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Today’s Video: Bee
Gees - I Started a Joke
Robin Gibb's son played "I Started a Joke" on his
phone just after his father died from kidney failure on May 20, 2012. Robin-John
Gibb told The Sun:
"When he passed
away we went out, they took the equipment away and we came back in, I picked up
my phone and found "I Started a Joke" on YouTube and played it. I put
the phone on his chest and that was the first time I broke down. I knew that
song and its lyrics were perfect for that moment. That song will always have
new meaning to me now."
According to Robin Gibb, the melancholic melody of the song
was inspired by the sounds on board an aeroplane:
"The
melody to this one was heard aboard a British Airways Vickers Viscount about a
hundred miles from Essen. It was one of those old four engine 'prop' jobs, that
seemed to drone the passenger into a sort of hypnotic trance, only with this it
was different. The droning, after a while, appeared to take the form of a tune,
which mysteriously sounded like a church choir. So it was decided! We accosted
the pilot, forced him to land in the nearest village and there; in a small pub,
we finished the lyrics [with Barry]. Actually, it wasn't a village, it was the
city, and it wasn't a pub, it was a hotel, and we didn't force the pilot to
land in a field... but why ruin a perfectly good story?"
