LES MOTS DE BARRY

Staying alive 

Sir Barry Gibb has a new number one album at the age of 74. He talks to Tim Roxborogh about the power of dreams, love and loss — and new beginnings 

Weekend Herald

16 Jan 2021

 

"Australian artist Olivia Newton-john delivers a wonderfully lived-in vocal on Rest Your Love on Me. 

It’s a piece of music she knows well having sung it with the youngest Gibb brother, Andy, in 1980. 

Gibb confesses to having “a really special spot in my heart” for Newton-john, “but then every guy I meet has the same spot!” “She sailed to Australia on the Fairstar when she was 5 years old. We sailed to Australia on the Fairsea, the sister ship. 

We came back on the Fairsky and I think she flew back to England. 

I congratulated her yesterday on our album being number one and she sent a lovely text back. My text was ‘We’re alumni. We come from the same place, we made the same journeys, we made the same decisions, and we did not give up. We did not let anyone push us back’.” 

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