Probably one of my favorite groups of all time and probably the most underrated for the work they did with other groups and artists. Man, that sucks.
WHAT??!! Oh my God. I have every Bee Gees album except one ("Living Eyes" which is out of print) and all I can say is that I am truly shocked. What a sad thing. RIP, Mo
That sucks, I loved the Bee Gees, easily one of my favorite groups ever. One of, if not, my favorite songs of theirs has to be "Jive Talkin'" R.I.P.
When I got to thinking about it this morning, it actually does not surprise me now. Mo was a heavy alcoholic for many years, mainly starting in the mid '70s and lasting, I think, through the mid '90s. His body just couldn't recover from that type of abuse.
Either he or his twin brother (I could never distinguish these guys, it was easy to see that it was a Gibb, but I never knew which one of them is which) was on a plane with me about 15 months ago, from Miami to London...I was surprised that he was just lining up with all the passengers. One kind of thinks those kinds of stars have their own private planes and only fly those . Sad that he died so relatively young.
He and Robin were twins but Mo looked more like Barry but a shorter version (Robin and Maurice were fraternal twins).
I just looked at the picture at the top and I am pretty sure it was the one in the middle. So that one is still alive, I guess.
I had that joke last week. BTW, family wants answers. http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/headline/entertainment/1733762 <i>Reuters News Service MIAMI - The family of singer Maurice Gibb of the Bee Gees, who died after abdominal surgery at the age of 53, is questioning the hospital's treatment at the time of his death. Brother Barry Gibb, 55, told the British Broadcasting Corporation late on Sunday the family would fight to discover the truth about Maurice's death. "The fact that they had to operate on Maurice during the shock of cardiac arrest, is very questionable, and we will pursue every factor, every element, every second of the timeline of the final hours of Maurice's life," Barry Gibb told the BBC. "We will pursue that relentlessly. That will be our quest from now on," he said. Authorities at the Mount Sinai Medical Center, where he was treated, could not be reached for comment. Gibb, whose harmonies with his twin, Robin, and older brother Barry helped create one of the best-selling groups of the rock 'n' roll era, collapsed on Thursday at his Miami home after suffering intense stomach pain and was rushed to Mount Sinai Medical Center. He "experienced cardiac arrest" before his surgery on an intestinal blockage, the hospital said. After the operation and until he died, he was listed in critical but stable condition. No time of death was given but it appeared to have been very early on Sunday. Barry said he had been told that Maurice's intestines were twisted because of a congenital defect and that doctors had removed 80 percent of his stomach. He told the BBC that Maurice's death had "decimated" the lives of his wife Yvonne, and their two children, Adam and Samantha, who are in their 20s. "It has just destroyed them. It's going to take them years to come to terms with the loss of Maurice. He was everything to them," he said. But Barry promised that the Bee Gees would carry on, even after Maurice's death, and would record another album.
