The Bee Gees - How Do You Mend a Broken Heart (documentary)

[ZackyDog]

We were like twins: looked alike, thought alike, had the same interests, the same birthmark. --- Barry Gibb talking about his brother Andy Gibb

This is pretty eerie:

 

[Mike M]

Love the story of how Bill Oakes and Stigwood needed songs for a new movie, and asked them to send some songs they were working on.

They casually sent him a demo cassette with a literal Billion dollars worth of songs on it.

Stayin Alive
If I Can't have you
Night Fever
More than a Woman
How Deep is Your Love


"“I put it on in my hotel room,” Oakes recalls. “It was one after the other — No. 1 records. Even in their demo form, it was quite obviously a staggering success. It started with ‘More Than a Woman,’ ‘Night Fever,’ ‘If I Can’t Have You,’ ‘Stayin’ Alive’ and ‘How Deep Is Your Love.’ I said to Robert, ‘We’ve got the score. We’ve got it.’”

 

[ZackyDog]

 

[ZackyDog]

This one still blows me away, decades later.

So you said to yourself boy, you're out of your brains,
Do you think I'm gonna' stand here all night in the rain?!

 

[hekawi]

 

[Matthias]

Hugely underrated band. True hitmakers and to me always felt authentic with it… A fine balance.

 

[buster poser]

Saw it upon release and loved it.

My dad was kind of a pop-folk fan in his (1960s) teens I guess, and hipped me to their early period when the disco movie dropped and they became the biggest deal on the planet for a while. I was six and still love both periods. Great songs and the kind of harmonies you can only be born with and into.

Great doc anyway. Super affecting somehow, Barry’s arc is really something. Epic amounts of sadness and joy.

 

[elihu]

My favorite...

 

[24 track]

The best album they ever put out I must have burned through a ton of copies , then they went disco and the magic as gone for me anyways.

 

[ZackyDog]

The best album they ever put out I must have burned through a ton of copies , then they went disco and the magic as gone for me anyways.

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Lucky you: the LP has Spicks And Specks, but my my CD doesn't.

 

[marciero00]

Interesting that many of you are harking back to pre disco/Saturday Night fever era. I'm looking forward to watching this and learning all about that as I know nothing. For me as a young man, I only knew them as disco and dismissed them in my disco sucks close mindedness. I now have huge respect for any number of artists that I either dismissed or downright loathed as a younger person. And not just respect for their talents and accomplishments, but actually appreciating or even liking the music. It sounds like some of you are similar. That might include artists like Abba, or the Carpenters. In fact, we just finished the Billy Joel documentary, also HBO, also worth watching, if a little long.

 

[24 track]

Interesting that many of you are harking back to pre disco/Saturday Night fever era. I'm looking forward to watching this and learning all about that as I know nothing. For me as a young man, I only knew them as disco and dismissed them in my disco sucks close mindedness. I now have huge respect for any number of artists that I either dismissed or downright loathed as a younger person. And not just respect for their talents and accomplishments, but actually appreciating or even liking the music. It sounds like some of you are similar. That might include artists like Abba, or the Carpenters. In fact, we just finished the Billy Joel documentary, also HBO, also worth watching, if a little long.

the above album and CD were the BEEGEES at their very best almost up there with ( dare I say it? Beatles) great lyrics great music every song was a keeper . Then they went full on stupid with Sergeant Peppers, then disco and lost it, I was an avid fan until then.

 

[buster poser]

Interesting that many of you are harking back to pre disco/Saturday Night fever era. I'm looking forward to watching this and learning all about that as I know nothing. For me as a young man, I only knew them as disco and dismissed them in my disco sucks close mindedness. I now have huge respect for any number of artists that I either dismissed or downright loathed as a younger person. And not just respect for their talents and accomplishments, but actually appreciating or even liking the music. It sounds like some of you are similar. That might include artists like Abba, or the Carpenters. In fact, we just finished the Billy Joel documentary, also HBO, also worth watching, if a little long.

Their folk-adjacent stuff is legit. Probably already posted but I never get tired of this one.

 

[ZackyDog]

Speaking of Spicks And Specks....