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March 2001 Radio 2 Transcript
This is a transcript from the Radio 2 interview with Robin Gibb - March 2001.
This was transposed by Charlene Allan (BeeGeesNo1)
Interview with Robin Gibb
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Robin Gibb=RG
Johnnie Walker=JW
Sally Traffic=ST
JW= Yep 110 million albums
ST=No!
JW= Yeah Incredible
ST= Are they all married?
JW= (laughing) oh god!
ST= Well no they must be rich though mustn't they?
JW= Pardon?
ST= They must be quite rich
JW= What's your favourite Bee Gees song?
ST= Um
JW= Did you get into the disco thing?
ST=Oh yes! I love all that Saturday Night Fever stuff fantastic
JW= Dancing round your hand bag!
ST= Oh yes! fantastic, I like the album they did with Barbara Streisand as well
Guilty that was really great.
JW= all right well hears an early one ( To Love Somebody starts to play) Robin
Gibb joining us after this
JW= The Bee Gees and To Love Somebody, Noel Gallagher said of Oasis said I wish
I has of written a song like To Love Somebody, Bono from U2 am all about the Bee
Gees there's the Beatles the Rolling Stones and the Bee Gees, Well there back
there doing a concert next Tuesday on Radio 2 and there's new single called This
Is Where I Came In and a pleasure to welcome Robin Gibb to Radio 2
RG= Thanks Johnnie, great to be here
JW=How are you doing?
RG= Lovely to be here
JW= Well we've had e-mails from all over the place! People listening in from all
over the world I think
RG= Oh excellent
JW= To see how your doing! and how are you doing?
RG= Am doing very well thanks John
JW= And why the how long the gap has been since
RG= Since the last studio album? Well we had Still Waters was the last studio
album and between we had thee live album One Night Only which filled a gap
a little bit 98, 99 and eh which gave us time to bring out the album that were
happy with, of course we kinda make 2 albums to make 1 so we didn't just wanna
rush out a token album every year just so we have an album out, we just wanted
to make an album that were happy with
JW= What have you tried to do with this one?
RG= Well what we've done with this one very clear with the first single This Is
Where I Came In is that it's more live it's just us around the microphone one
mic and eh very few over dubs and it's just us singing eh naturally with real
instruments obviously there always real instruments but eh more acoustically
and live drummer and harking back more to our earlier days
JW= Why have things sort of been getting to complicated do you think in
recording?
RG= I think so, I think that these days eh people tend to gill the Lilly a bit
with records and eh in terms of hearing the voice and leaving space for the
voice, were basically a vocal group and songwriters and we want that to shine
though more than the instrumentation and the sounds
 JW= Not many groups have had number one's hits in all of the last four decades
RG= Well fingers crossed we can only hope that we can continue that
JW= Yeah, but going back to the days when Robert Stigwood your manager
RG= Right yeah
JW= Who managed you at the suggestion of Brian Epstein
R Yeah
JW= Um you were on the grand wage of 25 quid!
RG= That's true! When he first met us he gave us a few quid to go down Carnaby
Street and get some clothes
JW= Yeah
RG= We thought that was fantastic cause we were broke anyway! so, but em he's
eh, yeah we met him about March 67' and eh we'd just got off the ship from
Australia and eh cause the Beatles had Strawberry Fields out then and everything
and of course that were still all the rage and eh everybody wanted to be like
them, and eh Robert was fortunate he was actually in partnership with Brian
Epstein at that time so we were very fortunate having sent stuff from Australia
to Brian, Brian had past this stuff on to Robert because Brian wasn't interested
really in managing anyone but the Beatles, he had his hands full with the
Beatles, and but as Robert was his partner he handed them over to him and Robert
very interested
JW= I mean there's great rival between bands in those days wasn't there I mean I
mentioned the Rolling Stones
RG= There was but I have to say that in those days every body competed to be
different, if and artist was number one with a certain kind of record
another group would wanna beat it by being entirely the opposite in a different
way something no one else was doing and I always say in those days people
competed to be different, were today compete to be the same which is a entire
different mind set you know if you, you know it's the old saying if it's not
broken don't try and fix it so if some things working copy them you know, but my
philosophy is that you should try and go completely the other way eh I think any
everybody, any new songwriter or an artist starting out today should establish
there own style rather than try and copy everybody else because that the only
thing that's gonna work
JW= How's Maurice and Barry? I heard Barry's not to well
RG= No, Barry's fine now!,
JW= Yeah
RG= That was a few years ago Barry's, we had a car accident about eh 25 years
ago and Barry's back was really done in and eh terrible English I know
(laughing)
JW= laughing
RG= But anyway he had back problems, and of course he had back problems since
then since the accident me and Maurice actually walked away from it and eh
didn't have any problems but it left him with a bad back
JW= I mean it's been a bit of a roller coaster, you know there's been incredible
success Saturday Night Fever and all of that, was that a deliberate thing to try
and get into the disco market
RG= No we never made any effort to get into the disco market we wrote those
songs for our new album in France and Stigwood called us and asked us if we have
any new songs for this film, we knew nothing about disco music disco to us was
what a club was always called in England and we never knew there was such music
as disco, eh that was something that was a phrase that came up in America after
the film came out and we never saw the film till it came out so that music to us
was just R&B music we were making for our album
JW= Robin Gibb is here, here's the first every play from one of the tracks from
the new album called This Is Where I Came In and this is Wedding Day ( see
lyrics in other post)
JW= The Bee Gees from the forthcoming album This Is Where I Came In and that's
Wedding Day. Robin Gibb is here in advance of a special concert to be recorded
in the radio theatre at BBC Broadcasting house next Tuesday night. So are you a
bit nervous about that or is it
RG= Em no, I always get a bit nervous like half an hour before we do a show,
then am alright when we get on
JW= Yeah
RG= Yeah it's em quite normal really but it's just one of those things, you
feel, you fear, you have the feeling of fear before you actually do something
then when your doing it, it kind removes it
JW= So you've got houses here and a house in Miami
RG= A house in Miami and I have have a house here in Oxford, Barry has one in
Beacons field and Maurice has one is East shire
JW= So how do you divide your time between the two
RG= Well Barry and Maurice don't travel around as much as I do, but now and
again I will occasionally just use the plane like a bus and just get on it
come to England and sort of any time really I don't really plan it, and eh
only about 30 miles from Heathrow from my house anyway 30 minutes I should
say
JW= And what's life like in Miami?, I mean one gets the feeling that you know
you can make an album and you say you don't want to bring an album out
every year just for the sake of it, so there's kind a lot of just sitting around
and enjoying the sun is it?
RG= Well it's not quite like that I mean obviously when your in the studio you
can go in about 2.00 in the afternoon and come out about 3.00 in the morning and
you lose all sent of time so it's not really about sitting, you have no windows
in the studio so you don't know what time it is which is a good think or a
clock, but em it's kinda nice when your actually working on an album in the
winter months you can come out at night and it's still warm cause it'd be 70
degrees at midnight, which can be nice if you haven't had any fresh air in the
day time, just to sit out side at night, I know there are a lot of people that
can't do that and often dream of things like that but it is a kinda nice
place to be when your actually working and if you can do that, you know
JW= And what you do? Do you go sailing? have you got a boat?
RG= No I used to go sailing but I had a such DREADFUL experiences
JW= Laughing
RG= I nearly got killed actually John! (laughing)
JW= Really!? What went wrong
RG= I got stranded out on Feather Bed Bank which is miles away from land you
couldn't even see land and called the coast guard, I had a pregnant lady on
board and few other people who eh belonged to the entourage of the Bee
Gee(?) entourage they are they are disposable
JW= laughing
RG= And eh so the storms were blowing up you know it was like Gilligin's Island I
was calling the coast guard and they said are you taking in water? I said no, Is
there a threat to life? I said no well you'll have to sort it out yourself then!
and they went off!
JW=laughing
RG= So we were there all night and eh out in the middle of the ocean and hoping
that thee actual tide if there was a tide out in the ocean would drop and it
would come in I should say and then left us out which it did about 4.00am in the
morning this was 6.00 at night
JW= Shouldn't you have a had an experienced Captain Robin?
RG= Well you see at that time I thought I was! (laughing)
JW= laughing
RG= But I got it back! I mean I could not see land and I followed a glow in the
sky which I hoped was the lights of the streets lighting up the clouds that's
all I had to go on, there was no land and the middle of the night, so I actually
in 5 hours got that boat back just by using my compass and eh followed that
light, it could have been another story entirely John
JW= It could have indeed and your here to tell the tale Robin
RG= I am
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