BEE GEES - BEE GEES STAR GIBB BLOCKS AIDS AD

BEE GEES STAR GIBB BLOCKS AIDS AD

BEE GEES star BARRY GIBB has refused to let one of the band's songs be used in an AIDS awareness advert - insisting the cover version sounds too similar to the original.
A new recording of the Bee Gees' Staying Alive was made using the cast of touring stage show Thank You For The Music to be used as part of a major health campaign across Europe.
But the musician's representatives at the Warner music company have banned organisers from using the song in a conflict over publishing rights.
Martin Spooner, who plays Gibb's brother Robin in the stage show, says, "I didn't know whether to laugh or cry. Although we miss out on a lucrative TV deal we take this as a back-handed compliment that we sound too much like the Bee Gees. But it's disappointing too because it was a major campaign for a worthwhile cause. It never occurred to us there would be a problem."