Belialith's Tales...: Barry Gibb, Genius.

Barry Gibb is the genius behind Andy Gibb. Both songs were written for Andy, and both songs are what brought him to public recognition. This man knows people. Hahaha. Brilliant. Without those two helping songs, I wonder how far Andy's career might have went. But stunning precision on the part of Barry Gibb set him right out there, ripe as a fruit to be picked. Such genius. It's like Cyrano de Bergerac through Christian to woo the public's heart.

I remember being in gradeschool when I first heard his song coming out of the P.A. system in class. I sat there, I remember DISTINCTly, that song coming through. The entire memory is stuck in my head as though I were here and there at the same time, hearing it. Looking up at the P.A. system high on the wall, and hearing those words. The sounds were haunting too, but it were the words which really captured my attention. How could an 18 year old write like that unless he was a genius? But no, he wasn't, it was his brother Barry who was, and still is. And I remember how I never much liked any other of Andy's songs. Now I know why. Because Barry wrote those which I was interested in. Not that Andy isn't intelligent, but that he is more like Christian, than Cyrano. Just a handsome young blood, without much thought in his head, but a lot of warmth in his heart. And that voice with those words, is a like a hollywood masterpiece, or like an alchemists potion for enchantment.

Strange how halted I was to liking him, while every girl was falling ga-ga goo-goo over him. Those haunting words just didn't seem to fit him. It's like Roxane sensing something amiss, and therefore, stays at a distance. Andy, like a puppet on a string, dangled there before me by some mysterious being out in the high heavenly realms, communicating something sublte, divine, unknowable to me at the time. He was spread all over the aether in the form of a message, one that never left me.

"(Love Is) Thicker Than Water" is a 1977 song by English singer Andy Gibb. A demonstration of the Gibb brothers' U.S. chart domination in 1978, this song replaced the song by Andy's brothers, the Bee Gees, with their #1 single "Stayin' Alive", when it reached #1 on the Hot 100 on March 4. This song was replaced at number one by the Bee Gees' own "Night Fever". This was then replaced by Yvonne Elliman's "If I Can't Have You". Since Barry Gibb had a hand in writing all four of these songs, he became the only person in history to write four consecutive US Number One singles; this feat has not been matched to this day. The song features guitar work by Joe Walsh.

I would love to meet Barry. I bet you his voice is a jewel still...just like I use to think when I listened to the BeeGees a long time ago, while they were in active creation of music. I hear he has a concert happening, in the year of the black water snake, 2013.

Barry Gibb's lyrics.

And this is another song that came to mind this morning after I woke up and Barry Gibb's words came to my head.

And he's the only one left standing.. oh I wonder .. what his mind is like ..

BEE GEES - STAYIN' ALIVE

Well you can tell by the way I use my walk,
I'm a woman's man, no time to talk.
Music's loud and women warm,
I've been kicked around
Since I was born.
I can tolerate, I don't hate,
And you may look the other way.
We can try to understand
The New York times' effect on man.

Well now, I get low and I get high,
And if I can't get either, I really try.
There's a wicked ole panther on my shoes.
I'm a dancin' man and I just can't lose.
You know it's all right. It's o.k.
I'll live to see another day.
We can try to understand
The New York times' effect on man.

Whether you're a brother or whether you're a mother,
You're stayin' alive, stayin' alive.
Feel the city breakin' and everybody shakin',
And we're stayin' alive, stayin' alive.
Ah, ah, ah, ah, stayin' alive, stayin' alive.
Ah, ah, ah, ah, stayin' alive.

Life goin' nowhere. Somebody help me.
Somebody help me, yeah.
Life goin' nowhere. Somebody help me, yeah.
Stayin' alive.

Well, you can tell by the way I use my walk,
I'm a woman's man, no time to talk.
Music's loud and women warm,
I've been kicked around since I was born.
I can tolerate. It's o.k.
And you may look the other way.
We can try to understand
The New York times' effect on man.

Whether you're a brother or whether you're a mother,
You're stayin' alive, stayin' alive.
Feel the city breakin' and everybody shakin',
And we're stayin' alive, stayin' alive.
Ah, ah, ah, ah, stayin' alive, stayin' alive.
Ah, ah, ah, ah, stayin' alive.

Life goin' nowhere. Somebody help me.
Somebody help me, yeah.
Life goin' nowhere. Somebody help me, yeah.
I'm stayin' alive.