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Co-founder of the Bee Gees, Robin Gibb, died today aged 62 after battling cancer. Now only Barry remains of the four - Barry, Robin, Maurice and Andy.

One of the great bands of the 60's and some later eras - I really did not like their descent into Disco, but I loved their early material - New York Mining Disaster 1941, To Love Somebody, World, Words, I started a Joke..... the list just goes on

Norm

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Geelong, VFA Premiers 1878, 1879, 1800, 1882, 1883, 1884, 1886, AFL Premiers 1925, 1931, 1937, 1951, 1952, 1963, 2007, 2009, 2011, .

We went to see Robin Gibb last year in concert as I recall in SYD.

Was not expecting much, but was really entertained.

Support act was Bonnie Tyler and wish we had missed her!

Someone should have told her bring along Aerosmith or something as a backing band was not wise.

But Robin was incredibly good on stage.

In a past life I worked for the record company that recorded and owned all their early material and saw the trio many times live in large arenas and they really were brilliant.

A lot of folks forget the large body of material they wrote that others had huge hits with, from Dolly Parton to Diana Ross to Whitney Houston to Barbara Steisand's biggest seller ever.

RIP . . . a great Talent.

3 of the 4 brothers gone now - really sad.

Many forget the Bee Gees were all born on the Isle Of Man who had a lavish stamp issue a few years back -

Many years ago, the Bee Gees were in Sydney. A small local Rugby League football presentation was on their "to do" list.

At that time (around 1971) they were, at best, semi-nobody's.

My future mother-in-law at the time asked them just before the presentation what they would like to drink, Barry Gibb said "we'd all like a nice cup of tea".

Quite fitting for a nice group of young guys from GB don't you think

They had incredible talent.

RIP Robin.

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Tony