The Prime Minister, who is facing criticism for ‘slackening’ his grip on power, seems to be resorting to music-therapy to de stress himself, if his friend Bee Gee Robin Gibb is to be believed.

"He listens to our music every day," says Gibb. Brown likes the Bee Gees music, Gibb says, "because it talks about human relationships and experience, rather than specific events, and reaches out across the decades." Brown has told Gibb: "Your music is absolutely timeless."

The Bee Gees, the band Gibb formed in his teens with his late twin Maurice and their elder brother Barry, are one of the most successful group of all time. Recently, it became the first band to be made fellows of the British Academy of Composers and Songwriters.

"Gordon likes our music and I like Gordon. I was with him at a dinner recently," Gibb was quoted as saying by The Times daily of Britain on Friday.

"And he was asking: who is creating the big song catalogues of today? The answer is no one."

Gibb, who lives in a 1,000-year-old former monastery in Oxfordshire, counts prime ministers past and present among his friends.

"Tony Blair is a great friend," Gibb says of the former premier, who took a holiday at his Miami house in 2007.