US Edition 
Bee Gee Barry Gibb: I'm writing music about the Jodi Arias trial
Barry Gibb, the surviving member of the Bee Gees, is writing new music based on the controversial murder trial of Jodi Arias in America.
Barry Gibb, of the Bee Gees, is working on new music inspired by the highly controversial trial of Jodi Arias in America. The singer says he is writing a song about the case.
Arias was convicted in May of murdering her former boyfriend, Travis Alexander, a Mormon, in 2008 and faces a death sentence in Arizona. At the trial, which became a media circus, Arias claimed that she had killed the salesman in self-defence.
“What I am writing at the moment is a track about the Jodi Arias trial in America,” Gibb says. “The girl has been found guilty and is facing the death penalty. There will be at least one track about that – it has really struck me.”
Gibb is also working on new music influenced by the death of his beloved younger brother, Robin. It is inspired by their life together.
Robin Gibb died of cancer aged 62, while his twin brother Maurice Gibb, the third member of the Bee Gees, died unexpectedly after a heart attack in 2003 at the age of 53.
“I’m writing about the events in my life,” says Barry, who lost his youngest brother, Andy Gibb, 30, in 1988 after an unsuccessful battle against drug addiction and depression.
“Robin and Maurice are always with me anyway, but they are influencing it; they will be part of it.”
Gibb was speaking to Mandrake at the Nordoff Robbins O2 Silver Clef Awards, where he received a lifetime achievement prize.
He credits his wife, Linda Gray, with whom he has five children, for helping him to overcome the loss of his brothers. “I thank my wife for making me pull myself together and telling me to get up,” he tells me. “Now, I can make something positive from it, with the music.”