On the quiet afternoon of August 17, the sun cast a soft glow over Thame, Oxfordshire, as Vince Melouney — the original Bee Gees guitarist — made his way to the resting place of Robin Gibb. Standing in silence, he bowed his head, the weight of decades of friendship and music pressing gently on his heart. In his hand, a small bouquet of roses trembled slightly in the breeze. For a moment, Vince whispered the words of “I Started a Joke,” a song that carried Robin’s unmistakable voice into eternity. Placing the flowers upon the stone, he murmured, “Your voice still sings, Robin.” The air felt alive with memory — as if the music they once shared would never truly fade.
Before the mirror balls, before the falsetto harmonies that would define the Bee Gees during...