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Barry Gibb Haunted By Brothers’ Ghosts: Sole Living Bee Gees Singer Shares Life After Death Visions

By Bradley Ryder
Published on: 14:09 PST, Sep 4, 2016

The sole surviving brother of one of the most recognized and celebrated bands in history has a paranormal confession. Barry Gibb, who turned 70 recently, said he is haunted by his brothers’ ghosts. The former Bee Gees frontman says the visions of his deceased siblings represented another turning point in his life and he is now confronted with probing the question: Is there life after death?

Gibb sat down with The Mail over the weekend and was too eager to speak about his haunting experience. He says he saw Robin Gibb and his wife, Linda, saw Andy Gibb. Barry didn’t go into detail about the apparitions of his brothers, but he said it was not only frustrating, but it also left him confused about the relative meaning.

Andy, not a member of the band, was the youngest of the Gibb brothers. He died at 30, reportedly from drug addiction. Twins, Maurice, 53 and Robin, 62, died from surgery complications and malignancy in 2003 and 2012, respectively.

The interviewer said Barry, up to this point, had never talked about his tragic losses with so much emotion. According to the Mirror, the Gibb matriarch, 95, is still torn over the loss.

“Mo was gone in two days. Maybe that’s better than long and tortured? Which is what Robin went through. Andy went at 30. All different forms of passing and for our mum, devastating.”

“Yes, and it’s not fun because you’re not quite sure what it was about. If it was real. I saw Robin and my wife saw Andy. Maybe it’s a memory producing itself outside your conscious mind or maybe it’s real.”

“The biggest [question] of all, is there life after death? I’d like to know.”

After the deaths of his brothers, Barry withdrew from the public for a time and mourned, just as anyone else would under the circumstances. After a protracted time away from performing with his brothers and on any stage as a solo artist, Barry began to wonder if he would ever come out of his shell.

With timeless hits like “Jive Talking,” “How Deep is Your Love” and “Staying Alive,” to name a few, fans were not ready for the remaining Gibb brother to retire from music. That’s when the “lion” got a second wind, a new lease on life, as he explained.

“After Rob died I just sat moping around thinking that was the end of it and I would just fade away. I thought I was quite happy about fading away, but then the President of Columbia Records, Rob Stringer, came to see me and signed me and said: ‘We’re gonna move your a**!’ And I thought: Oh well, that’s OK.’ So I’m back.'”

Today, Gibb is back on the stage and performing. Gone are his brothers and their charming harmony. Barry’s 42-year-old son, Stephen, joins him in a few numbers today. While he’s not a Bee Gee and will never be, according to his father, the pair onstage together is just what the doctor ordered.

Interestingly, Barry Gibb says that an odd thing saved him sinking into deep depression over the loss of his brothers: television.

“You are in a kind of tunnel. You have to come out the other side and I waited for that and I watched television. ‘Downton Abbey’ – that got me through it, and ‘Ray Donovan’ and ‘Billionaire’. I love them more than movies. I love the cliff-hangers. We get British television in America because I have Apple TV.”

Barry, a father of five, says he embraces the concept of reincarnation, that he and his wife believes he has passed through this life before on several occasions. Due to his struggles with death and dying in his family, he doesn’t question the significance of being haunted by his brothers’ ghosts. Instead, he says, he leaves things to chance and accepts that it may be an integral part of his family

On if he thinks he will ever see his brothers again — in the afterlife, Gibb says, “I don’t want to question it. Don’t want to go there.”

Welcome back, Barry.

[Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images]

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