(#2003-3523) - Topics this issue: 1) Maurice, 2) Digest (01/19/2003 00:01) (#2003-3521), 3) thoughts on Maurice, 4) 60's article on Maurice, 5) Bee Gees 2003 calendar, 6) I can't stand it. (Maurice is Gone), ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2003 06:16:18 -0500 From: Raingrl2@aol.com Subject: Maurice Hello everyone....I wanted to ask if it has been mentioned where Maurice was buried. I have been following the news and all the lists since this terrible tragedy, but have not heard a certain cemetary mentioned. Perhaps the family just wants the privacy Thank you, everyone that has posted here on this Words list, for all the beautiful words about Maurice. Mo was so special to everyone and this has been terribly hard. The beautiful words about this special man do help a little. Linda ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2003 09:42:50 EST From: FLSunwurshpr@cs.com Subject: Re: Digest (01/19/2003 00:01) (#2003-3521) --part1_18a.14c4cb7d.2b5c136a_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Does anyone know of a fan memorial planned for Maurice in Miami ... I had heard one would be planned by the family ( a snippet from an interview ) but since the ceremony and cremation were all held I havent heard anything else about it . I think there should still be another farewell concert or tribute and would like to attend this event in person. He touched alot of people with his music, but if you ever had the pleasure of his company and had a chance to see his humor and talk with him you would have seen a prince of a man, worthy of tribute. FLSunwurshpr@cs.com --part1_18a.14c4cb7d.2b5c136a_boundary-- ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2003 09:56:49 EST From: KWarwi@aol.com Subject: thoughts on Maurice --part1_22.3516be61.2b5c16b1_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit It appears that my last two posts to Words from my bgkatie@hotmail.com address did not get through. Somehow my posts were showing up blank. So I'm trying to post from a different e-mail address now - I hope this works. If anyone by chance did receive my entire last two posts, could you please e-mail me privately? Hotmail did not save my sent messages. Thanks! Still trying to come to terms with Maurice's death - I can't believe that he's gone. Last weekend I was in the midst of a move from Massachusetts to Virginia, and I had no internet access, so I kept hearing pieces of the story on the TV and in the newspaper. I had high hopes of him getting better after his surgery, but my hopes were dashed on Sunday morning when I heard about his death. It's tough living in a new part of the country and having no one to talk to about his loss. Reading all of your posts has been so comforting! Like some of you I have never mourned a celebrity's death this way before. I think my new roommate thinks I'm crazy because I have plastered the walls of my room with Bee Gees posters and pictures as a tribute to Maurice! Listening to Bee Gees music has also been - as it always is - very soothing. It was tough listening to a few songs at first, especially "Please." But I think the music helped start the healing process for me. Maurice was an incredibly talented and sweet man. He lives on through his music. The world will never forget you, Maurice! Katie --part1_22.3516be61.2b5c16b1_boundary-- ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2003 10:05:09 EST From: KWarwi@aol.com Subject: 60's article on Maurice --part1_128.20ba900c.2b5c18a5_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Language: en I'd like to share with you an article on Maurice from a 60's issue of Hit=20 Parader. I hope everyone enjoys reading it - I think it will make you smile= .=20 :) Katie Inside the Bee Gees - Maurice Gibb by Alan Smith=20 (Hit Parader 48) If I were a film-casting director I've a feeling I could visualize Maurice=20 Gibb as the brown-eyed, brown-haired 5 ft. 6 in. son of an Indian chief, wha= t=20 with those high cheekbones that dip inwards to give him the lean, hungry,=20 proud look of a brave out to kill a wagon-train master who speak with forked= =20 tongue. Maurice sees himself in another light. He would have loved to have been=20 Clyde in "Bonnie and Clyde," playing the Warren Beatty role with fervour=20 because it struck him as a real, human thing. His deep-set eyes light up as he speaks fluently, articulately, about his=20 hopes and his inner thoughts on success and the lifetime stretching in front= =20 of him. "It's a nice idea," he told me, "to talk about things like this once in a=20 while. I like people to know I'm not just a face in a photograph." The first time I met Maurice he was carrying an old single by Lorraine=20 Ellison, "Stay With Me, Baby," which he thrust on to the record player with=20 urgency and delight. Seconds later I was listening to a full-blooded, screaming, beautiful,=20 agonized, ecstatic, sobbing, sexual, soaring performance of a song that=20 prickles the hairs at the nape of the neck. It was one of the most incredible records I've ever heard, and I raved,=20 Maurice raved, even the man there from the BBC World Service raved. When I=20 heard that Cilla and Lulu were also raving, that was it. My mind was made=20 up. I asked Warner Brothers to rush me a copy as soon as they could, and I=20 raced home and also thrust it on to the record player with urgency and=20 delight. Lorraine Ellison's "Stay With Me, Baby" may now be heard screaming through=20 our house and right out into the road, probably to the great chagrin of our=20 neighbors, Ron and Marge on one side, and the nice old boy on the other. That an emotionally supercharged record like this should appeal to Maurice=20 doesn't surprise me at all. He has a great sense of the romantic and he=20 admits to it readily. "When I meet a girl," Maurice told me gently, "I treat her as a girl should=20 be treated. I even go as far as walking on the outside of the pavement. I=20 find I get very romantic, and I don't swear and I treat her with respect. "I like a small girl, preferably blonde, with a sense of humor." When he=20 added that his steady girlfriend was a happy person who was also in show=20 business, I took a calculated guess and asked him did he mean Lulu. This wa= s=20 before news of their romance found its way into the papers. Maurice's eyes widened with undisguised surprise. "You're right!" he=20 exclaimed. "How did you know?" I shrugged one of my=20 I-just-happen-to-be-a-genius shrugs, and gave him my word I wouldn't break=20 the news. We talked about many things, Maurice and I. He's quick-witted and cheerful,= =20 and his conversation isn't limited to pop music or buying an 'ouse for 'is=20 muvver. He says he believes in God, but dislikes the hypocrisy of many churchgoers;=20 thinks politics is the biggest bore that ever happened to the world; can't=20 see himself splitting with the other Bee Gees, although he would like to do=20 other things as well; would like everybody in the group to act; is obviously= =20 obsessed by cars, although he is still waiting to pass his driving test; has= =20 a Rolls-Royce and a Morris Cooper S with "black-out windows and all that=E2= =80=A6.";=20 likes the Bachelors for their professionalism; and says his greatest dream i= s=20 to own a motion picture company. Maurice looks back with happy nostalgia on how he and the other Bee Gees wer= e=20 scared stiff at the audition they did for Robert Stigwood soon after they=20 arrived in Britain. "We did our nightclub act," says Maurice, "and he watched and listened and=20 never smiled once. Then he said, 'Be at my office at six o'clock,' and we=20 were, and we signed contracts." Maurice also looks back with a slight sense of awe on the way he and the res= t=20 of the family just packed up and came to Britain. "We stayed in a crummy hotel in Hampstead," says Maurice, "and one day my da= d=20 went to see the Seekers' manager, Eddie Jarrett, to see if he could help. H= e=20 said sorry, he couldn't do anything. After that dad went to see Robert=20 Stigwood at Nems - and here we are." There they are, indeed=E2=80=A6..still selling well with "Massachusetts," an= d not=20 only that, but high in the sky with "World." Maurice might well be inclined to celebrate this with a great, big, swinging= =20 humdinger of a party, except that he isn't that keen on parties. "I don't mind a celebration now and again," he told me, "=E2=80=A6.in fact,=20= I'm a bit=20 of a raver. But many times I like to be on my own and play a bit of the old= =20 'Monty Varni.' "Know something? Everything surprises me. You mention Lulu, and I'm really= =20 surprised. Say a well-known girl record reviewer has got false teeth, and=20 there I am again -- really surprised. Some people would shrug an say, 'Oh=20 yeah, so what?' Not me. Everything surprises me." Maurice loves subtle humor and also doing his own impressions of other=20 people, but there's an intensely serious side to him. When he heard about=20 the death of Brian Epstein, the shock and suddenness of it had a deep and=20 traumatic effect. Apart from the death, the greatest personal blow to him has been failing his= =20 driving test three times. Bitterly, Maurice recalls how in the middle of the first driving test he=20 took, the examiner said: "You're one of the Bee Gees, aren't you - the ones=20 getting deported?" (This was at the time of work-permits trouble regarding=20 Colin Peterson and Vince Melouney.) "I was just about to say this applied to only two of the members," alleges=20 Maurice, with an acid edge to his tongue, "when this bloke says: 'Then why=20 the hell are you taking your test?' "That got me. My blood really boiled, and I thought, 'Right, mate.' I gave= =20 it to him at 80. We were going along like there was no tomorrow. "When he got out, he said, 'Mr. Gibb, I'm happy to say that you've failed.'" More out-of-this-world matters often concern the agile mind of Maurice Gibb,= =20 who at seventeen admits to feeling far more mature than his years. He tells of spiritualist seances in which "an English guy named Noel, who wa= s=20 killed in a motorbike crash when he was twenty-two, has given the Bee Gees=20 advice and prophesied their future in the charts. "There was another time," says Maurice, "in which we got in touch with a=20 German baron by means of using a glass and letters of the alphabet. But it=20 didn't really work. Either he couldn't spell, or he couldn't speak English.= " The things that worry Maurice include death; his nose; the gold in his front= =20 tooth; making a wrong move and embarrassing himself when he's with a girl;=20 and being in clubs and being stared at. "I hate that," says Maurice. "I used to go to clubs a lot, but I don't like= =20 feeling conspicuous. Now I don't go so much -- I suppose people will think=20 I'm big-time. But I'm not." Maurice is right. He isn't. Straightforward, confident, uncertain, impulsive, romantic, nostalgic and th= e=20 most mature and sensible 17-year-old I've ever met=E2=80=A6..yes. Big-time=E2=80=A6..never. (Latest album / Bee Gees Horizontal - Atco) --part1_128.20ba900c.2b5c18a5_boundary-- ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2003 10:48:20 EST From: BeeGeeQ@aol.com Subject: Re: Bee Gees 2003 calendar --part1_b2.1740f347.2b5c22c4_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit It is the same 2003 BGQ calendar, Mary Rose. Just a different address to handle the sales. > Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2003 18:54:49 -0800 (PST) > From: Mary Rose > Subject: Re: Bee Gees 2003 calendar > > Are you speaking of the BGQ 2003 calender or one you have made up?You have > me confused here. That isn't the BGQ email address. > > Mary Rose > --part1_b2.1740f347.2b5c22c4_boundary-- ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2003 10:24:19 -0600 From: "nancy brandenburg" Subject: I can't stand it. (Maurice is Gone) This is my first attempt to weigh in... I can't stand it. Flashback to 1990 when my own husband passed away. Oh Yvonne, my heart hurts for you. I have my own "BeeGees Link" of sorts-my first husband and I were married on October 17, 1987. Go be with Andy and Hugh, Maurice, and know you left this world a better place than when you came in. Much love and comfort to everyone who truly apprecicated the contributions Maurice Gibb gave to this world, for it is we who are truly blessed. Nancy Brandenburg _________________________________________________________________ MSN 8: advanced junk mail protection and 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail ------------------------------ End words@brothersgibb.com Digest [01/19/2003 12:01] ----------------------------------------------------