committed himself fully to the band.
In 1973 the Bee Gees moved to Robert Stigwood's RSO Records, but Stigwood doubted the direction their music was taking. Jerry Wexler and Ahmet Ertegun of Atlantic Records suggested a fix. Stigwood sent the group to Atlantic producer and arranger Arif Mardin, who produced their 1974 album. At the start of 1975 they moved to Miami, at the suggestion of Eric Clapton, to record with Mardin at Criteria Studios. The first song to feature Barry's falsetto was "Nights on Broadway", released that year.
The next four years turned the Gibbs into the most successful writers on the charts. In 1976 Barry wrote "I Just Want to Be Your Everything", the first US number one for his younger brother Andy, and sang backup on it. Andy's "Shadow Dancing", credited to all four Gibb brothers, later reached number one as well. In November 1977 the film Saturday Night Fever opened. Its soundtrack became the best-selling soundtrack of all time and passed 50 million copies. It remained the top-selling album until Michael Jackson's Thriller.
The chart statistics from that time are startling. In 1977, five songs Barry wrote entered the Top Ten of the Billboard Hot 100 at once. For one week in March, four of the five biggest songs were his. In 1978, the Bee Gees' "Stayin' Alive" was replaced at number one by Andy's "Love Is Thicker Than Water". Then came the Bee Gees' "Night Fever" for seven weeks, their longest run. After it came "If I Can't Have You", recorded by Yvonne Elliman.
Stigwood also commissioned Barry to write the title song for his film and stage musical Grease. Frankie Valli recorded it, with guitar work from Peter Frampton, and it went to number one in the US. In July 1978 the film Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band appeared, with Barry playing a character named Mark Henderson. After the Bee Gees' 1979 Spirits Having Flown Tour, Barry turned to his brother's career. He wrote, produced and sang on almost all of the songs on Andy's album After Dark, released at the start of 1980.
In October 1980, Barbra Streisand's album Guilty arrived, produced by the Gibb-Galuten-Richardson team. Its lead single "Woman in Love" came out in August and reached number one in the US within five weeks. Barry and Streisand sang two duets, "Guilty" and "What Kind of Fool". The first reached the US Top 5, and the second reached the Top 10 and topped the adult contemporary chart. In September 1980 he had also produced three new songs for Andy Gibb's Greatest Hits.
The Bee Gees' own 1981 album Living Eyes was not a disco record, and it was not a commercial success. In 1982, Clive Davis asked Barry to write for Dionne Warwick, who was on his Arista label. Barry produced her album Heartbreaker and wrote every song on it except "Our Day Will Come". In August 1983 he met Kenny Rogers, who asked for songs, and Barry recorded a demo called "Eyes That See in the Dark". That month he produced Rogers' album of the same name. It included "Islands in the Stream", a duet with Dolly Parton that became one of the best-selling singles in country music. In 2009 it reached number one in the UK as the Comic Relief single.
In August 1983, Irving Azoff signed Barry to MCA Records for North America on a multi-album deal worth a few million dollars. His album Now Voyager appeared in September 1984. "Shine, Shine" reached the US Top 40, and "Fine Line" peaked at number 50 on the dance charts. A film of the same name starred Barry, directed by Storm Thorgerson, with actor Michael Hordern as his guide through a confusing world between life and death. His next album, Moonlight Madness, went unreleased, though most of its songs appeared later in 1988.
Other artists kept coming. In 1985 Barry recorded demos for Diana Ross's album Eaten Alive and co-wrote most of Robin's album Walls Have Eyes. In 1987 he co-wrote "Up the Revolution" for Elton John. In 2002 he and Michael Jackson recorded "All in Your Name". Barry said Jackson once stayed at his Miami house for a while and would sit in the kitchen, giggling at TV coverage of the fans outside his hotel. "We would just sit around and write and get drunk", Barry recalled. In 2005 he produced new songs for Streisand again.
The list of singers who have recorded his compositions is long. It includes José Feliciano, Celine Dion, Al Green, Janis Joplin, Roy Orbison, Elvis Presley, Nina Simone and Luther Vandross. Barry has written or co-written sixteen Billboard Hot 100 number ones. His songs reached number one in the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s and 2000s.
Maurice Gibb died suddenly on the 12th of January 2003. Ten months later Barry produced two songs for Cliff Richard, "I Cannot Give You My Love" and "How Many Sleeps?", adding backing vocals and guitar. Maurice's keyboard work from a 2001 demo was included in the finished versions. In January 2005, Barry and Robin recorded vocals for the charity single "Grief Never Grows Old", for victims of the Indian Ocean tsunami of the 26th of December 2004.
On the 7th of December 2006, Barry joined 4,500 other musicians in a full-page Financial Times advertisement. It urged the British Government to extend the 50-year copyright on sound recordings. The campaign proposed the American standard of 95 years, and it answered the Gowers Review published the day before. Earlier that year, in January 2006, Barry had bought the former Hendersonville, Tennessee, home of Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash. He planned a songwriting retreat there, but the house burned down on the 10th of April 2007 while under renovation. A new house was built, and the property was sold in 2014. Barry has lived mainly in the US since 1974, and he and Linda became US citizens in 2009 while keeping their British citizenship.
On the 14th of March 2009, Barry and Olivia Newton-John gave the one-hour finale at Sound Relief, a 12-hour concert at the Sydney Cricket Ground. It raised money for victims of the February 2009 Victorian bushfires. In late 2009 Barry and Robin announced plans to record and perform together once more as the Bee Gees. On the 21st of February 2012, Barry played his first solo concert in the US, at the Seminole Hard Rock Cafe in Florida. His son Steve played lead guitar, and Maurice's daughter Samantha joined him on "How Can You Mend a Broken Heart". Barely three months later, on the 20th of May 2012, Robin died. Barry was the only Gibb brother still living.
He went on stage anyway. On the 27th of July 2012 he made his debut at the Grand Ole Opry, singing three songs with Ricky Skaggs. In 2013 the Mythology Tour began in Australia, with Steve and Samantha beside him. For the first time on stage he sang "Playdown", "Every Christian Lion Hearted Man Will Show You", "I Started a Joke" and "With the Sun in My Eyes". On the 21st of December 2013 he made a surprise appearance at the end of a Barry Gibb Talk Show skit on Saturday Night Live, where Paul McCartney embraced him. In a 2014 interview with the Mirror, Barry said he was still mourning Robin. He credited his wife Linda and McCartney with helping him recover.
In June 2016 he was due to play the Glastonbury Festival's "legend" spot but withdrew over a family illness. He sang "To Love Somebody" and "Stayin' Alive" with Coldplay instead, and he played the legend slot himself on the 25th of June 2017. His second solo album, In the Now, arrived on the 7th of October 2016 on Columbia Records. It was his first all-new album since the Bee Gees' This Is Where I Came In in 2001. Barry's sons Stephen and Ashley co-wrote it, and John Merchant produced it.
In November 2020 he announced Greenfields, a duets album with country artists including Dolly Parton, Little Big Town and Alison Krauss. Eleven of its songs were Bee Gees tracks reimagined as country, and one was a Barry song never released before. "Words of a Fool", featuring Jason Isbell, was written in 1986 for an album that never came out. Barry explained his turn to Nashville simply: "Since my brothers passed, I've been able to be self-indulgent. I've been able to go where I love the music."
Roy Orbison's "Crying" struck Barry like nothing before it. "That was it", he said. "To me that was the voice of God." Earlier idols in the Rattlesnakes years included Tommy Steele and the Mills Brothers. The Bee Gees admitted that they once sang in the style of the Everly Brothers and then added a third harmony. That experiment produced "New York Mining Disaster 1941" in 1967. Barry also called Frankie Valli one of the hallmark voices of his generation.
The awards began in 1994, when Barry and his brothers entered the Songwriters Hall of Fame. In 1997 the Bee Gees were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Their citation said that only Elvis Presley, the Beatles, Michael Jackson, Garth Brooks and Paul McCartney had outsold them. Guinness World Records ranks Barry second among the most successful songwriters in history, behind McCartney. He shares with John Lennon and McCartney the record of six consecutive Billboard Hot 100 number ones. In 2007, Q magazine placed him at number 38 on its list of the 100 Greatest Singers.
His Grammy record counts six wins from 15 nominations across his work with the Bee Gees, as a solo artist and as a songwriter and producer. He also holds two honorary Grammys. "How Can You Mend a Broken Heart" earned a nomination in 1972, and "Stayin' Alive" collected several in 1979. Australian musician David Campbell compared him to Brian Wilson, saying Barry's melodies made the songs timeless.
The royal honours came in 2002, when the three brothers were named Commanders of the Order of the British Empire. On the 2nd of May 2004, Barry and Robin received theirs at Buckingham Palace. Their nephew Adam accepted Maurice's award on his late father's behalf. On the 10th of July 2009, all three brothers were made Freemen of the Borough of Douglas, the town where Barry was born. In the 2018 New Year Honours he was made a Knight Bachelor. On the 27th of January 2022 he became an Honorary Companion of the Order of Australia, and the same year the three brothers entered the Australian Songwriters Hall of Fame.
In December 2023, Barry was honoured at the 46th Annual Kennedy Center Honors as a pop music pioneer. The following year he turned to pre-production of a planned Bee Gees biographical film, serving as its executive producer.
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Who is Barry Gibb?
Barry Gibb is a British and American musician, born on the 1st of September 1946 in Douglas on the Isle of Man. He is a founder of the Bee Gees with his younger twin brothers Robin and Maurice, and he is known for his falsetto and his songwriting.
When was Barry Gibb born and where did he grow up?
Barry Gibb was born on the 1st of September 1946 at Jane Crookall Maternity Home in Douglas, Isle of Man. The family later lived in Manchester and then, from August 1958, in Australia.
How many Billboard number ones has Barry Gibb written?
Barry Gibb has written or co-written sixteen Billboard Hot 100 number ones. He shares the record of six consecutive number ones with John Lennon and Paul McCartney.
What happened to Barry Gibb's brothers Robin and Maurice?
Maurice Gibb died suddenly on the 12th of January 2003, and Robin Gibb died on the 20th of May 2012. After Robin's death, Barry Gibb was the only surviving Gibb brother.
What solo albums has Barry Gibb released?
Barry Gibb's studio albums are Now Voyager in 1984, In the Now in October 2016 and Greenfields in January 2021. Greenfields is a country duets album with artists including Dolly Parton, Alison Krauss and Little Big Town.
Which honours has Barry Gibb received?
Barry Gibb was appointed a CBE in 2002 and made a Knight Bachelor in the 2018 New Year Honours. He was also made an Honorary Companion of the Order of Australia on the 27th of January 2022 and became a Kennedy Center honoree in 2023.
Which artists did Barry Gibb produce or write for?
Barry Gibb produced albums for Andy Gibb, Barbra Streisand, Dionne Warwick, Kenny Rogers and Diana Ross. His production of Kenny Rogers' album included the Dolly Parton duet "Islands in the Stream".
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