Robin: No more Bee Gees (The death of Maurice means the end of the Bee Gees as a group)

bbc ^ | 1/22/2003 | bbc

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Robin: No more Bee Gees

Singer Robin Gibb has said the death of his twin brother Maurice means the end of the Bee Gees as a group. Gibb said he would continue working with his surviving brother Barry, but they would no longer use the band's name out of respect for Maurice.

He told the UK's GMTV programme: "Anything Barry and I do we will do together, but it'll be as brothers and not under the name of the Bee Gees. That will be reserved in history as the three of us."

Maurice, who was 53, died from a heart attack during emergency surgery in a Miami hospital on 12 January.

Maurice: "Wouldn't want his brothers to stop working" An autopsy report showed he died from a congenital condition that caused his small intestine to twist, cutting off the blood supply.

In the interview, Robin described Maurice as his "soulmate" and said: "I am still in disbelief.

"I have never known life without him. We were always doing something together, writing or singing."

Robin confirmed that he and Barry, 56, would continue recording and performing together.

"The music goes on - Maurice would want that," he said.

The Bee Gees will no longer exist in name "Maurice wouldn't want me to stop working and it's something I will need for my own mental health."

He described Maurice as "a great laugh, a great wit and very generous".

"He helped a lot of people and he was always champion of the underdog and people who were going through bad times. So he really was a good man."

During the interview Robin said he and his brother were still "angry" about their brother's death.

He repeated the family's earlier concerns about Maurice's treatment at the Mount Sinai Medical Center, which they expressed in an emotional BBC interview just after his death.

"We are not satisfied with what we have been told," he said. "We believe that this didn't need to happen."

Hospital staff have promised to investigate their concerns.

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[RayBob]

"Robin: No more Bee Gees"

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[TLBSHOW]

40 years of hits that will go on amd on and on....

from the #5 Top Band in Rock History.

[Fzob]

It just goes to show you that every day you learn something on FR. Today I learned the BeeGee's were still a band. I thought they "expired" as an act about 20 years ago.

[TLBSHOW]

They have had #1 Hits for the last 10 years around the world from 93-2001. I know America was a little slow! LOL

[TLBSHOW]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/uk_news/2647151.stm
Sunday, 12 January, 2003, 06:30 GMT

Life devoted to music
As a member of the Bee Gees, with world-wide record sales exceeding 110 million, Maurice Gibb enjoyed a place among the top five of the most successful recording artistes of all time, along with The Beatles, Elvis, Michael Jackson and Sir Paul McCartney.

The group wrote and produced six consecutive Number One singles in the United States, while in Britain they wrote chart-topping hits in four consecutive decades.

[beachn4fun]

I respect Robin and Barry for their decision. I will miss the Bee Gees and Maurice. To me they are one of my all-time favorite groups. And, Maurice was an important part of that group. To ME they are greater than Elvis.

And, yes, those hits will live on forever.

[Fzob]

The group wrote and produced six consecutive Number One singles in the United States, while in Britain they wrote chart-topping hits in four consecutive decades.

Thanks for the info. I must really be out of the pop culture loop. Which I view as a very positive thing. Thanks

[dead]

Somehow, someway, I will survive in a Bee Gee free world.

[Fzob]

Somehow, someway, I will survive in a Bee Gee free world.

Don't worry to much about it. I'm sure in the very near future there will be support groups for those that just can't bear to forge on without the BeeGee's. Somewhere I know there are thousands of imbeciles that will cry themselves to sleep for a week or two because someone they never meet died.

[camle]

as far as I'm concerned, the Bee Gees dies when they went disco.

[TLBSHOW]

Shut the door when you leave the stage, the Bee Gees have left the building.......... :>(

[MeekOneGOP]

Too bad. I hope they can get over their anger soon, too...

Here is my thread...

Bee Gees' Maurice Gibb dead at 53

Rest in peace...

[Timesink]

They say that you should always look for that silver lining, that little bit of good when bad things happen...I think we've found it.

The Bee Gees are arguably the most successful group of all time; yes, even more than the Beatles. Only the Bee Gees have had #1 hits in each of the last five decades.

[RayBob]

There's no doubt that they were very successful. Please excuse my poor attempt at humor. I just hate disco with a passion and to me, the BeeGees are/were the epitome of disco.

[TLBSHOW]

This is as sad a day as that Sunday was.

[Last Visible Dog]

All you Rockers out there need to chill-out in regards to the BeeGees. Yes, in the late 1970’s I was long-haired humanoid that roamed the land, hated disco, and played real rock music. I had to hate the BeeGees in the late 70’s because every other Rocker did…

Time moves on – and for me as a musician it has always been the music that mattered. I came to realize that the BeeGees were a damn good band and they really weren’t the disco I came to know and hate.

(Quick flash back)It is 1979. I am in a disco near Boston called “New York New York” (go figure) I am in Boston training with a computer company for month (actually Lowell, guess the company I worded for). I truly hate disco but all the good looking women are at the discos and my love of women in tight Danskins is far more powerful than my hate of disco. The night goes on, no disco honeys will even dance with me so I sulk at the far end of the bar - pondering the decline of modern man while listening to what seemed like one continuous song (each song went directly into another without any stop – same drum beat – “bartender, give me a 7and7 and a lobotomy”). Suddenly I realize I know the words to the current “song” – MY GOD – it is “Have a Cigar” by Pink Floyd only the disco version – I started to search for a razor blade to cut my wrists – luckily I did not find one. That was the disco I hated

Back to the lecture at hand. Disco was repetition, uninspired, formula music. The BeeGees were not disco. True, the disco movie Saturday Night Fever contained their music – but it really was not hard core disco I learned to hate. The BeeGees did good pop music that happened to be associated with disco. Years later I pick up the Saturday Night Fever album in a used record store and I realize it is pretty good stuff – maybe not Dark Side of the Moon or Abbey Road or Tubular Bells or Close to the Edge – but it is really good pop music – not the formula crap that we came to hate as disco.

The BeeGees are not my favorite band – they are not likely in my top ten – but I respect them. Good pop music is not a bad thing.

Rock on Maurice! (suddenly I have a some ringing in my head that includes the line “some people call me Maurice…” and I set out to ponder just exactly what is the “Pompitous of love” really is)

Pardon me if I opine cliché “If there’s a rock and roll heaven, you know they have a hell of a band”

“good Maurice is here...you take the high part...”

[lump in the melting pot]

They may get over their anger but that doesn't absolve the hospital. The following is all anecdotal, but I'm not making it up:

My parents live in Miami. A friend of theirs injured his leg (a deep gash) and my mom took him to Mt. Sinai (the same hospital where Maurice Gibbs died). Dennis (my family's friend) was put in a bed, where "nurses" who spoke no English (only Creole) kept taking his blood pressure and giving him aspirin (in other words doing f__k-all) for over 36 hours. Meanwhile he was in agony the whole time and a serious infection set into the wound (he later nearly lost the leg). It took my mom screaming at and nearly physically assaulting a doctor in the hallway for them to pay any attention to him (she was escorted away by security but Dennis finally got some treatment). In my opinion (and the opinion of people I know who have either been treated there or have worked there) Mt. Sinai is primarily in the business of taking in wealthy Miami Beach retirees who are terminal and keeping them alive long enough to siphon away all their medical insurance (and family savings if available). Actually treating sick and injured people in a competent manner is not a priority. They shut down their emergency room some years ago, simply because it wasn't returning a large-enough profit

The moral of the story is, if you're in Miami and you get seriously hurt or sick, go to Jackson Memorial. Your chances of emerging alive are much better.