Late yesterday the family of
Robin Gibb CBE announced with great sadness that he had finally lost his long battle with cancer and intestinal surgery (
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Massachusetts (
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Saturday Night Fever helped the Bee Gees to become one of the biggest selling pop groups of all time. Robin and Barry received their CBE's in 2004 (
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