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Monday, 21 May 2012

In Memoriam: Robin Gibb

So farewell, then, Robin
Gibb, brother of the late
Maurice Gibb
Stayin' alive. That was your
Catch phrase. But not your
Strong point

Tags: Or is that too glib? Bad week for disco, Donna Summer, Hee Bee Gee Bees, you can tell by the way that I use my walk, I'm a woman's man, no time to talk

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21 May 2012

Esmerelda Weatherwax

I always had a soft spot for Robin Gibb. They were at their best in the days before the Saturday Night Fever disco era.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EU-8xEd8WU

21 May 2012

Mary Jackson

They were very talented - I like some of the earlier stuff too.

John Derbyshire has a good essay on Saturday Night Fever.

21 May 2012

reactionry

Sunday Night Sepsis

Reports of my death are unfortunately not, unlike the benefits of screening for prostate cancer or those of the British NHS, greatly exaggerated. -Nice to see the squib (not to be confused with an explosive) on Gibb and the blurb for Derb (we in North Africa are not shy about the "talks" we give to our children with respect to our many warring tribes), but what am I? Chopped Libyan? -And not even so much as a "Franco still dead" type update/tribute from Saturday Night Live.

"Gibb, Thribb, Throbb" - you strumpet heart throbs and throbbing members of NER - what the hell does Mr. Derbyshire meaning by "thrumping"?*

I suppose that I should be grateful that neither Moammar nor I lived to see the opening of the many-faced Zionist entity's "The Dictator."

Prostrate By Prostate Laid,

Abdelbaset "Hound of Hell" Ali Mohmet al-Megrahi,

By The Shores of Tripoli

* http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Thrumping

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21 May 2012

John P.

The BeeGees were very talented. I'd no idea, for example, that they'd written the monster hit "Islands in the Stream".

They've also written songs for Dionne Warwick, Celine Dionne, Barbara Streisand, and quite a number of others.

One of their compositions, recorded by Conway Twitty, was a number 1 hit on U.S. country music charts back in 81.

I never associated them with Country Music.

21 May 2012
del

The song which keeps the Muslims' supposed prophet in karaoke hell:

I Started a Joke - Robin Gibb

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s89Q0IqkKAY&feature=related

Figments stay in karaoke hell until they get the song right. In karaoke hell, no one ever gets it right.

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