Bee Gees question brother's treatment (The band will continue, The Bee Gees will not stop)

bbc ^ | 1/13/2003 | bbc

[TLBSHOW]

Bee Gees question brother's treatment

The brothers of the Bee Gee Maurice Gibb are seeking answers about his treatment in hospital in Miami. Gibb died on Sunday at the age of 53 when his condition deteriorated following a heart attack.

Speaking exclusively to the BBC, Barry and Robin Gibb said they were perplexed as to how their brother had been admitted with a stomach blockage - and then apparently died from another illness.

It's like a nightmare that you wake up to every day

Robin Gibb

In an emotional state soon after Maurice's death, the brothers said they were "devastated" and "completely pole-axed" by their loss and paid tribute to the "most sweetest, generous" man.

Barry Gibb confirmed he had not been present at the Mount Sinai Medical Centre for many of the key moments of his brother's treatment and said he had been told much of what he knew second-hand.

Fans were shocked at the singer's death But he said: "We will pursue every factor, every element, every second of the timeline, of the final hours of Maurice's life.

"We will pursue that relentlessly. That will be our quest from now on."

Rapid action

The hospital said it could not comment because of the protocol of patient privacy.

Barry Gibb said he had been told Maurice had been admitted to the hospital on Wednesday afternoon after feeling unwell, been kept in overnight and suffered a cardiac arrest at 0400 local time .

He said he had been told the doctors had decided to take rapid action and had found the ill star was suffering from a "twisted intestine" which could have been a "birth defect". He said 80% of his intestines had then been removed.

Brother Robin paid tribute to his brother as "a very gifted man".

The Bee Gees will not disintegrate because we've lost Mo

Barry Gibb

"We're both devastated. We've actually been in shock for the last few days since Maurice was taken ill, and so this has all gone too fast for us.

"I still can't come to terms with it now. It's just almost like a dream. It's like a nightmare that you wake up to every day.

"It's going to take a long time even just for it to sink in.

"He was the most sweetest, generous of people you could ever meet."

Immediate presence

Barry added: "He was an extrovert and he would always be the person, he would never walk into a room, Maurice.

"Maurice would prance into a room, you know, and his presence was immediate."

He insisted the band would continue with just himself and Robin.

"Maurice will be a void, always in our lives and he will always be featured as the third member of the Bee Gees, no matter what we do.

"But one thing I will tell you is that the Bee Gees will go on. The Bee Gees will not stop here. The Bee Gees will not disintegrate because we've lost Mo."

Robin and Barry Gibb talk to the BBC "We're taking a lot of strength from each other"

[spectre]

I'm confused with this report.

I thought I heard it reported this morning that Gibb died from a heart attack BEFORE surgery? Huh?

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[Wolfie]

80% of his intestines removed? Yikes!

[Izzy Dunne]

Barry Gibb confirmed he had not been present at the Mount Sinai Medical Centre for many of the key moments of his brother's treatment and said he had been told much of what he knew second-hand.

So tell me again how deep is your love?

[Eric in the Ozarks]

I know they had many fans but they always sounded like screaming women to me.

[Movemout]

"But one thing I will tell you is that the Bee Gees will go on. The Bee Gees will not stop here. The Bee Gees will not disintegrate because we've lost Mo. "

Translation: "Keep those Ducats rolling in boys. Mo would have wanted it that way."

[SamAdams76]

"But one thing I will tell you is that the Bee Gees will go on. The Bee Gees will not stop here. The Bee Gees will not disintegrate because we've lost Mo."

Now there is no doubt that Maurice's untimely death was a "Tragedy" and that's no "Jive Talkin'." But the BeeGees "Stayin' Alive" without Maurice? I didn't even know they were still around as a band to tell you the truth. It's been almost a quarter century since I heard something new by them on the radio.

[Mamzelle]

Doctors, don't touch a celebrity!!

[ET(end tyranny)]

Oddly enough, I was listening to the radio a little while ago, and the DJ said something about how the Bee Gees were essentially black listed after the disco craze. This suprised me, because they were more than a 'disco' group.

[ET(end tyranny)]

It could just mean that even 'some' celebrities get the same crappy treatment the rest of us do.

[TLBSHOW]

IN CONVERSATION WITH MAURICE GIBB
(In Conversation, May 21, 2001)


Q: What do you see yourself as?

M.Gibb: Three brothers trying to be bigger than Beatles.
Q: And..

M.Gibb: We're still trying.

Q: You feel you haven't made it yet?

M.Gibb: No. No by a long shot.

Q: But you certainly have had all the successes of the Beatles have had in the sense.

M.Gibb: All because they have stopped. If they had kept on going and John hadn't died and so forth. Who knows?

Q: But then that's what's great about you. Your group has survived where others has just stopped.

M.Gibb: It's the songs. It's the songs more than anything. If you can write a good song that last for years. I mean that is a great blessing. And the Beatles did that. But it's just that they are not productive anymore after that period. We were.

We just kept writing more songs and we do need to do.

MAURICE GIBB

http://www.geocities.com/bgsongs/archives24.html

[zygoat]

Hmmmmm, questions regarding their brothers treatment. Is John Edwards licensed in California? Could be his chance to have a "Frist" moment. Post mortem of course.

[2timothy3.16]

It's like a nightmare that you wake up to every day

And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment: Heb 9:27

[zygoat]

OOOOPs-Miami, well, he would'nt have so far to travel.

[TLBSHOW]

The Lord

Verse 1:

What do you get for trying? Minute you're born you're dying.
The body is six feet down.The Lord says the soul sticks around.

Chorus:

You can believe what you wanna but I know what I'm gonna do.
I'm gonna believe in the Lord.
You can believe what you wanna but I know what I'm gonna do.
I'm gonna believe in the Lord.

Verse 2:

You think you live on laughter. But you don't know what's after.
Singing Hallelujah. I can know the Master.

Chorus:

Verse 3
When my life is over. Lie in fields of clover.
Waiting for my own girl. Living in a new world . Yeah..

Chorus:

Verse 1:

Chorus:

end:
I'm gonna believe in the Lord.

Written and sung by Maurice and Robin Gibb 1970

[Freedom4US]

When I was growing up, I witnessed the near overnight transformation of radio from the likes of Led Zeppelin and Cream to .. Disco - the Bee Gees seemed to be the vanguard of this troubling period in our nation's history. Rock&Rollers everywhere considered this the dark ages.

The Bee Gees were popular - but being inducted into the Rock&Roll hall of fame? Give me a break! Whatever it was, it wasn't Rock&Roll!

[ET(end tyranny)]

On the radio show that I had listened to, a caller said something about an album called 'Still Waters'?, made in 1994 or 1995. I can't remember which.

[2timothy3.16]

Doctors, don't touch a celebrity!!

Or lawyers, politicians, or those ...

[camle]

used to kinda like the BeeGees. until they went disco. far too many good people and groups fell into the toilet when they went disco.