Sir Barry Alan Crompton Gibb is a musician, singer-songwriter and record producer. He rose to worldwide fame as a co-founder of the group Bee Gees. Gibb’s most notable vocal trait is a far-reaching high-pitched falsetto. Guinness World Records lists Gibb as the second most successful songwriter in history, behind Paul McCartney.
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Sir Barry Alan Crompton Gibb is a musician, singer-songwriter and record producer. He rose to worldwide fame as a co-founder of the group Bee Gees. He has lived and worked in Britain, Australia, and the United States. Gibb’s most notable vocal trait is a far-reaching high-pitched falsetto. As a songwriter, he shares with John Lennon and Paul McCartney the record for consecutive Billboard Hot 100 number ones, each having six. Guinness World Records lists Gibb as the second most successful songwriter in history, behind Paul McCartney. He was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2002 New Year Honours for services to music and entertainment and a Knight Bachelor in the 2018 New Year honours. He is a fellow of the. British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors. In 2007, Q magazine ranked him number 38 on its list of the \”100 Greatest Singers\”. Gibb was born at Jane Crookall Maternity Home in Douglas, Isle of Man on 1 September 1946, to Hugh Gibb, a drummer, and Barbara Gibb . He has English, Irish, and Scottish ancestry. His second name of Alan was after his father’s youngest brother, Alan, who died in infancy. His third name, Crompton, was given to honour the Gibbs’ illustrious ancestor, ‘Sir Isaac Crompton’ – actually Samuel Crompton. When he was almost two years old, he was badly scalded.
His mother had just made tea which she had put on the table; he climbed up and pulled the tea pot down and got the tea all over him. The idea of being burnt is in there somewhere, but I have no knowledge of it. He was in Nobles Hospital for about two and a half months. Then the gangrene set in. He later commented on that incident: Then the advancement of medicine simply didn’t apply to people with bad scalds, so you didn’t have skin grafts, you didn’t have things like that. I think I had 20 minutes to live at some point. The incredible thing for me is wiped from my memory, the whole period of being in hospital. The next year he went to Tynwald Street Infants School. In 1955, Gibb formed the skiffle group The Rattlesnakes, consisting of himself, Robin and Maurice on vocals, and friends Paul Frost and Kenny Horrocks on vocals. Later that year, on 22 December, his two younger brothers were born. In September 1951, three days after his fifth birthday, he started school in Spring Valley, Douglas. In 1952, the Gibb family relocated to 43 Snaefell Road, Willaston, which became their home for the next two years. On his seventh birthday in 1953, he went on to Desne Road Boys Boys School. The same year he played in The Rattnakes by Cliff Cliff.
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