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| Barry Gibb
Anything can inspire me - a conversation, something strikes you about words which can end up being a title.As long as you're having fun, that's the key. The moment it becomes a grind, it's over. Back surgery isn't a pleasant experience. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone and I think my back surgery aggravated the arthritis. But all bubbles have a way of bursting or being deflated in the end. But I always wanted to get married and have a family even when I was 13. But when you are in your 50's, you want a hit record, and you want to be recognized as the person who came up with it. By going solo I could lose a fortune but money is not important. Everybody is a teenage idol. I gained a fascination for the business, for understanding it, for archaeology, for ancient civilizations. I have a huge ego and a huge inferiority complex at the same time. I have a little dictaphone and if a sound takes my fancy or if a lyric comes to me in the middle of the night I'll just record it there and then. I have had an operation on my back and apparently arthritis occurs with a lot of people who have had back surgery. I just didn't believe in two people being a group. I just love the feeling a close family gives you and I wouldn't change it for anything. I much prefer staying at home with the wife and kids, watching TV or reading a book. I think every songwriter must feel as we do, but somehow no one who has recorded one of our numbers has made as good a job as we had hoped. I think it's really good that we have each other, you know, and we're taking a lot of strength from each other right now, you know. I would be content if I had nothing but a tape-recorder. I could still write songs and record them. I'd have to say, without a doubt, it's a pure love of pop music and the fact that we're a family that's knit together. I'm a 50 year old man, jumping out of bed each morning and getting on a place is no longer feasible for me. I'm Mr Boring, not a party-goer at all. I'm the eldest at 51, and if the Stones can drag themselves around once more, then there's a few more albums in us. I'm very much a family person. I've worked with a lot of people who are more famous than myself who are terribly insecure. It is commercial pop that the majority of people understand. A working man's daughter would not understand blues. It was a family thing with us and that maybe is what destroyed it. It was great being together as a band, but much more difficult being brothers than it was being in a band. It's that feeling of being a family unit. Maurice was a silly man. Maurice liked being silly. Maurice would prance into a room, you know, and his presence was immediate. No one so far has been able to get the proper feel of a song. Now there is a new group every week; it seems like everybody and anybody can get into the charts. People just like to have a go at other artists. Success like we have now was just a very distant dream in 1971. That's what happens at this point when you lose someone that's close to you like this is you get like a thousand visions at once. The Bee Gees are a fly-by-night sort of group. Then, during the last six months, my body took a turn for the better. I feel 100 per cent better than I did five years ago. There was a lot of that in those days-psychedelia, the idea that if you wrote something, even if it sounded ridiculous, somebody would find its meaning. When you are in your 20's and 30's, you just want a hit record and you don't really care how it happens. When you write a song you have an idea of how it should be sung but it doesn't work out that way if someone else records it. |
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