CHUM FM INTERVIEW WITH THE BEE GEES

BY MARILYN DENIS

LIVE FROM MIDDLE EAR STUDIO, JUNE 23, 2001

Pre-recorded Introduction

In Miami Florida tonight we talk to the Bee Gees!  It's hard to find the words to describe Barry, Robin and Maurice Gibb.  Legendary? -- of course, but you usually use that word when a career is over.  The Bee Gees latest album is number one in several countries around the world right now!  Influential? -- well that would be an understatement!  Their songs have been recorded by more than any other group, including the Beatles.  Enduring? -- certainly!  They have survived several trends, a split-up, the death of their younger brother, and personal challenges, all of which have only made them stronger.  Gifted? -- again an understatement!  These guys not only write and produce for themselves, their work with other artists have saved careers.  In the past few months alone, their music has been covered by Destiny's Child and 'N SYNC.  And the Bee Gees' live performances are spectacular!  Genius? -- we're getting closer now.  How else do you explain a band that can thrive in the music business for five decades?  Whether its using the latest in technology to create a masterpiece, or simply singing three-part harmonies.  Yet when all is said and done, the success of the Bee Gees can be boiled down to two simple words: the songs.  Every successful pop act in history, from Sinatra to the Beatles to 'N SYNC, know that to have a career you have to have the songs.  At last count the Bee Gees had written 1,142 of them, and despite the trends that come and go, the songs survive.  Tonight, with the help of your phone calls at 1-877-636-TALK, we honour one of the bands of the past and present. We'll speak to Barry, Robin, and Maurice about their incredible career, their latest album "This is Where I Came In," and best of all, we will talk about the songs!  It is with great pride that Music Online presents The Bee Gees!

Marilyn:  Yay!!!
(Maurice responds with surprise to her exhuberance, they both are laughing)
Barry:  Anyway -- anyways -- they couldn't, well, make it, but instead we have the...  (pretending to be an interviewer as Marilyn, Robin, and Maurice laugh.  He bursts out laughing himself.)
Marilyn:  I tell you, the last 10 minutes before we aired it was a comedy show, you guys are terrific!  Listen, welcome to the show!
Bee Gees:  Oh, well, thank you, thank you...
Marilyn:  Across Canada the people are so excited that we are able to talk to you guys for 90 minutes, and we're going to get those phone calls on as soon as we can, but you know, its very cold in here -- I can see that Barry has a big sweater on, and I'm Canadian and its pretty cold in here...
(Bee Gees make sounds of objection)
Maurice:  No, that is just his chest...

(Marilyn and his brothers are racked with laughter)
Barry:  I'm not wearing anything at all.  I was naked actually...  (laughing)
Marilyn:  Well -- there you go!  I want to go back, ah, if we can, just to the time Barry when you were nine years old, and your dad gave you a guitar...
Barry:  Okay, okay...
Maurice:  (makes a sound like -- wow, that was a looong time ago)
Marilyn:  And you started singing...
Barry:  Yes!
Marilyn:  And the guys joined in and, ah, harmonized...
Maurice:  We had nothing else to do...
Bee Gees:  (speaking all at once)  Well we didn't -- it didn't [happen right away]...
Marilyn:  I want to go back to that, that moment, tell us about that.
Barry:  Oh, okay.  Well, we used to sort of do things like make microphones -- fake microphones out of, ah, brushes with tin cans on top.  We just -- we were fascinated with the whole concept of being a pop group, and I think that came from American music, music like the Everley Brothers, and people of that time, you know.  Elvis Prestley was just emerging, we were very very young children, and we were very, um, taken by the whole new thing called Rock and Roll you know...
Marilyn:  But the harmonies were there -- I mean, it just came so naturally to you guys which is really unusual, don't you think?
(Bee Gees agree)
Robin:  The harmonies were actually very natural, we actually -- I think you'll find it in the Beatles' harmonies too, they were sort of -- they weren't taught harmonies, we just found them naturally we didn't read music, so we just felt -- and just fell into place, and that is where its been our whole life.
Marilyn:  So when that happened -- Maurice, when that happened...
Maurice:  Yes...
Marilyn:  ...when that happened, as the story goes, that you guys -- are you there?  (laughing)
Maurice:  Yes, I'm here -- I'm just putting my underwear back on  (Marilyn is laughing hard) -- I'm in my dressing room...
Robin:  Maurice, take over will you Maurice, I'm just going to the bathroom...
Maurice:  (in response to Robin)  Yes, I'll be here...
Marilyn:  So when that happened, is it a moment that you guys remember?  Is it one of those -- those turning points?  People write about it all the time...
Maurice:  Yeah, I remember ... well actually, there was a guy outside the door who was writing about this at the time (laughing with Barry) when we were singing.  Actually the first thing for me, when I noticed that we were doing it, [harmonizing] was when we sang a song called "Lollipop" in the bedroom, and we all sang different -- Barry started singing the melody, Robin came in on the second, and I came in on high...
Barry:  That's right...
Maurice:  And that's where we all knew that we had to be each time we sang a song...
Barry:  Right...
Maurice:  And also [we] used Neil Sedaka too, particularly in those days when doing a record with all three...
Robin:  (seems astonished)  He was there???
(Barry mumbles and laughs)
Maurice:  Well he wasn't there at the time, no  (chuckling).  Neil Sedaka -- yeah, he must have had the spare bed in the corner so...  (laughing)
Marilyn:  So having said that -- so, you go into your studio and you write a song -- everyone just knows what part to take?  It just comes out naturally?  (brothers are talking together -- unintelligible)  That's what's amazing to a lot of people...
Barry:  Yeah, but we go out of our way to make something an adventure, so whatever part anyone takes we hope -- hopefully, it is the first time that they've ever taken that part and it hasn't been done before, so we're always looking for something that is harmonic, but hasn't been -- isn't generic, so we're always searching...
Robin:  Yeah, we don't -- there's no role playing...
Barry:  Right.  Well there is, but everyone looks for their part -- but not on the radio...  (laughing)
Maurice:  (laughing)  Not on the radio, no...
Robin:  But there's no -- sort of...  (unintelligible mumbling)
Marilyn:  Now it's sounding like a therapy session, you guys.  Alright...
Maurice:  Ah, yes it is...  (chuckling)
Barry:  (picking up on the joke)  There's something you can't see...
Robin:  (joining in on the joke)  As far as our therapy -- but we have digressed...
Maurice:  We are the best of the Bee Gees have movies...  (laughing)
Marilyn:  Let's talk about "This is Where I Came In."  The phrase has a lot of meanings; does it mean separate things to each of you?
Robin:  Yeah, "This is Where I Came In" was actually a full cycle thing -- we wanted to get back to our early roots when we first started making albums in the late 60's, where it was more organic, less production and more human and more accoustic -- and really music going full circle, our music going full circle and getting back to that original place...
Marilyn:  So...
Barry:  Secondly, if I may...
Maurice:  You may.
Robin:  Yes, if you like (unintelligible).  My that's big -- glides in there...  (meaning unclear)
Maurice:  (unintelligible)  Constructively...

(Bee Gees are talking together and laughing)
Barry:  Sort of -- self-expression I think is really important with this album for us, each brother -- we sort of allowed each other -- well, not "ALLOWED" each other; that would imply dominance and when you want (unintelligible)
Marilyn:  (teasing)  Well, you are the older brother...
Barry:  No, but -- no, I didn't mean it that way, I meant...
Robin:  (laughing)  A neighbour perhaps, or a good friend...  (unintelligible -- brothers laughing and mumbling)
Barry:  (picking up on Robin's meaning)  Someone who is discreet, to say the least.  (chuckling)  Anyways -- where was I?
Maurice:  (humourously)  I don't know...
Robin:  You were talking about allowing each other self-expression...
Maurice:  Self-expression, yes...
Barry:  Yes, each one of us went away and cut about two to three songs alone and we -- we thought that would be -- after all of these albums, it would be nice to do something like, uh, "everyone have their own way" sort of.  A little bit of selfishness...
Marilyn:  The song -- the song "This is Where I Came In" was done in the second take, is that what I hear?
Maurice:  Um hmm
Robin:  Roughly -- but then yes, at the same time...  (unintelligible)
Maurice:  It's good, it's good -- I think that I could go for that  (apparently amused at the idea that the song was completed in only the second take, suggesting that this is somewhat of an exaggeration) -- about 10 or 20 more...
Marilyn:  I was pretty impressed by that...
Barry:  (going along with the joke)  Roughly, yeah -- get about 10 or 20 more  (unintelligable as brothers mumble together and laugh ) -- probably would have ended...
Marilyn:  Okay, well listen, if you want to talk to the Bee Gees, just call 1-877-636-TALK.  Here it is, the title track to the first single, "This is Where I Came In" -- Music Online with the Bee Gees.

["This is Where I Came In" plays]

Marilyn:  Music Online with the Bee Gees and "This is Where I Came In," and we're going to go to the phones now guys, are you ready?
Barry:  Oh yeah...

Maurice:  (putting on a false serious voice)  Maurice, put your clothes back on....
Marilyn:  (laughingly)  Maurice, put your clothes back on!  You can give us a call and ask the Bee Gees a question at 1-877-636-TALK, and first up tonight is Tim in Halifax listening to C100.
Ken:  Its Ken...
Maurice:  Oooh!
Marilyn:  It's Ken?
Maurice:  Oh, that isn't a good start now, is it?
Marilyn:  Well that's not a good thing -- how are you, Ken?
Ken:  Good.
Marilyn:  What's your question?
Ken:  Okay -- in all of these four decades, how did you manage to stay on top?  Because the music industry is a jungle out there...
Maurice: Oh yes!...
Barry:  Well, actually, you know, that's not really accurate.  You don't stay "on top" -- it's hills and valleys, as Maurice has always put it, and...
Maurice:  Well, mountains and valleys...
Barry:  Well, yes -- mountains and valleys...
Maurice:  (continues jokingly)  What, molehills and volcanos -- things coming out ot the ground...
Robin:  (through the din)  Songwriting -- songwriting has always been our forte, and we've always been songwriters first, and I think sticking at what we enjoy doing the best and writing songs has always been important.  I think if anything -- any ingredient is there, it's the songwriting...

(Barry and Maurice agree)
Marilyn:  So when you put an album like this together and you -- you put it together because you...  (hesitates)  That's -- it's a great joy but you don't go in there going, "I hope I get a hit out of this," it's a...
Barry:  Well yeah, I think -- yeah -- well all of those dreams are there too.  You go in thinking, "God, I hope I get a hit out of this!"  It's a...
Robin:  Because the record company (Barry laughing in agreement) is sitting there -- sitting there thinking, "I hope we get a hit out of this!"
Marilyn:  They're kind of going over their shoulder -- they're not doing it for the art...
Barry:  Oh, and your manager (he stops his train of thought to comment to Marilyn's last remark) -- Oh, no, thats not true...
Marilyn:  Yeah?...
Barry:  (laughing hard)  But our manager says the same thing: "God, I hope they get a hit out of this!" -- from the records...
Maurice:  (laughing)  It's funny how many people say that...
(Barry is still laughing as if fit to be tied)
Maurice:  But actually we actually love to record what we love to record, and hope everyone else likes it...
Barry:  (still commenting on his mangager and other people from the music industry discussed up to this point)  They love music you know...
Maurice:  We never really go for what's already out there -- we sort of...
Barry:  But we are aware of a swirling sort of...
Maurice:  Oooh!
Barry:  ...sort of "cottage industry" going on around us (Maurice agrees) -- "cottage" if you will, for want of a better term...
Maurice:  I got four cottages last week you know  (jokingly -- Barry joins in laughter)
Marilyn:  We are going to go to another line, we're going to see and talk to Delores in Toronto listening to CHUM FM: Hey Delores!
Delores:  Hey!  (excitedly)
Marilyn:  Go ahead...
Maurice and Robin:  Hi Delores!
Barry:  Yes!
Delores:  Hello -- okay, before I ask my question can I please ask you, could you say "Hi" to my mum for me?  (laughs nervously and embarassedly -- Bee Gees are amused)
Maurice:  (laughter in the background)  Hi Mum!
Barry:  Hello Mother!
Marilyn:  What's your question, Delores?
Delores:  Okay -- my question is, um, out of your whole career, what has been the experience that made you really proud -- you know, like your best experience so far?
(Maurice mulls over this as if it's a tough question)
Marilyn:  Would it be different for each of you?
Barry:  Yeah, but I would say that there have been general ones like, uh, like winning the British Music Award and the Lifetime Achievement -- getting in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame I think is probably a dream come true...

(Robin and Maurice agree)
Marilyn:  Now that happened in 1997...
Barry and Maurice:  It did, yeah -- correct, yeah...
Barry:  It did, and uh, its still happening  (laughing hard)
Robin:  (playing on the word "inducted")  We're still being abducted...

(Barry and Maurice are still laughing in the background)
Barry:  Going full steam as we speak...
Maurice:  Yes we're being inducted all over the place...

(Barry and Robin are laughing)
Barry:  So far we haven't been thrown out yet but it's coming...
Robin:  (in a playful voice)  We're -- we're inducted then and we're being abducted now...
Marilyn:  (laughing)  Robin, what about you?
Robin:  I think I would have to say the same, that and getting...
Barry:  ...the Songwriters Hall of Fame -- and -- yes...
Robin:  Yeah, the Songwriters Hall of Fame, which was just before that, and in the same year we got the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with the Brit awards contribution to music awards in London...
Barry:  Yes, yes...
Marilyn:  Maurice?
Maurice:  Garbage Man Hall of Fame, I think, was my honour (laughing)...
Robin:  (volunteering helpfully)  Idiot of the Year...
Barry:  (getting his two cents worth in)  Best Recording Artist in a Dress...
Maurice:  I think one of the greatest moments, I think that we all of us would share in this one too, is that I think, when we first had our very first Number One -- was a feeling like no other -- I mean, you never get used to those feelings when you have a successful record.

(Barry agrees in background)

Maurice:  But the first one in England in particular, which was "Massachusetts" -- that was a great moment for us...
Barrry:  I think we never get over the idea of going on stage -- every time we go on stage it's a different kind of a buzz, but its always the same as well -- it's something we always look forward to...

(Maurice agrees in background)
Marilyn:  Well, I was going to ask, do you get goosebumps [when you go out to perform]?
Barry:  We get...
Maurice:  That's why I wear [critic tights] -- double-layered..
Marilyn:  (teasingly as the Bee Gees begin to laugh hard)  See, you're going to be like that with me...
Barry:  Twice the fee!
(Marilyn laughs)
Maurice:  And you can move so much more freely -- you move so much more freely...
Barry:  (laughing)  You can, you can!
Robin:  You walk with a spring in your step!
Maurice:  (sounding seriously reminescent)  You feel so agile...
Barry:  I know!  (laughing)
Marilyn:  (in response to Robin's last comment)  Gee Robin, I was going to vote for you as my favourite Bee Gee tonight, but you know -- you're in there with them  (she starts to laugh)
Robin:  You can't do that, it's dangerous!
Barry:  (playful warning to Robin)  You're fast loosing ground, lad...
Marilyn:  What we're going to do is take another break, we're going to talk to the Bee Gees again in just a moment -- Music Online with the Bee Gees.

[commercial break]

Marilyn:  Okay, we're just talking to the guys about being in the latest issue of People Magazine -- the bachelor edition -- you guys are in the back by the way...
Maurice:  We're in the bachelor edition???

(Barry chuckles in background)
Marilyn:  Yeah, you're way in the back...
Barry:  (laughing)  Right..right...right...
Marilyn:  But what I wanted to tell you was it was a great little article, I wondered -- I wondered -- I asked Barry, "Did you read it yet?" and you said...  [prompting Barry to repeat his comment to her during break]
Barry:  I don't -- we never read them -- we actually...
Maurice:  Well actually, I can't afford People.
Barry:  (laughing)  First of all we can't afford it -- we don't usually watch ourselves on TV, we don't read interviews we've done and also, we try to avoid critics -- reviews of any form -- only simply because we've learnt over the years that there's too much information and it gets in the way of more positive things.
Robin:  We watch other people on television though.
Barry:  Yes -- oh, we're very critical of everyone else...  (laughing with Robin)
Maurice:  Well in actuality, truth is none of us can read...
Barry:  Right!
Robin:  (jokingly)  I think that's what it is...  (referring to Maurice's last comment)
Barry:  We just learned that we don't need to -- we'll always find something bad.
Marilyn:  That's one extra thing...
Barry:  If everyone says, "Read it, it's great," we do, but we'll always find --  (laughing) "Well, wait a minute, but they didn't have to say that!"  (Maurice is laughing in background)
Maurice:  Oh you silly girl!  (meaning unclear)
Marilyn:  But what about that wonderful A&E special?  That was a great performance.
Bee Gees:  Oh, thank you.
Maurice:  Oh yes!
Robin:  Yeah, we had fun doing that...
Marilyn:  Did you watch that?
Barry:  Well, no!
Maurice and Robin:  It was live!
Maurice:  We did it!
Marilyn:  Well, you experienced it, but did you watch it?
Robin:  It was live -- we couldn't watch it.
Barry:  We couldn't watch it.
Marilyn:  They'll repeat it again, Robin.
Robin:  (sounding hopeful)  They'll -- thats true!  You caught me out there...
Marilyn:  I got you on that one!  Did you watch your biography on A&E?  The two-hour...
Robin:  Ah -- yes.
Maurice:  Yes.
Marilyn:  Did they get that pretty -- ah...
Barry:  No.  I didn't watch it, no.
Robin:  (joking)  But he liked it -- he loved it!
Barry:  (laughing)  I loved it...I loved it.  It was the finest Biography that I've never seen!
Marilyn:  Well I loved it -- thought it was great.  I'll tell you the story later...
Barry:  (laughing)  Okay -- thank you, thank you.
Marilyn:  I've got the story -- we're going to talk to Gail right now, from Pickering, Ontario...
Robin:  (still joking about Biography)  I just don't want to know the ending, that's all...
Marilyn:  Well, I won't tell you -- there is no ending.  Hi Gail!
Gail:  (extremely excited)  Hi!!!
Marilyn:  Say hello to the Bee Gees.
Gail:  Hi guys!  Oh my God...
Bee Gees:  Hi Gail!
Gail:  I love you!!!
Maurice:  You can join us with your head in a bucket as well  (laughing) -- come in! [apparently referring to echo from caller's radio]
Robin:  There's an echo...
Marilyn:  What's your question, Gail?
Gail:  Actually -- could I just say really quickly -- I've been a fan of yours since I was seven years old.  I love you.  I think you're so amazing...
Barry:  Thank you.
Robin:  Thank you.
Maurice:  Thank you!
Gail:  I have your new CD and it's so great, I love it!
Bee Gees:  Thank you very much!
Gail:  I wanted to know -- I know that you've written music for other artists, and I want to know is there anyone that you havn't worked with yet who you'd like to work with?
(Bee Gees make assorted sounds as they mull over this question)
Marilyn:  That would be a good question...
Barry:  We love Rod Stewart -- our choices are probably around artists that are our -- that started around the same time we did, so it would be people like Rod Stewart...
Maurice:  Tiny Tim...
Barry:  Tiny Tim -- yeah!  (laughing)  He's gone now, sadly -- sadly...
Maurice:  Yeah, he's gone...
Barry:  (respectfully)  He leaves a mark -- he leaves a mark...
Maurice:  Yes he does -- that's the problem. Yes, I think with the ukulele... 
Marilyn:  Have you worked on anything or talked with Elton John or Rod Stewart and his people -- yeah?
Barry:  Yeah, we often do -- yeah, yeah.  He says, "Get out of the way," and we do...  (laughing)
Maurice:  (getting in on Barry's joke)  Yeah -- "would you like a cup of tea?"
(Barry is laughing hard)
Marilyn:  Is there any..?
Robin:  We're actually good friends -- we know we're not armed so...
Maurice:  (with a delightful chuckle)  We just don't talk, no...
Barry:  You never -- (unintelligable) -- you bump into each other quite rarely...
Maurice:  (still laughing)  You go, "Hey!"
Barry:  Yeah -- and we point at each other: "Hi!"
Maurice: (laughing)  "Hey! "Hi!"
Marilyn:  Is it hard to find the time to, like -- you say you want to do something...
Bee Gees:  Yeah...
Marilyn:  ...and then you just don't get around to it.  Is it something that you really are seriously thinking about?
Barry:  Well, it's just that we -- we're always thinking about those things, but we have -- we've been very busy for the past year...
Marilyn:  I know.
Barry:  So it's not a question of just stepping out and working with someone else -- we'd love to work with someone else.  One of our favorite singers is Elaine Paige -- we sort of promised that we would write a song for her -- and there's many different artists...
Robin:  Yeh, um -- and of course a lot of these artists that we would like to write and work with do their own songs as well, so you know -- if they get a -- they want some -- they want the action to be theirs, obviously.
Marilyn:  Yes, that's right -- right...
Barry:  So we made a lot of albums that so far, if people check out, they're going to find songs that they -- might appeal to them as singers, uh, there's still all of these albums that havn't really been listened to -- some of Robin's stuff -- some of uh, some of Maurice's, some of the solo stuff...
Robin: (in a funny voice)  Start tonight!  Begin tonight, folks!

(Barry chuckles, Maurice joins in)
Marilyn:  We're going to go to the phones once again with Judy, and Judy -- and she's in Tampa, Florida, which is...
Maurice:  Hello, Judy!
Marilyn:  ...which has nothing to do with Canada but -- hey Judy!
Robin:  You sure its not "Temper?"
Judy:  (amazed voice)  How are you?  Am I -- am I talking with you?
Robin:  Yeah...
Marilyn:  Yes, you are really talking with them -- the Bee Gees...
Maurice:  (joking)  Yes -- actually it's just sound alikes...
Barry:  The biggest room I've ever seen -- we're in an echo here...  [referring to echo from caller's radio]
Marilyn:  What's your question, Judy?
Judy:  Well, I just wanted to tell you that when I turned the Online program on this evening...
Marilyn:  Yes?
Judy:  ...and it went to a commercial and "This is Where I Came In" came on, my 12-year-old daughter said, "Wait mom, don't turn that off!" and that to me...
Bee Gees:  Wow..
Barry:  Yes...
Judy:  ...was the epitome of what I felt 30 years ago.
Marilyn:  Wow...
Maurice:  Um hmm...
Barry:  That's great...
Judy:  (continuing with comment)  ...and without any prompting from me (Barry laughs) whatsoever...
Robin:  Sure that [s]he's not 35?
Marilyn:  Good point, Judy.  It's -- you have every age group...
Maurice:  It's been incredible -- I must admit, we do...
Marilyn:  It crosses so many people -- the baby boomers I would say listen to the new and old stuff; the kids are in the car...
Maurice:  That's one of the great things about performing live, we see -- the audience is, you know -- the age range is unbelieveable.  'Cause when you have a new success you have -- you gather a new audience: the parents, those people, and then it goes on and on and on and on.
Marilyn:  Right...
Barry:  We see at the concerts -- we see sort of -- grandparents sitting on their parent's shoulders, and (Marilyn laughs) and grandchildren sitting on...
Maurice:  And that's just our family!
Barry:  (agreeing with a chuckle)  And that's just ours...
Marilyn:  You're a very tall audience...
Robin:  Very tall, yes...
Barry:  But it's like that, it's...
Marilyn:  Maybe Judy's daughter, because she's only 12, in the future will use the song that we're going to play from your new album, called "Wedding Day."
Barry:  Yes...
Maurice:  Um hmm...
Marilyn:  This is a beautiful song -- you want to tell us a little story behind it before we play it?
Barry:  Well, it's about -- it's really the idea, that we wanted to write about...
Robin:  (mock warning)  Steady -- steady...
Barry:  Romance and the absolute meaning that it doesn't really matter what age you are -- what sex you are...
Robin: Careful...
Barry:  (chuckles) ...the absolute right...
Robin:  It matters to me what sex I am!

(Barry and Maurice laugh in background)
Barry:  (teasing Robin)  Yes, but have you signed?
Robin:  I don't know, what do you...?
Maurice:  (joking)  You can't get the wood...
Marilyn:  Do you?  I believe it's going to be a standard at weddings -- and 'cause we were...
Barry:  Well, we wanted a song that would mean something like that, so that everybody would always sing it at a wedding, or dance to it at a wedding...
Maurice:  (in a mock serious tone)  Even the vicar!
Barry:  (laughing)  Even the vicar!

Maurice:  The vicar can even have a long -- with this one...
Robin:  (in a funny animated voice)  The vicar can dance to it!
Barry:  (perhaps apologizing for their zanniness)  We're happy...
Marilyn:  How long have you been married, Barry?
Barry:  I've been married for -- oh God, 1970 -- I guess its about, uh...
Robin:  31?
Barry:  31 years...
Marilyn:  Robin?
Robin:  I, uh -- I've been married twice (laughing) -- which one do you want, the first one or the second?

(Barry and Maurice laugh in background)
Marilyn:  Me too -- but continue... (laughs)
Robin:  Now the first one -- I've been married...
Maurice:  Now wait a minute!  So have I!  Thats not fair!
Robin:  Yes -- of course!  You just started...
Maurice:  (in a false snooty voice)  Draw back boys, so have I -- I mean, I want to talk about me...
Robin:  Who cares?  (to Marilyn)  I heard he has a dreadful ego so let's go with him...
Marilyn:  So what about it, Robin -- the second?
Robin:  The second one?  Since -- actually I forgot -- ah, about, uh, 15 years?  (hesitant as if asking his brothers for help)
Maurice:  (joking)  Look at the cue cards...
Robin:  errrrrr..ummm...er -- years...
Marilyn:  And you Maurice?
Maurice:  Uh, yes -- I just celebrated 25.
Marilyn:  Congratulations to all of you...
Bee Gees:  Thank you!
Marilyn:  This is a great song: "Wedding Day" on Music Online with the Bee Gees.

 

["Wedding Day" plays]

Marilyn:  "Wedding Day" with the Bee Gees -- it's beautiful!
Barry:  Thank you.
Maurice and Robin:  Thank you.
Marilyn:  Your voice is beautiful!
Robin:  (cheerfully)  Thanks a lot...
Marilyn:  Everybody sounds so good -- that is going to be a standard, no doubt!  We're going to take a break, so we'll have more with the Bee Gees [on] Music Online coming right up after this.

[commercial break]

Marilyn:  Alright Bee Gees -- I'm going to ask THE question that was, you know, for a lot of us it was a very special time.  ("You Should be Dancing" plays in background)  In the late 70s it was a great time for people who made music and fans who listened to it -- for me personally, when I was a disk jockey, I played the music -- loved it -- and then a few years later we were all made to feel kind of "bad" about loving the era and that music, and personally I really resented that.  I know I did -- ah, I was always criticized for my musical taste and it must have been a little tough for you guys as well...
Bee Gees:  Well...  (laughing)
Marilyn:  Was it not?  After all that preamble?
Maurice:  No!  I mean...
Marilyn:  Was it?
Barry:  Well, we'd had a lot of preamble before it so it wasn't exactly like we were inexperienced.  We sort of knew that in -- uh, whatever bubble we were in was going to burst -- ah, you know -- you move on as quickly as you can, and where we got to was producing for other people and we sort of thought that it was over.  We thought -- we thought our run as pop group was probably over at that point anyway 'cause we never thought about what music is "called," and the fact that they called it something -- and then suddenly it was "bad" -- didn't really relate that much to us.  Um, we love music so we just kept on writing music, and we always knew that what we do will carry us through so, uh -- and there will always be...what would you call them? -- um, negative, uh, bridges to cross throughout your career.  It's always going to happen to you...
Robin:  We've always asked songwriters we've been influenced by kind of -- music -- even country music -- throughout the years, and we've never felt we've had to stick to our -- one kind of music, ah...
Barry:  We've never given it a name...
Robin:  No...
Barry:  We've never had it this -- kind of music...
Robin:  When we were writing "Fever" it was progressive -- blue-eyed R&B -- soul -- whatever name you want to give it, but certainly what we were writing was just a project for a movie, and no different than Prince writing for "Batman" or anything else.  So yeah, it was big...
Barry:  And most successful...
Robin:  But yeah -- it's what really I feel fantastically proud about -- "Fever" -- is that 30 years from now, you walk into any number of nightclubs in the world and you'll hear that music playing, and that is the legacy of...  (unintelligable)
Barry:  (joking)  Catch that person if you can and -- stop him! 
Robin:  (laughing)  Yes!
Maurice:..We've got to find this man and stop him!  (joking as his brothers laugh)
Robin: ... That's the legacy of "Fever" and indeed his legs as well!
Maurice:  (as Barry laughs)  "His legs as well!"
Marilyn:  After "Saturday Night Fever" though, the word is -- and I'll probably be -- well, the word is that you had pressure to do another album -- (Bee Gees --especially Barry -- chuckling in the background) -- so "Spirits Having Flown" -- they had to come out -- you had to...
Bee Gees:  (especially Maurice and Barry)  No!  No, no..
Marilyn:  No?
Barry:  No, we just did it because we wanted to.

(Maurice chuckles -- they all laugh at this point)
Marilyn:  No, but did you -- wait till more time had gone by?
Maurice:  Well, we were songwriting so well...
Robin:  (in response to Marilyn's last comment)  Well, honestly, I agree...
Maurice:  We kept writing and recording...
Robin:  We could have waited probably another two years before putting that album...
Maurice:  Yeah, but...  (unintelligable)
Robin:  ...but that...
Barry:  In retrospect...
Robin:  In retrospect we could have, but when we put it out people were still in the top 10, so we didn't really need an album out at that time...
Barry:  In hindsight...
Marilyn:  It was like you were competing with yourself...
Robin:  True -- yeah, but you know -- we weren't...
Maurice:  (joking)  But we sued ourselves out of court...  (laughter amongst brothers)
Marilyn:  So everything was fine...
Maurice:  Yes -- we settled, so...
Marilyn:  Well, that's the end of that discussion!  Jane from Toronto is on the line -- hey Jane!
Jane:  (excitedly)  Oh, hi guys!
Maurice:  Hi, Jane!
Robin:  Jane from Toronto! 
Jane:  I can't believe I get to say hello to you!  Hi, Barry, Robin, Maurice, and Marilyn!
Barry:  Hello Jane, how are you doing?  (as his brothers talk at same time in background)

Maurice:  Where we're -- well we're not even there...
Marilyn:  What's your question?
Jane:  My question is, ah, your older music used a variety of real instruments that other bands didn't use, and then you got away from that and into more synthesized music -- uh, your new album sounds like you are getting back to using less of the sythesizer and more of the real insturments...
Barry:  Um hmm...
Maurice:  Uh huh...
Jane:  Do you prefer to use real, or is it easier to use the synthesized and also -- please come back to Toronto we miss you!
(Barry laughs lightly)
Robin:  (in a funny voice)  Well' be back tomorrow night!

(Barry chuckles along with Jane)
Marilyn:  It's a surprise announcement!  No...
Robin:  No calls from Scotland yet -- I'm a bit surprised!  (they all laugh)
Barry:  (laughing)  I heard that Belfast is very quiet...
Robin:  Belfast indeed!  In the last few days, eh...
Maurice:  (in a mocking voice)  Actually, let's answer the question -- we, ah...
Robin:  So yes..
Barry:  We all love different things...
Maurice:  But went back to our roots on this album, you're absolutely right -- gave it more space -- more harmonies -- ah, late 60s is very much this album...
Barry:  Yes...
Maurice:  But also represents like five decades of our influences as well, so each song calls for a different kind of feel -- sort of sound -- and whatever it is that we have in our finger tips (chuckling) well to create atmosphere -- and in most cases on this album it was the accoustic guitars (Barry agrees) that we loved doing...
Barry:  Yes but our -- our preference would still -- if you were to say, "what is your preference" -- I am sure you will...
Maurice:  (playfully asks Barry)  What is your preference?
Barry:  Our preference is still people playing music, you know.  I mean, we've always been, ah, live performers all our lives -- long before we ever had a recording contract so, um, more power to them!  I think...
Maurice:  (seemingly impressed)  Ohhh, well done!
Marilyn:  (likewise impressed)  Well!
Maurice:  Yes, that was well said, wasn't it?
Marilyn:  You were saying during the interview break, Maurice, about Thunder Bay... 
Maurice:  Yes, I'm sorry about that!

(Barry laughs in background)
Marilyn:  No, don't be sorry -- because Deanna from CKPR is in Thunder Bay and she wants to know -- to talk to you guys...
Bee Gees:  Oh!  (unintelligable)  Hi, Deanna!
Maurice:  (amidst hubub in background)  I had nothing to do with it!
Robin:  (joking to Deanna)  Come on down!
Marilyn:  (laughing)  Hello, Deanna...
Deanna:  Hello!
Marilyn:  What is your question?
Deanna:  I'm thrilled!  I am so thrilled, I'm beyond words...
Barry:  (appreciative of the compliment)  Oh God...
Deanna:  I have loved your music for many many years...
Barry:  Thank you...
Deanna:  I am amazed at how you have kept up with the times...
Bee Gees:  Oh -- Thank you!
Deanna:  So the new album is just -- it's so danceful -- it's wonderful...
Robin:  (as Barry gives a delighted chuckle)  Thank you very much!
Deanna:  And I want to know when you're going to tour...
Marilyn:  Yeah, that's a good question -- great question I know...
Barry:  We're trying not to sort of announce that because were so -- sort of..
Robin:  Working it out..
Barry:  We're sort of -- yeah, working it out right now, and we don't want to do that until a specific moment in time, but I don't think there's any doubt that it's something we want to do -- and we want to do it a certain -- we want it to be full-fledged all the way...
Robin:  Well-developed...
Barry:  Well-developed -- and well organized..
Robin:  (cute)  Like me!
(Barry laughs)
Maurice:  Sort of like my brother!  (laughs)
Marilyn:  So Canada will be on the itinerary, right?
Maurice:  Oh, yes..
Robin:  Yes.
Barry:  Oh, I should think so!
Maurice:  Yes.
Marilyn:  Please!  'Cause it's been a long time, we were saying, Robin, it was what --1989? or something like that?
Robin:  That's correct.
Barry:  Yeah.
Marilyn:  That's too long...
Robin:  Too long indeed!
Marilyn:  Too long -- you must come back!
Barry:  I've always said it's been too long...
Maurice:  (playing on Barry's words)  Well put it away...
Marilyn:  And now that we've done that, we'll go to Ellen in Toronto -- Ellen, hi!
Ellen:  (excitedly)  Hi!
Robin:  Hi, Ellen!
Marilyn:  What's your question?
Ellen:  I can't believe I'm talking to you -- I'm absolutely living...
Maurice:  I can't believe we're hearing you!
Ellen:  Oh!  (laughing)

(Bee Gees laugh in background)
Maurice:  How are you?
Ellen:  Oh! -- oh! -- you have no idea how I am!  (with an excited laugh)  Anyways...

(Barry chuckles) 
Maurice:  That's true!
Ellen:  I live in Barrie, Ontario...
(Barry laughs)
Marilyn:  Say that again, Ellen...
Ellen:  I live in Barrie, Ontario...
Maurice:  Oh! 

Bee Gees:  Oh!
Marilyn:  Which is just north of Toronto, yes...
Ellen:  And I've been a fan of yours since 1967, and my children are fans of yours now too...
Barry:  Isn't that amazing?  Thank you!
Maurice:  Thank you so much!
Ellen:  I have a two-part question..
Barry:  (joking)  Yes and no...  (laughing)
Marilyn:  Alrighty...
Ellen:  (in response to Barry's last comment):  Yeah, you might say "no" to the first one -- the first part...
Bee Gees:  Oh dear!
Ellen:  Is it possible that since I'll never get to meet you in a life-time, you could make out a little autograph out "To Ellen?"

(Bee Gees chuckle in background)
Robin:  (in a highly animated voice)  Just a moment!  I'll do that now!
Ellen:  ...and give it to Marilyn, because she knows Kevin who lives up here in Barrie (laughing in background at studio) -- I think...
Barry:  Okay...
Marilyn:  My gosh!  You're bringing up my personal life, Ellen!
Bee Gees:  (unintelligable)
Ellen:  I know, I know -- I'm so sorry, Marilyn, but it's just my...
Barry:  Yeah, okay...
Marilyn:  What's your next question?  We'll see what we can do...
Ellen:  Okay, the second one is, I've got every album that you've ever made -- albums, CD, etc.  Where do I get "Hawks" from -- is that even available?
Barry:  Well, thank you for asking -- I was thinking about "Hawks" this afternon -- when I was in bed...
Robin:  (joking)  He was in the bathtub...
Maurice:  (to Barry)  You do that often, don't you?  You were having...
Barry:  (unintelligable)  I'll talk to the record company but...
Maurice:  (still joking to Barry)  I take it the Prozac's not working then?
Barry:  (laughing)  Yes -- I'll say, "What about Hawks?" and they'll say, "Go away!"  Um...
Robin:  (joking)  I was thinking about that this afternoon when the doctor was washing him...  (laughter from brothers in background)
Marilyn:  (laughing)  Okay!
Barry:  The first thing that came to mind was "Hawks!"
Marilyn:  What about Hawks?  Barry!!!
Maurice:  (laughing)  I don't know if it was released in this country or not -- was it?  I am sure there was a copy...
Barry:  (joking)  I don't know -- I get emotional...
Maurice:  (in on the joke)  I'm sorry, Barry's filling up right now [with tears of laughter]!
Barry:  I'm sure that you can get it but you'd have to actually call (laughing hard) the record company -- but I'm not sure that you'd get an answer...  (laughing)
Robin:  Angus is his name -- ask for Angus...
Marilyn:  We're going to move on to "Nights on Broadway"-- story behind "Nights on Broadway?"  Anybody?
Maurice:  Oh, let's see -- it's about...
Marilyn:  Maurice?
Maurice:  It's about Broadway -- and...  (he and Barry laugh)
Robin:  Well, "Nights on Broadway" --  there's a funny story behind that...
Maurice:  Oh, okay, Robin's got one...
Robin:  And it was called "Lights on Broadway" to begin with and we actually sang it...
(Maurice laughs really hard)
Barry:  Don't start!  (laughing)
Robin: (laughing)  It is so funny!
(Barry chuckles at memory)
Robin:  Anyways -- I digress...
Marilyn:  You did...  (laughing)
Robin:  But it was called "Lights on Broadway" to begin with -- we kept singing "Lights on Broadway," and Robert...  (laughing really hard at this point)
Marilyn:  (trying to coax the story out of him)  Robert Stigwood said?
Barry:  (laughing to Robin)  Go on, you can do it!
Robin:  He said it would sound much better if you...

(Bee Gees are all laughing hard in a fit of uncontrollable giggles)

Robin:  (trying to finish sentence through his laughter)  ...if you didn't say it...
Marilyn:  (teasing threat)  I'll tell you about the Nights on Broadway!
Robin:  He said it would sound much beter if you sang "Nights on Broadway" -- I said, "Why?"  (laughing so hard that he that he can barely speak)  He said (laughing) "I don't know!"

(All three brothers crack up in fits of laughter)
Marilyn:  And with that...
Robin:   But no -- the funny thing was, we were -- every time we kept recording it -- we kept singing (in a fit of giggles-- the others join in now, unable to stop laughing) -- "Lights on Broadway"..
Barry:  (laughing)  Right -- this is true!
Robin:  But the strange thing was -- the funny -- hang on! -- thing was...
Barry:  I started to suggest...
Robin:  This is where it really gets funny!  (laughing)
Marilyn:  (amused)  Maurice is wiping his eyes and he's tearing up now  [with laughter] ...
Robin:  (laughing)  When the record came out, it appeared on billboards (everyone in room is laughing riotously) as "Lights on Broadway" -- and did we laugh!?!  I didn't know when we'd stop!
Marilyn:  You didn't stop!  You know what we're going to do, while they're wiping their eyes because they're crying in laughter (you can hear the brothers laughing and sputtering in background) -- we're going to play "Nights on Broadway."  Music Online with the Bee Gees!
Barry:  (unintelligable)

 

["Nights on Broadway" plays]

Marilyn:  We're with the Bee Gees and -- Robin has now recovered and has remembered something about that story....
Robin:  Yes, well the week that was out (Barry still chuckling in background) we were at the Maple Leaf Gardens [stadium in Toronto] which is now the Air Canada Centre -- is that correct?
Marilyn:  (seems surprised that he knows this)  That's right Robin -- excellent!
Robin:  And we were there -- got a plug in there [scoring points in Marilyn's books for knowing this]
Maurice:  It's a miracle he remembers!
Marilyn:  That's probably where you'll appear next time you're in Toronto...
Robin:  Absolutely, yeah -- and that's where we were when "Nights on Broadway" came out.
Marilyn:  Wow, thats neat!  And the falsetto story, Barry, is when?
Barry:  The -- yeah, "Blaming it all!" (singing it in falsetto) -- that came from the session when Arif Mardin asked one of us if we could scream in anyway at all, and he grabbed me by the...
Maurice:  (joking)  Well, we won't go there!  (someone can be heard laughing in background)
Barry:  (continuing with his last comment)  ...throat -- and -- and said would you try...
Marilyn:  And you gladly did...
Maurice:  You do it!
Robin:  Barry works wonderfully under threat...
Marilyn:  Well, great memories for me, that's for sure.  Well, we're going to take another break -- Music Online with the Bee Gees returns right after this...

[commercial break]

Marilyn:  Alright, the guys are a little bit jet-lagged because you've been in LA for what, a week and a half?
Barry:  Yeah, we jetted in from the west coast...  (small chuckle)
Maurice:  Ohhh!  (seemingly impressed with Barry's comment)  Ohhh!
Marilyn:  Ohhh!  "Jetted in!"  We're really impressed by that!
Robin:  We jetted in from the coast -- can you tell -- I'm sooo excited...  (in a funny voice)
(Marilyn laughs)
Barry:  I'm moving on -- I'm moving on!
Marilyn:  Something's happening tomorrow on CNN -- uh...
Barry:  There is...
Marilyn:  There's a show -- Robin you were telling me...
Robin:  Will be -- there is a -- what is it?  The "Kwango Tango?"  (laughter from his brothers)
Marilyn:  That's Wango Tango...
Robin:  Wango Tango...
Barry:  Come to Wango Tango...
Maurice:  Wango Tango -- no..
Barry:  (completing his last comment)  Come to Wango Tango and get a Mango!
Marilyn:  KISS...
Robin:  Yeah, KISS FM is what? -- the biggest radio station in LA, and they do these shows...
Barry:  Yeah...
Marilyn:  Right...
Robin:  Right, at Dodger Stadium, and we did that on the weekend -- we're also in town -- we did Larry King...
Barry:  Jay Leno...
Robin:  Larry King and Jay Leno..
Barry:  Yeah..
Robin:  We liked Jay -- but yeah, we'll be -- tomorrow, that's where -- we'll be doing a thing on the...
Barry:  But -- I mean -- but are we actually in it?  I didn't know -- are we in it for sure?  (unintelligable)
Robin:  Well, yeah!
Marilyn:  And Larry King is going to -- they're already putting that together right now...
Bee Gees:  Yes...
Marilyn:  So when is that going to air -- Larry King?
Robin:  We hear that's next week.
Maurice:  Yeah.
Robin:  Yeah, for next weekend -- yes...
Marilyn:  Okay, Vince is on the phone -- hello Vince!
Robin:  Hi Vince!
Maurice:  Hi Vince!
Vince:  Hi guys!  How you doing?
Bee Gees:  Good...
Marilyn:  What's your question?
Vince:  Okay, I've got two questions...
Robin:  (joking)  It's not true I tell you!  It's not true! 
Vince:  Two quick questions -- uh, you're talking about Toronto -- you played in Toronto -- do you know what -- is there a date set?
Barry:  Oh no, there's no date set yet -- um, the tour hasn't actually been announced yet, so at some point and time we'll make some sort of grand gesture...  (laughs)
Maurice:  (jokingly)  You know, like, trip over something -- or...
Barry:  (taking off from where Maurice left off)  ...and sort of wave at everyone as though, "We're going on tour!"  (laughs)
Maurice:   Make a splash, sort of thing...
Barry:  (continuing with joke)  This is where I came in!  (laughs)
Robin:  Yeah, we're actually still developing the tour date right now...
Barry:  Yeah, we are coming...
Marilyn:  Okay, what's your second question?
Robin:  It was a two-parter?
Marilyn:  That was a two-parter -- Vince?  Well, we move on to another -- Judy?  Hey Judy!
Judy:  Yes...
Marilyn:  Go ahead...
Robin:  Hey!  Hello!
Judy:  Hi gentlemen, how are you?
Bee Gees:  Good...
Judy:  This is an absolute thrill!
Robin:  Thank you!
Barry:  Oh, thank you!
Judy:  Uh, I saw your biography on A&E...
Bee Gees:  Um hmmm...
Judy:  ...and my question for you is, how would your lives have changed if your father did not take you from Australia to England?
(Barry laughs)
Maurice:  Yeah, well...
Barry:  I thought that you were going to say how would our lives have changed if we had not made the A&E....
Bee Gees:  (unintelligable)
Marilyn:  Would it have changed a lot?
Barry:  Oh radically -- radically!
Robin:  Our father hadn't -- well, I don't know if it would have changed, because we had to go back to England eventually to...
Barry:  (joking)  To apologize...
Robin:  Yes, to apologize!  But, uh, we ended up going back to England anyways in order to become internationally famous, so whether or not -- well we did get great schooling in Australia...
Judy:  Yes -- I'd seen that...
Robin:  It's what we wanted to do -- it was kind of very good for us developing...
Barry:  We're very patriotic to all those places -- I mean, we spent a good nine years in Australia...
Maurice:  But I think Dad's influence particularly on us, was all the professionalism and smiling and...
Barry:  (joking)  I thought it was the stripers and the, ah -- dressing -- the return soldiers club...
Maurice:  (in a slow drawl)  Well that too, yes -- that's true...
Marilyn:  Which brings me to this question: if you didn't end up in music, what would each of you been doing?
Robin:  I would have been a male striper...
Maurice:  Yes, I would have been a neurosurgeon...
Marilyn:  And Barry?
Barry:  Uh, me?  I dont' know -- I ...
Robin:  (joking)  A gynecologist perhaps?
Marilyn:  A flight attendent?
Barry:  I'd like to think that I would be somewhere inside the pyramids...
Maurice:  (joking where Robin left off)  I thought that you'd like to dabble in gynecology?
Barry:  (in on the joke now)  I do...
Marilyn:  Okay, now this question -- out of the three of you, who has the weirdest sense of humour?
Barry:  (without hesitation)  Robin.
Robin:  Me, yes -- what...
Marilyn:  Why did you say Robin?
Barry:  Because it's very bizarre...
Maurice:  Yes...
Barry:  He has a way of perceiving things or seeing things that are actually hysterical to Maurice and me...
Maurice:  Yes...
Barry:  We all share so many different memories that actually things that Robin may say that other people might have no idea what he's talking about -- but Maurice and me do..
Robin:  Yes...
Barry:  (continuing with his comment) ...and it might have been  (Maurice snorts in laughter) from 25 years ago or from 30 years ago...
Robin:  But we also share a common base -- "The Goons" (unintelligable) which is Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan, and Harry Secombe ..
Barry:  Yes -- which used to be on the BBC World Service -- so it was heard in Canada as well, yeah...
Marilyn:  Who's the most serious?
Bee Gees:  (pause)
Barry:  Oh boy!
Robin:  Who, we'd say -- the most serious?
Barry:  Probably, um, its a toss-up between Robin and me.  I think Maurice is good -- Maurice used to be more serious...
Maurice:  Oh, thank you!  (laughing)
Barry:  (continuing)  ...but now he couldn't care less...  (laughing)
Robin:  Maurice, uh...
Bee Gees:  (unintelligable)
Maurice:  See, your life's too short, you know what I mean?  (chuckling)
Robin:  Maurice is probably more passive than, uh, me and Barry...
Maurice:  Yes, I've been known to be called passive...
Barry:  Well, more like "crazed" really...
Maurice:  Yes...
Robin:  Now and again we'll beat Maurice up occassional -- like the [craze]
Maurice:  I like to live on the edge...
Marilyn:  Robin, are you older than Maurice?
Robin:  One hour.
Maurice:  Yes, I...
Marilyn:  Do you ever hold that against him when you know there's a problem?
Robin:  Well, no -- I hold a lot of things against him occasionally...
Maurice:  (continuing)  ...well, actually, I sent him out first to check it out because I wan't sure I wanted to be bothered coming out -- so that's the reason why...
Robin:  Yeah.
Marilyn:  (laughing)  Do you regret coming out?
Maurice:  No, actually.
Barry:  Well no, Robin said, "It's a jungle out here!" -- it's ...
Robin:  "A jungle out here" -- Maurice likes to live on the edge -- sometimes the building...  (they all laugh)
Marilyn:  Who has the most female fans?
Maurice:  (trying to sound smug)  Oh, well, that would be me now, wouldn't it?  (laughter from all)  I don't know!
Marilyn:  I want to say this -- that I looked at some web sites...
Bee Gees:  Yeah...
Robin:  (mock warning)  Steady on!
Marilyn:  You have a lot of web sites ...
Barry:  Yes, see...
Maurice:  She's looking at me, folks...
Marilyn:  I'm telling you, hey...
Maurice:  (unintelligable)  I think it's the rumours...  (in a dramatically funny voice)   -- the tangled webs we weave!  (unintelligable)

Robin:  (in a funny and dramatic voice)  You said it!  You heard it first here!
Marilyn:  What's the one thing about each of you that most irritates your wives?
Barry:  Oh God!
Maurice:  I think just coming home -- (they all start to laugh hard at this point) -- just coming in the door -- "Oh my God, he's home!"
Robin:  (in a hilarious feminine voice)  "Oh, not you again!"
Maurice:  "Put the kettle on!"
Barry:  (laughing hard)  Right! -- right! -- right!
Robin:  (unintelligable)  ...."the table!"  (laughing)
Marilyn:  Do I take that as an answer, or do you think? -- really -- seriously...
Barry:  (serious again)  Try the question again -- let's see what happens.
Maurice:  Yeah, you never know...
Robin:  Yes indeed!
Marilyn:  (very serious)  Barry -- Barry -- Barry: what is the one thing about you...
Barry:  Oh God!
Marilyn:  (continuing with her question)  Barry -- that most irritates your wife?

(Maurice in background desperately tries not to laugh, but fails to stifle his laughter)

Marilyn:  ... in 30 seconds.

Barry:  Phew!  I think -- I think it's the other way around, actually.  I think I'm absolutely perfect!
Maurice and Robin basically agree with what Barry has said) 
Maurice:  (joking)  Look at the way you are dressed...
Barry:  When she [his wife Linda] -- when she gets (as he is interupted by Marilyn) -- Wait a minute!  Wait a minute!
Marilyn:  (teasing)  Well, we've got your wife on the phone...
Barry:  (laughing hard)  Yeah!
Maurice:  He's not finished yet.
Robin:  (teasing)  Have you been trying on her clothes lately?
Barry:  Well, plus -- (unintelligable) -- let's not go there...  (laughing very hard)
Bee Gees:  (unintelligable)
Marilyn:  We're not going to get an answer -- are we going to get an answer from you?  Alright!
Barry:  Yes, it's the other way around -- I'm perfect, and she's always -- leaves the door open first thing in the morning when she gets up, and -- I'm trying to lie in and the light's pouring in on my face and it's just...
Robin:  (in a Three Stooges imitation)  Why I oughta!
Marilyn:  Okay -- Robin?  Can you answer that?
Robin:  Yes, I think it's on my exercise bike at four am in the morning -- not me, her [his wife Dwina] -- um, rather irritating...

(Barry and Maurice try to supress their laughter)
Marilyn:  Okay, what about you, Maurice?
Maurice:  Oh, I've just said mine I think.  (laughing)  I think most irritating thing I...
Marilyn:  Is it the paintball -- is it the paintball?
Maurice:  Oh no, no, no!  She [his wife Yvonne] loves me playing paintball...
Barry:  (unintelligable)
Maurice:  (laughing)  It gets me out of the house...
Marilyn:  (as if to say, "of course, why didn't I think of that?")  It gets you out of the house -- yeah...
Maurice:  So I go and play with the boys...  (laughter in background)
Robin:  (mock warning)  Steady on!
Marilyn:  Maurice by the way is a professional paintball player -- I just want to everybody to know that -- I saw the picture of the team out there...
Maurice:  Yes!  Good team!
Marilyn:  You, ah -- how often do you go out and play paintball?
Robin:  It's his hobby...
Maurice:  I've been playing for about 18 months now, and go out every Sunday...
Barry:  (laughing)  He loves his balls -- he loves his balls!
Maurice:  I love my balls!  I do love playing with my balls!
Robin:  (trying hard not laugh)  Maurice is very serious!
Marilyn:  Who's the best dancer of all three of you?
Maurice:  Me!  (jokingly smug)  Well, no, it's me really... (laughing hard with his brothers)  I have this amazing flying agility!

(Marilyn laughs)
Robin:  Maurice just glides across the floor!
Marilyn:  Maurice -- it's time to go and play some paintball...
Barry:  (unintelligable) 
Maurice:  (continuing on his theme)  I'm like a feather, I am!
Robin:  Maurice is poetry in motion -- he glides across the dance floor.
Maurice:  Oh, it's super!
Robin:  It's marvelous!
Barry:  Dance as you've never danced before!
Marilyn:  Alright.  Do you guys ever get online to chat with your fans on the internet?
Robin:  (not ready to give up the joke)  Dancing fool!  (laughing)
Maurice:  (laughing)  I'm sorry -- I'm still dancing!
Barry:  No -- we were doing (laughs) yes, we were still dancing inside...  (laughs again)
Marilyn:  You're all doing the two-step.  Do you ever go online?
Maurice:  Yes, oh yes...
Barry:  And then we get offline (laughs) -- very quickly!
Marilyn:  Jet lag is hitting.  Why Miami?  Robin? -- why Miami?
Robin:  Well, we first came to Miami because Eric Clapton recorded 461 Ocean Boulevard -- down here and these -- it was a great place to go if you, you know -- you want to spend time casually making an album instead of where it's very cold in the winter -- and you...
Barry:  Different environment.
Robin:  Yeah, different environment.
Barry:  Yeah.
Robin:  And he actually said -- 'cause he -- the 461 is where we actually stayed when we made "Main Course."  (to Marilyn)  Are you listening?  (Barry chuckles) -- okay?
Marilyn:  I am, yeah!  I am.  I'm just looking over there...
Robin:  And you're looking the other way you say...
Marilyn:  I have to look over there -- okay, now I am looking at you.
Robin:  (teasing)  It was intimidating, I'm sorry -- but anyways... 

(Barry and Maurice laugh in background)
Marilyn:  I'm sorry, I don't like to do that to these artists.  I'm sorry -- I didn't mean to do that...
Robin:  That's alright -- that's okay...
Maurice:  (feining boredom)  Who's got the Dominos?
Robin:  I'm okay now, hang on a minute --  (he sniffles as if he was crying -- Maurice or Barry cracks up laughing)  --  we stayed at 461 Ocean Boulevard and that is where, ah...
Barry:  That's where it all began, isn't it?
Robin:  Yeah -- and we recorded at [Criteria] studios -- and "Jive Talkin'" -- "Nights on Broadway" -- and "Fanny"...
Maurice:  (voice still strained with tears of laughter)  Yeah, yeah, yeah, right, right...
Barry:  And one thing led to another....
Robin:  And one thing led to another and, uh, that's why Miami.
Maurice:  Well there you go.
Robin:  Yep.

Marilyn:...I was listening, and I hear you....
Robin:  You were listening -- yep...
Marilyn:  Now my question for you:  what is your favorite Bee Gees song?
Robin:  I've got a few -- um, I've got a few, actually, that [were] bigger in the UK -- that weren't here, and that was "You Win Again" -- that was Number One in the UK -- I just wanted to let you guys know that...
Barry:  Yes -- we like it, like it too!  We like it too!
Maurice:  That was about as subtle as the you-know-what in the spacesuit...  (unintelligable)
Barry:  We want to hear it...
Robin:  Come on down!
Marilyn:  Couple of more there, too?
Barry:  I love the, um, "Heart Like Mine."  I still think it's one of those tracks that have gone by the wayside, but...
Maurice:  Oh yeah!
Robin:  That was one of those tracks that wasn't released as a single...
Barry:  Right, but a girl group -- or a boy group -- or indeed a boy or girl -- or indeed...
Maurice:  Something in between totally -- a gay group -- yes, yes, absolutely...
Barry:  (continuing)  ...could actually cut that song...
Maurice:  Yes...
Barry:  You know, there's stuff all over the place that could be picked up on... 

(PAUSE -- then they burst into laughter)
Robin:  Have you finished?  Have you finished?  (as his brothers continue to giggle)
Marilyn:  That's the end of that answer!
Maurice:  Well, there's a lot of it about...
Marilyn:  Maurice, what's your favourite Bee Gees song?
Maurice:  Um, I would say -- well you see -- you know it's like -- well gosh!
Barry:  (teasing)  What's your favourite!  Just, what's your favourite, for God's sake!
Maurice:  Well, you know -- like, I mean -- it's so many!
Barry:  (teasing)  You don't know -- so you don't know!  I'll tell you what it is...
Maurice:  No -- they're like our kids, it's hard to differ...
Bee Gees: (talking together -- unintelligable)
Maurice:  Well, okay -- I'll go the other way...
Robin:  (impatient for an answer from Maurice)  What's your favourite Bee Gees song!?
Maurice:  I think it's "How Deep is Your Love"...
Marilyn:  Do you like "How Deep is Your Love"?
Bee Gees:  (unintelligable)
Maurice:  I love "How Deep is Your Love;" I think it was one of the best -- uh, one of the most beautifully-crafted records we've ever made....
Barry:  Yeah, it's a great song....
Maurice:  I love it, yeah...
Marilyn:  We love it too -- we're going to listen to it right now...
Barry:  Okay!
Maurice:  And that wasn't even rehearsed!
Marilyn:  Music Online with the Bee Gees.

["How Deep is Your Love" plays]

Maurice:  (unintelligable)
Marilyn:  Well, I have to say -- the best dancer of the group is Barry...
Barry:  Thank you...
Marilyn:  That was really a nice slow dance...
Maurice:  Oh, come on!
Barry:  Yes, it's a pity I had to dance alone...
Marilyn:  (laughing)  Well, you looked good up there....
Robin:  (in an exaggerated voice)  Barry's one of the world's greatest lovers -- he knows!  He taught himself!
Marilyn:  "How Deep is Your Love" with the Bee Gees -- you're listening to Music Online with the Bee Gees -- we'll be back after this..
Robin:  (unintelligable)

[commercial break]

Marilyn:  Hello Nina from Toronto!  You've got a question for the Bee Gees -- go ahead.  Hi, Nina?
Nina:  Hi...
Marilyn:  What's your question?
Bee Gees:  Hi Nina...
Nina:  My question is, uh -- actually, what I wanted to tell Barry, Robin, and Maurice...
Marilyn:  Yes?
Bee Gees:  Right, um hmm...
Nina:  ...is that I saw their brother Andy performing in, um, in the New York hotel...
Barry:  Yes -- yes..
Nina:  (continuing with her comment)  ...and, uh, I also saw him playing "Pirates of Penzance" in Toronto...
Bee Gees:  Oh yes...
Barry:  Excellent...
Nina:  And I named my son after him -- and...
Bee Gees:  (appreciatively)  Oh!
Nina:  (continuing)  ...and he's 13 years old this week, and um -- I'm so thrilled to talk to you guys!!!
Bee Gees:  Thank you!  That's great, thats great!
Maurice:  You're very sweet -- thank you luv...
Robin:  Thank you for calling.
Nina:  I just wanted to tell you my favourite song is, um, "Angela"...
Bee Gees:  Oh -- yes!
Nina:  (continuing)  ...from the "Spirits Having Flown" album...
Robin:  No, no -- it's on ESP.
Nina:  ESP?  Sorry!  (laughs with embarrassment)
Maurice:  (in a very friendly voice)  That's alright -- that's quite alright!
Nina:  I'm just rambling...
Robin:  Thats okay -- so are we!
Nina:  I think I'm the biggest fan in the whole wide world -- okay?
Bee Gees:  (unintelligable)
Nina:  (her husband now on the phone?)  You guys, I'm going to tell you why...  (the call gets cut off)
Robin:  Thanks for calling...
Marilyn:  Can we talk a little bit about Andy and, uh, thoughts about him today -- or anything you want to share -- because I certainly got a lot of e-mails back in Toronto and from all over the world about Andy and...
Barry:  Um hmmm -- um hmmm...
Marilyn:  (continuing)  ...and all -- they just remember him so fondly...
Maurice:  (joking in a conspiratorial whisper)  Don't move -- he's standing right over there.... (more seriously then)  We always believe he is with us.
Marilyn:  He's with you wherever you go...
Bee Gees:  (unintelligable)
Barry:  I think it's really nice -- I think it's really nice that even Andy's -- that, uh, his music gets remembered and yes, it was a profound shock to all of us when we lost him -- uh, more so for our parents than it was for us -- although it was bad for us -- we can't imagine what our parents felt like.  Yeah, he lived with us, and it's nice that fans of -- have really stayed with him and supported him -- supported the music that he made and, um, I feel that there will be more records coming out from Andy, from the record company, um -- in the near future.  I hope so, anyways...
Marilyn:  You know, I read on your web site August 2001 they were saying that there's a greatest hits compilation that re-technical...
Barry:  Yeah -- something's going on, yeah...
Marilyn:  Digitalized and things like that...
Barry:  Yeah -- I don't know...
Maurice:  Actually I went to see Andy and my dad in LA 'cause thats where they're buried -- and, uh, it was really lovely getting there and seeing all the fans putting flowers there -- that was really sweet.  So I just wanted to acknowledge those fan that were there -- that was really very nice.
Marilyn:  That's really nice -- that's really great.  Joanne's on the line...
Robin:  (joking to Maurice)  You saw Ricky Nelson while you were there?
Maurice:  (laughter from all brothers)  No, Ricky wasn't there...
Marilyn:  Well, we loved Andy's music, that's for sure!  Joanne?  Hello!
Joanne:  Hi, how are ya?
Marilyn:  Great!
Maurice:  Hello, Joanne!
Marilyn:  What's your question?
Joanne:  Well, its not really a question.  I just wanted to tell the guys about their new CD -- if it's possible to get word out -- I have...
Barry:  Wow!
Bee Gees:  Thank you...
Barry:  Thank you!
Joanne:  I have had it on all the time, I barely turn it off to come in to do anything in the house -- or to go to work...
Barry:  Wow!  That's fantastic...
Maurice:  (joking)  Oh, so you're the one!  We've been looking for you!

(Barry chuckles)
Joanne:  Well, I'm right here in Toronto...
Robin:  Thank you...
Joanne:  (continuing with her comment)  ...and if you can manage to come to Toronto next month it is my birthday and anniversary...
Barry:  Oh!  (laughs)
Marilyn:  (teasingly)  Did you guys write that all down?
Maurice:  (joking in a friendly way)  Yes, I'm writing it in my palm...
(Barry laughs)
Marilyn:  You have to know that people are asking -- they want you guys to go on tour...
Maurice:  Yes.
Marilyn:  And I want to ask Barry very quickly before we go to break -- is that, um -- I saw in one of the interviews you had trouble with your back and...
Barry:  No, not really, actually I feel great...
Marilyn:  Is that why you haven't toured for a while?
Barry:  No, I had an episode...
Maurice:  (joking)  Oh, just because he's lying on this gurney -- I mean don't take any notice of that.

(Robin and Barry start to laugh)
Barry:  (getting in on the joke)  Just because I'm hanging upside down by my ankles...
Marilyn:  I didn't want to draw attention!
Barry:  Just because I'm hanging upside down in these ankle bracelets doesn't mean a thing!  (chuckles)
Marilyn:  How is your back, Barry?  Is it okay?
Barry:  It's not my back, no, I had back surgery, so my back's terrific.  I -- you know -- I'm fine.  I get a little, um, joint pain, but you know, it's -- I feel great!
Marilyn:  Everybody else in good health -- yeah?
Barry:  We're all in good health -- thank God!
Maurice:  (joking)  Just a moment...  (sound like a cork being popped from a bottle)

(Barry laughs)
Marilyn:  Okay, so there's no excuse -- you have to tour -- yeah.
Robin:  Absolutely!
(Barry laughs)
Marilyn:  We look forward to that.  We're going to have to take another quick break...
Barry:  Just one minute!  I...
Maurice:  Don't know Canada...  (meaning unclear)
Marilyn:  (with a laugh in her voice)  Music Online with the Bee Gees -- more after this.
Robin:  I think we... (goes to commercial before we can hear his comment)

 

[commercial break]

Marilyn:..Alright guys, we've got Gary on the line -- hello Gary!  Gary!
Bee Gees:  Okay Gary!  Gary!
Gary:  Can you hear me now?
Maurice:  Oh, there you are!
Marilyn:  We can hear you now -- there, you go, go ahead...
Gary:  I'm on the cell, and my wife is driving, and we'd like to know how it is you guys can hit those falsetto notes...
Barry:  Well, it...  (laughing)
Maurice:  Um -- yes...
Barry:  Well, it's Barry -- Barry does that.  Robin used to do it with Barry, but he doesn't do it as much anymore...
Maurice:  (joking)  I don't kick him as much as I used to...

(Barry laughs, as does Gary)
Barry:  But, yeah -- we -- yeah, "How do we do it?"  I don't know!
Maurice:  (with an adorable and wild laugh)  We answered that well, didn't we!
Barry:  (joking along with Maurice)  Can't answer that question, sir -- watch the road!
Robin:  (in a comical news reporter's voice)  Concentrate on your driving sir!

(Marilyn starts to laugh very hard)
Maurice:  (jokingly, still trying to answer the question)  I think its the 'mega men" minerals, I think...
Robin:  Watch the road!
Marilyn:  We're going to switch gears really quickly -- because we're going to ask you about your kids.  Am I right, collectively -- that collectively that you have 10 kids?
Bee Gees:  Well -- well yes -- you mean...
Maurice:  (joking)  See, we can't count -- I can't count either -- can't read or count...
Barry:  Well, yeah -- I have Steven -- uh, I have five -- four boys and a girl: Steven, Ashley, Michael, Travis, and my, uh -- a nine-year-old, Alexandra -- so I've got five.
Marilyn:  And isn't Ashley in this album as an engineer?  Right?
Barry:  Yes, he's working along with John Merchant.  Yes -- doing great...
Marilyn:  And, uh -- one of your other sons is in a band?
Barry:  Uh, Steven -- Steven is in transition.  Let's say he's "in transition" -- he is going from one band to another...
Maurice:  (laughing)  Ah, great band!
Marilyn:  (laughing)  That would be a transition.  Robin -- what about your kids?
Robin:  I've got a -- Spencer, he lives in Austin, and he's got a band out there -- and I've got a son here, Robin John, and he's got a band here -- he's working with and producing, and uh, I've got a daughter in London, who's not in music...
Marilyn:  What are the bands' names?
Robin:  (not sounding too sure)  Fif -- I think, uh-- 52 Seconds is the one that, uh -- something like that, I'm not sure, that Spencer has, but they haven't got a band [name] for the one in Miami...
Marilyn:  And what about you, Maurice?
Maurice:  Yes, I have two children, Adam who's 25, and my daughter -- Sam who will be 21 in July 2nd -- and she has a band called Scylla, and writes songs with her brother -- and the lead guitarist is her boyfriend.  And we've cut eight tracks with them, and they're doing really well right now -- we just finished a CD, and we've got three more to cut and that will be the end of the CD...
Marilyn:  And the tradition continues!  That's great -- you guys are doing great!
Maurice:  (joking)  Yes, I get to keep the car!

(Barry laughs)
Marilyn:  And we've got Marilla on the phone -- hey Marilla!  Marilla?
Marilla:  Hi there...
Maurice:  M-a-r-i-l-l-a  (long drawn out tone)
Marilla:  Hi from Toronto -- hi Barry, Robin, and Maurice...
Bee Gees:  Hi there -- hi...
Marilla:  Um, we love your CD.  My kids and I can't get enough of listening of it...
Barry:  Wow!  Thank you very much!
Marilla:  Um, actually we were down in Florida, we drove all the way from Toronto to Miami in March...
Maurice:  Whoo!
Marilla:  (continuing)  ...and unfortunately...
Maurice:  (teasingly)  You just got here?
Marilla:  (continuing)  ...no one was home...
Barry:  Yes, we were away -- sorry about that!
Marilla:  No, that's okay!
Barry:  If you had just let us know -- we just -- give us...  (unintelligable)
Marilyn:  What's your question?
Marilla:  Um, question for you -- your new CD is fantastic...
Barry:  Thank you...
Marilla:  The one "original" -- "new," I guess, kind of tune -- "Technicolour Dreams" -- what made you throw something like that in?  It's really catchy but...
Barry:  We were trying to -- sort of be influenced by about 60 or 70 years of popular music, so it was -- basically that was where we were coming from, we were all trying something different...
Robin:  Old "music hall" -- you know...
Barry:  Yes, so it came from music hall -- it came from the beginning of popular music, so I didn't feel that -- I didn't feel any reason why it couldn't be on there.  We were all doing something "experimentally" and I happen to like that particular kind of music.  I like Noel Coward and, um -- don't forget Paul MCartney -- he did it with "When I'm Sixty-Four" -- so I knew that it wasn't out of the question.  I knew that you could do something like that and people would like it -- so I did it, you know...
Maurice:  I think it's great to do albums like that...
Barry:  Yeah...
Maurice:  You put what -- what you really love -- and hopefully people will love too without having to stick to any kind of formula...
Barry:  Right...
Marilyn:  It was a nice surprise!
Barry:  It surprised me!
Marilyn:  No, I like it -- I liked a lot!
Maurice:  Every chunk on this album is different from the last -- everything is so different then the other one...
Barry:  (still talking about "Technicolour Dreams")  It's really about a manager and an artist -- that's what the song is about...
Maurice:  Yeah..
Marilyn:  Um hmm, um hmm.   Robin's on the phone -- hello Rob!
Rob:  Hello Marilyn...
Robin:  Hi Rob...
Rob:  My question -- I just wanted to know -- I love you guys, you're the greatest!
Bee Gees:  Thank you Rob!
Rob:  And I want to ask Barry...
Barry:  Uh huh...
Maurice:  Oh!  Sorry luv!  (unclear to whom this comment is directed)
Rob:  I play guitar and I always watch you play guitar, and that -- you play like, an open east style -- where did you get that from?
Barry:  That's right!  It's -- it's Hawaiian tuning -- the people are just starting to understand now.  I learned about it when I was nine years old -- and it was, uh, taught to me by an American serviceman...
Robin:  (teasingly to Barry)  Careful!
Barry:  (chuckling)  ...who was...  (laughing)
Maurice:  Yes!
Robin:  When he was knee-high to a jock stap!
Maurice:  Yes...
Barry:  Yes -- (continuing) who taught me the basic cords of the open tuning which is used in Hawaii today.  I think it comes from Spain originally...
Maurice:  Yes, it's actually an open D...
Barry:  Yeah...
Robin:  (in a funny voice to Barry)  It was a flamenco dancer, wasn't it!?!?
Barry:  Yes, he was playing "Flamink"[?] the whole time!  (laughter around the room)
Robin:  (painting the scene as a comedic epic of some kind)  He was winding his way through the hills of Manchester when...  (laughter around the room)
Barry:  You can play "Flamink!"[?]  (picking up where Robin left off)  ...suddenly without warning...
Robin:  (continuing the story)  ...it was early in the morning on the Pennines when...

Marilyn:  "Déjà Vu"...
Robin:  (not ready to leave the topic just yet )  A big dancer!  (unintelligable) -- he did a belly dance!
Marilyn:  Robin -- Robin...

(Barry laughs)

Robin:  Sorry, yes?

Marilyn:  What about "Déjà Vu?"  That's a great song too from the album...

Barry:  Yes it is...
Maurice:  Oh yes, you can say that again...
Robin:  This is one of the songs that we did alone -- well, I did alone, and I -- I did my -- I did a few songs in London with Pete Vettesse and, um, the other one was "Embrace" -- uh, "Déjà Vu" and "Embrace"...
Marilyn:  Well, we're going to listen to it right now.  This is "Déjà Vu" -- Music Online with the Bee Gees -- we're going to take a short break, we will be back right after this...

["Déjà Vu" plays]

 

Marilyn:  The Bee Gees are right here and we only have a couple minutes to take Tami's call from Aztec, New Mexico.

Maurice:  Tami, how are you?

Tami:  Oh, wonderful!
Marilyn:  Hey Tami, go ahead.
Tami:  Hi, I'm wonderful, I cannot believe I got through.  I love each and every one of you, but Barry, you're the man!!!

Barry:  Oh, come on!
Maurice:  Oh, you should see him in his dress!

Barry:  You should see me first thing in the morning!

Tami:  Hey, I did.  I went to Wango Tango, and then I begged for tickets to the Leno show outside for eight hours!
Barry:  Oooh!

Maurice:  You're the one!

Tami:  And I got in there and seen you so...

Marilyn:  (cutting her off)  So you got safely home, Tami?

(Barry laughs)

Tami:  We want -- okay, first of all, all the girls at Rings Around the Moon want to say, "Hi"...

A Bee Gee:  Ahhh!

Tami:  Their question -- they want to know what your inspiration was for the song "She Keeps on Coming."
Maurice:  Ooh baby![?]

Barry:  I was driving down...  (laughing)

Maurice:  Yes!  (laughing)

Barry:  I was driving down, down 5th off Washington on South Beach and there was all these skaters, girls on skates, coming at the car.  And as they come at the car they sort of go around the car as you're driving...

Maurice:  You ran over them...

Barry:  No, and they come in a bunch you know...

Maurice:  Yeah but they're all called...  (unintelligible)

Barry:  (in a cute teasing/crying kind of voice)  I'm trying to explain, I'm trying so hard and I can't.
Maurice:  It won't work.  (pauses)  Go on then.

Barry:  And they wave like willows when they go on their way on skates...
Maurice:  They wave like what?

Robin:  (in a comical voice)  Well what's this got to do with the song?
Barry:  (laughing)  I just thought, "she keeps on coming," you know?
Maurice:  They wave like what?!?
Marilyn:  (trying her best to remain professional)  That's the second cut on the album...
Maurice:  Willows?  Willows?  Who says willows?
Marilyn:   Okay, listen guys...

Barry:  (as Marilyn is trying to talk)  Yeah, I was passing, yeah...

Marilyn:  ...we've got a little something (Bee Gees continue mumbling in background) -- we've gotta end that story, 'cause I've got something to tell you.
Bee Gees:  Yeah -- what's that?

Marilyn:  We're running out of time...
A Bee Gee:  Ahh!

Marilyn:  We love you very much, you have to tour, we've already mentioned that...
Barry:  (in a quiet tone)  Thank you.
Maurice:  Well, put some more money in the meter!  (laughing)
Marilyn:  We've got -- I would love to! -- we've got a little surprise for you right now. Something for your walls, as if they don't have enough awards on it.
Bee Gees:  WOW!!
Maurice:  Paint.
Barry:  Paint?  (chuckling)

Marilyn:  On behalf of Universal Music Canada, we would like to present you with this plaque...
Bee Gees:  Oh beautiful -- oh God!

Marilyn:  (continuing)  ...which signifies that the latest album from the Bee Gees, "This Is Where I Came In," has been certified GOLD in Canada.
Bee Gees:  Oh, thank you.  That's very nice, thanks!

Maurice:  Gosh!

Robin:  (in a comical news reporter's voice)  For those of you at home that can't see it, it's an amazing scene here tonight -- four gentlemen just came in with a plaque...

Marilyn:  Is it heavy?  Is it heavy?  Congratulations!

Maurice:  (unintelligible mumble)

Robin: (continuing in his comical tone)  It's a marvellous scene, everybody's in tuxedos.  I can't, I can't really paint the picture.  (Marilyn is laughing).  I want to thank my mother.  I 'd like to thank my mother, my father...

Maurice:  Remember where we parked the car...

Robin:  Marvellous!

Marilyn:  Do you still get thrilled when you get awards like that?
Barry:  Yeah!
Marilyn:  That's really great, congratulations!

Barry:  It's always a thrill...

Maurice:  That IS nice, lovely...

Bee Gees:  (all talking at once)  Great, thanks, it's lovely!

Maurice:  It's a lovely tall award with a lovely Canadian flag in the corner.  It's gorgeous!
Barry:  (agreeing)  Oh yeah!

Maurice:  Thank you very much.

Robin:  Thank you everybody.
Marilyn:  It's our pleasure!

Robin:  And thank you for a wonderful interview -- it was really, really nice.

Barry and Maurice:  Yes, yes.

Marilyn:  Well thank you so much.  You guys were -- FUN!  (all the guys laugh)  Interesting!
Robin:  We try to be fun...

Marilyn:  I'm so glad I've had therapy myself, I was able to handle...

Maurice:  (picking up on Robin's comment)  Fun but firm!

Marilyn:  Yeah, fun but firm...  (bursts out laughing)

Bee Gees:  (all talking at once)  ...audacious, gregarious, all those other...
Maurice:  All right chaps, put your trousers back on.

Marilyn:  You know what?  Maybe in the future, if you have time, you'll do this again with us?
Barry:  We'd love to.

Marilyn:  But on behalf of all the stations across Canada, Canada loves the Bee Gees.
Barry:  And we love Canada.

Marilyn:  Thank you so much, and we hope to hear some more news about tour dates.
Barry:  Oh, we'll be there -- yeah, we'll be there at some point, we promise that.
Marilyn:  Alright, big fans.  Thank you!

Bee Gees:  Thank you, thank you, Marilyn.
Marilyn:  Barry, Robin, Maurice...

Bee Gees:  Thank you!

Marilyn:  Alright...
Maurice:  Good night, Canada!

Marilyn:  I'm Marilyn Denis, that was Music Online, thanks so much for your calls and e-mails.
Bee Gees:  (kidding around as music plays to end show)  This [vicar] had a lovenest.  I don't think she's coming back.  I'm telling you...

 

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This has been a special presentation of Music Online with Marilyn Denis

 

Transcribed by TMPBGS and Travolta & posted on the Bee Gees Online Fan Club bulletin board at http://boards.beegeesonline.com/

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