Entertainment: FILE Bee Gee - Maurice Gibb has died, aged 53
TAPE: EF03/0034
IN_TIME: 14:46:13
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SOURCES: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame/WKYC/APTN
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DATELINE: Various - File
SHOTLIST:
Ohio - 7 May 1997
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame - Clients must give on screen credit
1. Various shots of the Bee Gees performing (Maurice Gibb is playing guitar)
WKYC
Ohio - 7 May 1997
2. SOUNDBITE Maurice Gibb, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductee.
"Once again we're R&B, love. We love black music. We've always loved it for years. Even the 'Fever' stuff was R&B before it got used in the film. Then it got labelled disco. So, I guess it doesn't tell you much difference, does it?"
APTN
London - 6 May 1998
3. Police cordon in front of screaming fans
4. Maurice Gibb arriving at stage production of Saturday Night Fever
5. Banner over doors reading: "Saturday Night Fever"
STORYLINE
Maurice Gibb, a member of the famed Bee Gees, died at a Miami Beach hospital on Sunday, his family said.
He was 53.
Gibb suffered cardiac arrest before undergoing emergency surgery for a blocked intestine.
He was admitted to Mount Sinai Medical Center on Wednesday and underwent surgery on Thursday.
Gibb played bass and keyboard for the Bee Gees, whose name is short for the Brothers Gibb.
Known for their close harmonies and original sound, the Bee Gees are members of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Their 1977 contributions to the "Saturday Night Fever" album made it the best selling movie soundtrack ever with more than 40 (M) million copies sold.
Among the hits on that album are "Stayin' Alive", "More Than a Woman", "How Deep Is Your Love" and "Night Fever".
The Bee Gees - twins Maurice and Robin and their older brother Barry - emigrated from England to Australia in 1958 and the brothers soon gained fame as a teen pop group.
They returned to England in the 1960s and their first four albums contained hits such as "1941 New York Mining Disaster", "To Love Somebody" and their first US number one song, 1971's "How Can You Mend A Broken Heart".
The brothers have lived in south Florida since the late 1970s.
Their younger brother, Andy, who had a successful solo career, died in 1988 at age 30 from a heart ailment.
The Bee Gees followed "Saturday Night Fever" with the 1978 album "Spirits Having Flown" which sold 20 (M) million copies.
The Bee Gees released three studio albums and went on a world tour in the 1990s.
The live album from the tour, "One Night Only", sold more than one (M) million albums in the United States.
The group won seven Grammy Awards.
The Bee Gees last album was in 2001, entitled "This Is Where I Came In".
The brothers wrote and produced songs for Barbara Streisand, Diana Ross and Dionne Warwick in the 1980s.
They also wrote the Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton hit "Islands in the Stream".
The Bee Gees run a music production company in Miami called Middle Ear Studios.