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Bee Gees Laid To Rest With Death Of Maurice Gibb
01/23/2003 4:00 PM, Yahoo! Music
Billy Johnson Jr
(1/23/03, 4 p.m. ET) -- Robin Gibb has said that the Bee Gees will no longegr continue following the death of his twin brother Maurice Gibb on January 12.
Robin Gibb told U.K.'s GMTV that he would continue to make music with brother Barry Gibb, but that they would no longer use the Bee Gees name out of respect for their brother. He said, "Anything Barry and I do, we will do together, but it'll be as brothers and not under the name of the Bee Gees. That will be reserved in history as the three of us."
He continued, "The music goes on--Maurice would want that. Maurice wouldn't want me to stop working, and it's something I will need for my own mental health."
Robin said that he was still in disbelief about his twin brother Maurice's death, whom he described as his "soulmate." He continued, "I have never known life without him. We were always doing something together, writing or singing."
Robin also said that he and Barry were still "angry" about their brother's death, and repeated their earlier concerns about Maurice's treatment at Miami Beach's Mount Sinai Medical Center: "We are not satisfied with what we have been told. We believe that this didn't need to happen."
Maurice Gibb, 53, died January 12 after suffering cardiac arrest prior to undergoing emergency surgery for an intestinal blockage. The autopsy report revealed that he died from a congenital condition that caused his small intestine to twist, cutting off blood supply.
For more than 35 years, Barry, Robin, and Maurice Gibb performed as the Bee Gees, which was short for "the Brothers Gibb." Throughout their career, the Bee Gees sold more than 110 million records, garnered nine Number One hits, and won seven Grammy Awards. The group was inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame in 1997. The Bee Gees' most recent studio album was 2001's This Is Where I Came In.
In other Bee Gees news, the group's 2001 hits collection, Their Greatest Hits: The Record, made a return visit to the Billboard 200 albums chart this week, landing at Number 55.
Calls to the Bee Gees' publicist for comment were not returned by press time.
-- Sue Falco, New York
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