More secrets of Gordon Brown’s iPod have crept out. As well as Arctic Monkeys (none of whose songs he could later name), Coldplay and Leona Lewis, another unexpected passion has emerged — for the Bee Gees.

“He listens to our music every day,” Robin Gibb tells The Times today. “He said, ‘Your music is absolutely timeless’. Gordon likes our music and I like Gordon.” Gibb, 58, in whose Miami home Tony Blair stayed last summer, said that Mr Brown liked the songs — which include Stayin’ Alive, Tragedy and How Deep Is Your Love? — “because they talk about human relationships and human experience, and reach out across the decades”.

It is not known whether Mr Brown’s passion has led him to attempt strutting dance moves and an alarmingly high falsetto.

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