Celebrity | Bee Gees Bee Gees' Robin Gibb Awakes From Coma Gibb fell into coma battling cancer-related pneumonia By Mark Russell Posted Apr 22, 2012 6:30 AM CDT Copied Dwina Gibb, wife of Bee Gee musician Robin Gibb, leaves a Central London hospital after visiting her husband, Thursday April 19, 2012. (Max Nash/Associated Press) See 1 more photo Bee Gees singer Robin Gibb has awoken after falling into a coma after contracting pneumonia in his battle with liver and and colon cancer more than a week ago, reports the BBC. Gibb's wife Dwina says she was playing Roy Orbison's "Crying" in an effort to revive him when Gibb started to cry. He is now apparently able to nod a communicate with family who have kept a vigil by his bedside, with his children and brother Barry often singing to him. Read These Next The country of Eswatini is about to be on your radar. Union says 17 immigration court judges have been fired since Friday. 500 tons of emergency food for kids abroad: Headed for the trash. An American Idol exec and her husband were murdered in their LA home. See 1 more photo Report an error