The Bee Gees: How to Mend a Broken Heart, an HBO documentary, explored the Australian group’s rise to fame, the public’s opposition to disco, and their subsequent artistic rebirth through songwriting for other artists. alongside the brothers’ individual successes and failures as a backdrop, the documentary reveals the challenges of playing alongside your siblings in a world-famous band.
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Despite years of internal strife and communication breakdowns, the Bee Gees remained closer than others. Over the years, they helped each other and, more importantly, their growing families. How to Mend a Broken Heart skims over a lot of information regarding the brothers’ family histories, despite analyzing their interactions.
If you watched The Bee Gees: How to Mend a Broken Heart and are interested in the Bee Gees’ children, this is all the information you need.
Barry Gibb
Stephen, Ashley, Travis, Michael, and Alexandra are the five children that Barry Gibb and his second and current wife, Linda, have together.
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Travis, Ashley, and Steve are all musicians, just like their father; Steve plays guitar in Barry’s band.
Michael has acted in movies including the 2020 movie Stan the Man and the next movie, Just South of Insanity.
Alexandra, Barry’s only daughter, lives in Canada and works as an award-winning newscaster.
Robin Gibb
Robin, Maurice’s twin brother, had four children during his lifetime. Spencer and Melissa Gibb, the children of Robin’s first marriage to Molly Hullis, stayed at their father’s bedside every day until his death from cancer in 2012 at the age of 62, “talking to him and playing his favorite music.”
Similar to his father, Spencer followed a career in music and later performed as a solo artist and one of the original members of the band 54 Seconds.
Robin-John “RJ” Gibb pursued acting and music careers, just like his famous siblings. The 37-year-old is the son of Robin’s second wife, author and artist Dwina Murphy.
Evelyn Snow Due to an adulterous affair between Robin and his 25-year-old housekeeper, Robin Juliet, his fourth child, was born in 2008. According to the Sunday Mirror, the 12-year-old was given a $6.2 million fortune.
Maurice Gibb
The children of Maurice’s second wife, Yvonne, are also artists, just like their late father, Adam and Samantha.
In 2019, however, Nick Endacott, an East Sussex man, revealed that he was a long-lost son Maurice had fathered while living in London.
Nick was placed for adoption after his birth by his mother, Patti Nolder, a former studio manager. As an adult, Nick was able to get back in touch with his biological mother and learned that he might be Maurice’s son.
Using a saliva swab that he provided to the website, Nick confirmed a perfect match with Maurice’s son Adam, who had submitted his own information to Ancestry.co.uk years earlier.
“He and Adam are 100% half-siblings, according to the results, which is only possible if we share a single parent,” Nick said.
Even though he had no legal claim to Maurice’s massive estate because he had been legally adopted as a child, Nick said that discovering who his biological father is gave him “completion … and … wholeness.”
Nick was a musician, just like Maurice and his half-siblings, proving that the Gibb family had a long history of musical aptitude.
