# Robin Gibb Dies **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 20, 2012, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robin-gibb-dies/622560 "2012-05-20T23:45:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2012, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robin-gibb-dies/622560/41 "2012-05-24T21:40:39Z")
It’s been a few days, but this video is a hauntingly appropriate tribute to Robin, as well as to his brothers Maurice and Andy. The Bee Gees had recorded it shortly after Andy’s death and Robin sings it solo here. [Wish You Were Here.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFzC2_p3ONs&feature=youtube_gdata_player) ---
**Author:** ![Chicagojeff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b19c9b/32.png) [@Chicagojeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chicagojeff)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2012, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robin-gibb-dies/622560/42 "2012-05-25T01:50:26Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > With Donna Summers and Robin Gibb featuring in the news lately, I wonder if there’s going to be some sort of disco revival. I recall the '50s revivial of the 1970s very well. The '60s even had a revival of sorts. Maybe we’ll get disco back (which kind of makes me shudder). Why is that? People dancing…choruses…good music. “Nights on Broadway” was my fsvorite.. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2012, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robin-gibb-dies/622560/43 "2012-05-25T04:10:02Z")
> [@Chicagojeff](#): > > Why is that? People dancing…choruses…good music. “Nights on Broadway” was my fsvorite.. Well, I was never a fan of disco. At the height of the craze, I was a hippie-punk hybrid. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2012, 9:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robin-gibb-dies/622560/44 "2012-05-25T09:06:24Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > Robin and Maurice were twins, though they did not really look alike. Well, they did, but they didn’t. And Robin was instrumental to the group, he wrote a lot of the more successful songs, and was often the lead singer on their earlier hits. > > Here’s [a bit of fun](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYaymcp2YlE) to cheer you all up. The Bee Gees had a fun-loving side themselves. Here’s a video they made for Howard Stern around 1993. Spoilered because it’s likely NSFW. [spoiler] > **[\- YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYq05-RAhyg%5B%2Fspoiler%5D)** > > Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube. ---
**Author:** ![Sycorax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a4c791/32.png) [@Sycorax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sycorax)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2012, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robin-gibb-dies/622560/45 "2012-05-27T00:42:05Z")
I love the Bee Gees, and have wondered why disco has been so often maligned on this forum and elsewhere. Who can forget Saturday Night Fever, with such fantastic dancing to the Bee Gees music. I didn’t care much for the acting and his relationships with the two girlfriends. I watched it for the music and dancing. For the longest time, I didn’t know who the individual brothers were, but took notice when Andy died of a heart problem in the '80’s. I feel for Barry – I hope he can get through this latest loss and continue on in some capacity (musical or otherwise), and live a long and rewarding life. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robin-gibb-dies/622560.md?page=2)