Bee Gees singer Robin Gibb dies aged 62

Bee Gees singer Robin Gibb has passed away today aged 62.

The musician died after undergoing intestinal surgery and due to his long battle with cancer.

'The family of Robin Gibb, of the Bee Gees, announce with great sadness that Robin passed away today following his long battle with cancer and intestinal surgery. The family have asked that their privacy is respected at this very difficult time,' family spokesman Doug Wright said.
The father-of-three had been battling colon and liver cancer.

Fears for the star's health were first raised last year when he appeared looking gaunt on a TV show to promote his single for Poppy Day.The siblings, whose catalogue includes Massachusetts, I've Gotta Get a Message to You, How Deep Is Your Love and Stayin' Alive, established their pop legacy by placing their falsetto harmonies at the centre of the 70s disco boom.

It was an era whose look they also captured, posing for the cover of the Saturday Night Fever album with toothy smiles, bouffant hair and tight white outfits.

Born on the Isle of Man to English parents on 22 December, 1949, Gibb started out performing alongside his brothers as a child act encouraged by their father Hugh, a band leader, and their mother Barbara, a former singer."Robin's wife, Dwina and son, Robin-John, his son Spencer and daughter Melissa have been at his bedside every day, talking to him and playing his favorite music to him," Gibb's doctor, Dr. Andrew Thillainayagam said in April. "They have been tireless in their determination never to give up on him."

Robin and his brothers, Barry and Maurice (who died in 2003 due to complications from a twisted intestine), formed The Bee Gees in the late 1960s. The group was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1997 with hits like "Stayin' Alive," "How Deep Is Your Love" and "I Started A Joke."