Sioux wrote on May 20
th, 2012 at 9:24pm:
Yeah, it's really sad.

I guess we all just knew it was a matter of time....
I know, to most people, the BeeGees represent the disco era. I never cared for disco at all. To me, it was all about those first 3 albums...especially BeeGees 1st. I got that when I was 15...Barry was 19 and Robin and Maurice were 17, and they wrote the music and did all the orchestrations.....it's a really neat album! NOTHING like what they were doing in the 70's. If you haven't checked the 60's BeeGee's out, I do recommend doing so.
and I second this!!
For me, I started getting into the Bee Gees in late '67, when 'Massachusetts' was released. "Horizontal" was my 1st Bee Gees album I had gotten, and shortly after that got "1st" & "Idea" Then in late '68, Atco released some recordings they did from '63-'66, when they were EARLY TEENS in Austrailia!! Called "Rare, Precious & Beautiful" I wound up eventually getting 2 of the 3 volumes of these. Then in '69, they released the double album "Odessa", with an red velvet cover! Another excellent album.
I have always felt that the Bee Gees got a 'bum rap' over the disco thing, prolly cuz I'm never thought of them as 'disco' even during the Saturday Nite Fever craze ... to me they had just 'reinvented' their style to more of a dance band, to keep up with the flow, so to speak. This is JMO though.
Anyhow, RIP Robin. Thank u for the music & the memories.
My prayers are with his mom, Barry, his wife Dwina and his children.