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Maurice Gibb - Bee Gee - Rest in Peace Normally I would make no comment about someone that I had no personal knowledge of, but I did, once, meet Maurice Gibb along with his two brothers, the fourth and youngest having died tragically some years previously. I was a little in awe of them, despite their being very friendly and not at all affected by being "big stars". Maurice was particularly polite and courteous a rare quality in any society nowadays, and not merely the premeditated consequence of also being out with "shopping with Mum Barbara" on a day off from their hectic schedule. The Bee Gee's were almost totally responsible, for the majority of the music that influenced me in the 80's along with my housemates, at that time girls and boys, (don't get the wrong idea, the girls were gay too). Saturday Night Fever and Grease were the fables that we adopted, and their characters were the ones that we identified with, or wanted to anyway. We wanted to look like John Travolta, and feel like Olivia Newton John. Getting ready was a ritual that has become part of the "going out" sequence of events that builds the total concept, and that ritual still has it's place and importance in our lives. I deeply regret never having taken the chance to just thank Maurice Robin & Barry in person for the years of joy and elation, the many many happy memories that made my life so rich back in the 80's, and the fact that their music evokes those same feelings in my soul everytime I hear their work. Thankyou Maurice, Robin and Barry Bless you. |
