Sunday, May 20, 2012
Robin Gibb, R. I. P.
Music News | Rolling Stone: Gibb was born in Manchester, England, in 1949, along with twin brother Maurice. (Maurice died in 2003 of complications from a twisted intestine; eerily, Robin had surgery for the same medical issue in 2010.) Along with their older brother Barry, the brothers began harmonizing as a trio in Australia, where the family moved in 1958. Although the Bee Gees had some success in Australia – they hosted a weekly variety show there – they didn't truly arrive until they returned to England and signed with manager Robert Stigwood. Robin's quivering, vulnerable voice was featured prominently on several of the group's earliest and most Beatles-eque hits, including "New York Mining Disaster 1941," "I Started a Joke," "Massachusetts," and "I've Gotta Get a Message to You."
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Amazon.com: The Twisted Ones eBook: Vin Packer: Kindle Store: WHY DID THEY KILL?
These were nice kids, model kids. They didn’t wear leather jackets and roam the streets in “wolf packs”; they didn’t steal and mug for dope. For kids, they were well mannered and quiet. They were attractive and nicely dressed. You’d have welcomed them as next-door neighbors.
Yet...
one raped
one murdered
one killed by fire
What got into them? What dark thoughts tormented them when they were alone at night?
These were nice kids, model kids. They didn’t wear leather jackets and roam the streets in “wolf packs”; they didn’t steal and mug for dope. For kids, they were well mannered and quiet. They were attractive and nicely dressed. You’d have welcomed them as next-door neighbors.Yet...
one raped
one murdered
one killed by fire
What got into them? What dark thoughts tormented them when they were alone at night?
What's Baffling? He Was on Her Lawn!
Mail Online: Why did she do it? Grandmother, 74, 'shoots teenage grandson dead' on lawn of her upmarket home in killing that has left police baffled
Hat tip to Jeff Meyerson.
Hat tip to Jeff Meyerson.
Edmund Cooper & Roger Lancelyn Green, Double Phoenix, Ballantine, 1971Will the Persecution Never End?
Mail Online: Hang on, she's not a movie star! Paris Hilton enjoys being mobbed by fans in Cannes (despite having only reality shows to her name)
Hat tip to Jeff Meyerson.
Hat tip to Jeff Meyerson.
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