Bee Gee Barry Gibb: I'm writing music about the Jodi Arias trial Arias was convicted in May of murdering her former boyfriend, Travis Alexander, a Mormon, in 2008 and is on death row in Arizona. At the trial, which became a media circus, Arias claimed that she had killed the salesman in self-defence. 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.