Susan Boyle
Scottish singer
British singer, songwriter, record producer, and co-founder of the group Bee Gees
Barry Gibb is a legendary British musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer. As a member of the Bee Gees, he rose to worldwide fame and is known for his incredible vocal range and numerous hit songs. With an impressive career spanning over 60 years, Gibb has been inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and has been recognized with honors such as a CBE and a knighthood.
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About the Barry Gibb
Sir Barry Alan Crompton Gibb is a British musician, singer, songwriter and record producer. Along with his younger twin brothers, Robin and Maurice, he rose to worldwide fame as a member of the Bee Gees, one of the most commercially successful groups in the history of popular music. Gibb is well known for his wide vocal range including a far-reaching high-pitched falsetto. Gibb’s career has spanned over 60 years.
As a songwriter, he shares with John Lennon and Paul McCartney the record for most consecutive Billboard Hot 100 number ones, each having six. In total, he has written or co-written sixteen Billboard Hot 100 number ones.
In 1994, he was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame with his brothers. In 1997, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, as a member of the Bee Gees. In 2007, Q magazine ranked him number 38 on its list of the “100 Greatest Singers”. Guinness World Records lists him as the second most successful songwriter in history, behind Paul McCartney.
Gibb was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empirein the 2002 New Year Honours for services to music and entertainment, and a Knight Bachelor in the 2018 New Year Honours for services to music and charity. He was also made an Honorary Companion of the Order of Australia on 27 January 2022.
Frequently Asked Questions
Barry Gibb is a British musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer who rose to fame as a member of the Bee Gees, one of the most commercially successful groups in the history of popular music.
Barry Gibb is well known for his wide vocal range, including a far-reaching high-pitched falsetto.
In total, Barry Gibb has written or co-written sixteen Billboard Hot 100 number ones, tying him with John Lennon and Paul McCartney for the most consecutive Billboard Hot 100 number ones.
Barry Gibb has been inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and has been appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) and a Knight Bachelor for his services to music and charity.
Barry Gibb’s career has spanned over 60 years, making him one of the most enduring and successful musicians in the history of popular music.
Barry Gibb’s younger twin brothers are Robin and Maurice, with whom he rose to worldwide fame as a member of the Bee Gees.
Guinness World Records lists Barry Gibb as the second most successful songwriter in history, behind only Paul McCartney.
44 Quotes by Barry Gibb
- 1.
I don’t ever wish I was somebody else.
Barry GibbBritish singer, songwriter, record producer, and co-founder of the group Bee Gees
- 2.
The only thing that exists to me is commercial pop music.
Barry GibbBritish singer, songwriter, record producer, and co-founder of the group Bee Gees
- 3.
I will always have my songs and I don’t think I will ever dry-up.
Barry GibbBritish singer, songwriter, record producer, and co-founder of the group Bee Gees
- 4.
Now there is a new group every week; it seems like everybody and anybody can get into the charts.
Barry GibbBritish singer, songwriter, record producer, and co-founder of the group Bee Gees
- 5.
As long as you’re having fun, that’s the key. The moment it becomes a grind, it’s over.
Barry GibbBritish singer, songwriter, record producer, and co-founder of the group Bee Gees
- 6.
It is not the money but the self-respect and wanting to create good music.
Barry GibbBritish singer, songwriter, record producer, and co-founder of the group Bee Gees
- 7.
I’m Mr Boring, not a party-goer at all.
Barry GibbBritish singer, songwriter, record producer, and co-founder of the group Bee Gees
- 8.
We enjoy change and freshness, and disco was only one area we’ve delved into.
Barry GibbBritish singer, songwriter, record producer, and co-founder of the group Bee Gees
- 9.
You can be tops in Australia and be unheard of everywhere else.
Barry GibbBritish singer, songwriter, record producer, and co-founder of the group Bee Gees
- 10.
Our parents came home one day and heard us, and they thought it was the radio, but our grandfather told them it was us.
Barry GibbBritish singer, songwriter, record producer, and co-founder of the group Bee Gees
- 11.
I would be content if I had nothing but a tape-recorder. I could still write songs and record them.
Barry GibbBritish singer, songwriter, record producer, and co-founder of the group Bee Gees
- 12.
Leaving Australia was the hardest thing I have ever done.
Barry GibbBritish singer, songwriter, record producer, and co-founder of the group Bee Gees
- 13.
It is commercial pop that the majority of people understand. A working man’s daughter would not understand blues.
Barry GibbBritish singer, songwriter, record producer, and co-founder of the group Bee Gees
- 14.
My music, certainly, has never embarrassed me.
Barry GibbBritish singer, songwriter, record producer, and co-founder of the group Bee Gees
- 15.
Maurice would prance into a room, you know, and his presence was immediate.
Barry GibbBritish singer, songwriter, record producer, and co-founder of the group Bee Gees
- 16.
It’s very questionable, and we will pursue every factor, every element, every second of the timeline, of the final hours of Maurice’s life. We will pursue that relentlessly. That will be our quest from now on.
Barry GibbBritish singer, songwriter, record producer, and co-founder of the group Bee Gees
- 17.
I’m very much a family person.
Barry GibbBritish singer, songwriter, record producer, and co-founder of the group Bee Gees
- 18.
I think they are grooming me as another Gary Cooper.
Barry GibbBritish singer, songwriter, record producer, and co-founder of the group Bee Gees
- 19.
By going solo I could lose a fortune but money is not important.
Barry GibbBritish singer, songwriter, record producer, and co-founder of the group Bee Gees
- 20.
You are never really prepared for criticism.
Barry GibbBritish singer, songwriter, record producer, and co-founder of the group Bee Gees
- 21.
The Bee Gees no longer exist.
Barry GibbBritish singer, songwriter, record producer, and co-founder of the group Bee Gees
- 22.
The only thing I miss on stage is the falsetto.
Barry GibbBritish singer, songwriter, record producer, and co-founder of the group Bee Gees
- 23.
He was the average guy. Maurice, I think, reflected every man.
Barry GibbBritish singer, songwriter, record producer, and co-founder of the group Bee Gees
- 24.
Everybody is a teenage idol.
Barry GibbBritish singer, songwriter, record producer, and co-founder of the group Bee Gees
- 25.
I never really did any disco dancing.
Barry GibbBritish singer, songwriter, record producer, and co-founder of the group Bee Gees
- 26.
I’ve worked with a lot of people who are more famous than myself who are terribly insecure.
Barry GibbBritish singer, songwriter, record producer, and co-founder of the group Bee Gees
- 27.
I just love the feeling a close family gives you and I wouldn’t change it for anything.
Barry GibbBritish singer, songwriter, record producer, and co-founder of the group Bee Gees
- 28.
I have a little dictaphone and if a sound takes my fancy or if a lyric comes to me in the middle of the night I’ll just record it there and then.
Barry GibbBritish singer, songwriter, record producer, and co-founder of the group Bee Gees
- 29.
When you are in your 20’s and 30’s, you just want a hit record and you don’t really care how it happens.
Barry GibbBritish singer, songwriter, record producer, and co-founder of the group Bee Gees
- 30.
But all bubbles have a way of bursting or being deflated in the end.
Barry GibbBritish singer, songwriter, record producer, and co-founder of the group Bee Gees
- 31.
I love making records; I love making music; I love writing songs.
Barry GibbBritish singer, songwriter, record producer, and co-founder of the group Bee Gees
- 32.
I like blues but it is music I am too ignorant to understand.
Barry GibbBritish singer, songwriter, record producer, and co-founder of the group Bee Gees
- 33.
Sure I’m leaving the Bee Gees. I’m going into films.
Barry GibbBritish singer, songwriter, record producer, and co-founder of the group Bee Gees
- 34.
Maurice was a silly man. Maurice liked being silly.
Barry GibbBritish singer, songwriter, record producer, and co-founder of the group Bee Gees
- 35.
I have a huge ego and a huge inferiority complex at the same time.
Barry GibbBritish singer, songwriter, record producer, and co-founder of the group Bee Gees
- 36.
When you write a song you have an idea of how it should be sung but it doesn’t work out that way if someone else records it.
Barry GibbBritish singer, songwriter, record producer, and co-founder of the group Bee Gees
- 37.
It was great being together as a band, but much more difficult being brothers than it was being in a band.
Barry GibbBritish singer, songwriter, record producer, and co-founder of the group Bee Gees
- 38.
We were very influenced by The Beatles, no question.
Barry GibbBritish singer, songwriter, record producer, and co-founder of the group Bee Gees
- 39.
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.
Barry GibbBritish singer, songwriter, record producer, and co-founder of the group Bee Gees
- 40.
But even now, when people see me in the street, they point upwards to the sky.
Barry GibbBritish singer, songwriter, record producer, and co-founder of the group Bee Gees
- 41.
We had to leave Australia to become international stars.
Barry GibbBritish singer, songwriter, record producer, and co-founder of the group Bee Gees
- 42.
I’ve never been into parties, premieres or night-clubbing.
Barry GibbBritish singer, songwriter, record producer, and co-founder of the group Bee Gees
- 43.
I don’t want to live on past records.
Barry GibbBritish singer, songwriter, record producer, and co-founder of the group Bee Gees
- 44.
The secret is to make sure your family comes before anything else, because no matter what you do you’ve got to come home.
Barry GibbBritish singer, songwriter, record producer, and co-founder of the group Bee Gees