8/16/2023 0 Comments Bee gees documentary 2020 ukThey were already putting another album together when Stigwood asked them to provide tracks for a film that he had produced based on a magazine article. It’s probably Saturday Night Fever for which they will be best known which at the time became the biggest selling record of all time ( until a then black singer Michael Jackson went solo). It’s one of several almost too incredible to believe moments revealed in How Can you Mend a Broken Heart? and this is a decent documentary about a group who perhaps are unjustly overlooked for their incredible back catalogue of hits. For them it never really worked out and the brothers reformed in 1971 but in typical rock n roll style Barry admits that popping pills and drinking had its impact on their creativity and their immense popularity took one of several downturns where in an almost improbable twist having played stadiums they ended up playing Northern working men’s clubs. In fact so much success that as Maurice Gibb reveals in one of many archive interviews that he had 6 Rolls Royce cars by the time he was 21 years old yet by 1969 they had spilt up with Robin and Barry wanting their own solo careers. ![]() Directed by Frank Marshall the documentary follows their almost immediate success back in the late sixties under the management of the late Robert Stigwood. ![]() How Can you Mend a Broken Heart? one of their greatest love songs aptly sums up Barry Gibb still grieving for the tragic loss of his three brothers that included youngest sibling Andy Gibb. Who would have thought that the lion from the Wizard of Oz, a human horse hybrid and a man whose appearance transformed overnight into a male mid-life crisis would write many of the greatest and most memorable songs of the last 40 years? Yet for Barry, Robin and Maurice Gibb respectively The Bee Gees did exactly that. they would soon regret using the suppositories they'd been handed.
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