Barry Gibb: Robin and Maurice have been reunited in heaven He said Robin, 62, who died from kidney failure last month after fighting cancer and pneumonia, had finally been reunited with his twin. Barry recalled the decade of separation endured by Robin since Maurice died in 2003. "When you're twins, you're twins for life," he said. You go through every emotion. And they're finally together. I think the greatest pain for Robin in the past 10 years was losing his twin brother, and I think it did all kinds of things to him. Hundreds of mourners wept as Robin's ornate white coffin entered the church to the sound of the Bee Gees" hit How Deep Is Your Love. Barry and the vicar leading the service, the Reverend Alan Garratt, walked up the aisle ahead of it as a round of spontaneous applause broke out from well-wishers outside the church. Close relatives, including Robin's widow, Dwina, and his mother followed behind. Robin's young daughter Snow, whose mother is a former housekeeper of his, did not attend the service - but was mentioned by Barry at the end of his eulogy as "little Snow" in a list of close family members. Barry paid tribute to his brother's "magnificent mind and his beautiful heart." Minutes after the funeral cortege had picked its way through the streets of his brother's adoptive town, he told mourners: "Life is too short; in Robin's case, absolutely too short. We should have had 20 years, 30 years of his magnificent mind and his beautiful heart. Referring to Maurice, he added: "They were both beautiful. The Gibbs" elderly mother, Barbara, was too distraught to remain in the church as Barry delivered his eulogy. Her surviving son said: "This is a very strange experience, having already lost two brothers and now Rob. Hundreds of Bee Gees fans lined the streets to bid the singer a final, tearful farewell. The white, glass-sided carriage bearing his coffin was pulled through the throng by four plumed, black Friesian horses. Each wore a decorative black cloth emblazoned with a gold treble clef in honour of a career steeped in musical folklore. Ahead of the horses was a lone piper, behind them relatives and friends, and finally, Gibb's beloved Irish Wolfhounds, Ollie and Missy. It had been the singer's final wish to "say a final goodbye to fans and his home town of Thame," and he did so in typically flamboyant style. The cortege emerged from the gatehouse of Robin's estate and then moved slowly up the town's High Street. It was welcomed to the church by the strains of the Bee Gees hit How Deep Is Your Love? Gibb's widow, Dwina, was at the head of the cortege, together with his mother. The singer's sons, RJ and Spencer, were joined as pallbearers by Barry's son, Stevie, and Dwina's son, Steven Murphy. Mourners included Sir Tim Rice, Uri Geller, Peter Andre and the DJ Mike Read. During the service Dwina read a poem called My Songbird Has Flown. It included the words: "My songbird has flown and my soul sighs - but he will never go away." She was embraced by Barry as she returned to her seat. The poem was followed by a recording of Don't Cry Alone - one of Robin's last compositions, from his Titanic Requiem, which premiered just weeks before his death. Guests left the church to the sound of the Bee Gees" song I Started A Joke, which includes the line "I finally died, which started the whole world living." Gibb enjoyed a hugely successful chart career, starting out in the early 1960s with Maurice and Barry before embracing the disco era of the 1970s. The trio were also prolific songwriters, their work helping to reignite the careers of such artists as Dionne Warwick and Diana Ross. Their younger brother Andy, who also had a chart career, died in 1988.