It is not the money but the self-respect and wanting to create good music.

When the twins was young they moved to Smedley Cottage Spring Valley also in Douglas. That period is totally gone out of his memory. On his seventh birthday in 1953 he went to Desmesne Road Boys School where he stayed until the family left Isle of Man in early 1955.

He is also the eldest and last surviving Gibb brother. Barry Alan Crompton Gibb CBE (born 1 September 1946) is a musician singer songwriter and producer who rose to worldwide fame as a founder member of the Bee Gees. The book of Guinness World Records lists Barry Gibb as the second most successful songwriter in history behind Paul McCartney.