Surviving Bee Gee Barry Gibb has revealed a man tried to abuse him when he was a child living in the Isle of Man.

The 70-year-old superstar, who was born at the Jane Crookall maternity home in September 1946 and lived in the island until his family moved to Manchester in 1955, has told for the first time how a man tried to molest him when he was four.

In an interview for the Radio Times, the singer-songwriter said he had told nobody about the incident. The man did not touch him but ’other things’ occurred. He said he knew other children who were abused.

Gibb said: ’I’ve never said this before. Jesus Christ, should I be saying it now?

’But there was a moment in time when a man tried to molest me when I was about four years old.

’He didn’t touch me, but other things happened, and happened to other kids. And eventually they came and arrested him, and they woke me up during the night.

’Four years old and a policeman on your bed at four in the morning, interviewing you!

’If that doesn’t teach you about life, nothing does. But it’s vivid for me still. I’ve never told anybody.’

Asked if this abuse was in the home, he replied: ’Those details would be unpalatable.’

The Gibb brothers’ parents Hugh and Barbara moved to the Isle of Man in 1946 and lived at St Catherine’s Drive from the late 1940s. Twins Robin and Maurice were born in 1949 while the family lived there.

The family later moved to Spring Valley before then relocating to Chapel House at the Strang, then Snaefell Road in Willaston.

Barry went to Braddan School in September 1951, then Tynwald Street infants and when he was seven to Demesne Road School.

The family left the Isle of Man in 1955 when the twins were five and moved to Chorlton in Manchester.

Then in the late 1950s they moved to Australia.

Barry found fame at 13, when he and his brothers Robin and Maurice appeared on Australian TV.

Gibb said: ’In Australia there was a lot of returned soldiers that were damaged, like people are damaged in the war now. They would drive up next to you and open the door of their car and say, ’You want to go for a drive?’

’I was ready. I could see the predators coming. I learnt very quickly to say, ’Sorry, not available’, to move the other way as fast as I could. There is a dark side, a very dark side, to showbusiness.’

Gibb was speaking ahead of his performance on the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury on Sunday.

He is the last surviving musical Gibb brother. Fellow Bee Gee Maurice died in 2003 and Robin died in 2012, aged 62, after a battle with cancer.