When Barry Gibb's son sang an emotional duet of "I have Gotta Get A Message to You" by the Bee Gees When Sir Barry Gibb asked his son to perform a duet on stage on his first tour following the passing of his brothers, Robin and Maurice Gibb, he created a memorable moment that Bee Gees fans will never forget. Two years after Barry's last surviving sibling, Robin Gibb, passed away in 2012, Stephen Gibb joined his father for a poignant duet of "I have Gotta Get A Message To You" during the Bee Gee star's 2014 Mythology Tour. Paraphrase He had been touring with his three brothers since the Bee Gees were founded in 1958, but this was the first time he would do it without them. The Bee Gees' 1968 single "I have Gotta Get a Message To You" achieved their second number-one single in the UK Singles Chart. The song, written by Robin Gibb, is about a man who has been given a death sentence and is pleading with the prison priest to give his wife one last message. "He wants his wife to hear a parting message from the jail chaplain. It has a particular sense of urgency. Barry and I wrote it. He compared it to writing a screenplay. "You can sometimes play your guitar for three hours and nothing will happen. Something will then spark within the final ten minutes. Paraphrase