LOS ANGELES, June 30 — The second album from Bee Gees’ singer Barry Gibb is tracking for release later this year, after Columbia Records announced that he had signed with the label.
Barry Gibb, who sung lead vocals for the Bee Gees from the fraternal group’s 1958 inception through to a 2010 appearance on the season nine finale of American Idol, described the signing as “a dream come true” and “a new chapter in my life”.
While the Bee Gees had released material primarily through Polydor and Atco, Gibb said that he had “always hoped one day that the Bee Gees would be with Columbia or indeed (Columbia parent) Sony.”
Gibb had recorded the unreleased The Kid’s No Good in 1970, making his first solo release Now, Voyager in 1984; Hawks, released in 1988, was a soundtrack album for the Timothy Dalton and Anthony Edwards comedy of the same name and featured material recorded for another unreleased album, Moonlight Madness.
Now 69, Gibb survives his brothers Maurice (d.2003, age 53) and Robin (d.2012, age 62.)
“I will never forget my brothers, they will always be a part of everything I do,” he said. — AFP-Relaxnews
