Robin Gibb pictured performing during the Energy Globe World Award Ceremony in Brussels, Belgium in 2007. Picture: AFP Source: AFP
Robin-John Gibb (left) attends the funeral of Robin Gibb in Oxfordshire, England, in what was a private funeral for the Bee Gees star. Picture: Getty Images Source: Getty Images
Barry Gibb kisses a rose in a farewell to his brother Robin. Picture: AP Source: AP
Barry and Ali Gibb were among the mourners to pay their final respects to the star. Picture: Getty Images Source: Fox Sports
- Family, friends say final goodbye to Bee Gees star
- Robin Gibb laid to rest in private funeral service
- Public memorial service for star planned in September
ROBIN Gibb was laid to rest overnight in a small English churchyard opposite his Oxfordshire home of more than 19 years.
His mother Barbara Gibb, now in her 90s, buried the third of her sons under a rain-filled sky. She was accompanied by Gibb's children and his surviving brother Barry.
Hundreds of fans lined the windswept high street in Thame, a town in Oxfordshire, southern England, to pay their respects to the Bee Gees singer and songwriter.
Although the funeral service was private, the family said Gibb had wanted his local friends to be able to say goodbye.
A glass-sided, horse-drawn carriage carried the singer's coffin draped in the flag of his birthplace, the Isle of Man.
It was met outside the gates of his 13th century home by a guard of honor formed by air cadets from 594 Thame Squadron, reflecting Gibb's support for the British armed forces.
Led by a solitary piper and followed by Gibb's two Irish wolfhounds, Ollie and Missy, the funeral cortege made its way once round Thame Town Hall.
Singer Peter Andre, DJ Mike Reid, psychic Uri Geller and lyricist Sir Tim Rice were among the friends and family who made up the funeral procession.
Since Gibb died on May 20 from kidney failure after fighting bowel cancer and pneumonia, tributes have poured in from around the world.
The musician behind much-loved hits like Night Fever and Staying Alive was just 62.
No cameras were allowed into St Mary's Church, where the service took place, but the strains of How Deep is Your Love filled the churchyard as Gibb's coffin was taken into the church.
Two of his children, Spencer and Melissa, read tributes to their father, as did his brother Barry.
Gibb's wife Dwina read a poem she had written called My Songbird Has Flown.
A public memorial service will be held at St Paul's Cathedral in London in September.
Read more about family gathers to bid farewell to Robin Gibb at Sky News.
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