Editing Maurice Gibb (section)

== 1958–2003: Bee Gees ==
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=== 1958–1969:  a trio to a quintet, Robin's absence and temporary breakup ===
When Gibb was eight years old, he emigrated to [[Redcliffe, Queensland|Redcliffe]], in [[Queensland]], Australia, with his family. Shortly afterward, he and his brothers formed the [[Bee Gees]]. By January 1963, the Gibbs moved to Sydney. The group's first single was "[[The Battle of the Blue and the Grey]]" but it failed to chart. Around 1963, the Gibb brothers worked with Judy Stone, Johnny Devlin and Jimmy Hannan. By 1964, Gibb made his first appearance as an instrumentalist on the beat-influenced "[[Claustrophobia (song)|Claustrophobia]]". Also in 1964, the Gibb brothers worked with Johnny Devlin and [[Trevor Gordon]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.columbia.edu/~brennan/beegees/64.html |title=Gibb Songs: 1964 |last=Brennan |first=Joseph |access-date=11 January 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230203140143/http://www.columbia.edu/~brennan/beegees/64.html |archive-date=3 February 2023 |url-status=live }}</ref> Around 1965, the Gibb brothers worked with Trevor Gordon, Michelle Rae and [[Noeleen Batley]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.columbia.edu/~brennan/beegees/65.html |title=Gibb Songs: 1965 |last=Brennan |first=Joseph |access-date=11 January 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230203140149/http://www.columbia.edu/~brennan/beegees/63.html |archive-date=3 February 2023 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://anguskidman.show/2023/08/22/bee-gees-michelle-rae/ |title=Whatever happened to Michelle Rae?  |date=August 22, 2023 |access-date=August 23, 2023 }}</ref>
[[File:Bee Gees in 1967.jpg|thumb|Gibb (second from left) with the Bee Gees in 1967, when the band was a quintet]]
In 1966, the three Gibb brothers wrote their first song, "The Storm". Also that year, Gibb began his career as the guitarist and bassist for the band; at around the same time he recorded his first solo song, "[[All by Myself (Bee Gees song)|All by Myself]]", on which he also played guitar. Around 1966, the Gibb brothers worked with Bip Addison, Sandy Summers, Anne Shelton, [[Vince Melouney]], April Bryon, [[MPD Ltd]], Ray Brown and the Whispers, [[Ronnie Burns (singer)|Ronnie Burns]], [[Lori Balmer]], Marty Rhone, Vyt, Python Lee Jackson, Dennis Knight, Barrington Davis, Jenene and Jon Blanchfield. Their second album, ''[[Spicks and Specks (album)|Spicks and Specks]]'' (1966), included "[[Where Are You (Bee Gees song)|Where Are You]]", Gibb's first solo writing credit to be released.<ref name="released">{{cite web |url=http://www.columbia.edu/~brennan/beegees/66.html |title=Gibb Songs: 1966 |last=Brennan |first=Joseph |access-date=11 January 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230203140144/http://www.columbia.edu/~brennan/beegees/66.html |archive-date=3 February 2023 |url-status=live }}</ref>
{{quote box|quote="Maurice is closer to my attitudes and ideas. He has the same kind of humour as I have. We have other common interests like playing chess. He's the kind of guy who will come over and give you a hand washing the car."<ref name="around" /> |source=—[[Colin Petersen]], drummer for the Bee Gees on telling his band mates' personalities |width=25%|align=left|style=padding:8px;}}
In March 1967, the Gibb brothers worked with [[Billy J. Kramer]] recording "[[Town of Tuxley Toymaker, Part 1]]". Around the same time, Colin Petersen and Vince Melouney joined the Bee Gees. In the middle of 1967 ''[[Bee Gees' 1st]]'' was released. The album was praised by the critics who compared it to [[the Beatles]]' ''[[Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band]]'' which was released weeks earlier.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.columbia.edu/~brennan/beegees/67.html |title=Gibb Songs: 1967 |last=Brennan |first=Joseph |access-date=11 January 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230203140150/http://www.columbia.edu/~brennan/beegees/67.htm |archive-date=3 February 2023 |url-status=live }}</ref> [[AllMusic]]'s Bruce Eder wrote that Gibb's [[Mellotron]] on "[[Every Christian Lion Hearted Man Will Show You]]" 'was close in the spirit of [[the Moody Blues]] and was opened by a Gregorian chant.'<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/bee-gees-1st-mw0000198604 |title=Bee Gees – Bee Gees' 1st |last=Eder |first=Bruce |website=[[AllMusic]] |access-date=11 January 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230228131431/https://www.allmusic.com/album/bee-gees-1st-mw0000198604 |archive-date=28 February 2023 |url-status=live }}</ref> The band's first number 1 single in the UK, "[[Massachusetts (Bee Gees song)|Massachusetts]]" was released in September 1967. In early 1968, the ''[[Horizontal (album)|Horizontal]]'' was released. In August 1968, [[The Marbles (duo)|the Marbles]] released their first and only successful hit "[[Only One Woman]]" a song co-written by Gibb. In the middle of 1968, the band's third international LP ''[[Idea (album)|Idea]]'' included the song "[[Kitty Can]]", which features Gibb's high harmony vocal, with Barry Gibb singing low harmony.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.columbia.edu/~brennan/beegees/68.html |title=Gibb Songs: 1968 |last=Brennan |first=Joseph |access-date=11 January 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230301032726/https://www.columbia.edu/~brennan/beegees/68.html |archive-date=1 March 2023 |url-status=live }}</ref> In early 1969, they released ''[[Odessa (Bee Gees album)|Odessa]]'', which features Gibb's solo vocals on "[[Suddenly (Bee Gees song)|Suddenly]]" and "[[I Laugh in Your Face]]". On 19 March 1969, the same day that Robin Gibb announced his plans as a solo artist, Gibb and his bandmates recorded and later released "[[Tomorrow Tomorrow (Bee Gees song)|Tomorrow Tomorrow]]".<ref name="album" />

Maurice and Barry alone comprised the Bee Gees on the 1969 album ''[[Cucumber Castle]]'' during Robin's absence as a soloist. They sang the hit "[[Don't Forget to Remember]]" (which reached number two on the UK chart while Robin's first solo single, "Saved by the Bell", also reached number two) and follow up singles; "IOIO" and "Tomorrow, Tomorrow" with Barry taking lead and Maurice providing harmony vocals, but the duo version of the group enjoyed dwindling success. A [[supergroup (music)|supergroup]] in 1969 called [[the Fut]] was formed at a [[Tin Tin (band)|Tin Tin]] session and they recorded "[[Have You Heard the Word]]" while Gibb was still a Bee Gee, and released later as a single, the band consisting of Gibb on vocals/bass/guitar, [[Steve Kipner]] and Steve Groves on vocals with Billy Lawrie also providing background vocals. "[[Have You Heard the Word]]" features Gibb impersonating [[John Lennon]], and Beatles fans thought that it was a lost Beatles song which had not been previously released. In 1985, [[Yoko Ono]] attempted to register the song as a Lennon composition.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2008/01/bee-gee-and-pal.html |title=Fake Beatles No. 1: A Blotto Bee Gee and His Pals Around with the Fab Four |date=17 January 2008 |publisher=WFMU'S BEWARE of the BLOG |access-date=16 January 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230223135410/https://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2008/01/bee-gee-and-pal.html |archive-date=23 February 2023 |url-status=live }}</ref>

On 1 December 1969, Maurice and brother Barry announced to the world that the Bee Gees had broken up.<ref>{{cite book |last=Sandoval |first=Andrew |title=The Day-By-Day Story, 1945–1972 |year=2012 |publisher=Retrofuture Day-By-Day |isbn=978-0-943249-08-7 |pages=102–115 |edition=1st |type=Paperback}}</ref>

=== 1970–1979: first solo project and Bee Gees' reunion ===
{{quote box|quote=I suppose it was a good thing to get it out of my system, but at the same time, I never thought we would never sing together again. I started off intending to make go of it, but I soon found something was missing. I'd write songs and want desperately to play them to my brothers, but because of all the squabbles, I didn't feel I could. Then our record company unintentionally seemed to be trying to sabotage our solo careers. Distribution problems hit my solo single, ['Railroad'] Barry's first single, ['[[I'll Kiss Your Memory]]'] and Robin's second single ['[[One Million Years]]'] |source=—Gibb, on telling his first experience as a solo artist<ref name="around" /> |width=25%|align=right|style=padding:8px;}}
[[File:Maurice Gibb (Bee Gees) - TopPop 1973 (cropped).png|thumb|left|Gibb on [[TopPop]] in 1973.]]
In April 1970 Gibb released his first solo single, "[[Railroad (song)|Railroad]]" backed with "I've Come Back". His debut solo album, ''[[The Loner (Maurice Gibb album)|The Loner]]'', has not yet been released. All of the songs on the album feature guitar work by [[Stone the Crows]]' [[Leslie Harvey]]. In May 1970 the album ''Sing a Rude Song'' was released in the UK with Gibb singing lead vocals on the three songs on the album. By 1976, New Blood Records issued ''Bee Gees Information'' which was credited to Gibb and features four songs from ''The Loner'', but was only a limited edition for fan club, although the EP has no title but the picture sleeve of that has the club name ("Bee Gees Information") in large letters.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.columbia.edu/~brennan/beegees/76.html |title=Gibb Songs: 1976 |last=Brennan |first=Joseph |access-date=6 February 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230203140148/http://www.columbia.edu/~brennan/beegees/76.html |archive-date=3 February 2023 |url-status=live }}</ref> In 1970, he formed a [[Supergroup (music)|supergroup]] [[the Bloomfields]] with Billy Lawrie and they recorded a short version of "[[The Loner (Maurice Gibb song)|The Loner]]", which was released as a single in 1972 on [[Pye Records]] and intended for the film ''[[Bloomfield (film)|Bloomfield]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.columbia.edu/~brennan/beegees/70.html |title=Gibb Songs: 1970 |last=Brennan |first=Joseph |access-date=11 January 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230227151517/http://www.columbia.edu/~brennan/beegees/70.html |archive-date=27 February 2023 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.discogs.com/Bloom-Fields-The-Heads-Hands-Feet-The-Loner-Homing-In-On-The-Next-Trade-Wind/release/6146228 |title=The Bloomfields – The Loner |year=1972 |publisher=discogs |access-date=10 February 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230311113334/https://www.discogs.com/release/6146228-The-Bloom-Fields-Heads-Hands-Feet-The-Loner-Homing-In-On-The-Next-Trade-Wind |archive-date=11 March 2023 |url-status=live }}</ref>

The Bee Gees reunited on 21 August 1970. Maurice later began taking a few lead vocals on a Bee Gees tracks in the 70s such as "Lay It on Me", "Country Woman", "On Time" and "You Know It's For You".

=== 1980–2003: continuous solo works and later years ===
In 1981, he recorded some instrumental tracks for his unreleased instrumental album ''Strings and Things'', including "Image of Samantha", which seems refer to his daughter Samantha.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.columbia.edu/~brennan/beegees/81.html |title=Gibb Songs: 1981 |last=Brennan |first=Joseph |access-date=16 January 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230203140213/http://www.columbia.edu/~brennan/beegees/81.html |archive-date=3 February 2023 |url-status=live }}</ref>

In 1982, Gibb appeared at the San Remo Festival and performed "Wildflower", a Bee Gees' song on which he provided lead vocals from ''[[Living Eyes (Bee Gees album)|Living Eyes]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VO2RiT8alrA | archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211030/VO2RiT8alrA| archive-date=30 October 2021|title=Bee Gees (ultra rare) San Remo festival 1982. Maurice Gibb |via=YouTube |access-date=21 December 2014}}{{cbignore}}</ref> In 1983, Gibb re-recorded "On Time" at the same time as "[[Hold Her in Your Hand]]". By February 1984, he collaborated with arranger [[Jimmie Haskell]] for the [[A Breed Apart (soundtrack)|film soundtrack]] of ''[[A Breed Apart]]'', recorded at Gold Star Studios in Los Angeles. By March, he recorded "Miami, A Musical Score", this song was later used for a promotional film in Miami. His second single "Hold Her in Your Hand" was only issued in UK, Australia and South Africa.<ref name="both" /> In September 1986, the Bee Gees began writing and recording songs for their upcoming album ''[[E.S.P. (Bee Gees album)|ESP]]''.<ref name="Brennan">{{cite web|url=http://www.columbia.edu/~brennan/beegees/86.html |title=Gibb Songs: 1986 |last=Brennan |first=Joseph |access-date=18 February 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230203140159/http://www.columbia.edu/~brennan/beegees/86.html |archive-date=3 February 2023 |url-status=live }}</ref> on which Maurice took lead vocal on the song "Overnight".

Gibb wrote and recorded the instrumental "The Supernaturals" in July 1985; it was later dubbed on the film of the same name, and he also appeared on the film doing a cameo appearance.<ref name="track" /> On 24 April 2001, The Bee Gees released their 23rd and final studio album, ''[[This Is Where I Came In]]'', which included his songs, "Walking on Air" and "Man in the Middle".