Barry Gibb ha acquistato la dimora dove ha vissuto per oltre 35 anni la leggenda del country Johnny Cash.
Barry ha espresso il proposito di mantenere la casa il più possibile intatta e di onorare la memoria di Johnny e sua moglie, June Carter.
La tenuta si trova ad Hendersonville, a circa tredici miglia da Nashville, la capitale della musica country.
"E' un incredibile onore, credo che userò la casa per comporre musica, è un luogo pieno di ispirazione", ha dichiarato Barry, che ha aggiunto che lui e sua moglie si sono letteralmente innamorati della casa. (Fonte: Yahoo music)
"Gibb Buys Johnny Cash's House"
(Associated Press) Barry Gibb of the Bee Gees has purchased the home where Johnny Cash and his wife, June Carter Cash, lived for 35 years.
Gibb and his wife, Linda, bought the rustic retreat on Old Hickory Lake for an undisclosed amount, a lawyer for the Cash family said Wednesday.
Hendersonville is 13 miles northeast of downtown Nashville. "This place will always be the spiritual home for the Cashes," Gibb said. "My wife, Linda, and I are determined to preserve it, to honor their memory. We fell in love with it; it's an incredible honor for us. We plan to use the home to write songs because of the musical inspiration."
The 13,880-square-foot home and 4.6-acre property was purchased by Balinda LLC, a Florida company owned by Gibb and his wife, according to Nashville lawyer Robert L. Sullivan, who administers the Cash estate for the family.
The house, visited by everyone from U.S. presidents to ordinary fans, went on the market in June with an asking price of $2.9 million. The price was lowered this fall to $2.5 million. Cash died in 2003, soon after the death of June Carter Cash.
His hits include "Ring of Fire," "Folsom Prison Blues" and "I Walk the Line." (Source: Yahoo music)
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StampaSecondo quanto riporta il sito del Barnet Times , Barry Gibb ha appena scritto insieme al suo grande amico David English una canzone country ("Song for Davey"), dedicata al figlio undicenne di English, David Jr. "
E' il mio migliore amico, lo conosco da tantissimi anni ed è un grande uomo. E' mio fratello", ha dichiarato David English per descrivere il rapporto che lo lega a Barry Gibb.
Fonte: (Barnet Times )
"Brotherly Bee Gee makes sweet music"
Music mogul David English is fresh from Miami after another epic recording session with Bee Gee Barry Gibb.
Bearded Mr Gibb enlisted the help of his old friend, who managed the Bee Gees in the 1970s, to write new country tune, "Song for Davey", inspired by David's 11-year-old son, David English Junior.
Junior is, no doubt, thrilled.Mr English, of Nan Clark's Lane, Mill Hill, flew to America still celebrating his appointment as president of Finchley Cricket Club at the end of December.
And it seems Mr Gibb is quite enamoured with the humble cricket bat, as shown by this picture of him clutching one signed by members of Bunbury Cricket Club the celebrity team he founded to play charity matches.
On his visit to America, Messrs English and Gibb enjoyed making beautiful music and working on a film screenplay. Mr English said: "He is my best friend, I have known him for many years and he is a great man he is my brother." (Source: Barnet Times )
(Notizia originariamente inserita il 04/11, aggiornata il 17/11 ed il 20/01/2006)
ULTIMO AGGIORNAMENTO: 20.01.2006
Il prossimo 28 novembre esce in Gran Bretagna una nuova raccolta dei Bee Gees, intitolata "Love songs".
Negli altri principali mercati le date di uscita sono le seguenti:
Germania: 25/11
Norvegia: 28/11
Canada: 29/11
USA: 06/12
Giappone: 7/12
Italia, Belgio, Olanda e Spagna: 20/01/2006
Australia, Danimarca, Francia e Svezia: 05/02/2006
Come suggerisce il titolo, questo (ennesimo) greatest hits raccoglie alcune tra le migliori canzoni d'amore scritte e cantate dai fratelli Gibb nella loro lunga e prestigiosa carriera.
L'album chiude definitivamente il contratto dei Bee Gees con la Universal Records.
Nel frattempo i Gibb si sono aggiudicati la titolarità del loro intero catalogo musicale, sicchè da ora in poi nessun nuovo lavoro discografico che include canzoni dei Bee Gees potrà essere pubblicato senza la loro diretta (e completa) autorizzazione.
Pare che Barry e Robin stiano valutando le offerte di alcune tra le più importanti etichette discografiche per la realizzazione di prossimi dischi come solisti e di un eventuale nuovo album dei Bee Gees.
Infatti, seppure in profondo apparente disaccordo su tanti fronti (le attività soliste di Robin, le modalità del tributo per Maurice, il disco della Streisand senza Robin), sembra che (di comune accordo con la famiglia di Maurice) su un nuovo contratto per il catalogo dei Bee Gees non ci siano divergenze fra i due.
Nel frattempo, ecco la playlist di "Love Songs":
1. To Love Somebody
2. Words
3. First Of May
4. Lonely Days
5. How Can You Mend A Broken Heart
6. How Deep Is Your Love
7. More Than A Woman
8. (Our Love) Don't Throw It All Away
9. Emotion
10. Too Much Heaven 11. Heartbreaker
12. Islands In The Stream ( Live)
13. Juliet
14. Secret Love
15. For Whom The Bell Tolls
16. Closer Than Close
17. I Could Not Love You More
18. Wedding Day
Inoltre (purtroppo solo per il mercato britannico e per quello asiatico) saranno presenti due bonus tracks:
"Heart like mine" e "Lovers and Friends".
Quest'ultima fu scritta nel 99 da Maurice e Barry per Ronan Keating, che la registrò per il suo album di debutto come solista.
Misteriosamente la canzone non fu però inserita nell'album, nonostante i Gibb erano citati e ringraziati con enfasi nelle note di copertine del disco. (aggiornamento date pubblicazione, fonte: robingibb.com)
ULTERIORI AGGIORNAMENTI (20/01/2006)
1) La Universal Records ha realizzato due siti a supporto di "Love Songs:
beegeeslove.com
beegeeslovesongs.com (attualmente ancora in realizzazione)
2) "Islands in thr stream" è tratta dal live "One Night Only"
3)"Lovers and friends" è pubblicata con la dizione "featuring Ronan Keating", ed è quindi la canzone di cui si parla sopra, disponibile per la prima volta in un disco ufficialmente pubblicato.
Il retro della copertina della versone UK (con le bonus tracks)
Benvenuto nel blog di Bee Gees Italy, il sito italiano dei Bee Gees. In questo spazio:
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Dal web
Un vero e proprio "taglia o copia ed incolla" da siti web, mailing list e newsletter online[//].
Una raccolta di articoli, notizie, annunci, chiacchere, gossip e quant'altro sui Bee Gees, e su quanto (a vario titolo) può riguardare anche alla larga i fratelli Gibb -
Radio, TV, Stampa & simili
Idem come sopra. Un vero e proprio "taglia o copia ed incolla" da tutti i media "non virtuali", ossia offline. Una ulteriore raccolta di articoli, notizie, annunci, chiacchere, gossip e quant'altro sui Bee Gees, e su quanto (a vario titolo) può riguardare anche alla larga i fratelli Gibb -
Comunicazioni di servizio
Notizie e comunicazioni riguardanti la comunità italiana dei fans e dei conoscitori della musica dei Gibb. -
Il Blog
Notizie, informazioni, chiarimenti su questo blog -
Varie ed eventuali
...ci penseremo... perchè no, magari tutti insieme!
Nuove date per un nuovo tour di Robin e la sua orchestra.
Il tour, in svolgimento a luglio 2006, riguarda la Gran Bretagna, ed allo stato attuale queste sono le date annunciate:
01.07 - Cardiff, Coopersfield
02.07 - Woodstock, Blenheim Palace (Oxfordshire)
06.07 - Liverpool, Liverpool Pops
07.07 - Chatsworth, Chatsworth House (Derbyshire)
08.07 - Knebworth, Knebworth House (Hertfordshire)
09.07 - Maidstone, Leeds Castle (Kent)
14.07 - Blickling, Blickling Hall (Norfolk)
15.07 - Bath, The Rec
16.07 - Edinburgh, Edinburgh Castle
Tutti i concerti (ad eccezione di quelli di Liverpool ed Edimburgo) fanno parte di "Summer Nights", un prestigioso circuito di eventi e concerti che ogni anno in Gran Bretagna prevede le esibizioni (all'aperto) di grandi nomi della musica in castelli ed altre amene località.
Quest'anno, oltre a Robin, si esibiranno, tra gli altri, artisti del calibro di Bryan Adams, James Blunt, i Westlife e Pavarotti. L'anno scorso partciparono, tra gli altri a Ronan Keating ed Anastasia.
- Per ulteriori informazioni: Summer Nights 2006 e robingibb.com
- Per i biglietti (già disponibili per i concerti "Summer nights 2006): Ticketmaster UK
Tra pochi giorni verranno forniti ulteriori informazioni (e notizie per l'acquisto dei biglietti) dei concerti di Liverpool ed Edimburgo, che attualmente non sono disponibili.
Incredibile ma vero: Kenny Rogers odiava una delle sue canzoni di maggior successo, Islands in the Stream, scritta per lui dai Bee Gees e prodotta da Barry Gibb[//]. 
Ecco l'articolo (da: www.cmt.com , citato anche nella mailing list "Words") :
It's hard to imagine now, but "Islands in the Stream" was originally intended as a solo single for Kenny Rogers -- and he certainly wasn't happy about recording the song.
"I hated that song," Rogers recently told CMT.com. "I had been doing it for three days. And it was Barry Gibb producing it with the Bee Gees, and I sounded like one of the Bee Gees. I just said, 'Barry, I don't even like this song anymore.' He said, 'You know what we need? We need Dolly Parton.'"
Rogers had recently met Parton while he was a guest on her television variety show, but he did not know her well at the time. However, his manager had her phone number, and after a phone call, she showed up at the studio within an hour, Rogers remembers.
"From the moment she walked in the room, it was a totally different song," Rogers says. "It just had a lilt to it. It had fun. It had energy. It was playful -- all of the things it wasn't when I did it by myself.
"When she came in, it had a different purpose. It was people singing together. It was like communication, as opposed to me just singing about something. And it was immediate -- the minute she came in and sang her verse."
The single ultimately climbed to No. 1 on both the pop and country charts in 1983, making it a perfect fit for Rogers' latest album, 21 Number Ones. The collection also includes "The Gambler," "Through the Years," "Lady," "Lucille" and "Coward of the County."
La Rhino Records, casa discografica americana specializzata nelle "reissues" (ripubblicazioni di dischi ) sta per annunciare un nuovo contratto che riguarda la ri-pubblicazione dell'intero catalogo discografico dei Bee Gees ed, udite udite, per eventuali pubblicazioni di materiale inedito[//]... 
Ecco l'articolo (da www.calendarlive.com) :
'Fever' pitch for Bee Gees
By Geoff Boucher
This week the Bee Gees and Warner Music Group will make it clear that, with the looming 30th anniversary of "Saturday Night Fever," they expect the group's classic disco hits will be staying very alive in the pop consciousness. Warner's Rhino Entertainment plans to announce that it has a new worldwide deal in place to revisit the original master recordings and unreleased material from the music library of the Bee Gees, who were the Brothers Gibb: Barry, Robin and the late Maurice. The Bee Gees' original studio recordings spanned from 1965 through 2001, but really, the Bee Gees are defined (be it good or bad) by their mad success in the second half of the 1970s, when they gave a falsetto voice and an irresistible beat to the disco phenomenon.
Hits such as "Stayin' Alive," "You Should Be Dancing," "Night Fever," "Tragedy" and "Jive Talkin' " either made you dance or wince, but they were inescapable. In the U.S., the Australian-bred group was so closely identified with that moment in music that they found it virtually impossible to connect with new hits after the 1970s. The polyester-era hits have been repackaged again and again, but Rhino Entertainment's Scott Pascucci says this time around the approach will be a deeper examination of the group's history and its 1960s work, overlooked in the glare of the disco ball.
"When you have a truly great group, which the Bee Gees are," Pascucci said, "you want to give a full context from the beginning of their career to the present, and I don't think that has been done with the Bee Gees."
Barry Gibb last year released a duets album with Barbra Streisand, and Robin Gibb has toured as a solo act, but the pair had said after their brother's death that they would not go on as the Bee Gees. Barry, though, has hinted on websites that a tribute album to his late sibling may be coming.
Pascucci said there was a meeting scheduled that would begin shaping the Bee Gees' legacy revival. And what about that anniversary of "Saturday Night Fever," the 1977 soundtrack that was nothing short of cultural juggernaut? "Yes, we will be talking about that."
Ecco il testo (da barrygibb.com):
Congratulations to Steve and Gloria who gave birth to a healthy baby boy weighing in at a little over 10lbs, no name yet but we will update you shortly with further details.
In questo articolo si parla di tutte le stars che si esibiranno quest'estate al famoso castello della capitale scozzese. Ecco l'articolo (da Scotsman.com News):
"Esplanade back in business as big-name gigs revealed"
(BRIAN FERGUSON)
FORMER Bee Gees star Robin Gibb, Irish boy band Westlife and operatic chart-toppers Il Divo will all play outdoor shows at Edinburgh Castle this summer.
Promoters today unveiled details of the first three open-air shows lined up for the Esplanade at the world-famous attraction.
Gigs at the Castle are being revived after last year's 11th-hour postponement of a string of concerts, expected to have been performed by rock legends such as Bob Dylan, Meat Loaf and Sting.
They were shelved after talks broke down between Regular Music, promoters of the Castle Concerts, and Historic Scotland, which is responsible for running and maintaining the Castle.
The Evening News revealed in December that health and safety fears harboured by some Historic Scotland officials had been resolved and the concerts were set to return.
A total of six concerts are expected to be held at the Esplanade over two weekends in July this year, with most of the fans due to be accommodated in the giant stands erected for the Edinburgh Military Tattoo.
If they sell out, the shows could generate upwards of £9 million for the Capital's economy. Barry Wright, promoter of the Castle Concerts series, said: "We're delighted to announce the return of the summer concerts to Edinburgh Castle and an impressive line-up for 2006.
Over two weekends in July, some of the finest performers in the world will take to the stage at this legendary venue to perform in front of an estimated audience of 8000 people each evening." City council leader Donald Anderson said: "I'm delighted that these great artists have chosen to come to Edinburgh.
The stunning and iconic setting of the Castle makes concerts there a special event for both performer and audience and will give everyone a night to remember.
"On a personal level, I'm particularly looking forward to Il Divo.
" Westlife, who will be appearing on July 21, will be returning to the venue two years after they played there in a show which set a new record as the fastest sell-out to date at the Esplanade.
The superstar band have sold more than £34m worth of albums and have notched up an amazing 12 number one hits.
Il Divo, the pop-classical quartet assembled by impresario Simon Cowell famously knocked Robbie Williams off the top of the UK album charts with their debut, which went on to enjoy chart-topping success in another 25 countries around the world.
Earlier this month Il Divo saw their latest album enter the US album charts at number one and the band's 2006 world tour will see them visit 58 cities in 18 countries. The four members of the group, due to appear in Edinburgh on July 20, are French, American, Swiss and Spanish.
Robin Gibb, one of two surviving members of the Bee Gees, will bring a full live band and classical orchestra to the Esplanade on July 16.
Fans of the Bee Gees - whose hits have been covered by musicians such as Boyzone, George Michael and Take That - can expect performances of classic hits like Stayin' Alive, Jive Talking, Night Fever and How Deep Is Your Love?
Moby, Runrig, Del Amitri, Paul Simon, Wet Wet Wet, Mike Oldfield, Elton John, The Beach Boys, Status Quo and Van Morrison are among the acts to have appeared at the Esplanade.
• Tickets, priced £35 and £40, are due to go on sale on Friday from Ripping Records, on South Bridge, Tickets Scotland on Rose Street, the Castle Concerts ticket hotline on 0870 903 3444 or via www.ticketweb.co.uk.
Per la prima volta dopo tanti anni non si servirà più del "Middle Ear" studio, che sarà chiuso il prossimo 2 marzo.
Le prove di Barry con la band che lo accompagnerà dal vivo ad Holliwood, e della quale pare facciano parte Ben Stivers e Tim Cansfield, avranno luogo in uno studio (il cui nome non è attualmente noto) a North Miami.
Sul contenuto della "scaletta" dello show circolano varie indiscrezioni. Tuttavia recentemente durante una chat nel suo sito, Barry aveva escluso la possibilità di inserire canzoni dei Bee Gees.
(da GSI, Bee Gees World e DiabetesResearches.org)
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