The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Edit

A different kind of memory.

A handful of R&B artists were using synthesizers,

A lot of people don't realize

A more important senior executive

A promotional gimmick.

A twilight doubleheader.

A very busy day coming into town.

About making a comeback.

About the breakup.

About the fact that, you know, they were still

About the note values."

About the song."

Ahmet Ertegun and Robert Stigwood

Ahmet Ertegun came to Miami.

Albhy was a hippie.

All next door to each other with swimming pools."

All right. Okay.

All that was a big influence on us.

All the emotions are still there.

All these musical ambitions came to the surface,

All this stuff is going down in Chicago,

All: ♪ And now it's all right, it's okay ♪

All: ♪ And the lights ♪

All: ♪ And the lights all went down ♪

All: ♪ But that won't stop my loving you ♪

All: ♪ Da da da da ♪

All: ♪ Doo doo doo, doo doo doo ♪

All: ♪ For you, it's goodbye ♪

All: ♪ Green fields ♪

All: ♪ Have you seen my wife, Mr. Jones? ♪

All: ♪ Hold on ♪

All: ♪ Hold on ♪

All: ♪ How a love so right ♪

All: ♪ How can you stop ♪

All: ♪ How can you stop ♪

All: ♪ How deep is your love? ♪

All: ♪ If this should end ♪

All: ♪ If this should end ♪

All: ♪ In my own time ♪

All: ♪ Is one place I have seen ♪

All: ♪ It's the one that forsakes ♪

All: ♪ My broken heart ♪

All: ♪ Now and then ♪

All: ♪ Ooh ♪

All: ♪ The day I left ♪

All: ♪ What you doing on your back? ♪

All: ♪ When a lonely heart breaks ♪

All: ♪ Yeah ♪ Come on.

All: ♪ You don't get me, I'm part of the union ♪

All: ♪ You don't know what it's like ♪

All: Disco sucks!

Also branded them as a disco group.

America was the ultimate dream.

American R&B kind of stuff,

An Oscar nominee for "Saturday Night Fever,"

And "To Love Somebody,"

And a happy New Year.

And a lot of straight people feeling threatened,

And Ahmet went, "No." [laughs]

And all my friends in Australia a very merry Christmas

And all started looking outwards

And all these things play out

And all three of us did things to each other

And Andy joined my mic,

And Andy was having problems too.

And Andy.

And Arif says to me,

And Arif was right in there with them.

And Arif was, you know, top of the heap for that.

And as we sat in everyone's office,

And at the same time,

And audition for us on piano.

And Barry said, "What did you think?"

And Barry wanted to sing it.

And Barry was playing his guitar.

And being on the radio as it was for ourselves.

And being on the radio,

And beyond anything else, that's all we cared about.

And Blue had them all.

And Blue Weaver and Alan Kendall,

And built it piece by piece from the ground up,

And composing I'd ever heard.

And created a two bar phrase.

And currently, it's the studio

And do one more with the Bee Gees.

And doing things for a while.

And don't rely so much

And each one of us was thinking that.

And even after we arrived in England.

And eventually, I started singing to it in my head.

And everybody chipped in.

And everybody's got an ego about it,

And for 18 months, they never did.

And getting these tracks together."

And given to your girlfriend.

And go private.

And guided him through and helped him with lyrics.

And have some fun.

And he could be very dark too.

And he had a combover, and it was all

And he had a great ear.

And he hates disco music.

And he is a disc jockey for station WLUP FM

And he kept looking up, and he stood back and he goes,

And he said, "'Night Fever.'

And he said, "I want my studio time back

And he said, "Just say you can play bass,"

And he said, "Well, the trick is,

And he said, "What do you mean?"

And he says, "I know. I know. I know what I have to do."

And he says, "I'll be on the next flight to Florida."

And he was always tagging along,

And he was doing drugs.

And he was one of my best friends.

And he went, "Yeah, of course."

And he would wear these really big, flashy ties,

And he'd go, "Shut up!

And he'd like to drink a little, as I did.

And he's been in the habit of taking tablets

And he's good at these kind of things."

And his personal life once we became famous.

And how we imagined it.

And how well that seemed to work.

And Huey said, "Hey, we haven't heard you play."

And Huey, the father.

And I got a phone call from Barbra.

And I got on really well with him.

And I just remember our jaws dropping.

And I knew Barry could sing in E flat.

And I knew I was gonna marry her.

And I really liked it."

And I said, "I am doing it to you."

And I said, "I'm gonna marry her."

And I said, "This is what we gotta do.

And I said, "Well, I just finished the mix.

And I said, "Well, I just got in,

And I saw Andy in front of me, I thought,

And I think everything we set out to do,

And I think it should actually

And I think it was, like, two weeks or something,

And I think Maurice was in the middle.

And I think that's what

And I think we came back together as men.

And I thought, "Blue."

And I thought, "Man, this would be so good

And I thought, "Yes.

And I wanna work with you."

And I was at that point in my career

And I was like, "The Bee Gees?"

And I was the morning news guy.

And I went into the sort of recovery period.

And I went, "Yes." [laughs]

And I would bump into him every now and then

And I'd like to wish all the kids

And I'd like to wish all you kids

And I'll be honest with you,

And I'm Barry Gibb of the Bee Gees.

And I'm in the control room.

And I'm like, "Who's this?"

And I'm thinking, "Jesus Christ, no."

And if you're lucky, you get little slices of it

And in my head, it sounded like,

And it didn't take him long, you know,

And it just kept getting bigger and bigger over time.

And it still probably would've been a little too soon

And it was a dump.

And it was a team.

And it was gone.

And it was like, "Oh, this is a new sound."

And it was Linda, and then Maurice came over

And it was the four of us together,

And it wasn't good music anymore.

And it would be a great song,

And it's not true.

And it's some of the best songs ever written.

And January the 1st, we left.

And let him know that I'm gonna be over."

And let's do it."

And lived next order to a fish and chips shop.

And make sort of these interesting sonic loops.

And Maurice would always know where to put that other melody

And Maurice,

And mixed with Barry's rhythm part,

And Moogs,

And Mum, of course.

And my brief was,

And not saying that they were has beens,

And now here I am partying with these guys.

And of course, Andy came here with them.

And of course, everybody knew the Bee Gees.

And once we came back together again,

And Paul McCartney was there with Jane Asher,

And people thought he was mad.

And ponds and fountains.

And pretend to sing with me,

And put it through a VOX amp and sound like Buddy Holly.

And put the pieces together

And Robert wouldn't hear of it, of course.

And Robin and Maurice started to collaborate

And Robin had this wonderful, tear jerking voice.

And Robin wanted to sing the song

And Robin would go, "Well, give Barry a call

And said, "I wanna produce you,"

And see if we can make a loop out of it."

And so I called him and I said, "Well, I can't play bass,"

And so it's my privilege to say,

And so that was fine for me. I was having a ball.

And so the greatest gift that you could give

And so there was nothing sleepy about America.

And start working there and get some records released.

And start writing.

And that affected all of us in its own way.

And that allowed me to open my club.

And that became the battle,

And that created that new determination

And that sometimes was the birth of a song.

And that spontaneity came out in the songs.

And that terrified me.

And that tour was a promotion

And that was basically the birth of it.

And that was the beginning of the period

And that wasn't acceptable to them,

And that's a memory that'll last me all my life.

And that's how the "Guilty" album came about.

And that's how we basically met.

And the Bee Gees got caught up in that

And the Bee Gees probably had the top four, top five hits

And the brothers felt it too.

And the competition of life began.

And the drummer, Colin Petersen.

And the energy level at that point

And the greatest weakness you could ever have

And the groove they got into there

And the lyrics very obviously state

And the message in the lyrics

And the morning hours, are thriving.

And the movie we don't talk about,

And the same thing that's happening now:

And the same with Mo.

And the talent was so obvious.

And the thing that I noticed

And the way that we would all try to please each other,

And the whole dynamic changed.

And the world of music forever,

And then a guitar part.

And then all of a sudden, it was three wives.

And then breaks up their records.

And then he started with the heads of Paramount,

And then that person ends up singing it,

And then the law changed,

And then we did a bass line.

And then we went into the process

And then, in fact, Robin's half an hour older than I am,

And there's Barry with his glamorous wife

And there's things that go back to childhood about, you know,

And therein lies the issue.

And they became our best demos.

And they both said, "No, we won't."

And they said, "Yeah, sure."

And they told him something like 200.

And they want a guitar player who can play bass as well,"

And they were as excited as I was.

And they were singing three part harmony

And they would bounce off each other.

And they would lean in or lean out

And they'd play the song, and I'd work the chords out.

And they'll never stop dancing."

And they're gonna love you forever,

And this beautiful orchestra,

And this man was a literal producer.

And this time of life,

And though brothers Robin and Maurice are sadly gone,

And thought of his Prelude in E Flat,

And to get you into the American music scene."

And to see the four of us onstage,

And took with him Eric Clapton and Bee Gees

And translating it to where I was from.

And we always had the same goals growing up

And we get this phone call

And we managed to fit into different eras,

And we needed time apart to think about them.

And we said, "Oh, yeah." You know, "Whatever you say."

And we saw a lot of people

And we started doing gigs as a teenage act.

And we started with this drum loop.

And we started working together

And we thought, "Oh, that'll be great."

And we thought, "Well,

And we wanted that input.

And we were a family.

And we would like to exist in the '80s, you know.

And we'll see you again. Bye bye.

And we're gonna blow 'em up real good.

And we're twins,

And what drives you is your ego.

And what I wanted to say earlier

And when Dennis comes back,

And when Dennis was not there,

And when you get there

And when you've got brothers singing,

And where you've come from and all that.

And within hours

And you just go like this."

And you'd say... [grumbles]

And, "Why, it's the Bee Gees."

And, of course, Andy lived with them.

And, oh, you know?

And, you know, established artists.

And, you know... ♪ I love you ooh ♪

Andy had about three number ones in a row.

Andy was, like, petrified,

Any band that is successful

Any given week.

Are refusing to play their new single.

Are you interested?"

Are you kidding?"

Arif you know, I said,

Around the airplane every time we landed in a certain place

As "Saturday Night Fever" sold,

As a house producer."

As a pop group,

As an element of going public.

As is per usual for Monday,

As Maurice and Robin.

As my brothers first did in 1958

As normal brothers.

As there is behind me.

As three kids, we said,

At Gerrards Cross in Buckinghamshire.

At St. James' Parish Church

At the Beverly Hills Hotel at breakfast,

At the moment. In America.

At the north of England to pay the taxman,

At the same time, "Fever" was still in the top ten.

At the studio.

At the time, it was "Lights on Broadway."

Atlantic, who were not happy about that, said,

Back in Australia.

Back then, if you weren't on the radio,

Barry said, "Can you do chicken picking, Alan?"

Barry would call me up and say,

Barry, Barry, Barry, Barry, Barry, Barry,

Barry, Barry, Barry, Barry, Barry, Barry.

Barry's got a place in Eaton Square.

Based on the original vision of the song

Based on this discovery of this falsetto voice

Batley Variety Club,

Beautiful area.

Beautiful building, great grounds and gardens

Because by then, their stock had fallen so low

Because he got him for "Grease"

Because he saw

Because I begin to recognize

Because it was something totally unexpected from us.

Because my dad was really the most ambitious man,

Because Robert had said,

Because they crawled all over the Mercedes.

Because they had a lot of success

Because they were part of that culture

Because this was just a soundtrack.

Because we all had the same love.

Because we existed in the '70s

Because we were so excited about this,

Because when you've got

Before we left Australia,

Beginning to fade, you know?

Blue was the guy who was gonna come to the Isle of Man

Both: [vocalizing]

Both: ♪ Be tender ♪

Both: ♪ Be tender with my love ♪

Both: ♪ But that was when I got an idea ♪

Both: ♪ Don't wanna live ♪

Both: ♪ I've just gotta get a message to you ♪

Both: ♪ In the event ♪

Both: ♪ Islands in the stream ♪

Both: ♪ It's just a photograph of someone that I knew ♪

Both: ♪ There is something I would like you all to see ♪

Both: ♪ Though you did not want me to ♪

Both: ♪ What shall I do? ♪

Both: ♪ What shall I do? ♪

Both: ♪ You don't know ♪ all: ♪ What it's like ♪

Both: ♪ You know how easy it is to hurt me ♪

Brian said, "Yeah, yeah. That's very nice. No, nice."

Bring that sound in. That's great.

But a lot of things had gone down at that time,

But Arif said, "We've gotta go more into R&B,"

But because there was a contract,

But Carl was able to make it happen.

But everybody ran on the field.

But everybody's memory is different,

But his vocal, when he sings it,

But I don't think there's any reason to chalk us off

But I found myself singing that

But I guess more importantly for me,

But I mean, that's how crazy it was.

But I never knew he existed until one day, he shows up

But I still see them on and off, you know,

But I was aware of it.

But I'd like to see the Bee Gees again.

But in the winter, that was the place to be,

But in those days, it was kind of sleepy.

But instead, their voices are so sick,

But it caught Robert's attention

But it didn't work out, so he became our manager,

But it was a very traumatic time for me.

But it was celebrating

But it was like, "Oh, God, not Batley," you know?

But it would probably be missing this magic

But it's a different voice from them separately.

But most of the time, I'm like my mum.

But Nik Cohn's point was that

But really...

But sadly, Dennis had had some bad news.

But sounds awfully good."

But that's life.

But that's what was special about them.

But the Bee Gees are there.

But the first time you ever hear the Bee Gees

But the idea of dance

But the inspiring thing was

But the lyrics don't talk about dance at all,

But the one thing that no one else was doing

But the only way I can describe

But then it had another thing going on.

But then Robin walks in.

But then we weren't thinking that way at all.

But there was some point where I got obsessed,

But they mesh together so well that it sounds like one voice.

But they were writing from Australia.

But they weren't producers,

But they've translated it

But to be sure, doing a tour is an enormous amount of work.

But two out of three's not bad.

But we decided not to read the script.

But we didn't know what it was gonna do.

But we needed the Bee Gees to write a few songs.

But we never dreamed that we might get a hit

But we were not really that good

But what happened is, the feel was so amazing

But when you magnify that with the whole world,

But without naming the Bee Gees on it,

But you won't get that right away with me, you see.

But, you know, Barry was there

By '85,

By the .44 Caliber Killer?

By then, we were flying,

Called "Here At Last...Live."

Came a beam of sunlight, you know?

Can you make the body happy?

Carl called and he said, "What are you doing?"

Caught a train into London and found IBC Studios.

Chopin had stayed there.

Colin would figure out

Come hell or high water.

Come on. Come on. Sorry.

Completely.

Couldn't think of anything redeem

Cream was signed to Robert

Crowd: Barry, Barry, Barry,

Dad and I did the rounds,

Dennis Bryon on drums

Disco is the business.

Disco started in the gay and the Black community.

Disco sucks!

Disco sucks!

Disco sucks!

Disco sucks!

Disco sucks!

Disco sucks."

Disco was really underway, in Manhattan, anyway,

Discos, the places in which to dance away the night

Do you think we're famous? Could be."

Do you wanna do it with me?"

Dodger Stadium, places like that.

Does anybody mind if we exist in the '80s, thank you?

Doesn't it?

Doesn't necessarily make it a disco song.

Doing the Eric Clapton pose.

Down at Criteria.

Down it went.

Downloaded from YTS.MX

Each of them knew the way their brothers sang

Either some discrepancy between Barry and Robin,

Emotions are heightened,

Enough so that we've even heard mentioned

Eric said, "Well, I've just made this album

Even though I can understand why it wasn't for them,

Every time we crossed over it.

Everybody knew, when you heard that falsetto,

Everybody know that time is hard now.

Everybody was at that point in their lives

Everybody was saying the same thing:

Everybody went, "Who?

Exactly four years ago to the week.

Except they were fucking awesome.

Family members singing together,

Fishermen don't make the fish.

Five months before all this was going on,

For "Jive Talkin'" to come out as the first single,

For a little while.

For a long time, right?"

For a while until this dies down

For bands of my generation,

For our new studio album,

For people in the recording industry,

For people in the recording industry,

For that solo.

For the "Spirits Having Flown" album,

For the Beatles,

For the broadest possible audience.

For the first time in our country.

For the rest of our lives,

For these recordings,

For this kind of music to carry the weight,

For those people that were on the first wave

For us to become the Bee Gees again.

For very important pop star Barry Gibb.

For whatever reasons.

Four singles from "Saturday Night Fever"

From England to Australia.

From looking out into the audience,

From my brother Barry

From the first listen.

From the same place, I think, has an effect

Game two of the doubleheader was canceled last night.

Getting him to play live, getting him to be an artist.

Gives you a certain sense of who you are

Great clubs of our time.

Greed is the thing that happens in people

Greed.

Growing up, we did everything together.

Guess you could kind of call it over giving.

Harry Caray and Jimmy Piersall from Comiskey Park,

Has it changed your lives, the enormous success of it?

Hated it.

Have hit number one since the album was released,

Have to kind of get worked up a little bit.

Having people in the audience like Barbra Streisand

He announced

He could do anything he set his mind to.

He had his little band.

He had the best smile ever.

He had the last laugh.

He said, "Den, don't do this to me."

He said, "I want you to write a song for Otis Redding."

He said, "I'm releasing the record in every city.

He said, "Look, Robin,

He said, "We've being signed up

He said, "Well, give it to Robert."

He said, "Well, what do you mean?"

He said, "You know, you've got to get more adult

He said, you know, "Get Dick to book you a flight now."

He sang the melody,

He says, "You're doing the Redwood Park Festival."

He took great joy in being on television.

He was a TV actor.

He was almost like a parent.

He was Australian, but he spoke like an English gentleman,

He was doing cocaine.

He was found in his second floor bedroom

He was just like us,

He was like the caboose on this musical train.

He was there when we were cutting "Nights on Broadway."

He was trying to please us

He was very receptive to new ideas.

He would just be fiddling around on the piano.

He would like to sing.

He would never let the Bee Gees go.

He'd be rehearsing in the back of the car,

He'd been involved

He'd suddenly play something, and,

He's getting married

He's the big brother, you know.

Here they are.

Hi, Australia.

His favorite.

His personality was amazing.

Hit number one

Hmm," he said, "sounds okay," he said,

Homophobic book burning.

Hoped for but never really expected.

Hoping that one day, he would do this too.

How about you, Mr. Melouney?

How come they can't be consistent?"

How we destroy the disco records.

How we work at it is by becoming one mind.

Hysterically funny.

I always felt they brought melody to disco.

I am beginning to recognize the fact

I came up with a lot of new ideas

I can do this."

I can still get chills thinking about it.

I can't honestly come to terms with the fact

I can't say definitely,

I can't say I really felt scared.

I can't think of any

I didn't have a technical term for the open and closed hi hat

I didn't know where the hell Massachusetts was,

I didn't really know what it was.

I didn't think I was ready.

I don't you know, it's stupid."

I don't feel free to go out,

I don't know about the rest of her.

I don't know if I can do this, you know?

I don't know where they are now.

I don't know, 16 hours a day.

I envisaged Chopin sitting down and playing.

I felt grown up, you know,

I found out he played on "I Shot the Sheriff"

I had a cassette player.

I had a kind of deep seated resentment

I had come out of a long period

I had never known anything like that before.

I have a

I have fantastic memories,

I have to really know somebody before I reveal myself.

I just loved being on the road.

I just saw her eyes.

I just wanna [laughter]

I knew what "How Can You Mend a Broken Heart?" was,

I know that Maurice and Robin would've had

I like being funny with people,

I listened to the Loop,

I loved playing music, chasing women.

I made a decision to place the group with Atlantic.

I mean, absolutely bonkers.

I mean, he was just different.

I mean, I felt like that.

I mean, I think I had about 2 grand in the bank

I mean, I'd converse with him but not as much as the others.

I mean, it was a wonderful echo in this place.

I mean, it was really quite a phenomenon.

I mean, that could very easily have just been a horn line,

I mean, these are fantasies.

I mean, this is ridiculous.

I mean, we weren't the first to sing falsetto.

I mean, you can dance to lots of songs.

I mean, you had to be. And we'd all watch TV at night.

I miss them both as brothers.

I pointed out to my chief usher,

I preferred him as Maurice, not being a Bee Gee.

I preferred Maurice as Maurice not being a Bee Gee,

I really wasn't a fan of the Bee Gees.

I said to Dennis, the drummer, I says, you know,

I said yes,

I said, "I can't get into specifics

I said, "I'll go out and give it a shot."

I said, "I'm just working on this song.

I said, "Is Maurice there, then?

I said, "Just do me one favor:

I said, "Man, that is amazing."

I said, "No. No.

I said, "Robin, you call Barry."

I said, "We've known each other

I said, "Well, why don't we just

I said, "What about the next album?"

I said, "You do what you're doing,

I sat down at the piano

I showed it to him.

I stopped really knowing Robin

I talked to him outside on the balcony,

I think about how it all sort of started.

I think getting on the road means that to us.

I think he really wanted to be a part of that.

I think it was some kind of tax thing.

I think it'd been used to make porn movies.

I think Maurice was the glue that held it all together.

I think Robert saw he had a younger audience.

I think that's what won me over with them.

I think they were probably the happiest they'd ever been

I think we had three albums out in one year.

I think, in the Gibb clan.

I think, that really resonates.

I thought those guys were actually an R&B band

I truly believed it was because I was

I walked in.

I was 14.

I was alone at the time,

I was becoming the town drunk.

I was deluged by Paramount people saying,

I was excited.

I was in Pitt Street buying up the Beatle fan club book,

I was in the studio to do a new album in Miami.

I was only 21 years old.

I was still running RSO Records,

I was surprised that other bands were coming in.

I was terrified. [laughs]

I was thinking, "My God, I don't

I was young.

I went with my manager.

I worked my way up,

I would say that we were as much like twins

I would've got what I wanted too.

I'd go to the pubs. The police knew my car.

I'll be honest, I was very much into the lifestyle.

I'll leave you alone."

I'll show you the studio anyway.

I'll take full credit.

I'm always reliving it.

I'm gonna send you to New Zealand."

I'm having great fun. I'm in a rock and roll band."

I'm on a plane tomorrow."

I'm the peacemaker.

I'm touring America and living the rock and roll life.

I'm very hard to get to know.

I'm working at a top 40 station

If anything, that was the good thing

If he wants to do this?"

If it got top ten, they'd go more.

If it was a movie.

If one kid got more attention than the other,

If that makes sense to you.

If that was something that was initiated by me,

If they could pick up on what's going on in America."

If we hadn't been brothers,

If you got the ability to write

If you wanna call it that,

In a musical partnership.

In a place that had a liquor license.

In case it was only half full.

In England and America as well.

In front of just a small group of friends,

In general, it's a very complicated thing,

In history.

In many ways, they were chameleons of pop.

In New England,

In New York, big one,

In that period,

In the '60s in America.

In the Bee Gees' music.

In the beginning, when I came,

In the gay underground clubs.

In the history of music.

In the late '70s was really that, you know?

In the middle of center field."

In their lives.

In tune, if possible.

Inhales it and imitates the Bee Gees on the air,

Instantly, you feel comfortable with them.

Into a cult,

Into the way Robin and I thought.

Into this interesting interpretation of soul.

Is equally the greatest strength

Is going to have

Is just a little too busy."

Is now as well known as they are.

Is that I'd rather have 'em all back here,

Is that it doesn't happen in a vacuum.

Is, you know, dead.

It actually blew my mind.