![]() In late 1977 and ’78, the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack was such a culturally dominating force, one fueled by multiple hits written and recorded by the trio of Gibb brothers, that it has been natural to primarily associate the Bee Gees’ sound with white leisure suits, light-up dance floors, and the image of John Travolta grooving with one hip popped and an index finger pointed toward heaven.īut there is far more depth and breadth to the Bee Gees’ story, their talent, and their influences than the reductive image of them as the kings of disco suggests, as the new HBO documentary, The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart, airing Saturday night, makes clear. The Bee Gees became, and remain, synonymous with the mainstream popularity of disco. More information and updates at hbo.com/documentaries.It also smartly notes that disco itself was born long before the Bee Gees, Saturday Night Fever, or capitalism caught up to it. “The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart” premieres at 8 p.m. There’s probably a whole movie there, in itself.” It wasn’t something I feel is important to the journey to get where we had to get. “Well, I couldn’t put everything in, and that was just something that they tried that didn’t work. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band,” a critically panned box office bomb that the Bee Gees co-starred in with Peter Frampton. * One thing Marshall did not included in the film was any mention of the 1978 film adaptation of the Beatles’ “Sgt. I was like, ‘You probably don’t want to be telling people that you wrote that song (“Stayin’ Alive”) in 10 minutes.’ But it’s one of the great songs of all time, so I guess that works.” “I expected there to be a lot of time and effort spent in trying to figure out songs and work songs out in those sessions. * Digging into the Bee Gees story, Marshall was most surprised by “their creative process.” 8, “Greenfields: The Gibb Brothers Songbook,” which features new versions of Bee Gees hits recorded with guest artists. There’s a lot of sadness there now, but I think the sun is starting to rise for him.” Gibb, who received a knighthood from Great Britain in 2018, is releasing a new album on Jan. And I was sensitive to his story, since we kinda come from the same background. ![]() Each brother brought something to the band, and he wanted to make sure that was known and have the story told with the right people. He doesn’t want to be the only Bee Gee that people know about. * The result, Marshall adds, is that the film “is really about family.” Born in the U.K., on the Isle of Man, the brothers Gibb formed their first skiffle group in the 1950s in Manchester, England before moved with their parents to Australia, where they had their first recording success. And, of course, who doesn’t remember all those songs?” That’s what I was interested in – and how all those things happen. … So there was that, and the longevity they had. “I was a big Bee Gees fan, but I was really interested in how the family thing worked, having worked with my brothers for 10 minutes as a band. The Bee Gees story, he says via Zoom, appealed to him as the son of a musician-composer father and the oldest of three brothers who also had a band. * Marshall, 74, works primarily as a film producer (including hits such as “The Color Purple,” “Raiders of the Lost Ark” and the “Back to the Future” and “Jurassic World” series) and picks his directing shots carefully. It doesn’t skirt the darker aspects of the group’s history, but it mostly sheds light on how impactful and underrated the Bee Gees are – even with worldwide record sales estimated at more than 200 million over the course of 55 years.Īnd, of course, as the film rolls into all those “Saturday Night Fever” hits, you will be dancing …. ![]() The nearly two-hour, authorized documentary combines loads of rare footage and insightful new interviews with sole surviving Bee Gee Barry Gibb as well as onetime label-mate Eric Clapton, admirers such as Justin Timberlake, Nick Jonas, Coldplay’s Chris Martin and Noel Gallagher, Bee Gees band members, producers, recording engineers and others. 12, on HBO – gives the brothers Gibb their just due. ![]() Over the years the Bee Gees story hasn’t been told with quite the same reverence as, say, the Beatles’.īut Frank Marshall’s “The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart” – premiering at 8 p.m.
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