Special Issue (#2003-3474) - Topics this issue: 1) Oh My God!, I Can't Belive It, 2) Digest (01/11/2003 06:01) (#2003-3467), 3) Maurice, 4) He's gone, 5) Maurice is gone, 6) he will be missed so much, 7) He's gone, 8) Goodbye Maurice, 9) N/A, 10) Maurice, 11) Maurice is gone, 12) Thank you, Maurice, 13) Maurice..., 14) A sad time, 15) Digest (01/12/2003 02:07) Special Issue (#2003-3473), 16) he will be missed so much, 17) A part of me is gone., 18) Maurice, 19) Oh my God, 20) Thank you so much Maurice!, ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2003 23:02:32 -0800 From: Janice Glover Subject: Oh My God!, I Can't Belive It I called the hot-line for the hosptal where Maurice is, he has passed at 1:00 am. I can't believe it. Please say prayers for the family. Jan, Seattle, WA ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2003 18:02:25 +1100 From: rebecca loftus Subject: Re: Digest (01/11/2003 06:01) (#2003-3467) Thats it.... Its over. Poor Barbara and Yvonne I am in tears, we'll miss him. He was a great guy ----- Original Message ----- From: Bgstruck@aol.com Date: Sunday, January 12, 2003 5:27 pm Subject: Re: Digest (01/11/2003 06:01) (#2003-3467) > OMG! He is gone!!!! :-(**** I just call the number and it said he > is GONE ! > MO I will miss you so much. > > "Words & Music", Fans Of The Brothers Gibb ( Bee Gees ) > http://www.brothersgibb.com > > To change any of your list options, > please go to website listed above. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Never lose a fax again, receive faxes to your personal email account! Visit http://www.mbox.com.au/fax ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2003 23:07:57 -0800 From: "Full Spectrum Records" Subject: Re: Maurice I verified this by calling the hospital hotline. It is true, Nanci. Sorry. Brian ----- Original Message ----- From: "Keppel" To: "words List Member" Sent: Saturday, January 11, 2003 10:53 PM Subject: Re: Maurice > How can we believe anything we hear and/or what's being reported?!?! It > was announced on a St. Louis radio station that Maurice collapsed and > had a heart attack after being told HIS SISTER HAD JUST DIED!!! > Where/how do these rumours get started?!?!? Who really knows the truth, > outside of the hospital and family?!?!?! So much speculation, guessing, > worrying......... :( > > ~Nanci~ > "Keppel" > "Words & Music", Fans Of The Brothers Gibb ( Bee Gees ) > http://www.brothersgibb.com > > To change any of your list options, > please go to website listed above. > ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2003 01:06:00 -0600 From: "Giggles" Subject: He's gone Maurice is gone. He passed away a few hours ago. He will be greatly missed! God Bless the Gibb family and help them through this! Giggles -----Original Message----- From: ListMember@brothersgibb.com To: words List Member Date: Saturday, January 11, 2003 10:59 PM Subject: Digest (01/12/2003 00:02) (#2003-3472) >(#2003-3472) - Topics this issue: > > 1) Time online, not too good news, > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2003 04:18:41 -0000 >From: "bgs4ver" >Subject: Time online, not too good news > >This is a multi-part message in MIME format. > >------=_NextPart_000_001F_01C2B9F1.B035D4D0 >Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" >Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > Family gathers at bed of ailing Maurice Gibb > Jacqui Goddard, Miami > =20 > =20 > =20 > FAMILY and friends of the Bee Gees singer Maurice Gibb were = >gathering at his bedside in Miami early today as his condition worsened = >amid fears that he had suffered brain damage.=20 > The 53-year-old collapsed at his home in Florida on = >Wednesday with a suspected intestinal blockage. He suffered a heart = >attack the following day before undergoing emergency surgery for his = >abdominal condition.=20 > > Initially it was believed the signs were good that he would = >recover but, as his twin brother Robin flew in from Britain last night, = >he remained unconscious in the Mount Sinai Medical Center.=20 > > A family friend said doctors now fear he may have suffered = >brain damage as a consequence of the heart attack. "All his other organs = >are in good shape, including his heart, and he has got colour coming = >back, which is a hopeful sign," said the friend. "But basically he has = >got to wake up. The longer this goes on the less hopeful we are = >becoming."=20 > > Another friend, however, said the singer was on a respirator = >and that his family would have to decide how long he should remain on = >life support.=20 > > A statement from the hospital said his condition was = >critical but stable. It added: "We all have him in our prayers."=20 > > Among the dozen members of the singer's family and friends = >at the hospital were his wife Yvonne and son Adam, 26, and mother = >Barbara, 80. His brother Barry, 56, who lives in Miami and has been at = >the hospital since he was admitted, looked drawn and red-eyed.=20 > > The acute stomach pains that led to Gibb's hospital = >admission are said to have been caused by a strangulated hernia. He = >collapsed at his =A32m home in a private waterfront estate on Miami's = >Sunset Island.=20 > > His Los Angeles-based manager, Carol Peters, said: "It was = >completely out of the blue. No pains or anything beforehand, just all of = >a sudden, boom."=20 > > The family asked for time to allow his condition to = >stabilise before friends could visit. There were some reports that he = >had once opened his eyes and squeezed the hand of his 22-year-old = >daughter Samantha.=20 > > Michael Jackson, the singer, who is in Miami working with = >Barry Gibb, had asked to visit but his request was declined by the = >hospital.=20 > > As the family awaited Robin's arrival on a flight from = >London, many visitors were seen leaving in tears, including the singer's = >son Adam.=20 > > As a member of the Bee Gees, Gibb has been one of the = >best-known faces in British show business for the past four decades. He, = >Robin and Barry started their singing careers in the 1950s, earning = >their name from a previous incarnation as the Brothers Gibb.=20 > > Following a spell in Australia, where they gained their = >first recording contract, they returned to Britain in 1967 to critical = >acclaim. Their distinctive, close-harmony singing has been their = >trademark throughout the years and survived musical fashion and family = >rifts.=20 > > Their hits include the soundtrack to the film of the disco = >phenomenon Saturday Night Fever in 1977 and a sequel, Stayin' Alive, in = >1983.=20 > > Saturday Night Fever saw some of the group's most successful = >tracks, such as Stayin' Alive, How Deep is Your Love and Night Fever. = >One of their most successful collaborations was with the Motown legend = >Diana Ross for the song Chain Reaction in 1986. The following year they = >again topped the charts with You Win Again.=20 > > Their last album together was in 2001, entitled This is = >Where I Came In. They were each made CBEs in the 2002 new year honours = >list and were still drawing sell-out crowds at Wembley last year.=20 > > Maurice, the bass guitarist and keyboard player in the = >group, met his first wife, the singer Lulu, in a BBC canteen. They = >married in 1969 but later divorced. Speaking in Los Angeles after he was = >admitted to hospital, Lulu said: "I'm deeply shocked and upset."=20 > > Maurice has been dealing with alcohol and health problems = >since at least 1973, when he was convicted of drink-driving in Aberdeen, = >fined =A340 and banned from driving for a year. "I needed a drink in the = >mornings just to function," he said. "Barry and Robin were afraid my = >drinking would destroy the group."=20 > > In 1980 he had to be carried down the steps off a = >Washington-bound Concorde at Heathrow after he became "unsuitable for = >travelling" after 90 minutes of drinking champagne.=20 > > Gibb's condition is not the first time similar symptoms have = >struck the family. Fifteen years ago his youngest brother Andy, 30, was = >admitted to hospital in Oxford with severe stomach pains while staying = >with Robin. He died three days later of myocarditis, a heart condition. = >He had been treated for cocaine and alcohol addiction.=20 > > Maurice said last year that he had given up drinking a = >decade ago. "I've never lived a better life," he said. > =20 > =20 > >------=_NextPart_000_001F_01C2B9F1.B035D4D0-- > >------------------------------ > >End words@brothersgibb.com Digest [01/12/2003 00:02] >---------------------------------------------------- >"Words & Music", Fans Of The Brothers Gibb ( Bee Gees ) >http://www.brothersgibb.com > >To change any of your list options, >please go to website listed above. > > > >http://www.brothersgibb.com >Bee Gees News and Information > > ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2003 02:11:44 EST From: TittyTat@aol.com Subject: Re: Maurice is gone There are no words... Maurice, I wish you were here ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2003 02:16:13 EST From: Ashleigh9601@wmconnect.com Subject: he will be missed so much --part1_ba.34925db2.2b52703d_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I still can't believe it. Poor Barbara, she lost a husband, a son and now another son! My heart goes out to all of them, and the children! How devastating. I lost my dad at 22, and that is so young for Adam and Sam being in their 20's to lose him, and Yvonne, such a sweet wonderful person. I just hate this. I wonder if Robin was able to see him before he passed does anyone know? I hope so. I'd heard already that he never was awake except the time he squeezed Sam's hand. I wish I knew if that was true also. I doubt Barry and Robin will go on as the Bee Gees. I can't help but wonder. As we all know, there can be no Bee Gees with one missing. My heart goes out to all of you too, my fellow fans. At least I have others to share this loss, others who love him as much as I do and will miss him as much . Beth N. --part1_ba.34925db2.2b52703d_boundary-- ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2003 01:24:16 -0600 From: "Kirsten Ibrahim" Subject: Re: He's gone ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2003 23:24:54 -0800 From: "Grant Walters" Subject: Goodbye Maurice This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C2BA0B.B3D05440 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 SSBqdXN0IHJlY2VpdmVkIHRoZSBuZXdzIGEgZmV3IG1pbnV0ZXMgYWdvLiAgSSBkb24ndCBrbm93 IHdoYXQgdG8gc2F5Lg0KIA0KR29vZGJ5ZSwgTW8uICBTYXkgaGVsbG8gdG8gQW5keSBmb3IgdXMs IHdpbGwgeW91Pw0KIA0KR3JhbnQNCg== ------_=_NextPart_001_01C2BA0B.B3D05440-- ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2003 00:30:04 -0700 From: TG Subject: A sad and tragic day for the Gibb family and for all Bee Gees fans around the world. I will miss his contribution to the Bee Gees music. May God keep you safe, Maurice. tg ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2003 20:26:20 +1300 From: "F & B Going" Subject: Re: Maurice I really cant beleive it - Mo is gone. I rang the hospital hotline, then the local radio station to confirm it. They were just starting to get the reports through. The guy at the radio station was so nice. He had met them when they came out here to NZ last time and thought they were really lovely guys. He took the number of the hotline and was going to give it a call. I still cant believe it.. Bronwyn NZ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2003 07:32:20 -0000 From: Subject: Re: Maurice is gone No one can express it better right now, TittyTat. Just remember that it's "gonna be a blue island" and that as fans and friends brought together in our shock and grief, we will be strong, because "we are one." Glenn TittyTat@aol.com said: > There are no words... > > Maurice, I wish you were here > "Words & Music", Fans Of The Brothers Gibb ( Bee Gees ) > http://www.brothersgibb.com > > To change any of your list options, > please go to website listed above. > > -- ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2003 02:32:51 -0500 (Eastern Standard Time) From: "BeeGeesFool" Subject: Thank you, Maurice Such sad, sad news . . . My heart goes out to the family, and that includes everyone on this list. We all had so little warning -- it is very hard to take this in! I can't imagine what Robin and Barry and Yvonne and Barbara are going through. And Mo's kids. I guess the only positive thing I can say is that no prayers were wasted -- the family will need all of them and more now that they have to face tomorrow and the next day and the next without our happy, smiling Mo! The only comfort any of us will have for a long time will be the thought he is with Andy and their Dad, who are rejoicing right now. We love you, Maurice -- always, always will! Thank you so very much for all the wonderful music -- we will be indebted to you forever! Pat (BeeGeesFool) "It's my destiny, and I must go on . . . " ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2003 02:34:56 EST From: Piccol13@aol.com Subject: Maurice... He was a wonderful person and brought so much happiness to so many lives. He will be deeply missed. Wish you were here. Andy Pic-Columbus Ohio ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2003 02:37:02 EST From: IsleOfGibb@aol.com Subject: A sad time --part1_80.259b138e.2b52751e_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit What a sad time for us all. My boyfriend's stepdad died 4 hours ago and now this. Thinking of the brothers... I am grateful I saved up the money to see the BG2K concert in Florida a few years ago. It was my one and only Bee Gees concert. When you watched Mo's energy and humor on stage, you could not help but want to dance and smile. His love of life was contagious. He created great memories in so many lives. He left us too soon. Corinna --part1_80.259b138e.2b52751e_boundary-- ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2003 02:43:29 EST From: Bgfair@aol.com Subject: Re: Digest (01/12/2003 02:07) Special Issue (#2003-3473) --part1_14d.1a2544c3.2b5276a1_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit IM crying Mike --part1_14d.1a2544c3.2b5276a1_boundary-- ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2003 23:44:01 -0800 From: "Full Spectrum Records" Subject: Re: he will be missed so much Whether or not they do something as the Bee Gees is uncertain. If they continue, even if to tie up "loose ends of the heart", what else would they call themselves? Rupert's World? Barry & Mo did call themselves the Bee Gees in 1970, during a time of strife, so this would be do-able. I'm sure Barry will pour out his heart in song somehow, so I wouldn't be surprised if they do eventually pop up as the Bee Gees, even if briefly. Brian ----- Original Message ----- From: To: "words List Member" Sent: Saturday, January 11, 2003 11:16 PM Subject: he will be missed so much > I still can't believe it. Poor Barbara, she lost a husband, a son and now > another son! My heart goes out to all of them, and the children! How > devastating. I lost my dad at 22, and that is so young for Adam and Sam being > in their 20's to lose him, and Yvonne, such a sweet wonderful person. > I just hate this. I wonder if Robin was able to see him before he passed > does anyone know? I hope so. I'd heard already that he never was awake > except the time he squeezed Sam's hand. I wish I knew if that was true also. > I doubt Barry and Robin will go on as the Bee Gees. I can't help but wonder. > As we all know, there can be no Bee Gees with one missing. > My heart goes out to all of you too, my fellow fans. At least I have others > to share this loss, others who love him as much as I do and will miss him as > much . > Beth N. > > "Words & Music", Fans Of The Brothers Gibb ( Bee Gees ) > http://www.brothersgibb.com > > To change any of your list options, > please go to website listed above. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2003 08:59:38 +0100 From: beegees-forever@jazzfree.com Subject: A part of me is gone. Hola Words, The Bee Gees had been always a part of me. Now a part of me is gone. Maurice, Rest in Peace. ***************************************** Tributes to Maurice Gibb: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/talking_point/2649027.stm ***************************************** Hasta la próxima, Juan José Díaz González Correo electrónico: beegees-forever@jazzfree.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2003 23:59:07 -0800 (PST) From: "P.J. Tennies" Subject: Maurice I woke up and couldn't sleep until I checked on Maurice. What a terrible blow. Isittingtlng at my computer with tears in my eyes reading all your posts on the list. What will become of the boys without irrepressibleable Maurice?? But, I know he is in a better place and already looking over us. I hope they have Paintball in heaven!!! We love you Maurice and will never be able to replace you. My love and prayers are with the entire Gibb family. mouse __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2003 02:59:22 -0500 (EST) From: Michael Liu Subject: Oh my God I can't believe this. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2003 08:10:03 -0000 From: "bgs4ver" Subject: Thank you so much Maurice! This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_000F_01C2BA12.029A00A0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Words cannot express how especially the Gibb family and all of us are = experiencing at the moment, I deeply saddened and totally shocked by = this news,I can't stop crying, he will be sorely missed, I will miss his = big smile that could light up a room, his great voice and his fantastic = musical abilities, all my prayers and thoughts are with the family, god = bless you all, thank you Maurice for cheering me up when I was down, = with your wonderful sense of humour, you always knew how to get a laugh! = Thank you so much Mo, may you be with the angels were you belong with = brother Andy and your Dad ------=_NextPart_000_000F_01C2BA12.029A00A0-- ------------------------------ End words@brothersgibb.com Digest [01/12/2003 03:17] ----------------------------------------------------