British musician Robin Gibb prepares to present U.S.actor John Travolta the award for best international actor during the 46th 'Goldene Kamera' (Golden Camera) awards ceremony at the Ullstein Auditorium in Berlin, February 5, 2011. The Golden Cameras are awarded by a popular German TV-magazine honouring excellence in the areas of television, film and entertainment. 
 
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 LONDON (Reuters) - Bee Gees singer/songwriter Robin Gibb awoke from a coma while music from his latest composition, the recently released classical work "The Titanic Requiem", was playing, his son said on Monday. 
 
 The 62-year-old star of the disco era, who has been battling cancer and pneumonia and slipped into a coma earlier this month, had been given less than a 10 percent chance of surviving, Robin-John told ITV News in an interview. 
 
 But as he lay in a London hospital bed, his family members played Bee Gees tunes and noticed Gibb trying to mouth words to songs he had sung hundreds of times. When his latest symphonic music composed with his son was played, Gibb came around. 
 
 "He woke up while we were playing the track which is a movement from the (Titanic) Requiem we have just written," Robin-John Gibb told the news program, referring to Gibb's debut classical work which he co-wrote with his son. 
 
 Gibb had been due to attend the red carpet premiere of "Titanic Requiem" at the Westminster Central Hall on April 10, but was forced to cancel after he fell ill. 
 
 Family members, including the other surviving Bee Gee Barry, have been keeping a bedside vigil at the hospital in recent days amid media reports that he was close to death. 
 
 "He is completely compos mentis now and the first thing he said to me was 'Hi R-J, can you tell them my back hurts?' so we got a nurse to turn him. We said we loved each other. 
 
 "Two days before that they said they'd thrown the kitchen sink at him, that it was time to make plans because he was in God's hands and such but he beats the odds again and they gave him an under 10 percent survival chance ... he really is something else." 
 
 Gibb's doctors released a statement on Sunday in which they praised his "iron will", although the outlook remained uncertain as he received more treatment for advanced bowel cancer, pneumonia and liver failure. 
 
 His wife Dwina said Gibb was in "fantastic" form. "He is laughing, he is joking, he is really happy," she told ITV. 
 
 "He just wants to get out. He has been very naughty because he pulled his feeding tube out so the nurses will have to put it back in again but he wants ice cream ... he wants all kinds of things. It's good anyway." 
 
 Gibb, along with brothers Maurice and Barry, formed the Bee Gees who rose to fame in the late 1960s and dominated charts in the 1970s with disco hits including "Night Fever", "Stayin' Alive" and "Jive Talkin'". 
 
 The band, famous for high-pitched vocals and tight harmonies, has sold an estimated 200 million records, making it the most successful brother act and one of the biggest pop groups of all time. Maurice died in 2003 aged 53. 
 
 (Reporting by Mike Collett-White) ||||| After visiting him in hospital today, Robin Gibb's wife Dwina said they played Bee Gees music to him while he was in his coma and could see he was responding. They say he was trying to mouth along to the words. 
 
 They plan to play him a DVD of the premiere of the Titanic Requiem that he composed with his son Robin John when they visit him again this evening. He had hoped to attend the premiere which was on 10 April, but was unable to because of his illness. 
 
 Dwina and Robin's son Robin-John both said the star had "beaten the odds" against his illness. ||||| London (CNN) -- Singer Robin Gibb has "confounded" his doctors by emerging from a coma just days after they thought he might not survive it, his physician said Sunday. 
 
 Days ago, Bee Gees star Gibb was in a coma and battling pneumonia, the latest turn in health issues that include a recent battle with colon and liver cancer. Now he is "fully conscious, lucid and able to speak to his loved ones," Dr. Andrew Thillainayagam said in a statement. 
 
 "He is breathing on his own, with an oxygen mask. He is on intravenous feeding and antibiotics. He is of course, exhausted, extremely weak and malnourished. Our immediate goals are to ensure that Robin's swallowing mechanism is safe enough to allow him to eat and drink, and that he recovers enough strength to breathe effectively, without needing high levels of oxygen by mask." 
 
 When that happens, he may be moved out of the intensive care unit at the London Clinic, the doctor said. 
 
 "It is testament to Robin's extraordinary courage, iron will and deep reserves of physical strength that he has overcome quite incredible odds to get where he is now," Thillainayagam said. 
 
 The good news comes just three days after Thillainayagam warned Gibb's family "that I feared the worst.," he said. "We felt it was very likely that Robin would succumb to what seemed to be insurmountable obstacles to any form of meaningful recovery. As a team, we were all concerned that we might be approaching the realms of futility." 
 
 "The road ahead for Robin remains uncertain but it is a privilege to look after such an extraordinary human being," Thillainayagam said. 
 
 Gibb's wife Dwina and children Robin-John, Spencer, and Melissa have been at his bedside every day, the doctor said. 
 
 Robin Gibb's twin brother, Maurice, died in 2003 of a twisted bowel. 
 
 His brother Andy died at age 30 from a heart infection in 1988. 
 
 The Brothers Gibb -- calling themselves the Bee Gees -- soared to renown as one of the most successful British groups after the 1977 film "Saturday Night Fever" starring John Travolta was built around the group's disco songs. 
 
 Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1997, the Bee Gees have sold more than 200 million albums, and their soundtrack album to "Saturday Night Fever" was the top-selling album until Michael Jackson's "Thriller" claimed that distinction in the 1980s. 
 
 While often in the background as brother Barry sang lead vocals, Robin Gibb stepped forward on several top tunes, including "I Started a Joke" and "I've Gotta Get a Message to You." He also recorded several solo albums during his career.
– As Robin Gibb lay in a coma, his family played Bee Gees music in his hospital room—and noticed Gibb trying to mouth the lyrics of his old songs, his family tells ITV. But it was ultimately his most recent composition, a classical piece titled "The Titanic Requiem," that was playing when Gibb finally woke up, Reuters reports. (It was initially a Roy Orbison song credited with waking Gibb.) "Two days before that, they said they'd thrown the kitchen sink at him, that it was time to make plans because he was in God's hands and such but he beats the odds again," son Robin-John says. Indeed, doctors say they are "confounded" by Gibb's recovery, CNN reports. Gibb is "fully conscious, lucid, and able to speak to his loved ones," says his physician, and is breathing on his own. "He is of course, exhausted, extremely weak, and malnourished." Wife Dwina says he's "fantastic." "He is laughing, he is joking, he is really happy," she says. "He just wants to get out. He has been very naughty because he pulled his feeding tube out so the nurses will have to put it back in again, but he wants ice cream."