Bee Gees mulling Malta show
The remaining duo of the disco band Bee Gees is looking at performing in Malta next year.
"Hopefully, next year, I will bring Barry along," Robin Gibb said yesterday as he landed in Malta for the first time to take part in today's Malta Music Awards, where he will be given an International Achievement Award.
The other member of the trio, Mr Gibb's twin brother Maurice, died in 2003, although Mr Gibb said "his legacy lives on through the music".
The two brothers recently took part in two television programmes - Dancing With The Stars and Strictly Come Dancing - but Mr Gibb admitted this was very emotional because their other brother is missing.
But with one of the biggest song catalogues in the world, the two do not need to concentrate on touring "unless we really want to do it and it is really special". "We have the luxury of choice," he said.
According to Malta Music Awards chairman Noel Magri, Mr Gibb "will probably" be performing tonight. Mr Magri also said the Gibb brothers were considering stopping in Malta next year as part of a tour. Dressed in a black polo neck, a grey suit and round sunglasses with blue lenses, Mr Gibb stopped to sign autographs and take photos with fans who were waiting for him at the airport.
Tomorrow, Mr Gibb will be laying a wreath at Floriana's War Memorial in memory of war heroes, a subject he has close to heart. He is one of the major supporters of a campaign to build a memorial to the heroes of Bomber Command, the organisation that controlled the RAF's bomber forces between 1936 and 1968.
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Jesmond Micallef
Dec 5th 2009, 19:13
The Bee Gees will allways remain the Bee gees, just like Elvis Presley will allways remain Elvis Presley !!
May I refer to the memorial for RAF Bomber Command. Indeed those young people were just like sitting ducks on their slow moving heavy aircraft of that time. Very brave people were those. It reminds me also of the famous thousand bomber daylight raids of the US Air Force over nazi Germany. That is also another story on its own right. If my memory serves me well, didn't a memorial to Arthur "Bomber" Harris cause alot of controversy in the UK a few years back now ?
May we also remember the young German people who were also victims of mr. small man moustache (hotel, india, tango, lima, echo, romeo) and his fellow thugs who indoctrinated them with nazi propoganda !! Let us not forget that nazism destroyed beautifull Germany too !!
God bless all victims of war, whoever they are.
Nice, hope you enjoy your stay Mr. Robin Gibb.
Eric Soames
Dec 5th 2009, 12:19
Disco band? Please go listen to the whole catalogue.