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The organization also produces research and thought leadership on emerging trends, helping professionals stay current with skills in areas like AI, agile practices, and strategic business management. These resources are designed to help professionals at all levels enhance their skills and advance their careers. #### What is the PMBOK® Guide? The PMBOK® Guide, or A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge, is PMI’s foundational guide to generally accepted project management knowledge and practice. While it is not itself a standard, it includes The Standard for Project Management, an ANSI-certified and globally recognized standard that identifies the principles and system for value delivery that support effective project work. 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You never get past that, that’s what you learn. My wife just said, “Do something. Get out of the house. Get on the stage again.” She drove me to it. **The Mythology Tour features Maurice’s daughter and your son Stephen. Are you trying to re-create a touring family?** It’s instinctive. We all want to play together. It’s a treat to have Steve standing next to me and Sammy singing. **Do you miss your brothers more onstage or in daily life?** Both. I can be onstage and still imagine that they’re standing there, especially when we used to be around one microphone. I still feel that intensely, but I also feel it in real life. Robin and I became estranged about 10 years ago, and about five years ago he and I started to move toward each other again. Neither of us could really come to terms with Mo’s sudden death, or losing Andy when he was only 30\. We were very close the three months before he passed. **Is it easier to be in a family band or for four strangers to get on?** When you’re blood, the rivalry is pretty intense. Everybody wants to be the favorite child. **Brian Wilson said that when songwriters run out of things to say, they won’t have any more songs. Have you still got things to say?** I still feel the urge to prove that I write songs. It doesn’t go away. I think there’s something about a song which will literally make you cry. Bluegrass music does that to me. I can’t watch _Carousel_ without crying. I can’t watch _South Pacific_ without crying. **You’re kind of sappy, as it turns out.** I’m really sappy. _The Notebook_–I sat with a towel on my knee. **Do you miss your former Justin Bieber level of fame?** No, no. Not having any privacy controls the way you think, and I don’t ever want to be like that again. What he’s experiencing now, it’s really like being lost. When Andy was around that age, he had a pet tiger. Well, there’s Justin with a pet monkey. I see the signs of someone who doesn’t know how to deal with it all. I hope he grows into the role, because this is not a good idea for young girls–it really isn’t–to \[see him\] behave like that. He’s probably very strong. But he may be surrounded by people who are not very strong. **How would you advise him?** Get a grip. Give it everything you’ve got, but be grownup about it. **Who would you go out to see on tour?** Bruce Springsteen. Paul McCartney. I would have liked to have seen the Beatles live. Justin \[Timberlake\] I think is fantastic. And Michael \[Jackson\], of course. Michael is eternal. **What happened to the song you recorded with Michael Jackson in 2002?** I wasn’t able to release it. I was only allowed to put it on my website. I suppose it never really was perfected. Michael was a little dazed from the \[child molestation\] court case. I don’t think he really recovered from any of that. He hung out a lot at my house, and I think he hung out at a lot of other people’s houses–anything to get away from his own environment. I feel bad for his kids. I think he was a great father–I did notice that. **I saw that you were on** **_SNL_** **‘s The Barry Gibb Talk Show.** Jimmy Fallon’s probably the most gifted man I’ve ever seen on TV. It’s like talking to yourself. But I promise you, I never shout that loud. I can’t do it. I want Jimmy to send me the wig. **Do you get jokers who come up to you and say, “Hey Barry, how deep is your love?”** I get people who come up to me and say, “Get out of the way.” –BELINDA LUSCOMBE ## Transcript Hi, I'm Belinda Luscombe from TIME. Barry Gibb is one of the most successful musicians of all time. He's the artistic force behind something like 66, 600 songs, 28 albums. He's about to go on tour again and super psyched and [ INAUDIBLE ] to say he's here to answer questions for TIME magazine. Mr. Gibb, welcome. Thank you, Belinda. So, tell me, why have you decided to tour again? I had lost all my brothers and, I, I just sat around for a long time. I sat around for many months. And, and getting past all of that, in fact for the whole family getting past all of that, you know? And you never do. That's what you learn. You never really do. So, really my wife just said, you know. Do something with yourself. You know, get out of the house, get on the stage again, you know? And she drove me to that. You've actually pulled off an amazing coupe in sort of Pop music history. In that you've been married to the same woman for. 43 years. 43 years. Which I think in Rock years is a geological era. It's maybe four centuries or something. Is there a secret? It's not a secret. We were always in love. It was just that simple. [ LAUGH ] and. Just that simple. Well it is. The same sense of humor, the same. We saw everything together, we saw. You know, how, how do you go through everything without sharing it with somebody. And she shares it with me. So all of the insights I've ever had, she has too. We share em, and we laugh all the time. You know? Maybe not, maybe not all the time. [ LAUGH ] But plenty. But plenty. What do you know about fame now, that you wish you knew, 40 years ago? It's just not that big a deal. Right. But it is very invasive when you're young. Yeah. And, and, it, it, it controls the way you think. And I don't every want to be like that again. I don't, fame will take you, and you've gotta take it, you know? Do you mean the fear of the public eye, or wanting more. Not having any privacy. Right. You know? Not being able to answer your own phone. And little things that now I enjoy doing. not, people climbing over your. Walls and things like that. You know? They still do it. And people come to the gates and they take pictures. And, and, I like to meet them and say hello and have pictures taken. So it's sort of pretty much the same as it always was. Except that I'm older. Yeah. You know? So it doesn't go to your head so much. No. No. When you're wondering around Florida, you still get stopped by people a lot. Yeah. Yeah. And. And I still get asked for my ID. So, you know, I once entered in a hot dog, in a hot dog store in Miami. I entered a competition as a joke with a friend. It was called Barry Gibb look- a- like competition. And I came third. [ LAUGH ]. So you know life is always going [ LAUGH ]. You know, I really don't, I can't tell the difference any more. Except that it's nice to be able to reflect with a little bit more experience. Do you miss the kind of, the Justin Bieber level of fame that you, you had? No. It's really like being lost, and, and, when Andy was around that age, you know, he had a pet tiger. Well, he, there's Justin with a pet monkey. Mm- hm. So I see all the signs of someone who really doesn't know how to deal with it all yet. Hopefully he'll reach that stage he's very, very gifted and I hope that he grows into the role. What do you think that all great song writers, is there one particular talent that they have in common? Is it more important to have the ear or is it more important to have the understanding of human nature? I think the understanding of human nature. [ INAUDIBLE ] [ LAUGH ] A couple, a couple of you get them. That narrows it down. Yeah, that narrows it down. Yeah for me once again it's Paul McCartney, Willie Nelson, Hoagy Carmichael, Rogers and Hammerstein, Rodgers. Those people. Those people. Rodgers and Hart. And, you know, I can, I can't watch Carousel without crying. I can't watch South Pacific without crying. You're kind of sappy, actually. It turns out. I'm really sappy. Yeah. Yeah. The Notebook. I sit with, I sat with a towel on my knee. You know? [ LAUGH ] And my daughter said, you've got to see this film. So, cuz she knows. She, you know, that I'm going to start crying. Do you get jokers who come up and say, hey, Barry, how deep is your love. [ LAUGH ] You don't? I get people come up to me and say, get out of the way [ LAUGH ]. That too? [ LAUGH ] Mr. Gibb, thank you so much. 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