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...think we want to go where the Beatles have gone," says Barry Gibb, 21, eldest of the brothers who form three-fifths of the group. "They've ruined their minds." "Kids growing up now would like someone to love and idolize," echoes Maurice, 18. Right, says his twin brother Robin...
Indeed, much of the Bee Gees' style (the name, coined by an Australian disk jockey, stands for Brothers Gibb) harks back to the days long past -1964, say-when love and idolatry dogged the Beatles' every step. The songs are simple, the beat steady, the tune up on top for easy listening. The words, too, push back the calendar a few years: unabashed love epics spiced with just a pinch of social awareness. "Oh, how I tried, really and sincerely I tried," quavers Robin in one song, as background strings swirl up in Pucciniesque supplication...
Born on the Isle of Man, the Gibb brothers formed a family combo almost as soon as they could walk. The family migrated from Britain to Australia in 1958, where the brothers worked their way up the radio-TV talent-show circuit. By last February the brothers had made it to London, acquiring along the way Drummer Colin Petersen and Guitarist Vince Melouney, and a producer got them into recording studios and out into the world...
...Jordanians in Palestine. Yet, despite all the anti-Israeli passion, few other Arabs are really eager to risk their lives for the Arabs in Palestine. The "Arab nation," which is so often talked about by the leaders, is nothing but "an act of will," says British Arabist Sir Hamilton Gibb. It does not correspond to any visible political entity. Pan Arabism is at once a Mitty-esque dream of things past and a poetic assertion of a unity that does not exist...
Died. Mary and Margaret Gibb, 54, oldest U.S. Siamese twins, joined through life above the buttocks; of cancer, within two minutes of one another; in Holyoke, Mass, (see MEDICINE...