Barry Gibb was performing in Philadelphia in 2014 when he invited and Maurice Gibb’s daughter Samantha to join him in a beautiful duet of the famous Bee Gees song.
Barry Gibb and Maurice Gibb’s daughter singing her father’s favourite Bee Gees song, is a moment they’ll treasure forever.
Samantha Gibb joined her uncle Barry on stage at the Wells Fargo Centre in Philadelphia on May 19, 2014 eleven years after Maurice Gibb’s untimely death from cardiac arrest when he was just 53-years-old.
The duet took place while the Bee Gee was on his Mythology world tour, visiting the UK, Ireland, New Zealand, Australia and performing extensively across the United States.
The duet took place while the Bee Gee was on his 2014 Mythology world tour, visiting the UK, Ireland, New Zealand, Australia and an extensive tour of the United States. . Picture: Steve Vitalidol/YouTube
‘How Can You Mend a Broken Heart’ was released by the Bee Gees in 1971 as the first single from the group’s album, Trafalgar. Picture: Steve Vitalidol/YouTube
‘How Can You Mend a Broken Heart’ was released by the Bee Gees in 1971 as the first single from the group’s album, Trafalgar. The song would later be covered by Al Green and feature on the soundtrack of the movie, Notting Hill.
Barry and Robin Gibb wrote the hit in 1970 at Barry’s house, after a period of estrangement from one another.
“Robin came to my place,” Barry later said, “and that afternoon we wrote ‘How Can You Mend a Broken Heart’ and that obviously was a link to us coming back together.
“We called Maurice, finished the song, went to the studio and once again, with only ‘Broken Heart’ as a basic structure, we went in to the studio with that and an idea for ‘Lonely Days’, and those two songs were recorded that night”.