Maurice Gibb Hospitalized

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Bee Gees singer/keyboardist Maurice Gibb was hospitalized yesterday morning after collapsing at his Miami home. The fifty-three-year-old Gibb is in intensive care and listed in critical condition after reportedly suffering from intestinal blockage.

Guitarist Barry Gibb, who also lives in Miami, has visited with his brother, but the other Bee Gees sibling, singer Robin, is in the U.K., where he has been on tour.

Maurice has been in the company of his wife, Yvonne, and their two children.

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“Karma Chameleon”

Culture Club | 1983

Boy George has said this song was about standing by what you believe in. However, at the time, he was involved in a secret affair with Culture Club drummer Jon Moss. "Now people can understand the songs better," he said. "They were written about my relationship with Jon, and they were also written about being a gay man in a homophobic world." The lines "If I listen to your lies, would you say/I'm a man without conviction/I'm a man who doesn't know how to sell a contradiction," described his life at the time, he said. "I was selling this big lie."

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