Barry Gibb

Birth Name:

Barry Alan Crompton Gibb

Birth Place:

Douglas, Isle of Man, United Kingdom

Profession

Soundtrack, Actor, Writer

Was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame along with the other members of the Bee Gees in 1997
Won a number of Grammy Awards with his brothers while they were performing as the Bee Gees, and the group was honored with a Recording Academy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2015
Was nominated for the Anthony Asquith Award for Film Music in 1978 along with Maurice Gibb and Robin Gibb for "Saturday Night Fever․"
Started performing with his adolescent brothers in hotels and Returned Servicemen's Clubs in Australia, playing between dog acts and jugglers
Quote: "I spend a lot of hours being happy about what happened to us, because it may never have happened, any of those hits․ We could still have been playing clubs in Queensland․"
Quote: "[on retiring] "My bones were creaking, my knees were hurting and with everything that had happened, I thought, maybe it's just time to be Grandad and not worry about it anymore․ But music has to be played and I wanted to keep the music alive․""
A founding member of the Bee Gees, he found great commercial success both through performance and writing songs popularized by other musicians
Contributed to the "Saturday Night Fever" soundtrack, which remained the top-selling album until Michael Jackson's "Thriller" and contained such hits as "Stayin' Alive" and "If I Can't Have You․"
Though he plays guitar right-handed, he is left-handed
Was depicted as a cartoon lion in the 1979 illustrated biography of the Bee Gees, "The Greatest․"

1978Golden Globe - Best Original Score - Motion Picture:Nominated
1978Golden Globe - Best Original Song - Motion Picture:Nominated
1979Anthony Asquith Award for Film MusicNominated
1979Golden Globe - Best Original Song - Motion Picture:Nominated
1984Grammy - Best Album of Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or Television Special:Nominated
2017Rapid Lion - Best Original Song:Winner

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