{"id":14763,"date":"2012-05-24T15:18:10","date_gmt":"2012-05-24T19:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=14763"},"modified":"2012-05-24T15:18:10","modified_gmt":"2012-05-24T19:18:10","slug":"singer-robin-gibb-bee-gees-co-founder-dies-at-62","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=14763","title":{"rendered":"Singer Robin Gibb, Bee Gees Co-Founder, Dies At 62"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON &#8211; <strong>Bee Gees<\/strong> singer <strong>Robin Gibb<\/strong>, who with brothers Barry and Maurice helped define the disco era with their falsetto harmonies and funky beats on hits like <em>&#8220;Stayin&#8217; Alive&#8221;<\/em> and <em>&#8220;Jive Talkin'&#8221;,<\/em> died on Sunday after a long fight with cancer. He was 62.<\/p>\n<p>The singer had colon and liver cancer and, despite brief improvements in his health in recent months, passed away on Sunday evening.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gibb<\/strong> died at the London Clinic surrounded by his second wife <strong>Dwina<\/strong>, sons <strong>Spencer<\/strong> and <strong>Robin-John<\/strong> and daughter <strong>Melissa<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Barry<\/strong>, now the last surviving member of the<strong> Bee Gees<\/strong>, had been in Britain in recent weeks to see his ailing brother, but was in the United States when he died.<\/p>\n<p>Funeral arrangements are expected to be announced later this week, a spokesman said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON &#8211; Bee Gees singer Robin Gibb, who with brothers Barry and Maurice helped define the disco era with their falsetto harmonies and funky beats on hits like &#8220;Stayin&#8217; Alive&#8221; and &#8220;Jive Talkin&#8217;&#8221;, died on Sunday after a long fight with cancer. He was 62. The singer had colon and liver cancer and, despite brief [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}