The last Bee Gee - Barry Gibb interview on Sunday Night 09/22/2012 part 2

RAHNI: On a drive to Miami Beach, Barry is thinking a lot about the old days, about his good friend Michael Jackson. BARRY: I had a great relationship with Michael. We had some amazing moments. He would always say things like, "Watch out." (IMITATES MICHAEL JACKSON) "Watch out, Barry. Barry, they want your music. They're trying to get my music." (NORMAL VOICE) "It's alright, Michael." (SINGS): How deep is your love? Is your love How deep is your love? I really need to learn 'Cause we're living... RAHNI: What do you think your greatest achievement is? BARRY: My family, my children and my grandchildren, you know, because that's real. RAHNI: Hello. LINDA: Oh, g'day. RAHNI: G'day, mate! I'm Rahni. LINDA: How are you? Lovely to meet you. RAHNI: Nice to meet you. LINDA: Where'd you get the hat? BARRY: I told you. RAHNI: You've put up with this man for 45 years. LINDA: I have, indeed. RAHNI: How do you manage to have one of the longest marriages in show business? LINDA: We don't really know, actually. I guess we keep laughing. RAHNI: As close as Barry is to his wife, Linda, the relationship with his brothers was a deep and unbreakable bond. BARRY: Nobody really ever knew what the three of us felt or what the three of us thought about each other. Only the three of us knew. It was such a unifying thing - the three of us became, like, one person. You know, we all had the same dream and, you know - that's what I remember more than anything else and that's what I miss more than anything else is that. RAHNI: Robin died four months ago. Maurice, or Mo, as Barry calls him, died in 2003. Andy, who was 12 years younger than Barry and a successful solo artist, died in 1988. BARRY: What happened with Andy was always abstract. The medical story is that his heart was

very bad but he had lived a lifestyle that very few of us in the family even knew about. RAHNI: So, what would you call it? BARRY: The LA lifestyle. RAHNI: Yeah. BARRY: You don't have to look too far. RAHNI: Why do you think that happened to Andy when the three of you, to a large extent, avoided that...? BARRY: We never avoided it. We all fell over at certain points. RAHNI: It has been a bloody tough year for you. BARRY: It's actually been a bloody tough decade, you know? Since, I guess, losing Mo, it's 10 years. We lost Mo in 48 hours from being perfectly, you know, spirited, normal guy, as whacky as he always was, you know, to suddenly becoming gravely ill and we just lost him. The situation with Rob, um, was different because I always felt something was wrong with Rob and if something is really wrong with you, you don't want everyone to know. RAHNI: So, Robin didn't even tell you until... BARRY: No, no. RAHNI:..late in the piece? BARRY: Even now, those closest to him will say it was something else. There's a lot of not wanting to say what it is, you know. Cancer is cancer, you know. ANNOUNCER: Barry Gibb and your young brothers. Now come on, who are you? Which is which? You're twins, hey? ROBIN: I'm Robin. ANNOUNCER: Robin. MAURICE: I'm Maurice. ANNOUNCER: And Maurice. Now, you all sing together, hey? And your brother Barry plays. Now come on up. Come on up here. That's right. On up through there. RAHNI: You can't watch it? It's too hard? Is it because it makes you sad or because...? BARRY: No, it just makes me emotional. RAHNI: Yeah. How special they were. Are you alright? BARRY: Yeah. RAHNI: Are you feeling the loss of them so dearly? BARRY: Yeah, for a long time. The only way I can deal with it is through music. RAHNI: When you see that, do you remember those first...? BARRY: Of course I do. Yeah. We loved it, that's why we did it. That's why we did it, you know. We knew it sounded great, you know? We just knew. And that was our path and we - there was no other path. We loved the sound of each other's voices and...Can we take a pause? RAHNI: Yeah, sure, certainly. Have a moment. Do you want some water? BARRY: Yeah.

RAHNI: It was that video, isn't it? Sorry. BARRY: No, it's OK. Hey, listen, it's... RAHNI: Sorry. I don't want to upset you. BARRY: No, not at all, love. Because that hasn't happened before. RAHNI: You've never cried? BARRY: No. RAHNI: Oh, Barry, I'm so sorry. BARRY: That's alright, darling. That's alright. That's life, innit? But that's... That hadn't happened. (SINGS): Please help me mend my broken heart And let me live again. BARRY: My greatest regret is that every brother I have lost was in a moment when we were not getting on. And so, I had to live with that,you know? And I'll spend my life reflecting on that, is that we were all, you know... There were many times we had conflicts but this was...it was just really...just distressing that every time one of them passed, it was during a moment when we weren't getting on. I see a lot of sides to life now that I didn't see before and I don't know why but I'm the last man standing. I'll never be able to understand that because I'm the eldest. So don't try to understand it, you know? Don't try to understand it, just keep moving. ALLAN SUTHERLAND: That's Scarborough. That's the house. RAHNI: Barry is returning to tour Australia in February. He'll be sharing his music, home movies and stories, including his colourful childhood in Redcliffe. BARRY: Right about here, the three of us stood together and decided that we would never break the law again. RAHNI: Really? Joining him in Miami is the Mayor of Moreton Bay region, Allan Sutherland. BARRY: My speech to them was we were either gonna end up as criminals or we're gonna end up being famous. We have to decide now. ALLAN: Wow, that's a changing moment on the Redcliffe jetty for the Bee Gees. BARRY: It certainly was. And I remember having a pen knife that I'd just nicked from Woolworths and I threw it in the water. RAHNI: Really? BARRY: I never stole another thing in my life. RAHNI: Next year in Redcliffe, a walkway will be named in honour of the Bee Gees. ALLAN: A model of what's going to be a lot larger. RAHNI: There'll also be a life-sized statue. BARRY: Wow. RAHNI: This must be a bit overwhelming. BARRY: The whole day has been a little overwhelming for me. Today was the first time I'd actually accepted the fact that all my brothers are gone and that was tough. I have to thank you for that because that hasn't happened, that hadn't happened until today because it was totally unacceptable to me, you know?

RAHNI: That Robin has passed? BARRY: That all of them are gone, you know. RAHNI: When you get up on the stage in Australia, will your brothers be alongside you? BARRY: They'll be onstage with me. Yeah. SINGS): And we don't say goodbye We don't say goodbye. BARRY: We just didn't agree on everything and that's the way life was but, boy, did we have some fun. My God. From here on, I've got the memories and I've been able to unload a lot of those emotions today. I didn't know what would happen. I haven't done an interview since I lost Rob, you know. Thank you so much. END