Robin Gibb

Robin Gibb’s son, Robin-John Gibb, has released information that his father did not die of cancer, as many sources have reported. Instead, his son says that he died of kidney failure.

It's been a bad week for disco, with Donna Summer passing away on Thursday, and now Bee Gees singer Robin Gibb losing his battle with cancer. Gibb was 62, and had been fighting colon and liver cancer. His family expressed great sadness in a statement earlier today.

If you are a fan of the Bee Gees there is sad news on the horizon. The Bee Gees' Robin Gibb is putting up a brave fight against liver cancer. He has been undergoing chemotherapy for almost two months, but finds himself weak and losing ground to the cancer. There was a recent fundraiser that he was too ill to attend, and the spokesman for the 62 year old Gibb said he was fighting hard and heading h