Bee Gees' Barry Gibb honored at Buckingham Palace with knighthood

Reuters Staff

 

 

LONDON (Reuters) - Bee Gees singer Barry Gibb received a knighthood from Buckingham Palace on Tuesday, where he was honored for his services to music and charity.

 

The 71-year old, who began the hugely successful pop group with brothers Maurice and Robin in 1958, was knighted by Prince Charles as part of the Queen Elizabeth’s New Year’s Honours list.

 

“It’s the greatest honor you can receive obviously and I’m just blown away by the idea of it,” the musician said.

 

Gibb is the last remaining member of the band, known for hits such as “Stayin’ Alive” and “Night Fever”.

 

Reporting by Anu Shukla; Editing by Marie-Louise Gumuchian

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2018-06-27

They owe a lot to John Travolta. I wonder if we would even know them without that movie.

3 hours ago, canuckamuck said:

They owe a lot to John Travolta. I wonder if we would even know them without that movie.

 

YOU may not have known them but they started in the music in the late 1950s.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bee_Gees

 

The Bee Gees have sold more than 220 million records worldwide, making them one of the world's best-selling artists of all time.[3][4] They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1997;[5] the presenter of the award to "Britain's first family of harmony" was Brian Wilson, historical leader of The Beach Boys, another "family act" featuring three harmonising brothers.[6] The Bee Gees' Hall of Fame citation says, "Only Elvis Presley, the Beatles, Michael Jackson, Garth Brooks and Paul McCartney have outsold the Bee Gees.

 

Actually John Travolta owes a lot to the Bee Gees and Olivia Newron  John.

 

(Newton-John) 

 

Stupid boy Pike.

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edit for bad spelling after I had posted

11 minutes ago, billd766 said:

 

YOU may not have known them but they started in the music in the late 1950s.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bee_Gees

 

The Bee Gees have sold more than 220 million records worldwide, making them one of the world's best-selling artists of all time.[3][4] They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1997;[5] the presenter of the award to "Britain's first family of harmony" was Brian Wilson, historical leader of The Beach Boys, another "family act" featuring three harmonising brothers.[6] The Bee Gees' Hall of Fame citation says, "Only Elvis Presley, the Beatles, Michael Jackson, Garth Brooks and Paul McCartney have outsold the Bee Gees.

 

Actually     I'd say John Travolta owes a lot to the Bee Gees and Olivia Newron John.

 

Exactly!        I'd say John Travolta has a debt of gratitude towards the Bee Gees.

 

 

BGs? Bar Girls?

I always remember the Kenny Everett "Massive Chewsets" comedy sketch.

The Bee Gees walk off the Clive Anderson because Barry got a strop. I know it goes on a bit, but still worth watching. They walked off because Barry said before they were called the BeeGees the were called the 'Les Tossiers' to which Clive replied "you will always be tossiers to me" ???

 

2 minutes ago, johng said:

I always remember the Kenny Everett "Massive Chewsets" comedy sketch.

now 'that' memory would probably now give BG the HeeBeeJeeBees, in his now day'n'age

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Gibb is the last remaining member of the band, known for hits such as “Stayin’ Alive”. . . 

 

Oops!

For what was he knighted  - "Staying alive" ? ? 

36 minutes ago, vogie said:

The Bee Gees walk off the Clive Anderson because Barry got a strop. I know it goes on a bit, but still worth watching. They walked off because Barry said before they were called the BeeGees the were called the 'Les Tossiers' to which Clive replied "you will always be tossiers to me" ???

 

I remember watching it at the time. The Bee Gees' manager got them a spot on the show but didn't warn them about Anderson's style of humour.

A lot of people, including me (and maybe Anderson too) thought they were joking.

43 minutes ago, vogie said:

The Bee Gees walk off the Clive Anderson because Barry got a strop. I know it goes on a bit, but still worth watching. They walked off because Barry said before they were called the BeeGees the were called the 'Les Tossiers' to which Clive replied "you will always be tossiers to me" ???

 

It was just some banter. Seems like Barry is the one with the ego problem.

6 minutes ago, chickenslegs said:

I remember watching it at the time. The Bee Gees' manager got them a spot on the show but didn't warn them about Anderson's style of humour.

A lot of people, including me (and maybe Anderson too) thought they were joking.

Yes I watched it live at the time, their (Barry) lack of sense of humour put me off them. Barry came across as a pretentious prat. 

While I like their music. The whole queens honors list is a lot of rubbish mainly for the rich and famous. There are thousands of people out there in the real world that work hard all of their lives and get no recognition from anyone, but wait if you live to be a hundred you get a letter from the queen. BIG DEAL.!!!

Just now, rodney earl said:

While I like their music. The whole queens honors list is a lot of rubbish mainly for the rich and famous. There are thousands of people out there in the real world that work hard all of their lives and get no recognition from anyone, but wait if you live to be a hundred you get a letter from the queen. BIG DEAL.!!!

Many ordinary people also receives a Queens honor , an M.B.E

4 hours ago, rodney earl said:

While I like their music. The whole queens honors list is a lot of rubbish mainly for the rich and famous. There are thousands of people out there in the real world that work hard all of their lives and get no recognition from anyone, but wait if you live to be a hundred you get a letter from the queen. BIG DEAL.!!!

 

If you take the time to read the entire list you will see that hunderds of people are honoured, not only the rich and famous.

 

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/birthday-honours-lists-2018

On 6/27/2018 at 4:11 PM, vogie said:

Yes I watched it live at the time, their (Barry) lack of sense of humour put me off them. Barry came across as a pretentious prat. 

Barry gave Kenny Everett a thumbs up, as did Rod Stewart despite initially getting the hump over what they saw as career-damaging sketches. As for Clive Anderson; I too was watching & was a bit miffed. Barry later blamed stress and other matters in a later interview but I don't think he fully put it to bed in the eyes of his fans.

 

He did at least have the grace to appear in OFAH ?

 

On 6/27/2018 at 1:32 PM, watcharacters said:

 

Exactly!        I'd say John Travolta has a debt of gratitude towards the Bee Gees.

 

 

 

 

A find a moment ago.

 

 

 

These lads have been around for a long time.  

 

 

On 6/27/2018 at 10:00 AM, canuckamuck said:

They owe a lot to John Travolta. I wonder if we would even know them without that movie.

John Travolta owes a lot to them. Try listening to other hits of theirs such as "Spicks and Specks" or "Too much Heaven". An iconic pop group.

It's got to be a British thing, in Canada I don't remember any one being a fan, except for the disco era. After that they were just the band that came and went.

I did however win a dance contest in grade 7 to one of their songs. I can't for the life of me remember which one though. I do remember the pretty brunette who danced with me though.

2 minutes ago, canuckamuck said:

It's got to be a British thing, in Canada I don't remember any one being a fan, except for the disco era. After that they were just the band that came and went.

I did however win a dance contest in grade 7 to one of their songs. I can't for the life of me remember which one though. I do remember the pretty brunette who danced with me though.

Fanny?

 

This isn't the best quality video but the album was superb when it came out cira 1980

 

 

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