Official Bee Gees Fan Club – GSI

NEWS, December 20th.

We have to inform you that the release date for Robin’s solo CD has been postponed until January 27th. – 2003.

There are again some more dates confirmed of Robin Gibb appearances specially in Germany and some surrounding countries. Please check the SPV web site: www.spv.de for detailed information if you are able to watch the TV stations etc. of the mentioned countries.

  According to Billboard (Jim Bessman) Barry Gibb is currently collaborating with Michael Jackson on new material for an as-yet-undisclosed project. Management however cannot confirm any details about this project yet. So we’ll just wait and see!!

And there’s more published about Barry this week. He has signed an exclusive worldwide publishing deal with Warner/Chappell Music, which plans to license his work for films, TV, and commercials, as well as exploring print music and new-media opportunities. Management doesn’t have any more details then the Warner Chappell Music Inc. press release of Tuesday December 17. However they’ll keep us posted on new developments in this matter as well.

© Bob Sherman: soon more beautiful Sherman pictures on our new page “Gibbs In The Picture”

Warner/Chappell Music Signs Worldwide Publishing Agreement With Barry Gibb Tuesday December 17, 9:30 am ET One of the Most Successful Songwriters in History – Allies With the World’s Leading Music Publishing Company

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 17, 9:30 am ET /PRNewswire/ — Warner/Chappell Music, Inc. announced today that it has concluded an exclusive worldwide publishing agreement with music superstar Barry Gibb. As both leading member of the Bee Gees and the co-writer of the group’s remarkable body of work, Barry has been awarded six Grammys, inducted into the Rock & Roll Halls of Fame in both the U.S. and Australia, and been a part of one of the best-selling groups of all time. Under the agreement, Warner/Chappell will administer the rights to Gibbs’ legendary catalog of hit songs dating from 1967 to the present. The company will explore a variety of opportunities for Barry’s music, including licensing the material for use in films, television programs and commercials; facilitating publication of printed editions of Barry’s music; pursuing new revenue streams arising from the latest music-delivery technologies; and, encouraging other artists to record and perform the material In making the announcement, Les Bider, chairman and CEO of Warner/Chappell Music said, “We are honored to welcome Barry and his outstanding body of work to Warner/Chappell. The remarkable breadth and depth of his music presents us with an array of opportunities related to his catalog as well as his extraordinary new material. With our strong relationships throughout the music and film communities, we are uniquely positioned to assist Barry with the next chapter of his phenomenal career. We look forward to working closely with Barry and putting our vast resources to work in finding new outlets for his music.”

Barry said, “I am very proud to be joining this incredible organization, and I look forward to a very exciting and mutually rewarding musical adventure. Great companies are defined by great people and Warner/Chappell is to me that definition. This is a rebirth for me and I am truly inspired by their vote of confidence.”

Barry’s success as a member of the Bee Gees as well as a solo artist elevates him to rarified company, amongst the industry’s most successful songwriters and performers. The Bee Gees are the only group to have written and performed six consecutive No. 1 singles, and the first songwriters ever to have five songs in the top ten simultaneously. The Bee Gees have been honored by the music industry numerous times throughout their career with 16 Grammy nominations, induction into the Songwriters Hall of Fame, and 10 Lifetime Achievement honors from organizations including the World Music Awards, American Music Awards and the Australian Recording Industry. For more information about Warner/Chappell Music visit www.warnerchappell.com .

  We’ve informed you earlier on this web site, about the possibility of BGFC members to write and request for a ticket to get a chance to go and visit Robin with BGFC during a performance in Holland. Robin is coming to Holland in January and BGFC is going to visit him with a group of members. All the lucky members who have won a ticket to go to Robin will be informed the next coming days and will receive further details. Next to a great number of BGFC members we were also able to present some of the tickets to members of the German BG fan club ‘One’ due to cooperation activities we, as you might know, have with the two other Bee Gees fan clubs: BGO in Germany and the Japanese fan club in Japan.
Congratulations to all winners!!

  Latest on the CBE presentation: Bee Gees personal management has been given a list of dates that the Brothers could pick up their CBE’s during the first half of next year but no decision from them yet. Managements’ guess is that July 2003 will be the earliest.

  Former Bee Gees drummer Geoff Bridgford has released a limited edition 5 track EP/CD titled “Rock my soul”. All five tracks on the disc are written, sung and performed by Geoff. (His son TJ also features on guitar). Those interested in obtaining an autographed copy should send $30.00 AUD (includes first class air mail postage and handling) to be paid for with a Bank Cheque in Australian Dollars Only to:
Geoff Bridgford
Send payment to:
PO BOX 423. PALM BEACH. QUEENSLAND 4221.
AUSTRALIA.
Email:Contact/Enquiries: geoffbridgford@dodo.com.au
(Having heard it I can vouch for its quality – Mark Crohan)

We announce you the official opening of Mo’s Paintball Web site. All the merchandise is not in it yet but one is working as fast as possible to enter all the data. Go take a look and thank you for your patience! www.mospaintball.com

  Go to the following site to find more about One True Voice who’ve just recorded the Bee Gees song: Sacred Trust. www.onetruevoice.co.uk/

  Some more sites you can visit and give you an idea about the airplay of Please in Germany and what is expected of certain singles in the near future in the U.K. please visit the 2 following sites:
www.rsh.de/rsh/musik/chartshow
www.futurechart.co.uk

Marion: GSI 12/20/02   (also thanks Mark Crohan)

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NEWS, November 25th.

The DVD Live By Request entered the Dutch charts at 23 and One Night Only re entered at 11.
In Australia Live By Request (DVD) went up from 39 to 12.

  Robin’s new single “Please” has entered the official German airplay charts this week at no. 74. You may look it up and even listen to the song in full length — if you are or become member for about three Euros or so per month — on www.chart-radio.de

If anyone is interested in brand new pictures of Robin from Vienna, go to. www.rexfeatures.com

Marion: GSI 11/25/02
(also thanks Sebastian and Eric)

NEWS, November 17th.

Some more news on Robin’s album which is titled now “MAGNET”.

He is going to perform the single “Please” also on German television ZDF in January (31.01) in a show called “Ab in den Urlaub” and on Switzerland TV: 18.01.03, in a show called “Benissimo” /Channel DRS.
More on German television : Robin-Features on RTL “Exclusiv”, RTL “Punkt 12”, SAT 1 “Blitz”, ARD “Blitz” and PRO7 “Taff”.

He seems to attend on more shows to perform his single on SAT1, RTL and ARD, exact dates we will have for you in January.

Print
They plan also a big print campaign in German Magazines like: Gala, Bunte, Bild, Amica, Petra, Rolling Stone, Musik Express, in January and February.
Extensive album reports in all German news papers and local papers as well as the different music magazines:
“Rolling Stone” will release a 2 page story in January
“Gala” a 4 page home story in January as well.
“Maxim” is still planning a home story report
“Spiegel” will do a 2 page interview in January
“Bunte” is planning an England story and several interviews are planned for: “Der Musikmarkt” and “Musikwoche” etc.

OnLine
An online campaign will start on: www.spv.de with flash cards, album information and raffles. Also information on this project will become available on the following websites: www.t-online.de, www.Bild.de, www.AOL.de, www.TVmovie.de, www.Prosieben.de, www.RTL.de, www.Playboy.de, www.TVtotal.de, www.rito.de etc..

TV/Radio
Extensive TV and Radio spots all over Germany. TV Campaign: On SAT 1, RTL, RTL2, Kabel, PRO7, VOX, all starting on January the 1st.

Marion: GSI 11/17/02  (with thanks to Dirk)

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NEWS November 4th.

News from Robin.
From SPV the record company who’s releasing Robins’ new CD we’ve the following news for you:

Next to the new song (and first single) “Please” the CD will contain new songs like: “Watching You” and “Don’t Rush”. New dates of TV appearances are:
November 14 in the program: “Vera” on ORF 21. 00 hours (local time, Austria)
December 14 in the program: “Ein Herz Für Kinder” on ZDF with host Thomas Gottschalk, 20.15 hours (local time, Germany).
See for details in German the SPV web site:

The CD of the “Pop Star” TV show in Sweden (see News October 30th.) is available now. It’s a brand new CD with 8 Gibb covers, released November 1st 2002.. The CD is for sale only a limited time. Price 10 Euro ( incl. Postage) each. For details please visit our Advertisement section where you can buy the CD through Goran.

The Brazilian group called “Edinho Santa Cruz” (Edson Siqueira e Otacilio Manoel) released a new CD in August called “Encontros – Stayin’ Alive” Edinho Santa Cruz canta (sing) The Bee Gees. This CD is a tribute to Bee Gees, they recorded ten covers, nine in Portuguese and a pot-pourri.
The songs are: Lembraças (How can you mend a broken heart), Tudo o que eu quero é você (Too much heaven), Acredite em mim (How deep is your love), Sou assim (Tragedy), Triste solidão (Don´t forget to remember), Palavras (Words), Minha menina (You should be dacing), O mundo só pra nós (First of may), Você e eu (You and I) and Port-pourri: Night fever, More than a woman and Stayin’ alive.

For more on covers be sure to visit our special COVERS & RARITIES page on this web site with new and very exclusive material every few weeks!!

Marion: GSI 11/04/02  (also thanks Richard)

NEWS October 25th.

•  The DVD of Saturday Night Fever is a huge success all over the world. In The States it entered the DVD chart of Billboard at number 10. Also the music films Stayin Alive and Grease are doing well.
• On the Octoberfestival in Munich, (German) the big beer festival at the Käfer tent I.O.I.O. from B3 was the hit and everybody was singing and dancing !!
• In the Australian Aria Chart Top 50 the album The Record went up from 47 to 35!!.

NEWS October 20th.

•  It’s quite an honor to me to be able to start a new item on my GSI web site soon. 
  Bob Sherman I was contacted by Bob Shermans’ son the other day with the suggestion to show his fathers photo material on this web site. I of course was overjoyed by this offer to get the opportunity to share with you, exclusively on my web site, the Gibb photos of Bob Sherman who was personal photographer of the Gibbs for many years.

Three movies with which the Bee Gees are closely identified have been released on DVD,

some with special features! “Grease”, with title song by Barry, is available in both widescreen and regular formats, Dolby 5.1 sound, and includes interviews with John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John, Stockard Channing, Jeff Conaway, Didi Conn, director Randall Kleiser, and producer Allan Carr, the theatrical trailer, and, while supplies last, a songbook!

Next is the DVD release of “Saturday Night Fever”! The best-selling movie soundtrack worldwide, thanks to our Brothers! The DVD is available in widescreen format only, and includes commentary by director John Badham, scenes from “Behind the Music-SNF”, three deleted scenes, and Dolby 5.1 sound!

Finally, there’s the DVD of “Staying Alive” DVD, the sequel to “Saturday Night Fever”. While not as successful as a movie, the soundtrack was successful, and includes the Bee Gees “Woman In You”, “I Love You Too Much”, “Breakout”, “Someone Belonging To Someone”, “Life Goes On”, and, of course, “Stayin’ Alive”. The DVD will be widescreen only, with Dolby 5.1 sound.

Spencer Gibb’s band, 54 Seconds, have updated their website with 4 brand new MP3s, and more.
Just take a look at: www.54seconds.com

Maurice and Yvonne bought another house in Miami for over 7 million, dollar It’s a 13,447 square. ft. house on a triple lot and situated on one of the Miami Beach islands with 320 ft of waterfront, 13 bedrooms and 9 baths……Meanwhile, Maurice is selling his previous Miami home, which has a recording studio and it’s own waterfall. It’s just down the road from the other brothers Gibb. A woman named Jennifer Lopez has by the way bought the house between Robin and Barry this year.

Bernie Quayle of ManxRadio, Isle of Man, has put together a fifteen minute video tour, narrated by the Brothers’ mum, Barbara, of the Isle of Man sites that are significant for the Bee Gees! Entitled “This Is Our Home”, the video is available from Bernie, and proceeds go to a charity for TT racers which was started by Barbara Wood. The video opens with shots of the Isle of Man coast, and Robin singing “Ellan Vannin”! Here is Bernie’s description of the video:

“Our Homes in Ellan Vannin.” was something I originally did for Barbara Gibb who has very fond memories of her times living on the Isle of Man and she often asked me about people and places she knew. One of Barry’s very first fans is featured in the film, she shows where the cottage was when she lived next door to them in Spring Valley. Barry was only about 7 at the time and Barbara Wood was so impressed and loved the name, she called her first son Barry. He became a very successful motorcycle racer but suffered serious injuries in a crash. Barbara started a fund to help riders and named it after the most successful of all TT riders who was killed racing. It’s called “The Joey

Dunlop Injured Riders Fund”.

Thanks to Barry Gibb’s suggestion, this video is now being offered to fans so that 25% of the proceeds are donated to that fund. It is available in both PAL and NTSC formats. For fans in Europe the price is 10 pounds plus 2 pounds post and packing. For fans in America it is 20 dollars, which includes air-mail shipping and handling. You can pay by either sending cash, either pounds or dollars, or by PayPal. As we’re not able to process credit cards, PayPal is the next best thing. It is fast becoming the most popular and safest way to pay on-line. See. www.paypal.com
For further information and payment instructions, email Bernie at bernieq@manx.net

Marion: GSI 10/20/02
(with thanks to Terri as well)

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NEWS, October 9th.

Robin’s Solo CD!!
Like mentioned before Robin is indeed working on getting his new solo CD ready for the market, which his record company is planning, at this point, to issue in early 2003. The first single from the CD they are planning to release before Christmas 2002, with Robin getting it to them sometime in November. The new CD has a working title of “Robin”, which obviously may change before release. Produced by songwriter/musician/producer Deacon Smith (who has worked with Ellusion, Aaron Skyy, Emoja, Ce Ce Winans, Dru Hill, and many others), the CD is planned to contain works by Robin, Robin and his brothers, and perhaps some works written by others. He is also planning to have some reworked Bee Gees/Robin cuts on the CD, including making tracks like “Wish You Were Here” and “Another Lonely Night In New York” more contemporary. He wants this CD to have a soulful, uptempo, “now” feel, and wants it to be full of songs that reach out and really “grab” the listener the first time it’s heard. Given that virtually *every* Robin CD has that initial impact, this one should be very special! We are very much looking forward to his new project and whenever more details become available for publication we’ll surely let you know.

   Nice to mention too:
The DVD One night Only went from 3 to 2 in the Dutch Free Chart this week!!

Marion: GSI 10/09/02
(also with thanks to Terri and Peter)

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NEWS, September 27th.

EXCLUSIVE FOR BGFCtm MEMBERS!!
Next month BGFC will publish the Maurice Gibb interview which was made earlier this year specially for the BGFC fan club and Radio 192. We now have arranged all legal matters and have the English version ready as well as a Dutch version. Together with the pictures it’ll be first and only published in the fan club magazine of BGFCtm !!! So wait for the upcoming double edition of DIMENSIONS and don’t miss a thing. If you are not member of BGFCtm yet and don’t receive the Dimensions magazines regularly yet then just check out the BGFC info button on the web site for all details to become member!!

We’ve told you earlier about the book David English has written. Interested in more details or maybe would you like to order it? Please visit the following addresses: www.amazon.co.uk or www.virginbooks.com

  Latest details on the CBE presentation:
The presentation to the Brothers now will likely take place sometime early next year, as the Queen’s schedule with her Jubilee tour and all has made schedule coordination for the rest of 2002 difficult. Ceremony or not, the honor is theirs!

• Latest details on the CBE presentation:
  The presentation to the Brothers now will likely take place sometime early next year, as the Queen’s schedule with her Jubilee tour and all has made schedule coordination for the rest of 2002 difficult. Ceremony or not, the honor is theirs!
• Two CD manufacturing companies in Brazil were recently handed the largest music piracy fines ever assessed in South America. The Bee Gees’ CD’s were one of the artists which they were pirating.
• “The Record” continues to do well around the world, as it enters and reenters the charts in Australia, ( last week it went there from 49 tot 44 again) the Netherlands and other countries!
• Maurice has been busy with his paintball store, of course, and the team recently competed in tournaments in New Jersey and most recently in London, UK! This one was the Campaign Cup, which was the European Paintball Championships! “The Royal Rat Rangers” competed in the Novice division, where they finished high enough to make the semis! As only 11 of the 80 teams advanced, this was great! Only 4 teams advanced to the finals, however, and the Rangers didn’t qualify, but as a young team, they’re doing very well!Marion: GSI 09/27/02

NEWS, September 18th.

• Please all of you: visit the next page of the Dutch Radio 2 web site and vote for The Bee Gees http://omroep.developerslab.orgThis Radio Station has another Week From The Seventies organized from October 7 until October 11th. With at the end of that week the airing of the Top 70 with songs from the seventies of course which can be compiled by you!! So mark your 5 favorite songs from the list Fill in your name, address etc. and press the button: STEMMEN ! ( =VOTE)
•  By the end of this year the very successful Dutch “Saturday Night Fever” musical stops.
  
  

  We are informing all BGFC members with Internet access in The Netherlands this week about a last offer to visit the musical for a cheap price. You can also obtain this Dutch info offer by requesting it through the following email address: marion@brothersgibb.org

• Virgin books in England has published the David English book: “Mad Dogs And The Englishman” this month. There’s of course a lot about the Gibbs to read about. Click here for newspaper article (Daily Mirror sept. 14) about the book (sorry for the bad quality).Marion: GSI 09/18/02

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NEWS, September 6th.

• Today GSI starts with a very exclusive new item on the site. Covers & Rarities tells you all about special releases, covers and unreleased material.
  Don’t miss it!!
•  Still no date set yet for the CBE presentation and we doubt if they will still be able to schedule it for this year.
• GSI at the moment is working on the transcript of the Maurice Gibb interview which took place earlier this year for Radio 192 and BGFC-EUROPE. It will exclusively be published only on this web site and we are planning to print it in one of the Dimensions magazines of BGFC.
• The Record is 42 this week in Australia coming from 50
  The DVD One Night Only is at 9 in Australia and the DVD Live By Request at 32
  Sometimes they have re entered for a second or even third time after first having been disappeared from the charts! So specially in Australia things are going pretty good right now!!Marion: GSI 09/06/02 (with thanks to Peter)

NEWS, July 16th.

• In this holiday months of July and Augsut many of us ( including people of GSI and BGFC) go and enjoy their holiday. We’ll still be there but you’ll find less updates than usual on the web site these 2 months. We of course also wish all Bee Gees fans, BGFC members and visitors of the GSI website: Wonderful Holidays.
• Like mentioned before we intend to start a complete new section on the GSI site later this Summer with assistance of Melody!! called: “COVERS AND RARITIES” which until now was always part of this NEWS section. So watch out for this new item and service we offer you soon!! Until then we’d like to present you, like promissed before, a second Bee Gees melody out of a music box as many of you were so very enthusiastic about hearing that earlier music box cover we presented to you. This time enjoy: “HOW DEEP IS YOUR LOVE”.
  Click and listen 3.96 Mb – Mp3
• The Bee Gees won’t be present after all in one of the most successful TV shows in Holland at the moment: Ushi en van Dijk. Which this summer will be filmed in the U.S. Hopefully we’ll soon see the boys again in some other show where ever in the world. We’ll keep you posted of course.
• No confirmation yet about a possible: ONE SPECIAL EVENT concert for The Bee Gees this year.Marion: GSI 07/16/02 (Thanks to Melody as well).

NEWS, June 23rd.

• We realize this is short notice, but this has only just been arranged. Any of you who are in the South Florida area, DJ Brian Paul is doing a Bee Gees tribute show tonight on WAXY Radio, 790 AM, starting at 7:30 PM EDT. Unfortunately, their web-streaming is down right now, so you can’t listen on the Internet. During this show, he will be interviewing TERRI BRIDGE of our BGFCtm club , and will also be interviewing the “Stayin’ Alive” tribute group, who will be playing in Delray Beach next Friday Below you’ll see a special announcement just for BGFCtm members!
• AGAIN FOR ALL FAN CLUB MEMBERS: SPECIAL BGFCtm OFFER !!

This is a special offer for BGFC members who would like to attend either next Friday or next Saturday night’s (or both!) shows of the tribute band “Stayin’ Alive”, in Delray Beach, Florida! Here are the details: “Stayin’ Alive” will be doing two shows each night (that’s the plan now, anyway), one at 7 PM and one at 10 PM, at the Crest Theatre in Delray Beach, Florida, on Friday, June 28 and Saturday, June 29. For any of these shows, BGFC members only will be able to get tickets half price, for $15 instead of $30 each! According to the information I have, you will be required to have your BGFC membership card available. To order tickets, phone toll-free at 1-800-861-3487. If any of you are planning to come for the show, please do inform Terri of BGFC. Many thanks to Brian Paul, Craig Symons, and the “Crest Theatre” for extending this special offer to us! Hope to see many of you there!

• Good news about Bee Gees DVD’s !!
  The release of the DVD’s for “Grease”, “Saturday Night Fever”, and “Staying Alive” (sequel to “SNF”) is now official! The release dates by Paramount are:
  “Grease” — September 17, in both widescreen (16:9) and full-screen versions. DVD will include Dolby 5.1 audio, interviews with the principals, the movie trailer, and while supplies last, a songbook.
  “Saturday Night Fever” — October 8, in widescreen only, Dolby 5.1. Celebrating the 25th anniversary of the movie’s release, the DVD will contain director John Badham’s commentary, scenes from the VH-1 “Behind the Music: SNF” documentary, and deleted scenes.
  “Staying Alive” — October 8 in widescreen only, Dolby 5.1.
• Talking about DVD’s:
  In The Netherlands a company has requested BGFC-EUROPE to assist and coordinate with Bee Gees management in order to release a special Bee Gees DVD with old material . The project is in a very early stage and whenever new details become available we’ll surely let you know on this GSI web site of course!!
• For some more nice pix of the Grand Opening of Mo`s paintball shop surf to Mega 103.5

NEWS, June 8th.

• The boys were invited to play at the Jubilee concert for the Queen, June 3rd. but mostly due to a combination of several private reasons they’d to decide to: not go. Lateron this year they’ll go to England for the CBE presentation.
•  The Grand Opening of Mo’s Paintball Store will be: Saturday (today) June 8 from 2pm to 8pm.

•  Have you ever played this lovely melody to your baby? or maybe you love this romantic cover version, played on a music box, yourself?! Listen here to a very special cover version of “MELODY FAIR”
  Click here and listen 3.5 Mb – Mp3
  Do you like this cover, just let me know and maybe we have some more for you…
• B 3’s I.O.I.O. has climbed from 13 to no. 6 in its third week on the German charts.

NEWS, June 2nd.

• Maurice attended the BMI Latin Music Awards which were held May 8, 2002 in Miami (well, technically in Hollywood, Florida, but this is very close to Miami ). He was there because the Brothers were given an award for “Ven A Mi (Run To Me)”, as the songwriters of one of the most performed Latin songs on radio and TV here in the US last year! It was Estefano, who was honored as the Latin Songwriter of the Year, and Juanes received a special Certificate of Achievement for his contributions to Latin music success worldwide.
  Congratulations to the Brothers!!
• Like we mentioned before the CBE presentation will probably be late this year, at this point the boys are still looking at the dates that the Palace has to offer!! We of course keep you posted!
•  Robin is still hard at work on his businesses and things in England, though likely he’ll be back in Miami to join his brothers soon.
•  Maurice has of course been working with the kids on their music, but is also working hard on the plans for the new paintball tournament he’s starting, the Commander’s Cup, which will be this summer. Next to that he took a little break in the Bahama’s recently as well!!
• Barry has been working at the studio a lot lately and not only for Bee Gees recordings but also with his son Steven. Sometimes he went there to work alone as well or with the band.

We were told that one of Australia’s best selling singers Jimmy Barnes has a version of “To Love Somebody” on his new CD “Live at the Chapel”. For those who don’t know: Jimmy was lead singer of the legendary Oz band “Cold Chisel”, that band broke up about 16 years ago.

NEWS, May 20th.

•  The TV special “An Audience With Lulu” of which we’ve reported you earlier was shown on British TV Saturday evening , May 18th. Lulu sang with Maurice “First of May” and needless to say it was very special.
  
  R Kelly

  Are you interested?
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NEWS, May 7th.

• Probably after the summer one is planning to release “Saturday Night Fever” on DVD. More details when available.
•  ‘There’s a new “Audience With” recorded with… Lulu. It will be aired later on but we have no air date at this moment yet. Read about her show and her guests!! This was in an Irish newspaper. Her performance with Maurice. Click for the article
• In Japan they released a Bee Gees Instrumental Collection with 12 tracks ( number: UPCH 1098). You can also find it at www.revolutioninternational.com and then search for Bee Gees.
• Amazon.com mentions some new Bee Gees stuff. The Melody soundtrack CD has a release date of April 23, 2002 as a Japanese import. Cost is $39.49 Here’s the link: www.amazon.com

• In The Netherlands a 12″ vinyl maxi was released of “You Should Be Dancing” in a House version: “Bee Gees vs. Kid Vicious” (number 850918, label: Kid Vicious).
• Recently there has been a
   

  video clip on German tv called: “Hate in yo eyes” by hip-hopper / rapper “Mack 10”. The chorus line is extremely similar to “Stayin Alive”. The single ( perhaps not everyones favorite) will be released on May 6th see: www.amazon.de

• “Eagle Eye Cherry” sings a cover version of “To Love Somebody”

• www.musicdish.com
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  Visit http://rania.gemm.com now!!
• Nice idea to visit when you are looking for interesting Bee Gees items. A site with daily new items and they are all authentic and straight from MIDDLE EAR STUDIOS!! www.topperauction.com

NEWS, April 9th.

•  It’s time again to come to the fair!! We are expecting lots of Bee Gees fans to join us at the huge Dutch Record Fair in Utrecht The Netherlands on April 20 and 21. It’s going to be the world’s most impressive mega record and CD fair. The fair will be open from 10.00 – 1800 hours on Saturday and from 10.00 – 17.00 hours on Sunday. See also: www.mmmarc.com Bee Gees fans would like to join for a chat and a coffee or what ever on April 20 near the stage in the back of the hall at 13.00 hours. Are you coming too??!
•  The next BGFC-EUROPE event as you all know will be Sunday April 14th. when we welcome Bee Gees fans to join us for a wonderful brunch and…
  a great video show of The Bee Gees. See you in Leusden, The Netherlands next week. All the info about the BGFC-EUROPE event you can find in a special message on the GSI web site.Marion: GSI 04/09/02

NEWS, April 4th.

•  The 5th. edition of THE STORY OF THE BEE GEES by Radio 192 and BGFC-EUROPE broadcasted Monday 1 April was an overwhelming success again although many people were not able to hear it live through the Internet as the Radio 192 server was down. However we’ll soon report on this web site of course about the contents of the program and specially about the interview and give details about possibilities to hear the series once more etc. This 5th edition as you know included
  an exclusive interview with MAURICE GIBB!!!

There’s a singer named: Nicola Cheung form Hong Kong

Who has recorded a Bee Gees song called: “Angel Of Mercy” written by Maurice, Barry and Robin. She was in the Hong Kong news paper the other day together with Maurice This was when Maurice visited Hong Kong in May last year, Universal Music people from Asia had a cocktail party for Maurice then. At that time Nicola Cheung also attended the party and welcomed him and had pictures taken together with him http://global.yesasia.com

• David English is still involved with The Bunburys Charity if some of you may be interested this is the address: www.photo-art.co.uk/bunburys
• If you are interested in finding out where a lot of new songs have either stolen samples, lyrics or beats from or if you’ve heard a new song and want to find out who originally wrote it than just go to the following website: www.audioautopsy.com It has lots of music information, and you can add your own entries to the database as well.
• The April number of Aloha (Dutch magazine) has an interesting review of the Live By Request DVD.
• Get Bee Gees news direct to your mobile phone! Visit the following web site: www.beegees.popnews247.com/
•  Send in your favorite songs to The Week Of The Sixties on Dutch Radio 2!! This Week Of The Sixties is from April 8 until April 12th. On April the 12th. you can listen to the Top 60 Help combining this Top 60 and mention at least 5 of your favorites (artists and song titles) you may also mention more! Fill in: name, address and place. Than press on: – Top 10 inzenden – and listen to the station on Friday April 12th. if possible. Visit: www.omroep.nl
• Also through the U.K. Station Radio 2 you can vote at the moment: To celebrate the Queen’s Golden Jubilee Radio 2 invites you to vote for your favourite piece of popular music from the last fifty years by a British group or singer. Which one piece of music would you vote for? Go to: www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/events/jubilee

Also in the UK, the TV Station: VH1 are doing a voting thing, for you to pick your top 5 favourite videos. They will be showing your top 100 videos soon. To vote go to www.vh1online.co.uk/ and pick 100 greatest videos, and pick your top 5, and fill out the form.

• Go to this URL to see the latest property Barry Gibb has bought. www.thesun.co.uk
  Click here for part 1 or Click here for part 2 to see some other news paper articles about the Keppel Road house Barry has bought.
• Here’s also a cool web page to visit, it lists web pages and how popular they are. Look for yourself www.popsheet.com/topsites.asp
• Marion: GSI 04/04/02
  (also thanks to Peter, Charlene, Richard, Keiko and Jenny)

NEWS, March 27th.

Don’t miss it… part 5 of THE STORY OF…
of Radio 192 and BGFC-Europe
Read the latest update on this special show on the web site of Radio 192
(below translation in English)

The Story of… the BEE GEES
Extra edition with Maurice Gibb interview on
1 april !!!

After four very successful live shows of THE STORY OF… THE BEE GEES in February, Radio 192 will broadcast a very special extra edition on April 1st (no joke) about Robin, Barry and Maurice Gibb: The Bee Gees.

During this series of Bee Gees shows we’d already requested to do an interview with one of the brothers. Due to lack of time this unfortunately couldn’t take place but another offer came to do a very extensive phone interview with Maurice Gibb.

On March 15th. we made the call. At about 5 in the afternoon

We contacted management and they put us through to Maurice who at that time was in Miami. It turned out the become a very special conversation about the feeling behind the music. Their enormous career with record sales of over 110 million and about 19 number 1 hits. And then we haven’t even mentioned the countless cover versions recorded by other artists. During the interview you’ll here all about their latest plans and their work on the new album which they are now working on in Miami and of which already three songs are ready in demo version. Also the group is going on world tour again after finishing this new album.

Everyone who likes to listen to this special interview just has to tune to Radio 192 on April first 2002 and listen to THE STORY OF… Between 20.00 and 22.00 hours local Dutch time (see for timetable the GSI or Radio 192 web sites)

Radio 192 is to be heard on Dutch cable as well as for each and everyone who has access to the Internet: world wide by audio stream: http://live.dds.nl/9.ram

Enjoy!!!

•   Contest “The Record”

In cooperation with Polydor The Netherlands we were able to organize a contest for BGFC members who could win a special promo of “The Record”. The contest is over now and this week we’ll send out the prices to all the BGFC members who have won.
CONGRATULATIONS!!!

• If you are interested in a web site which give you cords of many Gibb compositions then you should visit: www.guitarists.net
• VH1 (an American Music Video Channel ) surveyed musicians and dancers and all sorts of people to find out the 100 greatest dance songs of all time.
  “You Should Be Dancing” was Number 32
  “Staying Alive” was Number 10
  www.mygradnet.com

NEWS February 27th.

• WIN A BGFC TICKET FOR:
  SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER – the musical!!!However at the last minute, BGFC has been provided ONE ticket for the opening night, March 5, of “Saturday Night Fever-The Musical” at the Broward Center for Performing Arts, in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, to give away to a lucky BGFC member!
   

  Yes, that is a week from tomorrow! we know that this probably limits this to members who live close by. If, and ONLY if, you can make the trip to Ft. Lauderdale for the show, please send an email, subject “SNF Contest”, to tbridge@beegeesfanclub.org, by midnight Thursday, February 28, Eastern Standard Time. She will put the entries in a container and draw one at random, who will be the winner. The contest is only for the ticket–all transportation, lodging, meals, and all of that is on your own. It is, however, a pretty good, Left Orchestra floor seat, we’re told! Terry Bridge and her daughter will be attending this performance as well, so she could arrange to meet up, though our seats are not together. The show begins at 8:00 PM. If you’ve been wanting to see “SNF-The Musical”, here’s your chance! It is, by the way, the Broadway cast that is touring with it. Good luck!
  (thanks Terri)

• BEE GEES: REAL STARS ON EARTH AND…….IN THE UNIVERSE!!
  Astronomer J. Broughton of Reedy Creek Observatory in Maryland, America, discovered a small planet on March 15, 1999. It has first gotten the number: 15092 and eventually this minor planet was named after Barry, Robin and Maurice Gibb and called Beegees Take a look for yourself and find out where this Beegees planet is situated.
  Visit: www.harvard.edu

• BGFC CONTEST. ATTENTION!!You are still able to send in for ‘the Record’ contest (published on this web site and in the new Dimensions) and try to win a promo of The Record.
  Closing date is: March 10th.
•  BEE GEES COMPOSITIONS ALL OVER AUSTRIAN CHARTS:
  30: You Win Again (B3)
  31: Guilty (Inessa and Dante Thomas)
  35: Nightfever (B3)
  49: Emotion (Destiny’s Child)
• LOVE AND HOPE BALL 2002.
  Saturday evening February 23rd. at the Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami Beach. It once again became an event never to forget. There was the announced performance of Barry and Maurice doing Beatles songs as well as songs of some other world famous artists and then the big surprise came….. Please read our full report of Love and Hope with nice pictures too: soon to be expected on this web site!!!Marion: GSI 02/27/02 (also thanks to Madelon and Sebastian)

NEWS, January 30th

• The German based female artist, INESSA originally from the Ukraine (Kiev):
  
  Inessa

  She has recorded a new version of Barry, Robin and Maurice’s “Guilty” together with last year’s shooting star Dante Thomas “Miss California”. The single which can already be listened to on German radio was produced by Fugee Pras Michel who also did the remake of “Islands in the Stream”, “Ghetto Supastar”. For more info see:
  www.eastwest.de/mbew/inessamusic/

• In addition to that we have some news about a song which uses a sample of “Love You Inside Out”. It seems to be called “Honey” and was recorded by R. Kelly and Jay-Z. It will feature on their album “Best of Both Worlds”.
  See: www.eastwest.deMarion: GSI 01/30/02  (also thanks to Sebastian Wanke

NEWS January 17th.

• Some latest about “The Record”, in The Netherlands it dropped from 4 to 7 and went GOLD!!
  Australia from 8 up to 6 and twice PLATINUM!!!
  U.K. at 17.A nice remark in the British popmagazine: “UNCUT” of February:
  – The Record: possibly the best “Best Of Album” in the world ever –
  Some other remarks:
  – 40 beauties here –
  – Majestic pathos of Love so right and Fanny –
  – Matches any career in pop history
  “The Record” got 5 stars!!
• BEE GEES DVD  “LIVE BY REQUEST”The A&E “Live By Request” show has been released on video/DVD in North America (as of January 2)! It will be released worldwide on January 28.
  

  The DVD contains a trailer, promoting the show, which contains many of the best moments of the show, and there are a few added shots of the crowd, wider camera angles, and etc. that were not on the aired version. Perhaps the best part is the incredible sound done by John Merchant. He has outdone himself with the Dolby 5.1, stereo, and DTS mixes for this DVD. It gives a new sense of immediacy to the show— truly the next best thing to being there! For those fans of you in the Netherlands and Belgium, BGFC offers an interesting discount when you purchase the “Live By Request” DVD In those countries. If you are interested in the DVD discount of BGFC then you should print out the special coupon, fill it in and bring it along to one of the Free Record Shops in The Netherlands or Belgium or to one of the Van Leest record shops in The Netherlands. We hope lots of fans will enjoy this special BGFC discount!!

  For printing out a discount coupon: surf to our
  DVD page.

  Marion: GSI 01/17/02   (thanks also to Peter Hofman)

NEWS January 12th.

• LOVE AND HOPEAs many of you may know, each year the Diabetes Research Institute Foundation here in Miami holds a charitable fund-raising gala, the “Love and Hope Ball”. Barry and Linda Gibb are the International Chairpersons for this event, and this is the charity to which Barry requested that part of the money raised at BGFC^TM-Europe’s recent international convention be given (and it was!). This year’s event will be held on Saturday, February 23, at the Fontainebleau Hilton Hotel in Miami Beach, and Barry and Maurice have agreed to entertain at the event! They will be playing a set consisting primarily of Beatles’ songs (that’s the thought as of now, anyway!), though who knows what they might come up with. The evening begins with cocktails at 6:00 PM, followed by dinner at 7:30 PM, which will then be followed by Barry and Maurice entertaining, and by dancing.
   

  The evening is a formal, black-tie charity event, and is the major fund-raiser of the year for the Diabetes Research Institute. Admission to the Ball is $400 per person, though part of that total is a charitable contribution for tax purposes. The Diabetes Research Institute Foundation has invited the Bee Gees fans to join them on this auspicious occasion. The DRIF is handling all of the reservations and questions about tickets and seating. Here is the address and phone numbers you need to make reservations:

  Diabetes Research Institute Foundation
  3440 Hollywood Boulevard, Suite 100
  Hollywood, FL 33021

  Phone: (954) 964-4040, or toll free (800) 321-3437

  They accept checks, or MasterCard, Visa, or American Express. I hope that some of you will be able to come, and join in a very special evening, for a very special cause!
  ( Thanks: Terri Bridge)

• The Record is still doing great moving up from 5 to 4 in The Netherlands and for instance in Australia it’s at 8 this week and twice