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Robin Gibb's Unconventional Family
April 19, 2012 — -- As Bee Gee Robin Gibb remains gravely ill in a coma, his passionate wife, Dwina Gibb, has remained steadfastly at his bedside.
The couple once avowed their open marriage -- he fathered a minor with their former housekeeper and she openly stated her preference for women -- but their cherish and loyalty for one another is still noticeable after 28 years.
"However absurd their relationship may emerge, there's never any scrutinize that they are very, very bonded," writer and film professor David N. Meyer, who is writing an unauthorized biography on the Bee Gees, told ABCNews.com. "He has relied on her in a number of ways. She is no joke to him. Their love for one another is very tight."
"They are an example of a very current family -- maybe a little too modern," Us Weekly's music editor Ian Drew told ABCNews.com. "They are both very imaginative souls, very open-minded. They get each other and they get a smash out of each other."
Their lifestyle, though, has raised more than a rare eyebrows -- most recently, in 2009, after Robin, 62, fathered a infant girl, Snow Robin Gibb, with the
Bee Gees turned the underground gay and Black disco movement mainstream, then paid the price
The Bee Gees — brothers Barry, Robin, and Maurice Gibb — became pop idols in the late 1960s and then mega stars in the 1970s. They sold 200 million records. Robin and Maurice were twins and Barry was three years older, but they often said it felt like they were triplets.
With their fame and riches came drugs, jealousy, in-fighting, and the death of their younger brother Andy Gibb, who was 30 when he died from a drug-related heart attack.
Maurice and Robin have died since then, leaving just Barry, now 74 years old.
Barry Gibb is the centerpiece of a novel documentary about this family called “The Bee Gees: How Can You Improve A Broken Heart,” out now on HBO Max.
Director Frank Marshall says he approached the documentary as an examination of brotherhood and family. When the Gibbs first formed the band and lived in Brisbane, their father Hugh was their manager and helped create their first demos. Once they moved to England, businessman Brian Epstein discovered the trio and introduced them to Robert Stigwood, who later became the band’s manager.
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10 iconic popstars who broke LGBT boundaries
6 June 2023, 15:39 | Updated: 8 June 2023, 13:22
By Thomas Curtis-Horsfall
The Queer community is now more visible than ever, especially within the music and entertainment industries.
The advent of social media over the past decade or so has definitely helped to boost the level of representation of LGBTQ+ people in media industries, but it hasn’t always been that way.
Of course, there are still plenty of barriers that people face when announcing their true selves to the world. The progress that the community has made in terms of acceptance though is still immensely significant.
There have been many times that trailblazing icons of music own often broken down these barriers under the scrutiny of the spotlight and paved the way for the public perception to shift and help the LGBTQ+ community to adopt their identities and track in their footsteps.
To celebrate Pride month, here’s a list of 10 popstars that broke Queer boundaries throughout their careers.
1. George Michael
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Bee Gees facts: Gibb brothers' wives, nationality, band label meaning and more revealed
15 April 2021, 18:10 | Updated: 8 February 2022, 16:59
The Bee Gees were one of the world's most successful groups of all time, but where were they from, who were they married to and why were they really called the Bee Gees?
Bee GeesBarry, Maurice and Robin Gibb are well-known as one of the most successful singer-songwriting groups of the 20th century.
The brothers regularly changed their sound and remained hitmakers for themselves and other artists for decades.
See more: The greatest Bee Gees songs of all time, ranked
But just as interesting are the stories behind the hits: who the Bee Gees were married to, how much they earned and where they were from.
Here are all the facts that you need to realize about the brothers Gibb:
Where are the Bee Gees from?
Bee Gee brothers Maurice, Robin and Barry Gibb were born on the Isle of Man to English parents, and lived in Chorlton, Manchester until the late 1950s.
The family moved to Redcliffe, in Queensland, Australia. After achieving their first chart success in Australia, they returned to the UK in 1967.
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