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And now here they are, Nick and Sue on Chatterbox.

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When the stars talk, they talk to Nick and Sue.

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And welcome back to the Chatterbox Redux podcast

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with Sue and Nick and today our special guest

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is Morris Gibson, Nick Endicott's Gib. This is

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Nick and Sue with Chatterbox giving you all you

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need to know about musical entertainment. Oh

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yeah, Chatterbox! now in chatterbox uk we're

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just lucky enough to welcome nick endicott gibb

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nick welcome how are you sir hello hello i'm

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good thank you thanks for having me on great

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to be here thanks for coming yes um looks like

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quite a fantastic show the best of the bg shows

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coming to the uk this september it is yeah and

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you are morris gibbs son part of the lineup includes

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Deborah McLean who is Barry Gibb's niece that's

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right now quite a story i mean i've talked about

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how you got to australia and that gig there and

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how how this last bit's taken place but let's

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talk about in your own words Morris Gibb how

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you found out he was yours it's quite a story

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so let's hear it from you oh yeah it's great

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yeah it's really I was adopted at 18 months old

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and you know through life I've been a musician

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all my life singing since I was six and I always

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had a passion for music and you know I always

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knew I was adopted and you know good family but

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yeah after I found my birth mother which was

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back in 2003, she used to work in the industry,

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the music industry, she was a studio manager,

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knew everybody from Jimi Hendrix to the Beatles,

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you know, as everyone did then, everyone knew

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each other when you were in the industry, and

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connected with her, and a bit of a funny story

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because she originally told me that someone else

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was my father and I got to know him for a couple

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of years once I found him which took a little

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little while and we decided after a couple years

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to do a test and it came back that he wasn't

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my father after two years of getting to know

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him so that was a bit of a shock and so going

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back to my birth mother she you know said it

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was always him and she didn't understand it and

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uh wasn't really much help um but uh then on

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a visit to my my auntie her sister up in Scotland

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um I told her that you know the guy wasn't my

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father and um she said well well I know who it

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is then if it's not him and uh which was another

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shock um especially as uh you know how come you

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know and my birth mother doesn't you know this

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seems a bit odd um so uh yeah she she basically

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told me it was morris gibb and um uh then it

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was a case of really researching and um through

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the years to find out if it was true um yeah

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i wrote to the family the gibb family numerous

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occasions uh didn't really get any any response

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or help with that um and it was only until I've

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been putting my DNA on all the sites I could

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and trying to find out as much as I could because

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I didn't only want to know if it was true but

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I was getting older, I wanted to know about my

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health, I wanted to know about my identity, where

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the music came from because none of my family

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were musical so I always had that need to know

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for me why I was the way I was. So after putting

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my DNA on all these sites, eventually I found

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out I could put it on ancestry .com. And that

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was only back in 2019. And immediately came back

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that I matched 100 % as half sibling with Morris's

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other son, Adam Gibb. Who was on on the site

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and there's other cousins on the site as well

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and other family members and matched with all

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of those as well So I finally got the the confirmation

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wonderful wonderful, but of course, it's been

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you know It seems at some point you've been accepted

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because obviously you are on this best of the

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media show with Deborah Barry good piece and

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that so that's the next stage and I must make

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make one comment of course There was obviously

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definitely some musical talent in the gene pool

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there because quite naturally because I seen

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you up there on those clips like where the venue

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in Bath is promoting you and everything else

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and Yeah, yeah, you're there. You got it. So

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Definitely the genes there so it was a real Honour

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to be asked to be honest. Deborah I've been connected

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with since I got the confirmation, because she's

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Lesley's daughter, the heir elder sister of Bee

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Gees. And she suggested we get together and see

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if we can do some music, which we did. We did

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a version of Tragedy, which we put out. Very

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different version, if you want to check it out.

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And we sort of been connected, wrote some stuff

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together. And she got involved with the best

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of Bee Gees about a couple of years ago. and

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um you know had mentioned me and um and then

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i got a call from the producer and um was offered

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a ticket out there to to meet my my biological

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family for the first time and uh it was absolutely

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overwhelming you know i couldn't believe i was

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actually going i couldn't believe it was happening

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even when i was there i couldn't believe i was

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there you know and actually sitting face to face

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with them Debbie that I'd only seen on a screen

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before and and meeting Leslie, you know, for

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the first time and she was lovely. They're all

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lovely. I met other cousins. It was a real. real

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emotional time for me and and and an amazing

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time for me um and of course they the best the

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Bee Gees had had shows going on and Deb was was

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part of that as a guest vocalist and they asked

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if I wanted to sing a song in the show and one

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of Morris's songs so I um I sung sung a song

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I of course yeah that I thought this is great

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yeah why why not it's sort of Evolved really

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from there. They're lovely lovely people the

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Best musicians I've ever worked with they they're

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they're all top -level musicians incredible What

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they do and and and how how the show is put together

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so professional Yeah, and and they basically

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said look we've got some more shows coming up

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In the UK. We're coming over for a four -date

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little mini tour in in the autumn Did I fancy

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being involved? And of course, what an opportunity

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to sing the songs of my family. It's incredible.

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I take it I'm right in thinking, because you

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obviously went over to us. I mean, after the

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Isle of Man in the early days and sort of around

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Manchester, Andy was actually born in Australia

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as well. They all grew up and spent a lot of

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years in Australia, didn't they? I think they

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all grew up there as a family. And I believe

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they hit Australia first with a wonderful little

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song that failed to chart in the UK, but it's

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called Spicks and Specks. Yes. Yes. What a lovely

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song. Very simple with those two notes or whatever.

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I love it. It's one of the first BG songs I ever

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heard and I love it and I've played it from time

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to time on our live shows. What a great song.

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They were doing so much in Australia before coming

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over to the UK, you know, as kids, you know,

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what they achieved before even coming. coming

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back i'd say to the uk is um is really quite

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a quite a feat and to write songs like you know

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morning of my life uh you know one of the early

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early songs barry was only about 14 then i think

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when when he wrote the lyrics are just so so

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clever and for someone of that age and Well,

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all of them, the harmonies and everything they

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were doing, there's so much talent there at an

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early age, it's unbelievable. And what a cool

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name, something so simple, the Bee Gees from

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the Brothers Gibb. How simple, but how great.

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One of the greatest sounding group names of all

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time, the Bee Gees. Well, they came over to make

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it in the UK or to try the UK out and as a five

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piece, you know, and like a lot of bands were

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trying to do at the time, trying to get in there,

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there was a scene going on, especially with what

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the Beatles were doing. And it really happened

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quite quickly for them, you know, they came over

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in 67 and it was late 67, I think that it all

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hit. it off. And well, that was the time I was

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conceived. Yeah, Morris was only was only 17.

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Yeah, sure. He's only 17 at the time. So it was

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it was before Lulu or anything. And then and

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just before they actually made it really big,

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you know, and of course, in no time. Massachusetts,

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of course, was number one that year. Right. Yeah.

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You're a little bit ahead of me, I'm born in

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69, but we're all the same era really. I love

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the way you said you were conceived during all

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that and prelude. Summer of love, yeah. Very

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good. A good year for music, of course, of course.

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So here's Nick and Sue, your musical duo. This

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is Nick and Sue with Chatterbox, giving you all

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you need to know about musical entertainment.

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Chatterbox! Chatterbox! Chatterbox! Okay, so,

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this tour. Now, the best of the Bee Gees show.

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Now, obviously, we've discussed that, obviously,

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Deborah's in it. Now, my understanding is that

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it's the only official Bee Gees show that exists

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now. Unless, of course, Barry goes and does his

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own shows, of course. It is the only Bee Gees

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show, per se, as in being official. So, I take

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it that Barry... It's been officially endorsed

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by the family. Leslie Gibb, Leslie Evans, I should

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say, she's endorsed it. It's the only show with

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family members in as well. They did have Colin

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Peterson for a bit until he sadly passed about

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a year or so ago, who was the original drummer

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with the Bee Gees. But yes, it's the only officially

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endorsed Bee Gees show. going that's fantastic

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that's fantastic okay so our listeners they get

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their tickets they go to Bath or they go to wherever

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to see to see the show this this September and

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what will they get are they going to get the

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disco hits are they going to get the story of

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the Bee Gees are they going to get early stuff

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what they're going to be getting they're going

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to get an amazing show it's the best show I've

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ever seen or heard that it's as close as you

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can get to the real thing. I mean no one will

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beat the VG's, no one will ever. um you know

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do that again or be as talented as that again

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i believe um but it is a fantastic show um you're

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going to have hits from it's called the greatest

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hits so it's it's going to be early songs uh

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right through to um you know the saturday night

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fever and um and you know and and grease and

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other other songs done by other other people

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that they wrote for um in there as well included

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immortality So you're going to get a whole varied

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set of all the great songs. As much as you can

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fit in, there's so many of them, into the hour

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and a half to two hours of the show, yeah. Yeah,

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I mean, I'm not just the disco stuff. I'm not

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just the early stuff. And I mentioned Spicks

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and Specs and some of that really Jay Mintbrook

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features as well. Another very early song from

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Australia, but some of the later stuff as well.

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But I know Sue's got a favorite and she's going

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to ask you if you've got that in the show, is

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it? I've got a comment first of all. Your eyes

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are the same as your dad's eyes. I don't know

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if you've been told that, but in the photos you've

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got the same eyes. I, yeah I have. You're right

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actually yes. I can see various things, you know,

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I mean, even mannerisms, I think, you know, and

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I'll giggle apparently the same, you know, things

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I've obviously never known through my life. I

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see me as me because I've always been used to

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me and I've never had any anything or anyone

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to compare or reference rather to. But yeah,

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I can see there's a bit of a forehead and eye

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thing going on. Yeah, it's, it's really strange

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to, to see that after years of, you know, I mean,

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I'm 57 now. So, you know, yeah, it's, it's, it's,

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you know, it's, yeah, very strange to see likenesses

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and things so so late in life. But yeah, yeah,

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I can see season, I can see bits and pieces of

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Robin, here and there as well, especially when

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I was younger. You know, we will change a little

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bit as we grow my, my My face is a little bit

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narrower and you know as you're growing up and

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I definitely had the robin chin going on But

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uh, yeah, it's uh, yeah, there's there's bits

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and pieces. I do look a lot more like my mother

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though I must admit my favorite song and I do

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say this one. I do apologize whom the bells toll

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Oh, okay. Can you sing it the same? Have can

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you do it even do you do it the same? I never

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sung it myself. We don't actually do that in

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the show, in this particular show. But yeah,

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it is, of course, one of the best songs they

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wrote, one of a lot of people's favorites. But

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you're going to get all the other favorites in

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the show. Night Fever. Yeah, and Debbie and I

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are doing a duet of First of May, which was one

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of their old original songs, but Maurice did

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do that with Lulu on her, I think it was an audience

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with, and we're doing a similar sort of thing

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there as a duet, me and Debbie, which is amazing.

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To sing with her live is... is overwhelming.

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It's an incredible experience. Can you get those

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high notes? Do you know, I used to a bit when

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I was younger, but yeah, not so much now. I've

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never really been a falsetto kind of guy, really.

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But yeah, I used to sing, when I was younger,

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I used to sing really quiet. My voice is sort

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of a higher register. not not particularly falsetto

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but um yeah definitely when i was younger i would

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i could sing really quite high but uh now i'm

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a little bit a little bit older for that now

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so it's a little bit it's not as easy as it used

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to be the promos nothing seems out of place on

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the promos it all sounds perfect and good so

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whatever so what everyone's going to be listening

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sounds perfect and spot on so yeah yeah there's

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four shows some bath Portsmouth, Cambridge and

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Northamptonshire at the moment. And that's all

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in September? Oh you say at the moment so could

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we be adding to them perhaps? Or would there

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be any near us? No, it's a promo show but there's

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plans hopefully to come back at a later stage

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and do a bigger tour if it all goes well. Well

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let's hope so because we're not that far from

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the Brighton Centre so that's a nice venue to

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be going to. That's quite a nice big one isn't

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it? 5 ,000 something like that yeah so that's

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where we would like to be seeing you. Of course

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we'll be promoting this and talking about it

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on our shows as well. Thank you very much. I

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think it's absolutely brilliant that you've been,

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not only did you find out... your Morris Gibson,

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but to be accepted by the family as well. Leslie's

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been so great once it was all confirmed. I think

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that's really good. Yeah, it's lovely. Leslie's

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was open arms to find out she had a new nephew

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and Debbie's been absolutely great. I've now

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met other cousins, our first cousins, which I

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only knew about recently through the recent years.

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then finally meeting them was great. Yeah, it's

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lovely to have the confirmation, you know, and

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the closure really of knowing finally, you know,

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my identity after so long, yeah. Musically, I

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mean, you were a musician naturally anyway. What

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were you doing with your music career? I mean,

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what level was it? Was it busking? Was it recording?

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Were you bringing stuff out? Were you touring?

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Yeah, i've had various bands through the years

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i've been singing like I said i've been singing

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since I was six No, um taught myself guitar and

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nine drums um everything I just Wanted to do

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I had a real passion to to learn so I I basically

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just taught myself anything I could singing obviously

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all the way through. I've always loved singing

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and yeah I've formed various bands and played

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a lot of festivals, supported a lot of people

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through the years and but I also have a love

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of production. which Morris also was, you know,

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key in with the Sound of the Bee Gees. He was

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very heavily involved with the production side

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of things and had a passion for that. And I've

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always had that. So, yeah, I love recording.

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I've worked with people in the past and produced

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people and done albums with people and for people.

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Yeah, it's always been my life. It takes two

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to tangle, and two to present a radio show. So

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here's Nick and Sue, your musical duo. This is

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Nick and Sue with Cheddar Box, giving you all

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you need to know about musical entertainment.

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I mean, have you met or spoken to or had a zoom

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conversation or anything with Barry Gibb at all?

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No, not yet. Hopefully in the future. But he's

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he's doing OK. He's the king of the Gibb family,

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isn't he? He rules the roof. But he's there.

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I know one thing. he approves because if he didn't

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approve this wouldn't be taking place so because

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he's a perfectionist isn't he after all so yeah

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i've heard he's definitely approves uh the show

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uh of course leslie um and uh yeah it'll be it'll

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be lovely to connect with him at some stage um

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yeah uh so uh we'll see we'll see we'll see how

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it goes i think i think he likes it in the sunshine

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is he florida somewhere he's in the sunshine

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and good luck to him yeah best place to be in

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the sun i think you know i mean he he has arthritis

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i've got arthritis i have to deal with uh it's

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not nice and um you know definitely um you know

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you feel it when the weather changes so to be

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in a warm climate is is the best thing to do

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yeah definitely i totally agree i've got it in

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my knees i totally agree with what you're saying

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yeah Living in a cold seaside town on the south

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coast, yeah, it doesn't help. Nick, I'm going

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to ask you a lovely important question. Have

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you thought of writing a book about your story?

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Because it's an amazing story. There's something,

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yes. I think it could be a book, definitely.

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Yes, I've thought about that side of things.

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you know, it will take quite a while to get everything

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together and then to put it down. I'm not really

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a writer or an author. You know, there are people

00:23:11.700 --> 00:23:15.099
that do that, I think. Yeah, I think if there's

00:23:15.099 --> 00:23:17.720
anyone interested in doing that, I'll be up for

00:23:17.720 --> 00:23:21.859
discussing that it's, you know, it is quite a,

00:23:21.880 --> 00:23:24.000
it's quite a story. I mean, I'll tell you something

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actually, which also, you know, is quite remarkable

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that when I was growing up, in the 70s in the

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Ashdown Forest, a little village in the Ashdown

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Forest. I was in the woods every day and you

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know it was a sort of countryside upbringing.

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Maurice married Yvonne in Haywood's Heath which

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was hardly about 10 miles maybe from where I

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was going out and bought a house in Dane Hill.

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And Dane Hill is seven miles away from where

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I was growing up as a child. So there's my real

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father. Not only is my real father, but someone

00:24:00.660 --> 00:24:03.480
as successful as Morris, who could be living

00:24:03.480 --> 00:24:05.480
anywhere in the world, have a house anywhere

00:24:05.480 --> 00:24:07.619
in the world or be anywhere. And he happens to

00:24:07.619 --> 00:24:10.240
be living at one particular time in the 70s,

00:24:10.859 --> 00:24:14.000
seven miles away from me. You can't make it up.

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And it's things like that, which just is, you

00:24:18.039 --> 00:24:23.430
know, to me, unbelievable, you know, how that

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happened, you know, and obviously I never knew

00:24:26.230 --> 00:24:29.170
anything about him at the time or anything or

00:24:29.170 --> 00:24:32.519
where I was from. Fantastic. So write the S down

00:24:32.519 --> 00:24:34.720
for us. So no doubt you nothing to do the interview

00:24:34.720 --> 00:24:37.180
at all, but no doubt you've at one point or another,

00:24:37.500 --> 00:24:39.559
you played poo sticks at the real poo bridge,

00:24:39.700 --> 00:24:42.039
no doubt, did you? Oh, of course. Yeah, of course.

00:24:42.900 --> 00:24:45.339
I've never done that. I took my son there once

00:24:45.339 --> 00:24:46.799
as well. You have to do it, don't you? You can't

00:24:46.799 --> 00:24:48.359
live up there and not go there, you know, and

00:24:48.359 --> 00:24:50.339
go on, you know. Yeah, absolutely. Everybody

00:24:50.339 --> 00:24:52.799
did. We all had our little we all had our pouch

00:24:52.799 --> 00:24:55.720
of sticks. Yes, absolutely. We've never done

00:24:55.720 --> 00:24:57.359
it. I will take you in the summer because we're

00:24:57.359 --> 00:24:58.839
only Hastings, it's not a million miles away.

00:24:59.099 --> 00:25:01.220
I will take you to play Poo Sticks and we'll

00:25:01.220 --> 00:25:02.380
have something to eat there and we'll come back.

00:25:02.900 --> 00:25:05.900
The Ashdown Forest is lovely, especially in the

00:25:05.900 --> 00:25:08.740
summer. It's just a beautiful place, lots of

00:25:08.740 --> 00:25:11.740
lovely woods and walks and things. Absolutely.

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Before we let you go and we do social media,

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what is, dare I ask you this, what is your favourite

00:25:18.559 --> 00:25:21.140
BG song? What's your favourite BG song and which

00:25:21.140 --> 00:25:24.960
one do you prefer singing? You know, I like a

00:25:24.960 --> 00:25:29.660
lot, I've come to respect and understand their

00:25:29.660 --> 00:25:33.259
songs so much more now. You know, being involved

00:25:33.259 --> 00:25:37.680
with, you know, obviously, talking with Leslie

00:25:37.680 --> 00:25:41.440
and Debbie, but also, you know, the best of the

00:25:41.440 --> 00:25:43.779
Bee Gees and how they go about the songs and

00:25:43.779 --> 00:25:47.470
what they're doing. you know i have a much more

00:25:47.470 --> 00:25:49.569
understanding really i never really was a fan

00:25:49.569 --> 00:25:52.329
but um i've liked some of their songs in the

00:25:52.329 --> 00:25:56.609
past um and really one that stands out for me

00:25:56.609 --> 00:25:59.589
and always has stood out for me is woman in love

00:25:59.589 --> 00:26:01.990
and i know they wrote that for barbara strassen

00:26:01.990 --> 00:26:07.210
but um it's such a beautiful beautiful song um

00:26:07.210 --> 00:26:11.849
perfection really as a song that how it makes

00:26:11.849 --> 00:26:16.329
you feel. It's an amazing, amazing song. So that

00:26:16.329 --> 00:26:18.869
really has always been my favorite. I've learned

00:26:18.869 --> 00:26:23.470
to love a lot more of them now. But yeah, definitely

00:26:23.470 --> 00:26:28.250
that one. And what I sing with Debbie a couple

00:26:28.250 --> 00:26:30.430
of ballads and one of them is First of May and

00:26:30.430 --> 00:26:35.430
the other one is Too Much Heaven. And I would

00:26:35.430 --> 00:26:39.099
have to say both of those really. I love singing

00:26:39.099 --> 00:26:44.420
because I think we harmonize together with them.

00:26:45.160 --> 00:26:49.019
It's singing with my cousin, with a member of

00:26:49.019 --> 00:26:51.220
my family that I'm related to, which I've never

00:26:51.220 --> 00:26:52.940
experienced before in my life, which I've always

00:26:52.940 --> 00:26:57.980
wondered what it's like to do. So I've got to

00:26:57.980 --> 00:27:01.299
say both of those are my favorites to sing because

00:27:01.299 --> 00:27:05.150
it's just... It's fantastic when we when we do

00:27:05.150 --> 00:27:07.849
them together and we connect so so much when

00:27:07.849 --> 00:27:11.009
we do them and It's it's such a beautiful experience

00:27:11.009 --> 00:27:13.910
when we do them. So yeah, it's I've got to say

00:27:13.910 --> 00:27:16.650
both of those if I can Let's hope that when you

00:27:16.650 --> 00:27:19.130
get some more tour dates that you're near us

00:27:19.130 --> 00:27:21.730
because I'd love to come and see you Whereabouts

00:27:21.730 --> 00:27:23.750
are you again? The Hastings, they're not far

00:27:23.750 --> 00:27:26.109
from Brighton, so... Oh, right, yeah, yeah. Well,

00:27:26.109 --> 00:27:29.089
you never know, there could well be plans for,

00:27:29.089 --> 00:27:32.670
you know, in the future, for... 2027, here we

00:27:32.670 --> 00:27:35.710
come, let's... Yeah, so who knows? Who knows?

00:27:35.930 --> 00:27:39.430
Yeah, yeah. Hastings is lovely, I've been there

00:27:39.430 --> 00:27:41.450
a lot, and yeah, I've got friends down there,

00:27:42.069 --> 00:27:44.789
and yeah, yeah. Very pretty town. Yeah, it is.

00:27:44.950 --> 00:27:46.809
The Badger's Neighbours is very pretty, yeah,

00:27:46.829 --> 00:27:48.630
with the hills and everything else. Yeah, the

00:27:48.630 --> 00:27:51.420
old town. lovely, lovely, the old town there,

00:27:51.559 --> 00:27:54.880
I like it all around there and yeah, yeah, yeah,

00:27:54.880 --> 00:27:58.339
it's lovely. Great pubs, great restaurants, great

00:27:58.339 --> 00:28:02.839
arty cinemas, it's all here. It's quite a music

00:28:02.839 --> 00:28:04.700
scene there as well, isn't it? Yeah, very much

00:28:04.700 --> 00:28:09.000
so. yeah okay so the best of the bgs show is

00:28:09.000 --> 00:28:12.819
on in september 2026 on the 10th of september

00:28:12.819 --> 00:28:16.039
at the king's theater portsmouth 11th of september

00:28:16.039 --> 00:28:19.700
the royal and derngate in northampton 12th of

00:28:19.700 --> 00:28:23.059
september bath forum and the 13th of september

00:28:23.059 --> 00:28:27.279
at the cambridge corn exchange yes social media

00:28:27.279 --> 00:28:34.940
wise i have found www .bestofthebgs .com .com

00:28:34.940 --> 00:28:39.099
.au for Australia yeah .com .au yeah make sure

00:28:39.099 --> 00:28:42.039
we do the au at the end and put the .au at the

00:28:42.039 --> 00:28:44.680
end yeah and facebook nice and easy i mean i'm

00:28:44.680 --> 00:28:47.019
sure if you just put best bgs in the facebook

00:28:47.019 --> 00:28:51.980
if not www .facebook .com forward slash best

00:28:51.980 --> 00:28:54.839
bg forward slash and you got that uh any other

00:28:54.839 --> 00:28:58.200
social media you'd like to add to that um well

00:28:58.200 --> 00:28:59.799
they're they're the main ones really if you want

00:28:59.799 --> 00:29:02.119
to get tickets or follow them you know what's

00:29:02.119 --> 00:29:06.289
going on um yeah so they're they're the two main

00:29:06.289 --> 00:29:09.569
main ones to go to really um maybe the website

00:29:09.569 --> 00:29:12.029
for for tickets yes if you if you want to get

00:29:12.029 --> 00:29:15.329
a ticket go to the website um yeah nice website

00:29:15.329 --> 00:29:17.650
really nice website very good website anyway

00:29:17.650 --> 00:29:22.549
um yeah Nick Endicott, thank you so much. Fantastic

00:29:22.549 --> 00:29:25.170
chatting to you. We wish you every success for

00:29:25.170 --> 00:29:27.789
the show. Thank you very much. Let's do it again

00:29:27.789 --> 00:29:31.650
when you come and do a big tour next year or

00:29:31.650 --> 00:29:33.009
whenever it's going to be. Let's have another

00:29:33.009 --> 00:29:36.029
chat then. Of course, that'd be great. In the

00:29:36.029 --> 00:29:39.349
meantime, thanks for coming on. Thanks and thanks

00:29:39.349 --> 00:29:41.450
for having me on. It's a pleasure. Nice to meet

00:29:41.450 --> 00:30:13.460
you. Thank you. Thank you. Bye -bye. You've been

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