Bee Gee Maurice Gibb dead at age 53
by Just an FYI... 1/3 of the Bee Gees died this morning. It's sad that most people associate the band with disco, but they had a very varied and successful musical carrer before and after Saturday Night Fever.
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you know...weren't some of them twins?? i don't know which ones, though. and isn't it true that some of them thought they had ESP? (something about a train wreck, i vaguely remember)...Ian?
Maurice and Robin Gibb were fraternal twins... not identical... not sure about ESP, though...
from Rolling Stone - May 17, 1979
'Does he share Barry's belief in reincarnation? "In a way I do believe in it," he says cautiously, saying that he and his brothers are particularly prone to strong feelings of deja vu . The Bee Gees are also known to share a slight telepathy, but Maurice maintains that the psychic bounds between them are much greater than people suppose. Robin and I are twin brothers," he reminds, "and I definitely have a kind of ESP with him. One time when he was a boy, he was riding a bicycle and he had a crash. I didn't; I was at home, but I ended up aching and I wondered what the hell I was aching for. Robin came back and he had bruises in exactly the same places I had mine.
"When Robin was in the Hither Green train disaster, he was late for a press conference and I said, 'There is something wrong. Something has happened to Robin.' And Barry said, 'What do you mean?' And then we found out. We watched the news, saw the train disaster and I went, 'Robin was on it!' We went to Hither Green Hospital and there was Robin--his wife was in having x-rays--sitting there going, 'I didn't think I was going to see you guys again. He pulled six people out of a carriage, and he said, 'I never knew I had that much strength.' He laid them on the lawn, and they were all dead. I knew he had been through a strenuous thing--my arms were aching."'
i couldn't care less. i mean yea sad for the people who loved the guy. but not me. i say... party on .
when i told dad about this he was like What?? cus Maurice Gibb is younger than my dad.
i was watching some news reports on this yesterday. i didn't realize they wrote for so many people, including elvis and streisand.
Maurice is supposed to be pronounced Morris. i read that in a paper that had an article on him. I mean the guy died and did a whole lot for the music world and they waste A WHOLE LINE on the pronunciation of his first name. Then again, no one can spell my last name if they hear it and no one can pronounce it right if they hear it, but that's not important right now.