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Degrees for Bee Gees in home town of Manchester
Manchester, May 12: Bee Gees Robin and Barry Gibb return to their home town Wednesday to receive honorary degrees, with a posthumous one for their brother Maurice.
Manchester, May 12: Bee Gees Robin and Barry Gibb return to their home town Wednesday to receive honorary degrees, with a posthumous one for their brother Maurice.
The trio, who were awarded doctorates in music from Manchester University, were one of the best-selling pop acts of all time with 28 albums in a career spanning four decades.
Robin and Barry declared the band was over when Maurice died from cardiac arrest during emergency abdominal surgery at a Miami hospital on Jan. 12, 2003. The brothers will go to Chorlton-cum-Hardy, the Manchester suburb where they grew up, later in the day to open a school recording studio to be named in memory of Maurice.
Pupils at the school, Oakwood High, are due to sing a selection of their songs for Robin, 55, and Barry, 57, who live in the United States.
Bureau Report
Robin and Barry declared the band was over when Maurice died from cardiac arrest during emergency abdominal surgery at a Miami hospital on Jan. 12, 2003. The brothers will go to Chorlton-cum-Hardy, the Manchester suburb where they grew up, later in the day to open a school recording studio to be named in memory of Maurice.
Pupils at the school, Oakwood High, are due to sing a selection of their songs for Robin, 55, and Barry, 57, who live in the United States.
Bureau Report