Lesley Evans

Lesley Evans (née Gibb) (born 12 January 1945) is the sister of English musicians Barry, Robin, Maurice & Andy Gibb. She is the eldest child and only daughter of Hugh and Barbara Gibb.
Biography
Early years
Lesley was born on 12 January 1945 to Barbara and Hugh Gibb in Manchester, Lancashire, England. The family relocated to Scotland where Hugh was offered a job by Mecca at a Palais in Edinburgh. When they moved to the Isle of Man, they lived in a little flat over Maley's Chemist at 17 Strand Street in Douglas' main shopping street. Lesley is of Scottish descent via her father and Irish descent via her mother.
On 1 September 1946 at 8:45 AM, Barry Alan Crompton Gibb was born at the Jane Crookall Maternity Home in Douglas. On 22 December 1949, Robin Hugh Gibb was born at 3:15 AM and Maurice Ernest Gibb at 3:50 AM in Jane Crookall Maternity Home. Of this time, Barbara Gibb has said: "We had this little girl, Lesley, who could talk to like a little lady, the baby twins, and poor old Barry was in the middle of this. I think he got a little introverted at the beginning, That was only for a period, and then he came out from that. He was the boss of the twins, and Lesley was the boss of a lot".
When Robin left the Bee Gees in March 1969, the band performed on the Lulu TV Show without Robin. Lesley's first appearance with the band was on the TV show Talk of the Town, aired on BBC 2 on 17 May 1969. Instead of Robin, Lesley appeared. She explained: "I was petrified, all those people watching, I almost burst into tears". The last time she saw Robin was in Sydney in 2010, just after he had emergency surgery and thought he looked extremely underweight. Lesley told The Sunday Mirror: "Robin just fell in. I remember him floating along with his eyes staring up". She also said that in the days before Robin's death, Barry rang her and said her brother would not pull through.

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