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Robin’s Funeral in Thame
Robin’s funeral will take place in Thame on Friday 8 June. The funeral will be for close friends and family by invitation only, with a memorial service to take place in a few months time. If you wish you can leave a message for Robin’s family or your memories of Robin (‘s music) on his website: http://www.robingibb.com/comments.html For questions you can email Ann Grootjans of RobinGibb.com
(source: www.robingibb.com)

Don’t Cry For me, charity single for Bomber Command
Income from Don’t Cry Alone, performed by Robin Gibb with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, is to benefit the Bomber Command Memorial Charity. Robin has been leading the campaign for a permanent memorial the past five years, and the monument, which is in London’s Green Park, will be unveiled later this month. Don’t Cry Alone is one of the lead tracks from The Titanic Requiem album and Robin Gibb and RJ Gibb’s record royalties and Warner Music’s net profits from the sale of the download single are being donated to the Bomber Command Memorial with a minimum donation of 40 pence per single. The donation commences on Sunday June 3rd and ends on September 30th, 2012. The single is available (world-wide) to download from iTunes and all good digital retailers: iTunes UK: http://itunes.apple.com Amazon UK: www.amazon.co.uk Robin considered the building of the memorial as one of his greatest achievements, and his son RJ talks about the new charity single in this Sunday’s edition of UK newspaper The Sun. Jim Dooley, director of fundraiser for the Bomber Command Memorial Fund, said that Robin was a true friend and the most altruistic pop star he knew, and that the Bomber Command association is ever grateful to Robin’s family for enabling one of Robin’s most beautiful works to be used to their cause. Below is a segment from an interview from last January 14th, in which Robin talks about Don’t Cry Alone: “Don’t Cry Alone” was written and recorded in 2008 with Peter John Vettese, and I hadn’t been thinking of including it on The Titanic Requiem but the producers and the RPO wanted it to go on the album. What happened was that we were sitting with Cliff Masterson and someone from the Royal Philharmonic, looking for the right echo for Christmas Day, and I played Don’t Cry Alone to them. After we’d finished, they said: “that’s on the album right, because if not, it’s got to be!” So we kept the original vocal but added the orchestra and included it. The song fits in The Titanic Requiem, as it’s very much in the same vain as Christmas Day and Daybreak: the spirit that is gone is consoling the spirit that is alive. It’s the voice of the person that’s gone consoling the living, to “believe in me, and have faith in the future, cos I’ll always be with you”. That’s the angle of the song, and it’s a positive angle: “as the sun sets new suns are rising, as winter heralds spring’s horizon”. There’s an upside to it, it has that “it’s darkest before dawn” feeling.
(source: www.robingibb.com)

Robin and Maurice Gibb re-united
Mirror online of June 3rd.:
When Maurice died nearly 10 years ago, some of his ashes were used to make four purple gems. The ashes of Robin Gibb’s twin brother Maurice will be taken to the singer’s funeral on Friday – in the form of precious stones. www.mirror.co.uk

Robin John’s new website
Robin John is the youngest son of Robin and Dwina Gibb and active in film, theatre and music work. Visit his new website at: www.rjgibb.co.uk.

Robin Gibb tributes
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Marion: GSI 06/04/12