| Maurice Gibb |
| | Background information | | Birth name | Maurice Ernest Gibb | | Born | December 22, 1949(1949-12-22)
Douglas, Isle of Man | | Died | January 12, 2003 (aged 53)
Miami Beach, Florida, U.S. | | Genre(s) | Disco, pop, rock, soft rock, | | Occupation(s) | Singer, songwriter | | Instrument(s) | Acoustic guitar, bass guitar, voice, keyboards | | Years active | fl. ca. 1960s-2003 | Associated
acts | The Bee Gees | Maurice Ernest Gibb CBE (December 22, 1949 – January 12, 2003), was a musician and singer-songwriter. He was born in Douglas, Isle of Man to English parents. Image File history File links Bee_gees_maurice. ...
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The Bee Gees: Maurice, Barry and Robin The Bee Gees were a British and Australian band, originally a pop singer-songwriter combination, reborn as funk and disco. ...
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December 22 is the 356th day of the year (357th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
1949 (MCMXLIX) was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1949 calendar). ...
is the 12th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
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Location within the British Isles Douglas (Doolish in Manx) is the capital of the Isle of Man (Ellan Vannin) and its largest town. ...
Biography Maurice (pronounced Morris), was a twin brother to Robin Gibb, and was the younger of the twins by thirty-five minutes. He is best known as a member of the singing-songwriting trio the Bee Gees, formed with his brothers Robin and Barry. The trio had their start in Australia; their major success came when they returned to England where they had lived for several years as children. Robin Hugh Gibb CBE (born December 22, 1949) is a singer and songwriter. ...
The Bee Gees were a singing trio of brothers — Barry, Robin, and Maurice Gibb — that became one of the most successful musical acts of all time. ...
Barry Alan Crompton Gibb CBE (born on 1 September 1946) is a singer, songwriter and producer. ...
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Gibb grew up with his family in Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Manchester, England. In 1958 he and his family moved to Brisbane, Australia, settling in one of the city's poorest suburbs, Cribb Island, which was subsequently demolished to make way for Brisbane Airport. Chorlton-cum-Hardy or Chorlton is a suburb of Manchester. ...
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Career -
While in Brisbane, he and brothers Robin and Barry formed the Bee Gees. At first the younger brothers simply sang harmony to Barry, but by 1966 Maurice was important as an instrumentalist and had begun writing songs. The family moved back to England in January 1967 and the Bee Gees signed with Robert Stigwood, which led to their becoming one of the most successful musical groups of the 1960s, 70s and 80s. In a career spanning five decades, the group sold over 180 million records.[1] The Bee Gees were a singing trio of brothers — Barry, Robin, and Maurice Gibb — that became one of the most successful musical acts of all time. ...
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Maurice Gibb's role in the group focused on melody and arrangements. He sang harmony and backing vocals, and played a variety of instruments. Very early on in 1965 and 1966 he played lead guitar, but as early as 1966 he was playing other keyboard and string instruments in the studio. Bee Gees records from 1967 to 1972 are dominated by Maurice playing piano and bass guitar, along with mellotron ("Every Christian Lion Hearted Man" and "Kilburn Towers"), rhythm guitar (along with Barry), and other parts. The piano on songs like "Words" and "Lonely Days" is the Maurice Gibb sound. On stage he usually played bass guitar, with an additional musician taking bass when Maurice switched to piano. Maurice was less influential in the disco Bee Gees sound of 1975 to 1979, when he played mostly bass guitar.[2] After that time for the last twenty years of his life he played primarily electronic keyboard instruments on stage and in the studio, but occasional lead guitar (like the acoustic on "This Is Where I Came In", 2001).[3] In the reunited Bee Gees from 1987 onward Maurice was the group's resident expert on all technical phases of recording, and he coordinated musicians and engineers to create much of the group's sound. The Mellotron is an electromechanical polyphonic keyboard musical instrument originally developed and built in Birmingham, England in the early 1960s. ...
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As a songwriter Maurice contributed mainly to melody, with his brothers, for the most part, writing the lyrics that they would sing on the finished song. It is difficult to identify his contributions because the songs were so shaped to the singer, but his brothers' continued writing collaboration with him on solo projects shows how much they relied on him. Maurice sang lead on average one song per album. He was sometimes known as "the quiet one" for his less obvious contributions to the group, but privately he was a good teller of stories who immensely enjoyed talking with fans. His reputation as a mild-mannered stabilising influence with two very ambitious brothers continued through his life.[4]
Away from the Bee Gees, Maurice recorded but did not release a solo album in 1970, and in the same year he appeared in a short-lived West End musical, Sing a Rude Song. During the Bee Gees hiatus in the 1980s he worked with both Barry and Robin on their solo projects, and did some instrumental writing and recording including the soundtrack for the film "A Breed Apart". In 1986 he produced and co-wrote an entire album for Swedish singer Carola. Of these and other projects the only disks released under his own name were two singles: "Railroad" in 1970 and "Hold Her in Your Hand" in 1984.[5] West End theatre is a popular term for mainstream professional theatre in London, England, or sometimes more specifically for shows staged in the large theatres of Londons Theatreland. Along with New Yorks Broadway theatre, West End theatre is usually considered to represent the highest level of commercial theatre...
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Maurice's last great project was to produce an album's worth of songs written and sung by his daughter Samantha, which finally appeared in 2005 under the name M E G -- Maurice's initials.[1]
Discography Albums: - 1970: The Loner (unreleased).
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- 1984: A Breed Apart.
- 1985: The Supernaturals (film).
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Year 1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday (link shows full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
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Noteworthy The Maurice Gibb album track, "Man In The Middle" was #1 for three weeks in March, 2005 in the country of Turkey. March is the third month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days. ...
Personal life Gibb was married to the Scottish pop star Lulu from 1969 to 1973; they had no children, and the pressure of their respective commitments led to their divorce. This article is about the country. ...
Marie McDonald McLaughlin Lawrie, OBE, (born 3 November 1948 in Lennoxtown, Stirlingshire), best known by her stage name Lulu, is a Scottish singer, songwriter, actor, model, and television personality who has been successful in the entertainment business from the 1960s through the 2000s. ...
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Together with his second wife Yvonne, Gibb had two children: Adam and Samantha.
Gibb loved the sport of paintball, and had a team which he called the Royal Rat Rangers, a reference to his being named a Commander of the British Empire, and to his time at the Little River AA group, where the members referred to each other as "river rats." He promoted the sport at every opportunity, and opened a paintball equipment shop, "Commander Mo's Paintball Shop," in North Miami Beach, Florida. A woodsball player firing at opponents from behind cover. ...
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Death Maurice Gibb died unexpectedly at a Miami Beach, Florida, hospital on 12 January 2003, of complications resulting from a twisted intestine. Following his death, his surviving brothers Barry and Robin announced that they would no longer perform as the Bee Gees. Location in Miami-Dade and the state of Florida. ...
is the 12th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
The Bee Gees were a singing trio of brothers — Barry, Robin, and Maurice Gibb — that became one of the most successful musical acts of all time. ...
Awards In 1994, Maurice Gibb was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame, and in 1997 was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. His catalogue is published by BMG Music Publishing. The Songwriters Hall of Fame is an arm of the National Academy of Popular Music. ...
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Established in 1987, BMG Music Publishing, a unit of Bertelsmann AG, is the world’s leading independent music publisher and the worlds third largest music publisher. ...
In 2002, Maurice was made a Commander of the British Empire (CBE), along with his brothers, but the awards were not presented until 2004, after Maurice's death; his son Adam accompanied Barry and Robin to Buckingham Palace for the ceremony. Also see: 2002 (number). ...
Commanders Badge of the Order of the British Empire The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is an order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by George V. The Order includes five classes in civil and military divisions, in order of seniority: Knight or Dame Grand Cross...
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External links
References - ^ Juan Cristobal (7 Apr 2007). Record Sales. Beegees World. Retrieved on 2007-04-24.
- ^ David Leaf, "Bee Gees / The Authorized Biography", 1979.
- ^ Album credits.
- ^ Melinda Bilyeu, Hector Cook, Andrew Môn Hughes, The Bee Gees / Tales of the Brothers Gibb. London: Omnibus, 2001.
- ^ Album credits.
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