Editing Robin Gibb (section)

==Childhood==
{{See also|Hugh Gibb}}
[[File:50 St Catherine’s Drive, childhood home of the Bee Gees.jpg|thumb|left|50 St Catherine's Drive, Douglas, the childhood home of the Bee Gees]]
Robin Hugh Gibb was born on 22 December 1949 in Jane Crookall Maternity Home in [[Douglas, Isle of Man|Douglas]], Isle of Man,<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-isle-of-man-18145255 |title=Robin Gibb death: Isle of Man charity pays tribute |publisher=BBC |access-date=17 May 2013 |archive-date=9 June 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120609152632/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-isle-of-man-18145255 |url-status=live }}</ref> to Barbara Gibb (née Pass) and [[Hugh Gibb]]. He was the [[fraternal twin]] of [[Maurice Gibb]] and was the older of the two by 35 minutes. Apart from Maurice, he had one sister, Lesley Evans, and two brothers, [[Barry Gibb|Barry]] and [[Andy Gibb|Andy]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.thegenealogist.co.uk/featuredarticles/2011/who-do-you-think-you-are/robin-gibb-63/ |title=Featured Articles – Robin Gibb |publisher=TheGenealogist.co.uk |date=22 December 1949 |access-date=6 December 2020 |archive-date=27 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210127162056/https://www.thegenealogist.co.uk/featuredarticles/2011/who-do-you-think-you-are/robin-gibb-63/ |url-status=live }}</ref> As children in [[Manchester]], Gibb and his brothers began committing crimes such as petty burglary and arson.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/3556425/Robin-Gibb-a-Bee-Gees-secret-history.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220111/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/3556425/Robin-Gibb-a-Bee-Gees-secret-history.html |archive-date=11 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Robin Gibb: a Bee Gee's secret history|author=Olga Craig|website=The Telegraph|date=13 July 2008|access-date=19 August 2016}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

Their neighbour in Willaston, [[Isle of Man]], Marie Beck, was a friend of his mother and her sister Peggy. Helen Kenney, another neighbour, was living in Douglas Head. As Kenney recalls, "Barry and the twins used to come into Mrs Beck's house and we would talk to them. Robin once said to me, 'We're going to be rich one day, we're going to form a band!' Little did I realise he meant it."<ref name="first">{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KugbDQHX0R8C&q=the+rattlesnakes+tales+of+the+brothers&pg=PT66 |title=The Bee Gees – Tales of the Brothers Gibb |last=Hughes |first=Andrew |year=2009 |publisher=Omnibus Press |isbn=9780857120045 |access-date=29 January 2013 |archive-date=13 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210513153424/https://books.google.com/books?id=KugbDQHX0R8C&q=the+rattlesnakes+tales+of+the+brothers&pg=PT66 |url-status=live }}</ref>