There’s only one Bee Gee left, and today, he turns 80.
Barry Gibb started singing with his twin brothers, Robin and Maurice, back when they were kids performing as The Rattlesnakes in the mid-1950s. The name changed to the Bee Gees once the family landed in Australia in 1958, but real fame didn’t hit until they moved back to England years later. Then came disco, and suddenly three brothers from the Isle of Man were behind some of the most recognizable songs ever made: “Stayin’ Alive,” “Night Fever,” “How Deep Is Your Love,” all of it powering the “Saturday Night Fever” soundtrack that basically became the sound of the late ’70s.
Here’s the part a lot of people miss, though: Gibb wasn’t just writing hits for his own band. He handed “Islands in the Stream” to Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton. He wrote “Emotion” for Destiny’s Child, “Chain Reaction” for Diana Ross, and the “Grease” title track for Frankie Valli. He was quietly stacking up hits for other people the whole time the Bee Gees were stacking up their own.
Then he lost them both. Maurice died suddenly in 2003 after complications from surgery. Robin held on until 2012, after years of fighting cancer. Their younger brother Andy, a star in his own right even though he was never officially in the group, had already died back in 1988. Barry’s been the only Gibb left standing for over a decade now.
He’s kept touring, kept recording, kept showing up, including in 2018, when he was knighted for his music career and made a point of saying the honor belonged to his brothers just as much as it belonged to him. Eighty years in, he’s outlasted the band, outlasted the decade that made them famous, and he’s still the one left to tell people what it was actually like.
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