Posted on 05/20/2012 3:44:07 PM PDT by AnAmericanAbroad
Bee Gees' singer Robin Gibb has died following a lengthy battle with cancer, his family have said.
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“I Started a Joke”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dq6YmSVAOG8&feature=relmfu
‘New York Mining Disaster 1941’
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCRqAzCevsY&feature=relmfu
RIP Robin and Donna. So sad.
The Bee Gees/Disco Era: The last period of time where people could have anonymous, unprotected sex without the possibility of death (yes, I know about Al Capone)...
(Where’s my time machine?)
And I looked at the skies
Running my hands
Over my eyes
And I fell out of bed
Cursing my head
For things that I've said
Till I finally died
Which started the whole world living
Oh if I'd only seen
That the joke was on me
And I looked at the skies
Running my hands
Over my eyes
And I fell out of bed
Cursing my head
For things that I've said
Till I finally died
Which started the whole world living
Oh if I'd only seen
That the joke was on me
That the joke was on me.........me.........
Bee Gees - Blowing In The Wind (1963)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aO7C7Fuayrw&feature=relmfu
Bee Gees - Da Doo Ron Ron (1964)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBhmztwsnLg&feature=relmfu
I’m thinking “quaalude”.
Mel Brooks, also.
And Donna Summer could sing.
“Lonely days, lo-ho-ho-nely nights....”
RIP
Actually, drug rersistant syphylis had already passed to North America from Asia by that time, and Americans just had no clue about the slow killers that destroy you slowly.
Aides wasn’t hear yet, and drug resistant Gonorhea wasn’t here yet...but things were out there.
Sometimes ignorance is bliss. Until it bites.
Agreed. I wasn’t much of a Bee Gees fan back in my younger days (although I did like Stayin’ Alive), but I’d much rather today listen to any of their music over any of today’s garbage.
It has been said that those who are at deaths door then improve, die suddenly.
It happened to my mother in law last year.
I wasn't around then, so please let me enjoy a few minutes of ignorance.
Although I suspect many of the icky diseases you mentioned weren't “main stream” in the 70’s.
“Black syphilis” had come back with Vietnam veterans, and certainly military personnel were made aware of its presence in red light establishments in liberty briefings.
Very sad.
The Bee Gees made some great music, there is much more to them than the (great) disco-era stuff, especially the lean period of 1969-75, where they made some really great soul and pop music, which didnt sell. They could do pop, acid pop, disco, soul, funk.
BBC Radio 2 did a fantastic series last year about how they constructed their sound, esp the 70’s and disco era.
And Robin has done a huge amount for the British armed
forces in terms of charity.
Only big brother Barry left now out of four brothers, all three dead well before their time. Very sad.
Don Rickles..alive
Donna Summer is no longer “Working Hard For Her Money” and both McFadden & Whitehead were stopped after all. MCA of Beastie Boys is no longer fighting for his right to party and Greg Ham will no longer be hamming it up with Colin Hay of Men at Work.
The madness goes on and on, Levon Helm (The Band), Dick Clark, Robbie Montrose, Davy of the Monkees went to Davy Jones Locker, Whitney Houston “drowned” and Don Cornelius, Don Kirshner, Jimmy Castor and now Dobie Gray has “Drifted Away” for good.
Yes, the “Great Gig In The Sky” is getting bigger all the time and Syd Barrett finally has somebody up there as crazy as him - Amy Winehouse. Hopefully the “Big Man” Clarence Clemons is keeping them both mesmerized and out of trouble with his sax solos.
It is insane how many rock/pop starts have passed on. Gerry Rafferty, Doug Fieger of The Knack, Dale Hawkins, Teddy Pendergrass, Isaac Hayes, Ike Turner and Juice Newton, just to name a few more who are dead, dead, dead.
John Stewart is no longer turning music into “Gold” and Dan Fogelberg is no longer sharing six-packs in the car with people he used to know - in the snow. Brad Delp is gone and now we have to really wait a long time for the next Boston album. 3/4 of the Mamas & Papas are dead - Denny Doherty, John Phillips and Mama Cass - who really should have given that ham sandwich to Karen Carpenter. James Brown is no longer the hardest working man in show business and the Man in Black, Johnny Cash, is no longer shooting people just to watch them die.
Barry White, John Entwistle, Rick James, Joe Strummer, most of the Ramones and half the Beatles are dead. Benjamin Orr of The Cars is driving no more. Ian Dury is gone but not sure about the Blockheads. Sonny Bono, John Denver, Frank Zappa, Warren Zevon and even Tiny Tim, poor innocent Tiny Tim, all dead, dead, dead. When will the madness end!
Frank Cady, “Mr. Drucker” now 96
Dear Lord!
Thank you for the info.
Diana Ross? You mean Diana Summer.
I’ve seen everyone of them come and go.
RIP all.
Jim Croce.
I am feeling very old tonight. I still say the 70s had the best music ever. I always tell my kids they won’t have any oldies to enjoy because they won’t be able to stand their music when they are old.
sorry, I meant DONNA Summer.
Brain fart.
That’s an odd comment. How many Beach Boys are there, and “Bill Haley’s Comets” - just who are they without Bill Haley?
And yet Jon Bon Jovi still lives....who said life is fair.
So nobody knew how to dance before Saturday Night Fever? That will surprise a lot of folks.
Or Keith Richards! No malice there, Keith, but how do you do it?
Juice Newton died????
Disco? I don’t think so.
Take your negativity someplace else.
Even death is scared of Keith Richards.
But, for me, disco was big fun...you got dressed up (sort of), went to a club and danced with pretty girls you didn't know and would never see again.
It always confused me that some guys think that dancing with girls is somehow gay.
Question to some famous guy - "What do women want?"
Answer - "Women want to dance."
Ann-Margret still alive
So are Brenda Lee and Connie Francis.
Paul died.
Joey Bishop...dead.
Jim Morrison reportedly alive in Oregon.
Loved this..and the Bee Gees, too.
So does Pat Benator and whatsername Sheryl Crow. No fair!
No. Donna Summer died.
I’ll be sure to add Jim Croce to my next music death rant. I agree that the 1970s was the best era for pop music. I miss the days when I could turn on the radio and hear all genres of music blended together. Mostly happy, upbeat music too. There is still good music being made but you don’t hear it on radio anymore.
And what are we gonna do about Helen Reddy and Joan Baez both still screeching?!
Yes. He works as a WalMart greeter in Bend, Oregon.
Not all of us hate disco. Seems there are always people who have to make some remark about how they at least didn’t like it. Happened the other day.
In fact, while I’m sorry another Gibb died, I’m a bit surprised more wasn’t said about Donna. She was in herself a true icon, not just having several hits but being a mainstay. Indeed a queen not just of disco but of the era, 1 of the people you HAVE to know because you just couldn’t avoid it. It seems more has been put on this thread than on Donna’s several combined! :-)
Jerry Garcia, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Rick Danko just a few more to the list. BB King is getting up in age and quite heavyset. Doc Watson got some miles on himself too. No one lives forever on this earth and very few even make it past 90 no less. Take Jesus with you now and forever.
There is still good music being made but you don’t hear it on radio anymore.
+1
LOL...you went to clubs to "dance" with pretty girls?
What has happened though, is that Record companies have lost control of the distribution of music.
With that loss, they lost the ability to shoehorn music listening into a few hundred major acts.
Music has fragmented, and diversified.
It won't be that people will have no good music to look back on, it will simply bee that they won't look back on the same good music.
Everybody is now like that weird kid in the seventies that knew who all the local blues players were.
I'd love to know where, please direct me.
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