(#2006-2486) - Topics this issue:

     1) Barry's Age, <melissagibson@supanet.com>
     2) All This and World War II, <thebeegeesmusic@gmail.com>

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Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 08:02:06 +0100
From: "melissagibson" <melissagibson@supanet.com>
Subject: Re:  Barry's Age

You're right, of course, Frank, I was really just making a joke about it all 
being a big conspiracy. But yes, the family themselves could cloud the issue 
of their ages - didn't they pretend Robin and Maurice were a year older than 
they were so they could leave school in December 1963? And when they 
released their first single in 1963, I read that Barry was stated as 17 
instead of 16.

Not that it really matters, of course...except to nitpicky people like me.

Michelle
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>
> I don't think it was necessarily Robert Stigwood making Barry  two years
> older than Robin and Maurice. I believe there were some  pre-1967 articles 
> in the
> Australian press which listed a two year  difference between Barry and his
> brothers. There's no way Stigwood could've been  involved in that unless 
> he was
> involved with the brothers's career long before  1967. Maybe the 
> information
> came from the Bee Gees themselves? I  remember seeing the Bee Gees on some 
> talk
> show in which they were  asked a question about their first big hits and 
> how
> they  handled success at such a young age. Barry stated in that 
> particular
> interview that he was 19 to Robin's and Maurice's 17 and  that they didn't 
> handle
> success very well at that age in retrospect. I wish I  could remember 
> which
> talk show they were on as it's one I don't have on tape  somewhere.
>  There were other talk shows on which they appeared in  which when
> discussing success at an early age, Barry said he was 20 to  Robin's and 
> Maurice's 17.
> As to Barry's year of birth, I think I've seen  more listings for the
> apparently erroneous date of September 1, 1947 than  the apparently 
> correct date of
> September 1, 1946. And that includes  recent listings and with Stigwood 
> nowhere
> to be found, the source would have to  be one of the Gibbs themselves or a
> press agent.
>
> Peace,
> Frank

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Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 16:33:18 +0900
From: "Robert S. Kim" <thebeegeesmusic@gmail.com>
Subject: All This and World War II

How was the Bee Gees chosen for the soundtrack
of All This and World War II?

Why Robert Stigwood made the Bee Gees sing
the Beatles' songs twice?

Was he envious of Brian Epstein?
Can anybody here read his mind?

I just guessed that he wanted to make the
Bee Gees his own Beatles.

Otherwise, was he so greedy as to take advantage
of the Bee Gees only for his business?







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