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J well, you can tell by the way
I use my walk

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j music loud

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j kicked around

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j and now it's all right, it's ok

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j' and you may look the other way

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j we can try to understand

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j the "New York times" ' effect on man

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j' ah, ha, ha, ha

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j stayin' alive...

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How did you people get back here?
Come on. Sorry.

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You can't come in here.
Get them out.

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You can't come in here!
This is a private session!

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Barry: Thank you very much.
Good evening to all of you.

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Thank you.

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J' I can think of younger days

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j when living for my life

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j was everything a man could want to do

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j I could never see tomorrow

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j no one said a word

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j about the sorrow

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j' hey...

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J' how can you mend

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j' a broken heart?

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J how can you stop
the rain from falling down?

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J' how can you stop

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j' the sun from shining?

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J what makes the world go round?

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J dah-dah-dah-dah-dah-dah

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j dah-dah-dah-dah-dah-dah

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j dah-dah-dah-dah

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j dah-dah-dah

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j' please help me mend

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j' my broken heart

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j and let me live again

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j dah-dah dah-dah-dah

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j dah-dah-dah-dah

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j dah-dah-dah-dah-dah

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j dah...

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Barry: I am beginning to recognize
the fact that nothing is true.

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Nothing.

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It's all down to perception.

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My immediate family's gone.

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But that's life.

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It's the same thing with every family,
that someone will be left in the end.

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And this time of life,
I have fantastic memories.

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But everybody's memory is different.

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So they're just my memories, you know?

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I know that Maurice and Robin would have
had a different kind of memory.

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Maurice: I remember Barry saying

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that one day
we were gonna be really famous.

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And we said, "oh, yeah," you know.
"Whatever you say."

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He's the big brother, you know.

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Robin: We saw ourselves as triplets
rather than me and Maurice being twins.

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And we always had
the same goals growing up,

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that it became impossible
to see each other as normal brothers.

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Barry: My ninth Christmas, there was
an acoustic guitar at the end of my bed.

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Robin and Maurice started to collaborate
and pretend to sing with me,

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and we started doing gigs
as a teenage act.

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Robin: We emigrated our whole family
from england to Australia.

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Barry: All three of us
had the same understanding

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that we were going to be famous
come hell or high water.

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J you know I love getting up
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j when the sun first
strikes the trees

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Barry: Our father had his own band,
but it didn't work out,

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so he became our manager,
and it was a team.

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There was us three and dad,
and mum, of course.

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Maurice: My mother,
she was always the person

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who kept the calm between dad and us.

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Very strong, very loyal.

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The Beatles have just arrived
for the first time in our country.

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Maurice: When the Beatles
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it was like,
"that's what we've been trying to do."

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Robin: They turned pop music
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singing three-part Harmony like we did.

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Barry: So we made up our own minds

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that we were going back
to be part of the British invasion.

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Robin: Making music is what we wanted
to do for the rest of our lives,

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so we thought, "whatever's going
to happen, we will make happen.”

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J where is the sun...

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Before we left Australia, we did
an album called spicks and specks.

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And they became our best demos.

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Jitlss dead...

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Barry: Dad and I did the rounds,
met with industry people.

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And as we sat in everyone's office,
they would say the same thing.

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“No, no, I'm sorry, lads,
we can't help you."

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Maurice: My dad, he was very,
"we gotta do this,"

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because my dad was really
the most ambitious man, I think,

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in the gibb clan.

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Barry: We loved the Beatles,
so dad had sent this stuff to nems,

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the Brian Epstein offices.

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Announcer: Brian Epstein, the man
who built the Beatles into a cult

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is now as well known as they are.

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Man: I was doing Brian's mail
most of the time.

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There was a letter by the father
of these three handsome, cute guys,

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who were very proactive

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and who had some success.

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They came from Manchester,
but they were writing from Australia.

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I showed it to him.

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Brian said, "yeah, that's very nice."

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

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"He's Australian, and he's good
at these kind of things."

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Somebody sent you a tape
of these boys from Australia?

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Yes, they did.

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Oh.

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I heard it, and I was
absolutely astounded.

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It was the most brilliant Harmony
singing and composing I'd ever heard.

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J if this should end

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j 1 don't mind

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j if this should end

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I 1 will find

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j what shall I do?

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Man: At the time,
Robert was my manager.

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Cream was signed to Robert

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on what I thought
was an exclusive deal.

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I was just surprised
that other bands were coming in.

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J if this should end...

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Robert was so eccentric.
I mean, absolutely bonkers.

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He was Australian, but he spoke
like an english gentleman.

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And he would wear
these really big flashy ties

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and he had a comb-over
and it was all just...

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Well, who is this guy?

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Barry: Whoever this man was,
he really believed in us.

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He was almost like a parent.

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Stigwood: You can't deny talent.

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And the talent was so obvious.

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Man: Somebody mentioned
that the Bee Gees were in town.

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They were good friends of mine
from Australia.

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So I phoned them up.

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I said, "is Maurice there, then?
Put Maurice on."

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And he said,

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"we've been signed up
by this guy called Robert stigwood.

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We're doing this recording.
Why don't you come and play guitar?"

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Caught a train into London
and found ibc studios.

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So there they were,
there was Barry, Robin and Maurice.

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And the drummer, Colin petersen.

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That night,

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my life changed completely.
Completely.

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The first evening we were in there,
there was a blackout.

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While waiting for the power
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and Barry was playing his guitar.

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It was so echoey.
It was a wonderful echo in this place.

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There we were in the dark.

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The first thought was, "in the event
of something happening to me..."

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J in the event
of something happening to me

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and we thought,
"what could come from that?"

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J there is something I would
like you all to see

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we made believe we were in a mine.

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J' it's just a photograph
of someone that I knew

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j have you seen my wife, Mr. Jones?

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J do you know what it's like
on the outside?

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J don't go talking too loud,
you'll cause a landslide

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j Mr. Jones

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Robin: Because it was our first single,
we wanted a title

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that captured the imagination,
that got people's attention.

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Maurice: And "New York mining disaster”
was born.

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Barry: We had our first hit record
within five months of being in england.

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The thrill was that it did
the same thing in America.

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We thought we might get
a hit in england

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but never dreamed we'd get a hit
in America as well.

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So I take them to the United States
to make a record deal for them.

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I made a decision to place
the group with Atlantic.

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Otis Redding: J what you want,
honey, you've got it...

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Barry: He said, "I'm taking you
to meet ahmet ertegun

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and to get you into
the American music scene."

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Otis Redding was playing at the Apollo.

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Ahmet ertegun and Robert stigwood
took me down there to see Otis.

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J' hey, hey, hey

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and it was amazing.

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Soul has always had a special place
in Bee Gees music.

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Maurice: We've always been influenced
by black music.

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Smokey Robinson, motown.
All that was a big influence on us.

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Barry: Robert introduced us, but said,

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"I want you to write
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"To love somebody" was born that night.

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But unfortunately,
Otis never got to record the song.

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J there's a light

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j' a certain kind of light

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j that never shone on me

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j' I want my life to be

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j' lived with you

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man: I mean, I must have always known
"to love somebody,"

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because that song
is just like in the ether.

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Those lyrics, "there's a certain kind
of light that never shone on me."

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I don't know if he's talking
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but at some point, I got obsessed
tracking down every cover version,

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like Nina Simone, the animals.

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Some great singers have sung
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but his vocal when he sings it,

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I can still get chills
thinking about it.

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J baby

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j you don't know what it's like

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j' baby, you don't know what it's like

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j' io love somebody

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j' io love somebody

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j the way I love you

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j' ahhh, no, no

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j you don't know what it's like

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man: I just remember
this music being on.

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And I'm like, "who's this?"
And... "Well, it's the Bee Gees."

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And I was like, "the Bee Gees?"

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It actually blew my mind.

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Those early records sound like
the Beatles' early records.

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J I received an invitation

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it's a classic '60s guitar pop sound,
but then it had another thing going on.

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J come to the united nations

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you've got the brothers singing,
and when you've got brothers singing,

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it's like an instrument
that nobody else can buy.

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J that was when I was somebody

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j' in my own time

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you can't go buy that sound in a shop.

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You can put a Fender stratocaster
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and sound like buddy Holly.

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You can't sing like the Bee Gees

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because when you've got family members
singing together, it's unique.

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It's the blend of the tones
of each brother.

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And Robin had this wonderful
tear-jerking voice.

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Barry: Robin was a joyous kid.

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He took great joy in being
on television.

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This was the funniest kid
you could ever meet.

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Maurice: My father called him
the nanny goat.

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He was always going... "Ewww!"

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He'd be rehearsing in the back
of the car doing all these faces.

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You know, j I love you...

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And he'd go, "shut up!
Sound like a bloody nanny goat."

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J' I started a joke

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j which started
the whole world crying

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Robin was always a bit of a loner.

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Robin: I like being spontaneous,
I like being funny with people,

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but you won't get that right away
with me, you see?

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Barry: Robin had a wit
that no one could compete with.

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And he could be very dark, too.

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J' 1 looked at the sky...

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Maurice: Robin is not a person
who would say, “I love my brothers."

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Or... "Group hug."
You know, none of that stuff.

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Robin: I'm basically a very shy person.
I'm very hard to get to know.

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I have to really know somebody
before I reveal myself.

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J till I finally died

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j which started the whole world living

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j oh, oh...

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Maurice: You know, that's the voice,

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that's the voice
that reaches your heart.

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Barry: We did a show
at the saville theatre.

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Paul McCartney was there
with Jane Asher.

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Because Robert had said,
"will you come and see the boys?"

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When you think that, five months
before all this was going on,

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I was in pitt street buying up
the Beatles fan club book.

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And now here I am partying
with these guys.

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We felt like we'd arrived.

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Now I'm living out in highgate,
outside London.

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Barry's got a place in eaton square.

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Robin's got a house
in St. George's hill. Beautiful area.

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Barry: And mum and dad
had their own place,

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and, of course, Andy lived with them.

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He was just like us.

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And he was always tagging along,

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hoping that one day he would do this,
too, he would like to sing.

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Maurice: There was a lot of hits
in that short time.

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After all the work we had done
through clubs and everything,

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I felt grown up, you know,
and so we made the most of it.

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Host 1: A very talented group of men,
the Bee Gees!

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Host 2: Once again
the fabulous Bee Gees!

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Here they are and get involved
with the Bee Gees!

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J' I am man and you are woman

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j who needs marriage?
We are humans all

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by then we were flying, you know?

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Just the most amazing experience.

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J then it would please you
if I should call

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j doesn't matter wnat your name is

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j' 1 can do a million things to you

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as a pop group, this was
the biggest moment of our lives.

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Never expected.
Hoped for, but never really expected.

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J' no, no, no

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j no, no

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then came "Massachusetts."

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Robin said, "I've got this idea
for a song."

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He sang the melody,
and I just remember our jaws dropping.

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J' feel I'm going back to massachusetfts

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j; Something's telling me

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j' I must go home

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j' and the lights all went out

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j in Massachusetts

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j' the day I left her

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j standing on her own

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man: For me, they connected
from very early on.

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“Massachusetts” was probably the first
song, I think, that really resonates.

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There is a... gospel quality to it.

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There's a folk quality to it.

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I didn't know where the hell
Massachusetts was.

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But I found myself singing that
and translating it to where I was from.

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Robert goes, ""Massachusetts'
has just gone to number one!"

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We went, "what?"

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To have a number one in england,

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you have no idea how much
we dreamed of this back in Australia.

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J and Massachusetts

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j' is one place I have seen

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host: "Massachuseftts™
from the Bee Gees.

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Woman: I met the Bee Gees
at top of the pops, I was young.

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Was I 167 maybe I was even 17.

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Announcer: Top pop girl in America.
Top pop girl in britain.

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I'ne one and only Lulu!

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J some people live within the world

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j and some people live without it

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j some people gotta whisper their love

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j' and some, they gofta shout it

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the Bee Gees were always in the studio.

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They were always recording.

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They would literally go into the studio
and start writing.

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I had never known
anything like that before.

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We don't usually write our lyrics
till the day we sing them.

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We usually write our lyrics
in the studio itself.

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That seems to work
through thick and thin.

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It always works for us.

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Maurice: It's very hard
to describe how we write.

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But the only way I can describe
how we work at it

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is by becoming one mind.

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Barry: Maurice had unique insight
into the way Robin and I thought.

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He would just be fiddling around
on the piano.

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He'd suddenly play something,
we'll go... "What was that?"

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He was trying to please us,

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in the way that we would all
try to please each other.

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And that sometimes
was the birth of a song.

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We'll wake each other's little
instincts up and the melodies come.

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It's wonderful when you hear it
taking shape.

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Then it all blossoms.

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- The third verse is four bars.
- It's rolling, fellas.

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They'd say, "ok, we're ready to roll.”

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They'd play the song.
I'd work the chords out.

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Colin would figure out
what he's gonna do on the drums.

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They'd say, "right, here we go.
Bang, bang, bang." Down it went.

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And that spontaneity
came out in the songs.

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Barry: In those days, you knocked
an album out in three weeks.

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I think we had three albums out
in one year.

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J' but that was when I got an idea

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j came like a gun and shot in my ear

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j don't you think it's time you got up
and stood alone?

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Melouney: When we went to Europe,

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there'd always be a big bunch of kids
outside waiting for us to arrive.

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It was a frightening time because
they crawled all over the Mercedes.

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They were on the roof,
they were over the window. It was crazy.

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"Hey, guys, you think we're famous?"
"Could be."

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Announcer: The Bee Gees!
The most exciting sound in the world.

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J now I've found

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j that the world

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j is round...

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If you've never been famous,

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the first time it happens
is a very difficult thing to handle.

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You don't know how to behave.
You don't know how to experience it.

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And that affected all of us
in its own way.

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Maurice: I had six rolls-royces
before I was 21.

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I don't know where they are now.

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But that's how crazy it was.

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Barry: We were all very selfish
at that point.

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The testosterone kicked in,
and the competition of life began.

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J' 1 told him I'm in no hurry

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j but if I broke her heart

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j then won't you tell her I'm sorry?

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Melouney: There was always a conflict
between Barry and Robin.

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They both had fantastic voices

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and Robin wanted to sing a song
and Barry wanted to sing it.

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J' 1 just gotla get a message to you

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j hold on

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j hold on

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Barry: Both of us wanted to be
individual performers.

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We all wanted individual recognition.

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And therein lies the issue.

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J hold on

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we're speaking to you from a club in...

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In Hamburg, and I'm Barry gibb
of the Bee Gees.

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Robin here. We've heard rumors
that the group is splitting up.

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Would you like to verify those rumors?

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If I was to say that was true,
I would be the premier of Russia.

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- I don't know.
- Thank you very much, Mr. petersen.

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- How about you, Mr. melouney?
- No, I don't think it is.

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No, no, no.

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Gallagher: I always say
that making music with your family

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is equally the greatest strength
and the greatest weakness

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you could ever have
in a musical partnership.

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To get to the top or near the top,
you've gotta be incredibly driven.

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And what drives you is your ego.

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It can be tricky to stay there.

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J' I am the searcher of my fortunes

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j' 1 got my right hand on the wheel

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Barry: The three of us stopped
looking inwards to each other

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and all started looking outwards
to what we could be individually.

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"To hell with what my brothers think.”
and each one of us was thinking that.

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J don't wanna live

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j' inside myself

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Gallagher: Travel the world
when you're young with a family member

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gives you a certain sense of who you are
and where you've come from.

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So, you kind of walk that tightrope.

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We'd been together all our lives,
don't forget.

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We'd been together since Robin and I
were five, singing professionally.

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That's a lot of years.

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Robin: We'd been kids living together
with each other

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right up until the time we arrived
and even after we arrived in england.

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J don't wanna live inside myself

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Barry: Robin was the first to say,
"I'm quitting the group.”

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I stopped really knowing Robin and his
personal life once we became famous.

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And the same with no.

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Our three lives
were three different lives.

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We were no longer living the same life.

404
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Brothers... in general,
it's a very complicated thing.

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Emotions are heightened and there's
things that go back to childhood

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about, you know, if one kid got more
attention than the other,

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and all these things play out in front
of just a small group of friends,

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but when you magnify that
with the whole world,

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it changes the game a little bit.

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Robin, that's a good picture.
That's you, Barry, Colin, Vince.

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- That's correct.
- Do you miss them?

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Well, it's not really a matter
of missing them, really.

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I still see them on and off
so that's the way things go.

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I'll show you the studio, anyway.

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Barry: It was really me and Robin
that were in conflict.

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And I think Maurice was in the middle.

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Story of my life, really.

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Barry would call and say,
"tell Robin if he wants to do that..."

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Robin would go,
"let Barry know I'll be over..."

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I said, "Robin, you call Barry."
"Barry, you call Robin."

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

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And for 18 months, they never did.

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00:25:08,674 --> 00:25:12,883
Barry: We had this fascination
with calling the newspapers up.

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You'd call nme or you'd call
disc or music echo and say,

425
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"Robin said this about me and I want
to correct the record," and all that.

426
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Robin: It was a whole strange episode
of our lives.

427
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But a lot of things
had gone down at that time

428
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and we needed time apart
to think about them.

429
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Announcer: At caxton hall,
vip transport

430
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for very important pop star Barry gibb.

431
00:25:36,910 --> 00:25:41,449
He's getting married to 20-year-old
former miss Edinburgh, Linda gray.

432
00:25:43,834 --> 00:25:46,291
Their world was crazy at that time.

433
00:25:46,420 --> 00:25:50,254
At one time, there were three brothers,
and then all of the sudden,

434
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there were three wives.

435
00:25:52,009 --> 00:25:54,591
Maurice gibb and Lulu
became mister and missus

436
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at St. James parish church
at gerrards cross in buckinghamshire.

437
00:25:59,058 --> 00:26:04,928
Lulu: You think, by marrying someone
that you absolutely adore,

438
00:26:05,064 --> 00:26:08,807
you think that'll solve
all your problems. But, really...

439
00:26:08,942 --> 00:26:12,560
At caxton hall, Robin gibb
of the Bee Gees marries Molly hullis.

440
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Robin: Molly was my first real love,
the first serious one,

441
00:26:18,118 --> 00:26:20,905
but it was a very traumatic time for me.

442
00:26:23,165 --> 00:26:28,159
I went with my manager. He said, "Robin,
I'm going to send you to New Zealand."

443
00:26:28,295 --> 00:26:31,002
He says, "you're doing
the redwood park festival."

444
00:26:31,131 --> 00:26:34,294
So I went there, and it was advertised
that the Bee Gees were coming,

445
00:26:34,426 --> 00:26:35,836
not just Robin gibb, you see.

446
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Robin: All right, ok.

447
00:26:41,558 --> 00:26:43,219
Man: How did you feel last night?

448
00:26:43,352 --> 00:26:46,435
Robin: Um... I have an obligation
to my audience not to look scared.

449
00:26:46,563 --> 00:26:48,849
I can't say I really felt scared.

450
00:26:49,942 --> 00:26:51,022
I was terrified.

451
00:26:52,945 --> 00:26:55,687
J how far am I able fo...

452
00:27:05,374 --> 00:27:07,205
Barry: All three of us became isolated.

453
00:27:08,085 --> 00:27:11,623
And all three of us did things
to each other

454
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that I think we're all sorry for.

455
00:27:16,593 --> 00:27:17,708
We loved each other.

456
00:27:17,845 --> 00:27:20,177
There was an enormous amount
of love between us.

457
00:27:20,305 --> 00:27:22,216
Growing up, we did everything together.

458
00:27:22,349 --> 00:27:27,719
We often thought we were triplets,
because we all had the same love.

459
00:27:27,855 --> 00:27:30,938
We had the same sense of humor,
the love of the same kind of music.

460
00:27:31,066 --> 00:27:33,057
Barry: Just typical kids, you know,

461
00:27:33,193 --> 00:27:35,479
but the one thing
that no one else was doing

462
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was we were singing in Harmony,

463
00:27:37,156 --> 00:27:40,148
and beyond anything else,
that's all we cared about.

464
00:27:42,161 --> 00:27:44,277
We fell in love with the mills brothers.

465
00:27:44,413 --> 00:27:47,450
They all did something unique
in their own way.

466
00:27:47,583 --> 00:27:50,290
At the same time,
Robin and I did two different leads

467
00:27:50,419 --> 00:27:53,252
and Maurice would always know
where to put that other melody,

468
00:27:53,380 --> 00:27:54,586
to make a three-part Harmony.

469
00:27:54,715 --> 00:27:56,626
They mirrored what we wanted to be.

470
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Host: Do you find you miss
Robin and Maurice, musically?

471
00:28:00,387 --> 00:28:05,131
Yeah. Not musically,
I miss them both as brothers.

472
00:28:06,101 --> 00:28:09,889
Jonas: And something about entering
the world from the same place,

473
00:28:10,022 --> 00:28:12,479
I think, has an effect on your ability
to sing together,

474
00:28:12,608 --> 00:28:17,022
your creative awareness
and your artistic voice.

475
00:28:17,154 --> 00:28:19,486
Host: Could we see the Bee Gees
back together again?

476
00:28:19,615 --> 00:28:23,574
Um, that's a very strong point,
that it could be.

477
00:28:23,702 --> 00:28:27,490
I can't say definite, but I'd like
to see the Bee Gees again.

478
00:28:30,209 --> 00:28:32,951
Reporter: Mr. Epstein has been unwell
now for some months.

479
00:28:33,086 --> 00:28:36,749
He's been in the habit of taking tablets
to help him sleep at night.

480
00:28:36,882 --> 00:28:38,964
He was found in his second-floor bedroom

481
00:28:39,092 --> 00:28:41,629
just after two o'clock this afternoon
by his housekeeper.

482
00:28:41,762 --> 00:28:45,220
Brown: When Brian died
and we restructured nems,

483
00:28:45,349 --> 00:28:49,763
Robert asked to become a more important
senior executive for the Beatles.

484
00:28:50,395 --> 00:28:52,306
And that wasn't acceptable to them,

485
00:28:53,065 --> 00:28:56,102
so he then left the company

486
00:28:56,235 --> 00:28:59,272
and took with him Eric Clapton
and Bee Gees

487
00:28:59,404 --> 00:29:01,520
so he could start off on his own.

488
00:29:01,657 --> 00:29:02,772
Barry: We were an asset.

489
00:29:02,908 --> 00:29:06,617
We were one of those people Robert
needed as an element of going public.

490
00:29:08,205 --> 00:29:11,493
At the launching of the company,
we were starting to communicate again.

491
00:29:13,710 --> 00:29:17,202
And once we came back together again,
we wrote "lonely days,"

492
00:29:17,339 --> 00:29:20,797
which reflected the idea
that we'd been broken up.

493
00:29:20,926 --> 00:29:24,259
We'd always been boys
growing up together,

494
00:29:24,388 --> 00:29:26,925
and I think we came back
together as men.

495
00:29:27,057 --> 00:29:30,424
We respected each other's opinions,
which we didn't before that.

496
00:29:32,646 --> 00:29:35,183
If anything, that was the good thing
about the break-up.

497
00:29:37,985 --> 00:29:40,146
J' I can think of younger days...

498
00:29:40,279 --> 00:29:42,611
Barry: I'd already started
a first verse and chorus.

499
00:29:42,739 --> 00:29:44,855
I knew what "how can you mend
a broken heart" was.

500
00:29:44,992 --> 00:29:46,653
But Robin walks in.

501
00:29:46,785 --> 00:29:50,152
I said, "I'm just working on this song.
Do you wanna do it with me?"

502
00:29:50,289 --> 00:29:51,699
And he went, "yeah, of course.”

503
00:29:51,832 --> 00:29:57,122
J I could never see tomorrow...

504
00:29:57,254 --> 00:29:58,790
We'd been apart for two years.

505
00:29:58,922 --> 00:30:01,789
If we hadn't been brothers,
we wouldn't have lasted half an hour.

506
00:30:01,925 --> 00:30:03,836
It just wouldn't have happened.

507
00:30:06,346 --> 00:30:08,007
J hey

508
00:30:08,140 --> 00:30:10,301
j' how can you mend

509
00:30:11,310 --> 00:30:12,595
j' a broken heart...

510
00:30:12,728 --> 00:30:14,810
Things started to just improve
over time.

511
00:30:16,189 --> 00:30:19,852
J how can you stop
the rain from falling down?

512
00:30:19,985 --> 00:30:21,896
We became the Bee Gees again.

513
00:30:22,029 --> 00:30:24,270
J' how can you stop

514
00:30:25,741 --> 00:30:27,948
j' the sun from shining?

515
00:30:29,036 --> 00:30:32,870
J what makes the world go round?

516
00:30:34,708 --> 00:30:37,950
Barry: We came back together and made
two number-one records in America.

517
00:30:38,086 --> 00:30:40,577
So we were on a bit of a high.

518
00:30:42,841 --> 00:30:44,877
But we were not really that good

519
00:30:45,010 --> 00:30:47,797
when it came to just doing
anything without a pill.

520
00:30:48,597 --> 00:30:50,383
You know, or without a drink.

521
00:30:50,515 --> 00:30:52,005
It was destroying us.

522
00:30:52,142 --> 00:30:54,133
J' my broken heart

523
00:30:54,269 --> 00:30:56,931
that became, that became the battle.

524
00:30:57,064 --> 00:30:59,771
The fight to survive being a pop group.

525
00:30:59,900 --> 00:31:01,561
J dah-dah-dah-dah

526
00:31:02,694 --> 00:31:05,276
j dah-dah-dah-dah-dah

527
00:31:05,405 --> 00:31:06,611
j dah

528
00:31:14,748 --> 00:31:17,831
Thank you very, very much
on behalf of my brothers,

529
00:31:17,959 --> 00:31:19,074
Robin,

530
00:31:20,962 --> 00:31:22,372
and Maurice.

531
00:31:23,423 --> 00:31:25,004
And this beautiful orchestra.

532
00:31:26,968 --> 00:31:29,084
Our lead guitarist, Alan Kendall.

533
00:31:31,056 --> 00:31:33,923
Man: Robert stigwood said,
"the Bee Gees are gonna go on a tour

534
00:31:34,059 --> 00:31:37,301
and want a guitar player that can play
bass as well," because in those days,

535
00:31:38,188 --> 00:31:42,352
Maurice played bass
but he would go on piano sometimes.

536
00:31:42,484 --> 00:31:45,851
And so I called him and I said,
"well, I can't play bass."

537
00:31:45,987 --> 00:31:48,353
And he said,
"just say you can play bass."

538
00:31:48,490 --> 00:31:50,697
So I said, "ok, I can play bass."

539
00:31:53,662 --> 00:31:56,825
I'll be honest, I was very much
into the lifestyle.

540
00:31:56,957 --> 00:32:00,916
I just loved being on the road,
I loved playing music, chasing women.

541
00:32:02,462 --> 00:32:05,625
Maurice is so funny
cos he was good at magic tricks.

542
00:32:05,757 --> 00:32:07,998
And he liked to drink a little,
as I did.

543
00:32:08,885 --> 00:32:11,092
Robin I never really knew.

544
00:32:11,221 --> 00:32:14,179
I mean, I'd converse with him,
but not as much as the others.

545
00:32:14,307 --> 00:32:16,593
And I would bump into him
every now and then

546
00:32:16,726 --> 00:32:18,591
wandering the corridors of the hotel,

547
00:32:19,813 --> 00:32:22,725
and there's Barry
with his glamorous wife

548
00:32:22,858 --> 00:32:24,689
smoking a bone, you know.

549
00:32:26,069 --> 00:32:31,280
My early days with the Bee Gees were,
for me, thrilling.

550
00:32:31,408 --> 00:32:33,990
Even though I can understand
why it wasn't for them,

551
00:32:34,119 --> 00:32:36,576
cos they weren't
necessarily selling out.

552
00:32:39,207 --> 00:32:42,620
Barry: When we were broken up,
the world changed radically, quickly.

553
00:32:43,753 --> 00:32:47,712
And that was the beginning of the period
when there was no interest in us at all.

554
00:32:48,300 --> 00:32:49,790
Remember, we were on tour.

555
00:32:49,926 --> 00:32:53,464
They'd try to keep Robin
from looking out into the audience,

556
00:32:53,597 --> 00:32:55,553
in case it was only half full.

557
00:32:55,682 --> 00:32:58,014
When we got back home,
I'd tend to do more drinking.

558
00:32:58,143 --> 00:33:00,259
I'd go to the pubs,
the police knew my car.

559
00:33:01,354 --> 00:33:03,686
I was becoming the town drunk.

560
00:33:04,483 --> 00:33:06,189
I had about two grand in the bank

561
00:33:06,318 --> 00:33:08,400
and lived next door
to a fish-and-chip shop.

562
00:33:08,528 --> 00:33:13,022
Barry: So, by "74, we didn't think there
was gonna be much of a future.

563
00:33:13,992 --> 00:33:16,654
When you become famous,
you think everyone loves you

564
00:33:16,786 --> 00:33:19,243
and they're gonna love you forever.
That is not true.

565
00:33:22,876 --> 00:33:26,209
Maurice: All of a sudden, we had to work
the clubs of the north of england

566
00:33:26,338 --> 00:33:28,624
to pay the tax man,
so we had the sheffield fiesta,

567
00:33:28,757 --> 00:33:31,169
the golden garter in Manchester,
batley variety club...

568
00:33:32,052 --> 00:33:33,132
Great clubs of our time.

569
00:33:34,054 --> 00:33:38,263
Kendall: The batley thing, it's where
all the has-beens went to play.

570
00:33:38,391 --> 00:33:39,927
Not saying that they were has-beens,

571
00:33:40,060 --> 00:33:42,426
but it was like, "god, not batley,"
you know.

572
00:33:42,562 --> 00:33:43,927
J Sunday morning...

573
00:33:44,064 --> 00:33:46,931
Woman: I was a waitress
at the batley variety club.

574
00:33:47,067 --> 00:33:50,355
I really wasn't a fan of the Bee Gees.

575
00:33:50,487 --> 00:33:52,944
The only thing I knew about them was,

576
00:33:53,365 --> 00:33:56,698
you know, Maurice was going
through a divorce with Lulu.

577
00:33:57,452 --> 00:34:00,068
Maurice: Yvonne came in
and I saw her eyes.

578
00:34:00,747 --> 00:34:03,363
I don't know about the rest of her,
I just saw her eyes.

579
00:34:03,500 --> 00:34:05,661
And I said, "I'm gonna marry her."

580
00:34:06,628 --> 00:34:08,710
And I knew I was gonna marry her.

581
00:34:09,256 --> 00:34:13,169
Yvonne: He was so cute.
His personality was amazing.

582
00:34:13,301 --> 00:34:15,417
Robin:
Maurice had this childlike quality,

583
00:34:15,554 --> 00:34:17,920
which is something very special in men.

584
00:34:18,598 --> 00:34:21,260
Yvonne: He loved dressing up
in police uniforms.

585
00:34:21,851 --> 00:34:24,809
Wherever we went on tour,
they'd give him a hat, give him a badge.

586
00:34:24,938 --> 00:34:26,678
- Is that his wallet?
- It's a badge.

587
00:34:26,815 --> 00:34:30,182
- Whoa! What was that?
- I'm not showing you now.

588
00:34:30,318 --> 00:34:33,230
People loved him.
He had the best smile ever.

589
00:34:33,363 --> 00:34:37,527
I remember him teaching me
the show-biz smile,

590
00:34:37,659 --> 00:34:40,116
and he said, "the trick is,
you don't move your eyes...

591
00:34:40,912 --> 00:34:42,322
And you just go like this.”

592
00:34:45,125 --> 00:34:46,581
And I'll be honest with you,

593
00:34:46,710 --> 00:34:49,747
I think Maurice was the glue
that held it all together.

594
00:34:49,879 --> 00:34:51,540
Oh, I'm Mr. fix-it.

595
00:34:51,673 --> 00:34:54,460
There's some discrepancy
between Barry and Robin,

596
00:34:54,593 --> 00:34:56,709
or we're gonna make a decision
about something,

597
00:34:56,845 --> 00:34:57,960
"what does Maurice think?"

598
00:34:58,096 --> 00:35:02,465
But most of the time, I'm like my mum.
I'm the peacemaker.

599
00:35:03,226 --> 00:35:06,013
Yvonne: If they'd not been brothers,
they would not be together.

600
00:35:06,605 --> 00:35:08,061
No doubt in my mind.

601
00:35:13,403 --> 00:35:18,147
Man: I met the Gibbs when they were on
a bit of a downturn in their career.

602
00:35:18,283 --> 00:35:21,320
Robert stigwood made me, unaccountably,
the head of his record label.

603
00:35:21,453 --> 00:35:22,943
I was only 21 years old.

604
00:35:23,079 --> 00:35:27,368
I believe it was because I was the only
guy in the room that I got the job.

605
00:35:27,500 --> 00:35:28,740
It was odd to me. I thought,

606
00:35:28,877 --> 00:35:31,789
if they can write those songs,
how come they can't be consistent?

607
00:35:31,921 --> 00:35:35,038
If you can write "how can you mend
a broken heart" and "to love somebody,"

608
00:35:35,175 --> 00:35:36,585
where does that talent go?

609
00:35:37,385 --> 00:35:40,297
There was two albums
in a row that were dismal.

610
00:35:41,598 --> 00:35:44,931
Ahmet ertegun said to Robert,
"maybe their time is gone."

611
00:35:45,060 --> 00:35:47,551
Cos Atlantic were paying
for these recordings.

612
00:35:47,687 --> 00:35:49,598
And Robert wouldn't hear of it,
of course.

613
00:35:49,731 --> 00:35:51,767
He would never let the Bee Gees go.

614
00:35:51,900 --> 00:35:55,233
There was this thing about stigwood.

615
00:35:55,362 --> 00:35:58,479
Stigwood and his loyalties.

616
00:35:59,449 --> 00:36:02,486
I had a kind of deep-seated resentment
about the fact that,

617
00:36:02,619 --> 00:36:06,077
you know, they were still his favorite.

618
00:36:10,043 --> 00:36:14,207
I had come out of a long period
of addiction and alcoholism,

619
00:36:14,339 --> 00:36:17,581
and I went into the sort
of recovery period.

620
00:36:18,718 --> 00:36:22,381
All these musical ambitions
came to the surface.

621
00:36:22,514 --> 00:36:25,256
So I went to Miami to record.

622
00:36:28,144 --> 00:36:31,511
Barry: We had a conversation with Eric
about making the comeback.

623
00:36:31,648 --> 00:36:35,391
Eric said, "I've just made this album
called 461 ocean boulevard in Miami.

624
00:36:35,527 --> 00:36:39,270
Why don't you make an album in America
instead of making an album in england

625
00:36:39,406 --> 00:36:43,194
and maybe a change of environment
will do something for you?"

626
00:36:43,326 --> 00:36:45,612
The studio there was unbelievable.

627
00:36:45,745 --> 00:36:51,365
And I think that's what
the suggestion was about, really.

628
00:36:52,085 --> 00:36:55,498
I thought those guys
were actually an R&B band

629
00:36:55,630 --> 00:36:58,121
that hadn't really worked that out yet.

630
00:36:58,258 --> 00:37:00,544
I thought, man, this would be so good

631
00:37:00,677 --> 00:37:03,510
if they could pick up
on what's going on in America.

632
00:37:03,638 --> 00:37:07,176
Kendall: I do know that they
had to change something.

633
00:37:07,308 --> 00:37:11,768
That's when the whole idea of actually
being more of a band together

634
00:37:11,896 --> 00:37:15,104
rather than musicians and orchestras
and all that stuff.

635
00:37:17,026 --> 00:37:19,813
Man: Alan Kendall,
who was a friend of mine, he said,

636
00:37:19,946 --> 00:37:23,689
"the Bee Gees are looking for a drummer.
Are you interested?"

637
00:37:24,367 --> 00:37:30,203
And I went, "uh, yes. I think
I'm interested. Yeah, I am interested."

638
00:37:30,999 --> 00:37:32,705
Barry: We needed to get more energized

639
00:37:32,834 --> 00:37:36,747
and don't rely so much on the ballads
that we had been doing.

640
00:37:36,880 --> 00:37:41,670
We wanted to be a band so bad.
And that was basically the birth of it.

641
00:37:42,469 --> 00:37:44,425
Bryon: We had a great
bass player, Maurice.

642
00:37:44,554 --> 00:37:46,590
We had a great guitar player, Alan.

643
00:37:46,723 --> 00:37:50,090
So really, the only thing we needed
was a keyboard player.

644
00:37:50,226 --> 00:37:51,466
And I thought, blue.

645
00:37:58,610 --> 00:38:02,979
Dennis called and said, "I'm putting
a band together with the Bee Gees.

646
00:38:03,114 --> 00:38:08,404
I've spoken to Barry and everybody's
in agreement. Are you interested?"

647
00:38:08,536 --> 00:38:13,451
I said, "no, no. I'm having great fun.
I'm in a rock-and-roll band."

648
00:38:13,583 --> 00:38:15,244
Queen was our support act.

649
00:38:15,376 --> 00:38:18,334
I'm touring America
and living the rock-and-roll life.

650
00:38:18,463 --> 00:38:21,546
J you don't get me,
I'm part of the union

651
00:38:21,674 --> 00:38:25,417
j you don't get me,
I'm part of the union...

652
00:38:25,553 --> 00:38:28,465
Bryon: We'd grown up together
playing in bands in Cardiff.

653
00:38:28,598 --> 00:38:31,214
I said, "we've known each other
for a long time, right?"

654
00:38:31,351 --> 00:38:33,808
He said, "Dan, don't do this to me."

655
00:38:33,937 --> 00:38:36,019
And I said, "I am doing it to you."

656
00:38:40,068 --> 00:38:44,653
And after you've met Barry, if you don't
wanna do it, I'll leave you alone."

657
00:38:46,950 --> 00:38:50,534
Barry: Maurice and I had moved
to the Isle of Man, where we were born.

658
00:38:50,662 --> 00:38:53,495
Blue was the guy who was gonna
come to the Isle of Man

659
00:38:53,623 --> 00:38:55,739
and audition for us on piano.

660
00:38:55,875 --> 00:39:00,335
J if I were you and you were me...

661
00:39:00,463 --> 00:39:04,923
Weaver: We were staying in Barry's house
and Linda and then Maurice came over.

662
00:39:05,051 --> 00:39:07,258
And hughie, the father.

663
00:39:08,221 --> 00:39:10,587
Instantly, you feel
comfortable with them.

664
00:39:10,723 --> 00:39:17,310
They started talking about synthesizers
and moogs, and blue had them all.

665
00:39:17,438 --> 00:39:20,976
It was the Sunday evening I was leaving
and hughie said,

666
00:39:21,109 --> 00:39:23,475
"hey, we haven't heard you play,"
you know.

667
00:39:23,611 --> 00:39:25,727
But my piano was so bad

668
00:39:26,531 --> 00:39:29,568
that he played something
and it just sounded awful.

669
00:39:29,701 --> 00:39:32,158
It was just, like, totally embarrassing.

670
00:39:32,287 --> 00:39:35,825
I said, "sounds fine to me, man,
let's do it," you know?

671
00:39:35,957 --> 00:39:37,572
Barry offered him the job.

672
00:39:37,709 --> 00:39:39,620
Weaver: I'd always loved the music,

673
00:39:39,752 --> 00:39:41,993
but the first time
you ever hear the Bee Gees,

674
00:39:42,130 --> 00:39:45,167
just when they're in a room like this,
you know, it's just magic.

675
00:39:45,925 --> 00:39:48,211
I think that's what
won me over with them.

676
00:39:48,344 --> 00:39:52,428
I said, "yes,"
and January the 1st we left.

677
00:39:53,141 --> 00:39:54,802
J doo-doo-doo doo-aoo-doo

678
00:39:54,934 --> 00:39:58,597
j doo-Dee-doo-dah-day

679
00:40:19,292 --> 00:40:20,782
Man: Miami is a gateway city.

680
00:40:20,919 --> 00:40:23,911
But in those days,
it was kind of sleepy,

681
00:40:24,047 --> 00:40:26,003
you know, a little off the beaten path.

682
00:40:27,008 --> 00:40:29,715
But in the winter,
that was the place to be.

683
00:40:29,844 --> 00:40:32,426
So Atlantic records
would always book their acts

684
00:40:32,555 --> 00:40:34,136
down in criteria.

685
00:40:34,265 --> 00:40:36,005
J when the lights shine...

686
00:40:36,142 --> 00:40:38,975
I was about the number-three engineer
at the studio.

687
00:40:39,103 --> 00:40:42,561
I worked my way up,
and I was at that point in my career

688
00:40:42,690 --> 00:40:44,226
where I was ready for anything.

689
00:40:44,359 --> 00:40:45,724
J get on up

690
00:40:46,361 --> 00:40:48,272
j look around

691
00:40:48,404 --> 00:40:52,397
j can't you feel the wind of change?

692
00:40:52,533 --> 00:40:55,275
When we got to Miami,
all of the sudden sunshine and, oh...

693
00:40:56,371 --> 00:40:57,736
You know, this is paradise.

694
00:40:57,872 --> 00:41:01,615
We'd come from england, and so there
was nothing sleepy about America.

695
00:41:01,751 --> 00:41:05,790
Put them in the same house I'd rented
for Eric Clapton, 461 ocean boulevard.

696
00:41:05,922 --> 00:41:07,458
Weaver: The first thing all of us did

697
00:41:07,590 --> 00:41:10,172
was take pictures
against that palm tree,

698
00:41:10,301 --> 00:41:11,837
doing the Eric Clapton pose.

699
00:41:12,470 --> 00:41:14,586
J we need a god down here...

700
00:41:14,722 --> 00:41:17,805
Weaver: Being in that house together,
you know, we were creative.

701
00:41:17,934 --> 00:41:20,516
And we were a family,
I mean, I felt like that.

702
00:41:20,645 --> 00:41:22,601
Kendall: It did make us close.

703
00:41:22,730 --> 00:41:25,597
I mean, you had to be,
and we'd all watch TV at night.

704
00:41:25,733 --> 00:41:27,439
The chemistry, it was very exciting.

705
00:41:27,568 --> 00:41:30,435
Weaver: In the morning, you went
to breakfast, had a cup of tea.

706
00:41:30,571 --> 00:41:31,686
It was all very relaxed.

707
00:41:31,823 --> 00:41:33,859
J taste the air

708
00:41:33,992 --> 00:41:38,736
j can't you see the wind of change?

709
00:41:38,871 --> 00:41:41,237
It was strange considering
the amount of pressure

710
00:41:41,374 --> 00:41:43,615
that was really
on the Bee Gees at that time.

711
00:41:43,751 --> 00:41:45,082
They were about to drop us.

712
00:41:45,211 --> 00:41:48,703
We had to adopt a new sound,
we had to adopt a new attitude.

713
00:41:48,840 --> 00:41:52,799
So the next step was, we brought
arif mardin in to produce them.

714
00:41:54,053 --> 00:41:56,323
Aretha Franklin: J day dreamin'
and I'm thinking of you...

715
00:41:56,347 --> 00:41:59,430
Barry: We'd often worked with other
people, but they weren't producers,

716
00:41:59,559 --> 00:42:01,095
and this man was a literal producer.

717
00:42:01,978 --> 00:42:05,812
Oakes: They expressed how much they
wanted to do American R&B kind of stuff,

718
00:42:05,940 --> 00:42:08,602
and arif was top of the heap for that.

719
00:42:08,735 --> 00:42:11,647
Maurice: Arif was so instrumental
in producing black artists,

720
00:42:11,779 --> 00:42:13,189
and we wanted that input.

721
00:42:13,322 --> 00:42:18,817
J it turns me rignt on
when I hear him say...

722
00:42:18,953 --> 00:42:22,537
Robin: We actually did an album
with arif before that, but arif said,

723
00:42:22,665 --> 00:42:24,826
"we've gotta go more into R&B."

724
00:42:24,959 --> 00:42:29,623
And we started working together
right here in Miami down at criteria.

725
00:42:30,882 --> 00:42:34,295
Well, I was in studio b,
and arif says to me,

726
00:42:34,427 --> 00:42:36,213
"Karl, have I got a group for you."

727
00:42:37,847 --> 00:42:39,712
And, of course,
everybody knew the Bee Gees.

728
00:42:40,558 --> 00:42:43,550
It was a surprise, out of nowhere.
I was excited.

729
00:42:43,686 --> 00:42:47,679
You know, they sing like angels,
and they were as excited as I was.

730
00:42:47,815 --> 00:42:49,931
And arif was right in there with them.

731
00:42:50,068 --> 00:42:53,185
Robin: He said, "look, if you're ever
going to break open brand new,

732
00:42:53,321 --> 00:42:54,481
you've gotta start now.

733
00:42:54,614 --> 00:42:57,151
Shock the pants off these people
who don't believe in you."

734
00:42:57,283 --> 00:42:59,990
Maurice: Robert came and saw us
when we were making the album.

735
00:43:00,119 --> 00:43:04,533
Sat down with us on the beach and said,
"right, we're gonna start from scratch.

736
00:43:04,665 --> 00:43:07,702
This is gonna be it. Let's make it big."

737
00:43:09,629 --> 00:43:11,836
Man: If you said to me, or anyone,

738
00:43:11,964 --> 00:43:14,330
“just go and write a hit song
right now,"

739
00:43:14,467 --> 00:43:16,549
they would be able
to craft something good,

740
00:43:16,677 --> 00:43:19,339
but it would probably be missing
this magic that,

741
00:43:19,472 --> 00:43:23,636
if you work in music long enough
you understand is running everything.

742
00:43:23,768 --> 00:43:25,884
Like surfers with waves.

743
00:43:26,020 --> 00:43:29,137
Surfers don't make the waves,
fishermen don't make the fish.

744
00:43:29,273 --> 00:43:32,436
Songwriters don't really write songs,
you receive songs.

745
00:43:34,445 --> 00:43:36,561
Barry: Driving backwards
and forwards to criteria,

746
00:43:36,697 --> 00:43:39,029
this clickety-click thing was going on
on this bridge

747
00:43:39,158 --> 00:43:42,241
every time we crossed over it,
and in my head it sounded like...

748
00:43:46,833 --> 00:43:47,833
And it was gone.

749
00:43:47,959 --> 00:43:51,292
And eventually, I started
singing to it in my head.

750
00:43:51,420 --> 00:43:54,002
J' just your jive talkin...

751
00:43:54,132 --> 00:43:55,872
Kendall: I remember
going in the studio.

752
00:43:56,008 --> 00:43:58,169
Barry said,
"can you do chicken pickin'?"

753
00:43:58,302 --> 00:44:00,258
I didn't really know what it was.

754
00:44:01,264 --> 00:44:04,756
So I played this one note and muted it,
thought it sounded like a chicken.

755
00:44:04,892 --> 00:44:07,429
J tak-it-ta-ka, tak-it-ta-ka...

756
00:44:07,562 --> 00:44:10,804
And mixed with Barry's rhythm guitar,
it really worked, you know.

757
00:44:10,940 --> 00:44:13,522
J' it's just your jive talkin'

758
00:44:13,651 --> 00:44:16,063
j' you're tellin" me lies, yeah

759
00:44:16,195 --> 00:44:17,776
j jive talkin'

760
00:44:17,905 --> 00:44:19,736
j you wear a disguise

761
00:44:20,366 --> 00:44:22,072
j jive talkin'

762
00:44:22,201 --> 00:44:24,533
j so misunderstood, yeah

763
00:44:24,662 --> 00:44:26,323
j jive talkin'

764
00:44:26,455 --> 00:44:28,571
j' you're really no good

765
00:44:28,708 --> 00:44:32,246
at that time, only a handful
of R&B artists were using synthesizers

766
00:44:32,378 --> 00:44:35,666
so we went into this field, uh...

767
00:44:35,798 --> 00:44:37,538
Pioneering in a way.

768
00:44:42,346 --> 00:44:45,930
Music is this huge energy
flying around everywhere,

769
00:44:46,058 --> 00:44:49,471
and if you're lucky, you get little
slices of it that turn into songs.

770
00:44:49,604 --> 00:44:51,890
- There is a sort of...
- Like a radio transmitter.

771
00:44:52,023 --> 00:44:53,354
It's exactly like that.

772
00:44:53,482 --> 00:44:55,210
As if somebody's written
the songs in the air

773
00:44:55,234 --> 00:44:56,474
and they're giving them to us.

774
00:44:56,611 --> 00:44:59,728
J' leaving me looking
like a dumbstruck fool

775
00:44:59,864 --> 00:45:02,321
j' with all your jive talkin'

776
00:45:02,450 --> 00:45:03,565
j you're tellin me lies...

777
00:45:03,701 --> 00:45:06,864
Robin: Robert pressed for "jive talkin™
to come out as the first single,

778
00:45:06,996 --> 00:45:09,328
because it was something
totally unexpected from us.

779
00:45:09,457 --> 00:45:12,665
Oakes: We sent the record out
but without naming the Bee Gees on it

780
00:45:12,793 --> 00:45:17,537
because by then, their stock had fallen
so low with radio stations in America.

781
00:45:17,673 --> 00:45:21,006
And within hours of the record
landing at all the radio stations,

782
00:45:21,135 --> 00:45:24,002
they were calling and saying,
"who is this? This is amazing."

783
00:45:24,138 --> 00:45:25,173
Time, weather, and...

784
00:45:27,058 --> 00:45:29,549
Kasem: The British group
who move into number one this week

785
00:45:29,685 --> 00:45:32,848
hit number one exactly
four years ago to the week.

786
00:45:34,398 --> 00:45:36,354
I'he brand-new number-one song
in the usa,

787
00:45:36,484 --> 00:45:39,772
the Bee Gees and "jive talkin"

788
00:45:44,242 --> 00:45:47,154
Maurice: When "jive talkin™ came out,
everybody went, "who?

789
00:45:47,286 --> 00:45:49,902
The Bee Gees? 'Broken heart' Bee Gees?
Are you kidding?"

790
00:45:50,414 --> 00:45:53,702
Richardson: Something different was
happening, and the brothers felt it too.

791
00:45:53,834 --> 00:45:57,042
Miami, Miami beach,
that whole vibe turned them on.

792
00:45:57,171 --> 00:45:59,537
Barry: I just fell in love
with the atmosphere here.

793
00:45:59,674 --> 00:46:02,040
It reminded me so much
of growing up in Australia.

794
00:46:03,511 --> 00:46:04,626
Man: I'hat's great.

795
00:46:04,762 --> 00:46:07,720
Barry: And from "jive talkin™ onwards,
we kicked it up.

796
00:46:08,766 --> 00:46:11,929
Richardson: The songwriting
was just very unique, nothing like it.

797
00:46:12,061 --> 00:46:15,519
They would write on the spot,
and they would bounce off each other.

798
00:46:15,648 --> 00:46:18,014
Engineer: You let us know
when you're ready.

799
00:46:18,150 --> 00:46:20,087
Richardson: “Nights on Broadway"
was one of those.

800
00:46:20,111 --> 00:46:21,976
The guys had been to New York
and they'd go,

801
00:46:22,113 --> 00:46:23,774
"we gotta write a New York
kind of song."

802
00:46:23,906 --> 00:46:25,316
Engineer: Here we go. Take ten.

803
00:46:25,449 --> 00:46:28,987
Richardson: They just did it naturally
in the studio, and everybody chipped in.

804
00:46:29,120 --> 00:46:30,610
Barry: Three, four...

805
00:46:35,960 --> 00:46:38,042
J well, here we are

806
00:46:39,130 --> 00:46:40,916
j in a room full of...

807
00:46:41,048 --> 00:46:42,879
Barry: Ahmet ertegun came to Miami.

808
00:46:43,009 --> 00:46:45,591
He was there when we were
cutting "nights on Broadway."

809
00:46:45,720 --> 00:46:48,052
At the time, it was
"lights on Broadway."

810
00:46:48,180 --> 00:46:49,465
J blamin' it all

811
00:46:50,516 --> 00:46:52,552
j on the lights on Broadway

812
00:46:53,561 --> 00:46:55,643
and ahmet went, "no."

813
00:46:56,105 --> 00:46:59,643
He says, "you know, you've got to get
more adult about the songs."

814
00:46:59,984 --> 00:47:02,566
And so "lights on Broadway"
became "nights on Broadway."

815
00:47:02,695 --> 00:47:06,233
J well, I had to follow you

816
00:47:07,908 --> 00:47:11,651
j' though you did not want me to

817
00:47:13,664 --> 00:47:16,781
j that won't stop my loving you

818
00:47:18,586 --> 00:47:22,078
j' 1 can't stay away

819
00:47:22,214 --> 00:47:23,670
j blamin' it all

820
00:47:24,800 --> 00:47:27,712
j on the nights on Broadway

821
00:47:27,845 --> 00:47:29,460
j' singing them love songs

822
00:47:30,264 --> 00:47:31,908
j' singing them
straight to the heart songs

823
00:47:31,932 --> 00:47:33,852
Maurice: We were completing
"nights on Broadway."

824
00:47:33,934 --> 00:47:35,765
We'd just done most of the vocal tracks.

825
00:47:35,895 --> 00:47:38,762
Usually at the end you have some adlibs
or some kind of thing

826
00:47:38,898 --> 00:47:41,514
to take us away from the original melody
and have some fun.

827
00:47:41,650 --> 00:47:43,390
Richardson: Arif suggested to the band,

828
00:47:43,527 --> 00:47:45,518
"we really need some kind
of background parts

829
00:47:45,654 --> 00:47:48,942
that come in and express
the meaning of the song."

830
00:47:49,075 --> 00:47:53,444
Barry: He was looking for one of us
to scream, in tune, if possible.

831
00:47:54,121 --> 00:47:55,782
I said, "I'll give it a shot.”

832
00:47:55,915 --> 00:47:58,622
Are we almost ready? Well, let's do it.

833
00:47:58,751 --> 00:48:01,538
So he went out then,
he did the "blamin" it all's.

834
00:48:03,339 --> 00:48:04,704
J biamin' it all

835
00:48:06,133 --> 00:48:08,089
j' blame it on the nights on Broadway

836
00:48:08,719 --> 00:48:10,459
everybody in the control room woke up,

837
00:48:10,596 --> 00:48:12,837
and it was like,
"oh, this is a new sound."

838
00:48:12,973 --> 00:48:15,430
J blamin' it all on the nights
on Broadway

839
00:48:15,559 --> 00:48:17,470
j' blame it on the nights on Broadway

840
00:48:17,603 --> 00:48:21,095
Barry: I was thinking, "my god, where
is this coming from? I can do this."

841
00:48:21,232 --> 00:48:23,518
My whole life I didn't know
I could do this.

842
00:48:23,651 --> 00:48:24,857
Everybody's giving me credit.

843
00:48:24,985 --> 00:48:27,146
No, he was singing it.
I said, "keep on doing it."

844
00:48:27,279 --> 00:48:29,190
J' blame it on the nights on Broadway

845
00:48:29,323 --> 00:48:30,859
j' yeah, yeah

846
00:48:30,991 --> 00:48:33,903
j' singing them
straight to the heart songs

847
00:48:34,036 --> 00:48:35,071
j blamin' it all...

848
00:48:35,204 --> 00:48:38,321
Arif brought it out of us, all that.
We weren't the first to sing falsetto.

849
00:48:42,670 --> 00:48:45,582
We loved the stylistics.
We loved the spinners, the delfonics.

850
00:48:46,424 --> 00:48:48,335
They were all falsetto lead singers.

851
00:48:49,093 --> 00:48:52,426
J' if I had money I'd go out

852
00:48:52,555 --> 00:48:53,635
j' buy you pearls

853
00:48:53,764 --> 00:48:56,801
j' dress you like a queen

854
00:48:56,934 --> 00:48:59,016
Riley: Something to be said
about all music

855
00:48:59,145 --> 00:49:01,136
is that it doesn't happen in a vacuum.

856
00:49:01,272 --> 00:49:05,140
The falsetto is very much
a black tradition.

857
00:49:05,276 --> 00:49:09,315
But they've translated it into
this interesting interpretation of soul.

858
00:49:10,322 --> 00:49:13,029
But I guess, more importantly for me,
it's emotional.

859
00:49:18,414 --> 00:49:22,453
Because we were so excited about this,
we started writing songs for this voice.

860
00:49:22,585 --> 00:49:24,826
Richardson: It created another
dimension of sound.

861
00:49:24,962 --> 00:49:26,953
That's what we thought, emotionally.

862
00:49:27,089 --> 00:49:30,252
It became another icon of the Gibbs.

863
00:49:30,384 --> 00:49:34,593
Everybody knew when you heard
that falsetto, that's the Bee Gees.

864
00:49:34,722 --> 00:49:39,182
J ooh, be tender with my love

865
00:49:39,894 --> 00:49:43,682
j' you know how easy it is to hurt me

866
00:49:43,814 --> 00:49:45,350
Maurice: When we sing songs like...

867
00:49:45,483 --> 00:49:48,520
J' you know how easy it is to hurt me

868
00:49:49,111 --> 00:49:50,976
it's Barry and Robin
singing in unison,

869
00:49:51,113 --> 00:49:54,571
but they mesh together so well
that it sounds like one voice,

870
00:49:54,700 --> 00:49:57,112
but it's a different voice
from them separately.

871
00:49:57,244 --> 00:49:59,530
J with my love

872
00:49:59,663 --> 00:50:02,655
j' you know how easy it is to hurt me

873
00:50:02,791 --> 00:50:04,247
j yeah-eah

874
00:50:04,376 --> 00:50:06,332
j' Fanny, be tender...

875
00:50:06,462 --> 00:50:08,544
Riley: It's delivered with such delicacy

876
00:50:08,672 --> 00:50:12,381
and the message in the lyrics

877
00:50:13,427 --> 00:50:15,884
was what guys should say,

878
00:50:16,013 --> 00:50:18,345
didn't say, couldn't say,
for whatever reasons.

879
00:50:18,474 --> 00:50:21,841
It's the kind of music you might have
bought and given to your girlfriend.

880
00:50:21,977 --> 00:50:24,889
But that's what
was special about them.

881
00:50:25,022 --> 00:50:26,228
J ahh

882
00:50:26,357 --> 00:50:28,518
j ahh-ah-ah

883
00:50:28,651 --> 00:50:32,109
j' Fanny, be tender with my love

884
00:50:32,238 --> 00:50:34,650
Barry: Main course became
a turning point for us.

885
00:50:34,782 --> 00:50:39,572
Dennis bryon on drums
and blue Weaver and Alan Kendall.

886
00:50:39,703 --> 00:50:41,239
That became our band.

887
00:50:41,372 --> 00:50:43,328
J with my love

888
00:50:43,457 --> 00:50:45,789
j' cos it's all that I've got

889
00:50:45,918 --> 00:50:48,625
j' and my love won't desert me

890
00:50:48,754 --> 00:50:50,915
j be Fender, tender...

891
00:50:54,260 --> 00:50:57,969
In many ways they were
chameleons of pop.

892
00:50:58,639 --> 00:51:00,300
Clapton: The way they changed

893
00:51:00,432 --> 00:51:03,595
and the groove they got into there
was so profound.

894
00:51:04,103 --> 00:51:07,561
If that was something
that was initiated by me,

895
00:51:07,690 --> 00:51:11,433
I can't think of any... it's one of
the great things I've done in my life.

896
00:51:11,569 --> 00:51:13,309
I'll take full credit.

897
00:51:22,037 --> 00:51:25,154
Barry: We were getting ready
to record the next album,

898
00:51:25,291 --> 00:51:29,955
and we get this phone call that arif
can't be involved in this album.

899
00:51:31,714 --> 00:51:35,878
Robert chose to take the organization
away from Atlantic records

900
00:51:36,010 --> 00:51:37,466
and go private.

901
00:51:38,470 --> 00:51:40,961
Atlantic, who were not happy about that,

902
00:51:41,098 --> 00:51:43,931
said, "you're not using arif anymore,
he's a house producer.”

903
00:51:44,059 --> 00:51:46,471
I said, "what about the next album?”
you know.

904
00:51:46,604 --> 00:51:49,391
I said, "who do you think
can continue where you left off?"

905
00:51:51,734 --> 00:51:54,066
Richardson: I got a call from Barry
and he said,

906
00:51:54,194 --> 00:51:56,526
“I want my studio time back
to work with you."

907
00:52:00,868 --> 00:52:02,529
And I'm in the control room.

908
00:52:02,661 --> 00:52:04,117
I said to Dennis the drummer,

909
00:52:04,246 --> 00:52:07,363
“that pattern you're playing right now
is just a little too busy."

910
00:52:09,251 --> 00:52:11,037
He said, "well, what do you mean?"

911
00:52:11,170 --> 00:52:14,662
I said, "I can't get into specifics
about the note values."

912
00:52:14,798 --> 00:52:17,790
I didn't have a technical term
for the open and closed hi-hat

913
00:52:17,926 --> 00:52:19,257
or any of that stuff.

914
00:52:19,386 --> 00:52:22,799
So apparently, I needed a communicator.

915
00:52:25,893 --> 00:52:29,556
Man: I was working as an independent
producer on some pub band in London.

916
00:52:29,688 --> 00:52:31,974
Karl called and he said,
"what are you doing?"

917
00:52:32,107 --> 00:52:34,564
I said, "I finished the mix.
I'm on a plane tomorrow."

918
00:52:34,693 --> 00:52:37,560
Richardson: Albhy went to berklee
school of music in new england

919
00:52:37,696 --> 00:52:39,982
and he was one of my best friends.

920
00:52:40,115 --> 00:52:42,276
He says,
"I'll be on the next flight to Florida."

921
00:52:42,409 --> 00:52:44,695
J' baby, you turn me on...

922
00:52:44,828 --> 00:52:47,661
Galuten: I got off the plane,
I went straight to the studio.

923
00:52:47,790 --> 00:52:50,748
I walked in, they were working
on "you should be dancing."

924
00:52:50,876 --> 00:52:53,788
They came in the control room
and Barry said, "what did you think?"

925
00:52:53,921 --> 00:52:57,084
And I said, "well, I just got in,
but sounds awfully good."

926
00:52:57,216 --> 00:52:59,628
We seemed to hit it off,
so I came back the next day.

927
00:52:59,760 --> 00:53:03,093
We have to remember at the time,
albhy was a hippie.

928
00:53:03,222 --> 00:53:04,587
I mean, he was just different.

929
00:53:04,723 --> 00:53:07,510
J 1 get lifted up...

930
00:53:07,643 --> 00:53:11,181
Albhy used to hang around the studio,
and I got on really well with him.

931
00:53:11,855 --> 00:53:15,222
I found out he played on
"I shot the sheriff" with Eric.

932
00:53:15,359 --> 00:53:20,274
Albhy had an inroad into technology
and he had a great ear.

933
00:53:20,406 --> 00:53:23,148
Everybody just seemed to be,
I think, relieved

934
00:53:23,283 --> 00:53:28,903
to have another ear in the control room
to hear what they were doing as a whole.

935
00:53:37,798 --> 00:53:42,167
In the beginning when I came,
the three brothers were clearly a unit.

936
00:53:42,302 --> 00:53:45,635
Each knew the way their brother sang
and would be on the same mic,

937
00:53:45,764 --> 00:53:49,677
and they would lean in or lean out
or complement each other's voices,

938
00:53:49,810 --> 00:53:51,641
so it was in perfect synchrony.

939
00:53:51,770 --> 00:53:54,261
J' how a love so rignt

940
00:53:54,398 --> 00:53:55,604
j ooh

941
00:53:55,733 --> 00:53:59,351
j' can turn out to be so wrong...

942
00:53:59,486 --> 00:54:02,023
Barry: We found another sound,
we found a new sound.

943
00:54:02,156 --> 00:54:05,319
I came up with a lot of new ideas
to suit the falsetto.

944
00:54:05,993 --> 00:54:10,111
Everybody was saying the same thing.
"Do that falsetto again."

945
00:54:10,247 --> 00:54:12,408
That was fine for me,
I was having a ball.

946
00:54:18,422 --> 00:54:21,914
Man: A lot of new music
has been coming out of Miami lately.

947
00:54:22,050 --> 00:54:26,635
Enough so that we've even heard
mentioned the term "Miami sound.”

948
00:54:27,931 --> 00:54:30,547
J my baby moves at midnight

949
00:54:31,810 --> 00:54:33,971
j goes right on till the dawn

950
00:54:34,104 --> 00:54:36,311
Riley: This is actually
a really important period

951
00:54:36,440 --> 00:54:39,398
for musicianship and production
and songwriting

952
00:54:39,526 --> 00:54:41,517
that targets the dance floor.

953
00:54:44,198 --> 00:54:46,280
It's a different emotional energy,

954
00:54:46,408 --> 00:54:48,740
which is about,
"can you make the body move?

955
00:54:48,869 --> 00:54:50,655
Can you make the body happy?"

956
00:54:50,788 --> 00:54:54,246
J' you should be dancing, yeah

957
00:54:55,417 --> 00:54:57,282
j' dancing, yeah

958
00:54:57,419 --> 00:55:02,209
man: And certain songs sounded like
the human embodiment of a brass section.

959
00:55:02,341 --> 00:55:05,048
- The same way a horn just punches?
- Man: Yeah.

960
00:55:05,761 --> 00:55:07,547
That's what Barry's voice reminds me of.

961
00:55:07,679 --> 00:55:10,091
J gives me power

962
00:55:10,682 --> 00:55:13,219
j goes right down to my blood

963
00:55:13,352 --> 00:55:16,890
I was always into
arrangement of instruments.

964
00:55:17,022 --> 00:55:21,891
“You should be dancing,” their voices
together sound like trumpets to me.

965
00:55:22,027 --> 00:55:25,440
J' you should be dancing, yeah

966
00:55:25,572 --> 00:55:28,154
I am not high, for the record.
I just wanna...

967
00:55:34,581 --> 00:55:37,573
It was a discovery,
and we discovered a new audience.

968
00:55:37,709 --> 00:55:41,201
Man: At the clubs,
"you should be dancing" exploded.

969
00:55:41,338 --> 00:55:44,455
Not just, "oh, well, I heard that record
and I really liked it."

970
00:55:44,591 --> 00:55:49,176
It was three times a night
at any club that you went to.

971
00:55:49,304 --> 00:55:53,923
There was a whole industry that was
built around this clubbing thing.

972
00:55:54,059 --> 00:55:57,802
Billboard started a chart
that was dance music chart.

973
00:55:58,355 --> 00:56:04,021
This billion-dollar industry was being
built way before the Bee Gees.

974
00:56:04,152 --> 00:56:07,644
A lot of people
don't realize disco started

975
00:56:07,781 --> 00:56:10,238
in the gay and the black community.

976
00:56:10,367 --> 00:56:14,326
People don't understand what it was like
back then for gay people.

977
00:56:14,454 --> 00:56:19,369
There was a law in New York that
did not allow people of the same sex

978
00:56:19,501 --> 00:56:24,541
to dance together in a place
that had a liquor license.

979
00:56:24,673 --> 00:56:29,007
And then the law changed
and that allowed me to open my club.

980
00:56:31,305 --> 00:56:36,891
A new era of dance music started
in the gay underground clubs.

981
00:56:37,769 --> 00:56:40,055
J dream world

982
00:56:41,356 --> 00:56:47,852
so, the record industry
wants to name it, package it, sell it.

983
00:56:48,864 --> 00:56:52,948
That was the explosion
of the disco sound.

984
00:56:53,827 --> 00:56:56,944
J dream world

985
00:57:00,334 --> 00:57:03,121
we're down at criteria sound studios

986
00:57:03,253 --> 00:57:05,494
and currently it's the studio

987
00:57:05,631 --> 00:57:07,838
that's being used by the Bee Gees.

988
00:57:07,966 --> 00:57:11,959
What particular thing about the studio
makes it so attractive?

989
00:57:12,095 --> 00:57:14,552
It's cheap? = no.

990
00:57:15,599 --> 00:57:17,806
Cheap it isn't, but...

991
00:57:17,935 --> 00:57:20,893
But the actual atmosphere of the place
is very relaxing.

992
00:57:21,021 --> 00:57:23,262
We create better here
than anywhere else.

993
00:57:23,398 --> 00:57:24,958
That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

994
00:57:29,863 --> 00:57:32,320
Maurice:
America was the ultimate dream.

995
00:57:32,449 --> 00:57:36,567
As three kids, we said, "one day
we're gonna have houses in America

996
00:57:36,703 --> 00:57:38,819
all next door to each other
with swimming pools."

997
00:57:40,082 --> 00:57:41,788
We thought, "oh, that'll be great.”

998
00:57:47,047 --> 00:57:49,413
It was a huge uprooting.

999
00:57:51,093 --> 00:57:53,004
It's a very large family.

1000
00:57:53,136 --> 00:57:56,594
And it just kept getting
bigger and bigger over time.

1001
00:57:57,933 --> 00:58:00,470
Mum and dad came to Miami
as quickly as we did.

1002
00:58:01,311 --> 00:58:04,394
I think they were probably the happiest
they'd ever been in their lives.

1003
00:58:04,523 --> 00:58:06,980
And of course Andy came here with them.

1004
00:58:10,028 --> 00:58:12,815
Richardson: Andy was a gift
out of left field.

1005
00:58:13,573 --> 00:58:15,404
But I never knew he existed

1006
00:58:15,534 --> 00:58:18,947
until one day,
he shows up fresh from Australia.

1007
00:58:20,872 --> 00:58:22,533
Barry: Andy was a great kid.

1008
00:58:22,666 --> 00:58:24,827
He could do anything he set his mind to.

1009
00:58:25,293 --> 00:58:27,579
Barry was Andy's idol.

1010
00:58:28,130 --> 00:58:31,122
- They were almost like twins.
- Barry: We were very much alike.

1011
00:58:31,258 --> 00:58:33,340
We looked alike,
we had the same birthmarks.

1012
00:58:33,468 --> 00:58:36,756
I would say we were as much like twins
as Maurice and Robin.

1013
00:58:37,472 --> 00:58:40,179
Maurice: Main course, and
children of the world which followed,

1014
00:58:40,308 --> 00:58:41,764
were triple platinum.

1015
00:58:41,893 --> 00:58:44,054
I think he really wanted
to be a part of that.

1016
00:58:44,187 --> 00:58:47,554
They suggested that I go to Australia,
as my brothers first did in 1958,

1017
00:58:47,691 --> 00:58:49,272
when I was only five months old,

1018
00:58:49,401 --> 00:58:51,687
and start working there
and get some records released.

1019
00:58:52,654 --> 00:58:56,647
Linda: Andy was very young then.
He had his little band.

1020
00:58:56,783 --> 00:58:59,900
Barry: It was a process of building
him up, getting him to play live,

1021
00:59:00,037 --> 00:59:01,447
and getting him to be an artist.

1022
00:59:01,580 --> 00:59:02,990
Andy: I was there for two years.

1023
00:59:03,123 --> 00:59:06,991
A phone call came from my brother Barry
and said, "I wanna produce you."

1024
00:59:07,127 --> 00:59:09,994
And I think it was two weeks
I was in the studio

1025
00:59:10,130 --> 00:59:11,916
to do a new album in Miami.

1026
00:59:12,049 --> 00:59:13,755
I didn't think I was ready.

1027
00:59:13,884 --> 00:59:16,921
The first few times in front of a real
professional studio microphone,

1028
00:59:17,054 --> 00:59:18,919
Andy was, like, petrified.

1029
00:59:19,056 --> 00:59:21,388
But, you know, Barry was there

1030
00:59:21,516 --> 00:59:24,474
and guided him through
and helped him with lyrics.

1031
00:59:24,603 --> 00:59:27,265
He was very receptive to new ideas.

1032
00:59:30,484 --> 00:59:35,729
And it didn't take him long, you know,
to find, like, another groove.

1033
00:59:41,078 --> 00:59:42,659
J' for so long

1034
00:59:44,498 --> 00:59:48,616
j you and me been finding
each other for so long...

1035
00:59:48,752 --> 00:59:51,494
Galuten: The Bee Gees' point of view
was about having hit records

1036
00:59:51,630 --> 00:59:52,995
and being on the radio, and so,

1037
00:59:53,131 --> 00:59:55,964
the greatest gift that you could give
to your younger brother

1038
00:59:56,093 --> 00:59:59,176
would be to give him that success,
to write songs with him,

1039
00:59:59,304 --> 01:00:00,919
to teach him to be a star.

1040
01:00:01,056 --> 01:00:02,887
Jil..il..

1041
01:00:04,059 --> 01:00:07,392
J' 1 just wanna be your everything...

1042
01:00:07,521 --> 01:00:09,352
Barry: Then suddenly, out of nowhere,

1043
01:00:09,481 --> 01:00:11,517
Andy had about three
number ones in a row.

1044
01:00:11,650 --> 01:00:13,140
Oakes: He was a teen idol.

1045
01:00:13,276 --> 01:00:15,608
There wasn't talk about him
becoming a bee gee.

1046
01:00:15,737 --> 01:00:19,104
Robin saw he had a younger audience.
It was smart to keep him on his own.

1047
01:00:19,866 --> 01:00:21,447
J oh, baby

1048
01:00:21,576 --> 01:00:22,736
ji...

1049
01:00:23,703 --> 01:00:28,242
J if I stay here without you,
darling, I would die

1050
01:00:28,375 --> 01:00:30,411
Barry: All of the sudden,
he was the big thing.

1051
01:00:30,544 --> 01:00:34,628
There was a period when we lived
in the shadow of Andy's band.

1052
01:00:35,674 --> 01:00:38,962
J' io be your everything

1053
01:00:44,057 --> 01:00:46,093
Richardson:
After children of the world album,

1054
01:00:46,226 --> 01:00:49,468
the next project
we were booked to record in France,

1055
01:00:49,604 --> 01:00:53,938
cos of the Elton John album
honky chateau. It sounded great.

1056
01:00:54,067 --> 01:00:56,683
J bye-bye, chateau, I must leave you

1057
01:00:56,820 --> 01:00:58,276
j though it breaks my heart

1058
01:00:58,405 --> 01:01:02,239
Robert sent us there.
I think it was some kind of tax thing.

1059
01:01:02,367 --> 01:01:04,983
Richardson: We thought,
"if this studio sounds that good,

1060
01:01:05,120 --> 01:01:07,862
yeah, let's go off to France, why not?"

1061
01:01:12,294 --> 01:01:16,128
It wasn't the honky chateau
that Elton John had used.

1062
01:01:19,301 --> 01:01:21,838
A chateau sounds
absolutely gorgeous, doesn't it?

1063
01:01:21,970 --> 01:01:23,676
Beautiful building.

1064
01:01:23,805 --> 01:01:26,012
Great grounds and gardens
and ponds and fountains.

1065
01:01:26,141 --> 01:01:29,053
No, it's nothing like that.

1066
01:01:29,186 --> 01:01:32,929
It was a half-built castle.
No central heating, nothing.

1067
01:01:33,064 --> 01:01:34,064
And it was a dump.

1068
01:01:34,191 --> 01:01:36,557
Yvonne: We seemed to be
in the middle of nowhere.

1069
01:01:36,693 --> 01:01:38,604
Not a happy place to be.

1070
01:01:38,737 --> 01:01:42,070
It was kind of decrepit. I think
it'd been used to make porn movies.

1071
01:01:42,782 --> 01:01:43,942
This was not right.

1072
01:01:45,035 --> 01:01:49,620
But because there was a contract,
we just decided to plough on through.

1073
01:01:49,748 --> 01:01:53,957
Barry: We were going there to mix a live
album called here at last... live.

1074
01:01:54,085 --> 01:01:57,122
But also we were getting songs ready
for our new studio album,

1075
01:01:57,255 --> 01:01:59,587
which would be the follow-up
to children of the world.

1076
01:01:59,716 --> 01:02:02,879
And we got a call from Robert stigwood.

1077
01:02:09,017 --> 01:02:12,635
A friend of mine, Nik cohn, wrote
this piece for New York magazine,

1078
01:02:12,771 --> 01:02:14,932
"tribal rites
of the new Saturday night."

1079
01:02:15,065 --> 01:02:17,932
Disco was really under way,
in Manhattan, anyway.

1080
01:02:18,068 --> 01:02:19,729
But Nik cohn's point was that,

1081
01:02:19,861 --> 01:02:22,022
rather than just being
underground gay clubs,

1082
01:02:22,155 --> 01:02:26,068
straight couples are doing the hustle
on Saturday night in the suburbs.

1083
01:02:26,201 --> 01:02:28,863
I got Robert to buy the film rights
to a magazine article,

1084
01:02:28,995 --> 01:02:30,280
in which there was no story.

1085
01:02:30,413 --> 01:02:33,826
But it caught Robert's attention
because he saw

1086
01:02:33,959 --> 01:02:36,701
that that's a lead role for an actor,
if it was a movie.

1087
01:02:37,462 --> 01:02:39,919
He announced at the Beverly Hills hotel
at breakfast,

1088
01:02:40,048 --> 01:02:42,380
“I'm signing John Travolta
to a three-picture deal.”

1089
01:02:42,509 --> 01:02:43,919
People thought he was mad.

1090
01:02:44,052 --> 01:02:47,544
He was a TV actor. No one gets
a million dollars for three pictures.

1091
01:02:47,681 --> 01:02:51,048
Turned out to be the bargain of the
century because he got him for grease

1092
01:02:51,184 --> 01:02:54,267
and the movie we don't talk about,
moment by moment.

1093
01:02:54,396 --> 01:02:55,806
But two out of three's not bad.

1094
01:02:57,941 --> 01:03:01,854
I was still running rso records,
so my job was to do the soundtrack.

1095
01:03:01,987 --> 01:03:05,479
And my brief was,
"put all your favorite disco tracks.

1096
01:03:05,615 --> 01:03:08,055
Everyone will play it at a party
and will never stop dancing."

1097
01:03:13,290 --> 01:03:14,905
These were comparatively easy,

1098
01:03:15,041 --> 01:03:17,623
but we needed the Bee Gees
to write their few songs.

1099
01:03:18,795 --> 01:03:22,003
Barry: A phone call came from Robert
saying, "I wanna make this film."

1100
01:03:22,132 --> 01:03:24,339
He said, "but I'm gonna need
two or three songs."

1101
01:03:24,467 --> 01:03:26,879
It wasn't the idea that they would
do the soundtrack.

1102
01:03:27,012 --> 01:03:30,254
We knew they were busy, but,
"have you got some songs?" Robert said.

1103
01:03:30,390 --> 01:03:31,755
And they said, "yeah, sure.”

1104
01:03:32,809 --> 01:03:35,300
Barry: Robert said,
“I'm sending you a script."

1105
01:03:35,437 --> 01:03:37,803
But we decided not to read the script.

1106
01:03:37,939 --> 01:03:40,225
Robin: We weren't writing
the fever music.

1107
01:03:40,358 --> 01:03:43,942
We were writing our new album
and just having fun doing it.

1108
01:03:44,070 --> 01:03:48,154
They had a couple of tunes, or titles.
We thought, "let's leave it with them."

1109
01:03:48,283 --> 01:03:52,447
What we ended up doing
was the demos of these songs.

1110
01:03:52,579 --> 01:03:54,285
And I was really surprised

1111
01:03:54,414 --> 01:03:56,700
that it was only a few weeks later
we got the songs.

1112
01:03:57,625 --> 01:04:01,209
We got a cassette,
and to this day, it's amazing.

1113
01:04:10,096 --> 01:04:12,303
J on the waves of the air...

1114
01:04:12,432 --> 01:04:15,299
J you're in my life

1115
01:04:15,435 --> 01:04:18,848
it was just one after the other.
"Stayin' alive," "more than a woman."

1116
01:04:18,980 --> 01:04:23,019
"How deep is your love,"
"if I can't have you," "night fever."

1117
01:04:23,151 --> 01:04:27,315
On one cassette. I thought,
"yes, we've got a soundtrack."

1118
01:04:27,447 --> 01:04:29,859
Kendall: You know,
you listen to that tape,

1119
01:04:29,991 --> 01:04:32,107
whoever was playing,
there would have been hits.

1120
01:04:32,243 --> 01:04:36,907
The songs are so good, you think,
"shit," you know? "That's so cool.”

1121
01:04:37,874 --> 01:04:39,114
Barry: We had the demos,

1122
01:04:39,250 --> 01:04:42,037
and then we went into the process
of making real records.

1123
01:04:42,170 --> 01:04:46,630
Barry, Karl and I lived in that control
room, I don't know, 16 hours a day.

1124
01:04:46,758 --> 01:04:49,124
Yeah, that was the only thing to do.

1125
01:04:51,596 --> 01:04:53,336
We recorded "night fever" first.

1126
01:04:53,473 --> 01:04:55,009
We actually had that in the can.

1127
01:04:57,143 --> 01:05:00,055
Barry: Robert called and said,
"I need a title for the film."

1128
01:05:00,188 --> 01:05:03,021
"What I've got at the moment,”
I said, "is two titles:

1129
01:05:03,149 --> 01:05:07,062
Stayin' alive and night fever,"
and he said, "night fever."

1130
01:05:08,154 --> 01:05:11,612
He said, "sounds ok,
but it sounds a bit too pornographic.

1131
01:05:12,409 --> 01:05:15,321
It needs to be called
Saturday night,” he said.

1132
01:05:15,453 --> 01:05:17,489
So it turned into
Saturday night fever.

1133
01:05:17,622 --> 01:05:20,614
J' night fever, night fever

1134
01:05:20,750 --> 01:05:22,786
j we know how fo do it

1135
01:05:22,919 --> 01:05:25,331
oakes: We were editing fever
on the lot at Paramount.

1136
01:05:25,463 --> 01:05:27,749
I was deluged
by Paramount people saying,

1137
01:05:27,882 --> 01:05:29,918
"how's your little disco movie
coming along?"

1138
01:05:30,051 --> 01:05:31,461
So that was a bit patronizing.

1139
01:05:31,594 --> 01:05:34,961
But the inspiring thing was that
stigwood during post-production said,

1140
01:05:35,098 --> 01:05:38,090
"why wait for the release of the film?
Let's put out a single now."

1141
01:05:38,226 --> 01:05:41,013
Then he started with the heads
of Paramount. "How many theatres?"

1142
01:05:41,146 --> 01:05:42,727
They told him something like 200.

1143
01:05:42,856 --> 01:05:45,393
He said, "I'm releasing the record
in every city.

1144
01:05:45,525 --> 01:05:47,481
Why can't it be in every single city?"

1145
01:05:47,610 --> 01:05:50,647
So they made a deal whereby
if the record got to the top 20,

1146
01:05:50,780 --> 01:05:52,987
they would increase
the number of screens.

1147
01:05:53,116 --> 01:05:54,731
If it got top ten, they'd go more.

1148
01:05:54,868 --> 01:05:57,450
He said, "I need the first record
to be number one."

1149
01:06:01,875 --> 01:06:04,287
Weaver: Stigwood phoned up
and said to Barry,

1150
01:06:05,253 --> 01:06:08,916
"il need the best love song
you've ever written for the movie."

1151
01:06:09,757 --> 01:06:11,873
So we went into a room in the chateau.

1152
01:06:12,635 --> 01:06:16,253
Chopin had stayed there,
so every time I looked at this piano,

1153
01:06:16,389 --> 01:06:18,755
I envisaged chopin
sitting down and playing.

1154
01:06:20,393 --> 01:06:23,977
I sat down at the piano
and thought of his prelude in e flat,

1155
01:06:24,105 --> 01:06:26,266
and I knew Barry could sing in e flat.

1156
01:06:27,484 --> 01:06:30,442
When we were working like that,
I had a cassette player.

1157
01:06:37,243 --> 01:06:39,074
Barry: I think I wanna end there.

1158
01:06:47,086 --> 01:06:51,170
And I'm sure it happened at that point,
through the stained-glass window,

1159
01:06:52,008 --> 01:06:54,465
came a beam of sunlight, you know?

1160
01:06:54,594 --> 01:06:57,006
J' your eyes in the morning sun...

1161
01:06:59,307 --> 01:07:03,141
Barry: J I know your eyes
in the morning sun

1162
01:07:03,269 --> 01:07:08,059
j I feel you touch me
in the pouring rain...

1163
01:07:08,191 --> 01:07:11,479
Barry: And that's a memory,
that will last me all my life.

1164
01:07:12,153 --> 01:07:13,438
Never forget it.

1165
01:07:13,905 --> 01:07:15,111
Never forget it.

1166
01:07:18,451 --> 01:07:20,908
Weaver: All the feelings,
all the emotions are still there.

1167
01:07:21,037 --> 01:07:23,449
When you talk about it,
it all comes back.

1168
01:07:25,667 --> 01:07:26,998
I have a...

1169
01:07:29,003 --> 01:07:30,959
My heart is in that song.

1170
01:07:32,549 --> 01:07:36,667
J' I know your eyes in the morning sun

1171
01:07:36,803 --> 01:07:40,671
j I feel you touch me
in the pouring rain

1172
01:07:41,432 --> 01:07:45,926
j and the moment
that you wander far from me

1173
01:07:46,062 --> 01:07:49,304
j' I want to feel you in my arms again

1174
01:07:50,525 --> 01:07:55,064
j and you come to me
on a summer breeze

1175
01:07:55,196 --> 01:07:59,940
j keep me warm in your love
then you softly leave

1176
01:08:00,076 --> 01:08:02,863
j and it's me you need to show

1177
01:08:03,580 --> 01:08:09,616
j how deep is your love?

1178
01:08:09,752 --> 01:08:13,244
J' 1 really need to learn

1179
01:08:13,381 --> 01:08:18,000
j cos we're living in a world of fools

1180
01:08:18,136 --> 01:08:19,626
j' breaking us down

1181
01:08:20,305 --> 01:08:24,594
j when they all should let us be

1182
01:08:24,726 --> 01:08:28,810
j we belong to you and me

1183
01:08:30,607 --> 01:08:32,393
Weaver: Everything came together.

1184
01:08:33,276 --> 01:08:35,892
But sadly, Dennis had had some bad news.

1185
01:08:36,029 --> 01:08:39,146
Bryon: My mother was in hospital.
She had Alzheimer's.

1186
01:08:39,282 --> 01:08:42,490
So, you know...
I told Barry what was going on.

1187
01:08:42,619 --> 01:08:45,736
He said, "get dick to book you
a flight now."

1188
01:08:45,872 --> 01:08:49,911
He had to fly back to the uk,
and we had no drummer.

1189
01:08:50,043 --> 01:08:52,034
We thought, well,
we've got to carry on writing

1190
01:08:52,170 --> 01:08:54,286
and getting these tracks together.

1191
01:09:02,597 --> 01:09:05,088
Galuten: When I was at berklee,
I had studied things

1192
01:09:05,224 --> 01:09:06,760
where they were moving tapes around

1193
01:09:06,893 --> 01:09:09,100
and make sort of
these interesting Sonic loops.

1194
01:09:09,937 --> 01:09:11,268
And when Dennis was not there,

1195
01:09:11,397 --> 01:09:15,185
I said, "well, why don't we just take
a bar out of 'night fever'?

1196
01:09:15,318 --> 01:09:19,357
It's a slower tempo, we'll slow it down
a little bit and make a loop out of it."

1197
01:09:25,370 --> 01:09:28,578
We found a bar that we thought
had a nice feel to it.

1198
01:09:28,706 --> 01:09:32,915
We copied it over
to a half-inch four-track

1199
01:09:33,044 --> 01:09:35,660
and spliced the tape into a loop.

1200
01:09:41,052 --> 01:09:43,964
Galuten: I was pretty good at imagining
what you might be able to do,

1201
01:09:44,097 --> 01:09:46,133
but Karl was able to make it happen.

1202
01:09:46,265 --> 01:09:49,007
Richardson: It was just necessity
being the mother of invention.

1203
01:09:50,478 --> 01:09:54,847
Galuten: No one had taken a drum beat
before and created a two-bar phrase.

1204
01:09:54,982 --> 01:09:57,394
We were breaking new ground.

1205
01:09:57,527 --> 01:09:58,607
Man: Perfect.

1206
01:09:58,736 --> 01:10:00,692
Galuten: This is the first time
we had ever

1207
01:10:00,822 --> 01:10:04,360
taken the song and built it
piece by piece from the ground up,

1208
01:10:04,492 --> 01:10:05,982
and we started with this drum loop.

1209
01:10:07,662 --> 01:10:09,323
And then we did a bass line.

1210
01:10:11,374 --> 01:10:12,374
Then a guitar part.

1211
01:10:17,547 --> 01:10:20,664
Never again would we rely
as much on the liveness.

1212
01:10:20,800 --> 01:10:23,166
We would always know that
we could construct the song

1213
01:10:23,302 --> 01:10:27,136
and put the pieces together based on
the original vision of the song

1214
01:10:27,265 --> 01:10:28,880
and how we imagined it.

1215
01:10:31,602 --> 01:10:35,186
I got back to the sessions
and there was just a buzz.

1216
01:10:35,314 --> 01:10:37,976
When we did it, we thought,
"we're just doing this temporarily.

1217
01:10:38,109 --> 01:10:40,691
When Dennis comes back,
we'll replace it with real drums."

1218
01:10:40,820 --> 01:10:44,608
But what happened is, the feel was
so amazing, we couldn't get rid of it.

1219
01:10:44,741 --> 01:10:48,450
He played it for me, and I could tell,
from the first listen,

1220
01:10:48,578 --> 01:10:52,617
I said, "man, that is amazing.”

1221
01:10:52,749 --> 01:10:56,412
When you listen to the drum track
on "stayin' alive," like, by itself,

1222
01:10:56,544 --> 01:10:59,456
it's really this super rugged,
like, tough thing.

1223
01:10:59,589 --> 01:11:00,920
It's like...

1224
01:11:03,509 --> 01:11:06,091
It's not pretty or pop
like you remember, it's pretty tough.

1225
01:11:09,348 --> 01:11:12,465
Barry: "Stayin' alive” was the influence
that New York gave to us.

1226
01:11:13,394 --> 01:11:17,888
And the energy level at that point,
in the late '70s, was really that.

1227
01:11:18,024 --> 01:11:19,480
You know, survival, it's survival.

1228
01:11:19,609 --> 01:11:21,816
Man: This is "77, everybody know
the time is hard.

1229
01:11:21,944 --> 01:11:25,357
You know, if I was out there myself,
I would have got what I wanted, too.

1230
01:11:25,490 --> 01:11:28,152
- Reporter: You were not a looter?
- No, I wasn't. Unfortunate.

1231
01:11:28,284 --> 01:11:30,696
Reporter: Do you feel threatened
by the .44 caliber killer?

1232
01:11:30,828 --> 01:11:31,943
Woman: Yes, I do.

1233
01:11:32,079 --> 01:11:35,071
I don't feel free to walk the streets
or go out at all.

1234
01:11:35,666 --> 01:11:39,124
Robin: Very few people realize
it's to do with anything but dance.

1235
01:11:39,253 --> 01:11:41,209
The lyrics don't talk about dance
at all.

1236
01:11:41,964 --> 01:11:45,707
And the lyrics very obviously state
the scenario of survival.

1237
01:11:45,843 --> 01:11:48,300
J whether you're a brother
or whether you're a mother

1238
01:11:48,429 --> 01:11:50,511
j' you're stayin' alive, stayin' alive

1239
01:11:50,640 --> 01:11:52,756
j feel the city breakin'
and everybody shakin'

1240
01:11:52,892 --> 01:11:55,258
j and we're stayin' alive,
stayin' alive

1241
01:11:55,394 --> 01:11:57,476
j' ah, ha, ha, ha

1242
01:11:57,605 --> 01:11:59,220
j' stayin' alive, stayin' alive...

1243
01:11:59,357 --> 01:12:01,973
Timberlake: If you think about...
"Ah, ha, ha, ha..."

1244
01:12:02,109 --> 01:12:05,192
I mean, that could very easily
have just been a horn line.

1245
01:12:05,321 --> 01:12:07,107
Instead, their voices are so sick,

1246
01:12:07,240 --> 01:12:09,822
they're like,
"nah, we're gonna sing it."

1247
01:12:10,868 --> 01:12:12,404
J oh, when you walk

1248
01:12:14,038 --> 01:12:16,575
Riley: The general fever at the time

1249
01:12:16,707 --> 01:12:18,868
was you must see this film.

1250
01:12:19,627 --> 01:12:22,664
The songs precipitated the interest.

1251
01:12:22,797 --> 01:12:25,504
It was this cultural phenomenon.

1252
01:12:28,636 --> 01:12:30,251
In the first week of release,

1253
01:12:30,388 --> 01:12:32,720
they were having to hire
extra staff in some cinemas

1254
01:12:32,849 --> 01:12:34,714
to stop them dancing in the aisles.

1255
01:12:34,851 --> 01:12:37,718
J girl, I've known you very well,
seen you growin"...

1256
01:12:37,854 --> 01:12:40,561
Other movies were being put back
or taken out of other screens

1257
01:12:40,690 --> 01:12:41,770
to make room for fever.

1258
01:12:41,899 --> 01:12:44,106
It was really quite a phenomenon.

1259
01:12:44,235 --> 01:12:47,727
John took me aside at one point
and said, "what do you think?

1260
01:12:47,864 --> 01:12:50,822
You think maybe
an academy award nomination?"

1261
01:12:50,950 --> 01:12:52,315
I'm thinking, "Jesus Christ.

1262
01:12:52,451 --> 01:12:54,942
I mean, this is ridiculous.
It's a dance movie."

1263
01:12:55,496 --> 01:12:56,611
He had the last laugh.

1264
01:12:56,747 --> 01:12:59,659
Host: And John Travolta
in Saturday night fever.

1265
01:13:01,919 --> 01:13:04,786
Oakes: The fever thing happened,
that's when everything exploded.

1266
01:13:05,089 --> 01:13:06,875
Other record companies were printing it.

1267
01:13:07,008 --> 01:13:08,919
Our record company
couldn't keep up the pace.

1268
01:13:09,051 --> 01:13:12,509
We didn't know what was going on
because this was just a soundtrack.

1269
01:13:12,638 --> 01:13:16,222
Could I ask what Saturday night fever
has grossed thus far?

1270
01:13:16,350 --> 01:13:18,432
Around 110 million.

1271
01:13:18,561 --> 01:13:20,677
At the moment, in America.

1272
01:13:21,355 --> 01:13:23,095
- Host: In America?
- In America, yeah.

1273
01:13:23,232 --> 01:13:24,347
Host: And the album?

1274
01:13:24,483 --> 01:13:29,273
The album, I think, is nearing
18 million double albums worldwide.

1275
01:13:29,405 --> 01:13:31,817
But that would be
the record breaker of all time.

1276
01:13:31,949 --> 01:13:34,941
Yes, it's already
the biggest-grossing album

1277
01:13:35,077 --> 01:13:36,567
in the history of music.

1278
01:13:36,704 --> 01:13:39,116
Host: The statistics
are just incredible.

1279
01:13:39,248 --> 01:13:41,705
Four singles from Saturday night fever

1280
01:13:41,834 --> 01:13:43,165
have hit number one

1281
01:13:43,294 --> 01:13:44,750
since the album was released.

1282
01:13:44,879 --> 01:13:48,042
More than from any other
new album in history.

1283
01:13:48,174 --> 01:13:49,755
That's just a few of the statistics

1284
01:13:49,884 --> 01:13:52,751
that lead to gold records like this.

1285
01:13:52,887 --> 01:13:54,843
And so it's my privilege to say,

1286
01:13:54,972 --> 01:13:58,556
ladies and gentlemen,
will you welcome the Bee Gees?

1287
01:14:01,562 --> 01:14:04,850
Has it changed your lives,
the enormous success of it?

1288
01:14:06,067 --> 01:14:09,309
Yes, I can safely say
it's changed our lives.

1289
01:14:11,822 --> 01:14:14,313
The Bee Gees I think
were stunned by the success.

1290
01:14:16,953 --> 01:14:19,410
Barry: We were aware
we were creating a specific sound,

1291
01:14:19,538 --> 01:14:21,779
but we didn't know what it was gonna do.

1292
01:14:22,833 --> 01:14:26,246
Oakes: It did end up with them having
half the top ten with these songs.

1293
01:14:26,837 --> 01:14:28,077
It was extraordinary,

1294
01:14:28,214 --> 01:14:30,876
the same domination the Beatles
had in the '60s in America.

1295
01:14:33,511 --> 01:14:35,172
They were just everywhere.

1296
01:14:36,138 --> 01:14:39,301
- Friends don't treat us the same way.
- From a distance, you know.

1297
01:14:39,433 --> 01:14:42,971
I was speaking to one of my friends
as he was cleaning my shoes.

1298
01:14:43,104 --> 01:14:44,139
I said, "listen..."

1299
01:14:45,022 --> 01:14:48,731
Kendall: Stigwood said, "let's give
the band half a point or a quarter."

1300
01:14:48,859 --> 01:14:51,316
No, it's not a percentage.
That's a tiny amount of money.

1301
01:14:51,445 --> 01:14:55,233
But when you sell as many copies
as Saturday night fever sold,

1302
01:14:55,366 --> 01:14:57,357
it turns out to be big money.

1303
01:14:59,537 --> 01:15:02,574
Host: What are you doing
with these millions of dollars?

1304
01:15:02,707 --> 01:15:04,627
What are you doing
with your millions of dollars?

1305
01:15:04,667 --> 01:15:06,282
= oh, now! -

1306
01:15:06,419 --> 01:15:09,299
it is the biggest night of the year
for people in the recording industry.

1307
01:15:09,380 --> 01:15:10,460
The grammy awards.

1308
01:15:10,589 --> 01:15:13,046
And the winner is
Saturday night fever.

1309
01:15:15,761 --> 01:15:18,673
Oakes: For a soundtrack
to win best album was amazing.

1310
01:15:18,806 --> 01:15:21,718
It went on to be one
of the best-selling albums in history.

1311
01:15:24,478 --> 01:15:26,810
Barry: We didn't know
that we were defining the culture.

1312
01:15:26,939 --> 01:15:28,850
We were just still
Barry, Maurice and Robin,

1313
01:15:28,983 --> 01:15:30,383
wondering what the hell's going on.

1314
01:15:38,534 --> 01:15:40,775
Reporter:
The "fever" has been contagious.

1315
01:15:40,911 --> 01:15:43,323
Discos, the places in which
to dance away the night

1316
01:15:43,456 --> 01:15:45,697
and the morning hours, are thriving.

1317
01:15:45,833 --> 01:15:47,369
What the “fever” has done is made

1318
01:15:47,501 --> 01:15:50,459
just about anything
related to disco profitable.

1319
01:15:50,588 --> 01:15:53,751
Where there's money to be made,
disco is the business.

1320
01:15:53,883 --> 01:15:57,091
Barry: We didn't categorize
our songs as disco.

1321
01:15:57,219 --> 01:15:59,460
But then we weren't thinking
that way at all.

1322
01:15:59,597 --> 01:16:01,197
We were just thinking
about writing songs

1323
01:16:01,307 --> 01:16:03,764
based on this discovery
of this falsetto voice

1324
01:16:03,893 --> 01:16:05,429
and how well that seemed to work.

1325
01:16:05,561 --> 01:16:07,142
Oakes: What the Bee Gees brought,

1326
01:16:07,271 --> 01:16:09,387
I've always felt
they brought melody to disco.

1327
01:16:09,523 --> 01:16:12,731
Most disco at that point
was melody-free, you know.

1328
01:16:12,860 --> 01:16:15,146
This was a different take on disco.

1329
01:16:15,279 --> 01:16:19,147
It was completely for
the broadest possible audience.

1330
01:16:19,283 --> 01:16:21,114
- You got the lyrics?
- Yes, right here.

1331
01:16:21,243 --> 01:16:22,983
- Ok, let's go.
- Straight in.

1332
01:16:24,538 --> 01:16:26,278
One, two, three, four...

1333
01:16:29,668 --> 01:16:31,454
Right, that's it.

1334
01:16:40,429 --> 01:16:42,420
Hey, guys. Just too slow.

1335
01:16:42,556 --> 01:16:45,047
It would be nice to find
a bigger sound for that solo.

1336
01:16:45,184 --> 01:16:47,391
- The way we'd rehearsed it last night.
- All right.

1337
01:16:49,188 --> 01:16:51,099
Yeah, just like that, yeah.

1338
01:16:51,232 --> 01:16:52,992
Beautiful. Bring that sound in.
That's great.

1339
01:16:54,193 --> 01:16:55,649
- Yeah.
- Let's try it again.

1340
01:16:55,778 --> 01:16:58,110
Ok. One, two, three, four...

1341
01:16:58,239 --> 01:16:59,729
J tragedy

1342
01:16:59,865 --> 01:17:02,277
j when the feeling"s gone
and you can't go on

1343
01:17:02,409 --> 01:17:03,694
j' it's tragedy

1344
01:17:03,828 --> 01:17:06,035
j when the morning cries
and you don't know why

1345
01:17:06,163 --> 01:17:08,324
j it's hard to bear

1346
01:17:08,457 --> 01:17:09,947
j' with no one beside you

1347
01:17:10,084 --> 01:17:12,291
j' you're going nowhere

1348
01:17:13,504 --> 01:17:14,744
j ahh

1349
01:17:14,880 --> 01:17:16,586
when we brought out
spirits having flown,

1350
01:17:16,715 --> 01:17:18,922
it did phenomenally well.

1351
01:17:19,051 --> 01:17:21,793
At the same time,
fever was still in the top ten.

1352
01:17:21,929 --> 01:17:24,045
You know, we could
have left it another year,

1353
01:17:24,181 --> 01:17:27,014
and it still probably would have been
a little too soon

1354
01:17:27,143 --> 01:17:28,883
with what was going on with fever.

1355
01:17:37,987 --> 01:17:41,320
Good morning, everybody.
Charley steiner, 99x.

1356
01:17:41,448 --> 01:17:45,532
As is per usual for Monday,
a very busy day coming into town.

1357
01:17:46,829 --> 01:17:50,697
Steiner: I'm working at a top 40 station
in New York, a big one.

1358
01:17:51,500 --> 01:17:54,116
Wxlo, but it was known as 99x.

1359
01:17:54,253 --> 01:17:57,165
And I was the morning news guy.

1360
01:17:57,298 --> 01:18:01,086
Most radio stations
had a very small playlist.

1361
01:18:01,218 --> 01:18:06,429
And the Bee Gees probably had the top
four, top five hits any given week.

1362
01:18:06,557 --> 01:18:10,846
Thirteen cfrw/,
music of the Bee Gees and "tragedy."

1363
01:18:10,978 --> 01:18:12,718
Doing one more with the Bee Gees.

1364
01:18:12,855 --> 01:18:14,615
All the gibb brothers together,
the Bee Gees.

1365
01:18:14,648 --> 01:18:17,355
"You should be dancing,” you should
be shakin' that thing one time.

1366
01:18:17,484 --> 01:18:19,850
And for those of us
at the radio station,

1367
01:18:19,987 --> 01:18:22,649
we're... we're gonna take hostages.

1368
01:18:24,325 --> 01:18:29,115
And if you haven't had enough Bee Gees
music yet, well, we've got more.

1369
01:18:29,246 --> 01:18:31,862
Guess you could kind of call it
"over-gibbing."

1370
01:18:31,999 --> 01:18:33,319
Steiner: And then Andy gibb, too.

1371
01:18:33,375 --> 01:18:36,663
He was like the caboose
on this musical train.

1372
01:18:36,795 --> 01:18:40,003
It was like waves in the sea.

1373
01:18:40,633 --> 01:18:44,842
J nobody gets too much heaven
no more

1374
01:18:44,970 --> 01:18:46,881
host: You're right
on the top of the world.

1375
01:18:47,014 --> 01:18:50,472
What is it
that drives you back on the road?

1376
01:18:50,601 --> 01:18:52,967
When we make records
and we're in the studio,

1377
01:18:53,103 --> 01:18:55,890
we never really see
who buys those records.

1378
01:18:56,023 --> 01:18:57,854
Getting on the road means that to us.

1379
01:18:57,983 --> 01:19:00,224
It means that we come face to face
with people

1380
01:19:00,361 --> 01:19:02,352
to whom our records mean a lot.

1381
01:19:02,488 --> 01:19:05,355
Well, to be sure, doing a tour
is an enormous amount of work.

1382
01:19:05,491 --> 01:19:08,153
The only thing that I notice
that's not right

1383
01:19:08,285 --> 01:19:11,448
is it doesn't actually say the Bee Gees,
and the Bee Gees name should be...

1384
01:19:11,580 --> 01:19:14,162
It should be, "Bee Gees:
Spirits having flown."

1385
01:19:16,794 --> 01:19:19,160
Oakes: The "79 tour
was a complete sell-out.

1386
01:19:19,296 --> 01:19:22,459
Weaver: The Bee Gees
hadn't toured since 1976.

1387
01:19:22,591 --> 01:19:25,674
And that tour was a promotion
for the spirits having flown album.

1388
01:19:25,803 --> 01:19:29,136
But it was celebrating
Saturday night fever as well.

1389
01:19:29,265 --> 01:19:31,534
Girl 1: Twenty-five thousand people
are supposed to be here.

1390
01:19:31,558 --> 01:19:34,265
- Girl 2: It's gonna be great.
- Man: You don't mind the rain?

1391
01:19:34,395 --> 01:19:35,510
Both: No, not at all.

1392
01:19:35,646 --> 01:19:37,511
We've been here since nine this morning.

1393
01:19:37,648 --> 01:19:40,105
They're worth waiting in the rain for.

1394
01:19:40,234 --> 01:19:41,599
I mean, it was huge.

1395
01:19:42,236 --> 01:19:46,400
Dodger stadium, places like that.
We used to dream of this.

1396
01:19:46,532 --> 01:19:48,739
Having people in the audience
like Barbra Streisand,

1397
01:19:48,867 --> 01:19:50,357
watching your show and loving it.

1398
01:19:50,494 --> 01:19:52,030
I mean, these are fantasies.

1399
01:19:53,038 --> 01:19:54,653
You're in a goldfish bowl on tour.

1400
01:19:54,790 --> 01:19:56,997
You don't see much
of what's going on out there.

1401
01:19:57,918 --> 01:20:00,478
The most important thing is,
what are we gonna do after the show?

1402
01:20:00,504 --> 01:20:01,584
What do you wanna do?

1403
01:20:02,673 --> 01:20:06,291
Announcer:
It's here, the disco-body shaper,

1404
01:20:06,427 --> 01:20:09,760
the brand-new exerciser sensation
that's sweeping the country.

1405
01:20:09,888 --> 01:20:11,594
Send for yours today.

1406
01:20:11,724 --> 01:20:14,932
Buy it today, be a disco star tonignt.

1407
01:20:15,060 --> 01:20:17,051
Let's disco to burger king.

1408
01:20:17,187 --> 01:20:19,428
It all goes back to one thing,

1409
01:20:19,565 --> 01:20:22,147
and the same thing
that's happening now: Greed.

1410
01:20:24,611 --> 01:20:27,774
Greed is the thing
that happens in people

1411
01:20:27,906 --> 01:20:30,898
that really ruins a lot of shit.

1412
01:20:31,035 --> 01:20:32,775
J went to a party the other night...

1413
01:20:32,911 --> 01:20:35,698
In the beginning, you would buy
a disco-bannered record,

1414
01:20:35,831 --> 01:20:39,198
and it would be a great song,
no matter which one you picked out.

1415
01:20:39,335 --> 01:20:41,246
J movin' my feet to the disco beat...

1416
01:20:42,296 --> 01:20:45,584
But then some executive in diapers

1417
01:20:45,716 --> 01:20:51,382
decided, "let's put disco
on all these records we wanna sell,"

1418
01:20:51,513 --> 01:20:55,847
and it wasn't good music anymore,
it was garbage.

1419
01:20:55,976 --> 01:20:57,182
J look aft me

1420
01:20:57,311 --> 01:21:01,350
j I'm the disco duck!

1421
01:21:01,482 --> 01:21:03,313
J oh, let's go, mamma...

1422
01:21:03,442 --> 01:21:05,774
That was, I think, the straw
that broke the camel's back.

1423
01:21:05,903 --> 01:21:08,360
J' disco, disco duck

1424
01:21:08,489 --> 01:21:12,482
disco as a purely musical form
is, you know, dead.

1425
01:21:12,618 --> 01:21:14,950
I hated it. Couldn't think
of anything redeeming.

1426
01:21:15,079 --> 01:21:16,239
It was old people's music.

1427
01:21:16,372 --> 01:21:22,413
It was a very easy thing to get
involved with for commercial reasons.

1428
01:21:22,544 --> 01:21:25,957
J everybody's doin'
the disco, disco duck...

1429
01:21:26,090 --> 01:21:29,799
Man: I'd like to show you
how we destroy the disco records.

1430
01:21:30,511 --> 01:21:31,876
Thisis howl do it.

1431
01:21:32,888 --> 01:21:35,300
- Gotta get worked up a little bit.
- Psyched up.

1432
01:21:35,432 --> 01:21:36,842
Yeah. And then I just...

1433
01:21:39,520 --> 01:21:40,930
Oh, that felt good.

1434
01:21:42,064 --> 01:21:43,544
Our next guest tonight is Steve dahl.

1435
01:21:43,649 --> 01:21:48,359
He is a disc jockey for station wlup-fm
out in Chicago, Illinois,

1436
01:21:48,487 --> 01:21:50,068
and he hates disco music.

1437
01:21:50,197 --> 01:21:52,939
Steve dahl was kind of hard
to avoid in Chicago.

1438
01:22:01,500 --> 01:22:05,368
Steve dahl's on the radio saying,
"disco sucks, disco sucks."

1439
01:22:06,088 --> 01:22:08,079
I was 14.

1440
01:22:08,215 --> 01:22:09,580
I listened to the loop,

1441
01:22:09,716 --> 01:22:13,300
the radio station
that this kind of centered around.

1442
01:22:13,429 --> 01:22:15,385
He brings helium to the studio,

1443
01:22:15,514 --> 01:22:18,005
inhales it and imitates
the Bee Gees on the air

1444
01:22:18,142 --> 01:22:19,973
and then breaks up their records.

1445
01:22:20,102 --> 01:22:21,717
J how deep is your love

1446
01:22:21,854 --> 01:22:24,846
§ how deep is your love

1447
01:22:24,982 --> 01:22:27,314
j' 1 really need to know

1448
01:22:28,902 --> 01:22:33,896
you know, when you do all those things,
like put out garbage,

1449
01:22:34,032 --> 01:22:37,820
you know, have radio feeling ostracized,

1450
01:22:37,953 --> 01:22:40,786
and a lot of straight people
feeling threatened,

1451
01:22:40,914 --> 01:22:44,748
it creates a real poison.

1452
01:22:47,254 --> 01:22:48,254
Hello again, everybody.

1453
01:22:48,380 --> 01:22:51,497
Harry caray and Jimmy piersall
from comiskey park,

1454
01:22:51,633 --> 01:22:55,125
where we're gonna have
a wild night tonight.

1455
01:22:55,262 --> 01:22:56,877
A twi-night doubleheader.

1456
01:22:57,014 --> 01:22:59,096
Lawrence: I was an Usher
at comiskey park.

1457
01:22:59,224 --> 01:23:00,680
That was my first job.

1458
01:23:00,809 --> 01:23:02,765
Look at that crowd out there.

1459
01:23:03,979 --> 01:23:06,561
Reporter: Fifty thousand people,
the largest crowd of the season,

1460
01:23:06,690 --> 01:23:08,851
showed up at Chicago's comiskey park.

1461
01:23:08,984 --> 01:23:12,442
Many had come for disco demolition
night, a promotional gimmick.

1462
01:23:12,571 --> 01:23:15,108
Fifteen thousand others
had to be turned away.

1463
01:23:15,991 --> 01:23:19,904
Steve dahl says, "we're gonna let
everybody in the white sox park

1464
01:23:20,037 --> 01:23:24,781
for 98 cents
if you bring a disco record.

1465
01:23:24,917 --> 01:23:27,909
And we're gonna blow those records up
in the middle of center field."

1466
01:23:30,130 --> 01:23:31,836
We're letting people in.

1467
01:23:32,799 --> 01:23:36,792
I pointed out to my chief Usher,

1468
01:23:36,929 --> 01:23:40,797
“that record, that record, that record,
that record, that record,

1469
01:23:40,933 --> 01:23:43,299
that record...
Those aren't disco records.

1470
01:23:44,102 --> 01:23:46,138
Those are just,
those are R&B records.”

1471
01:23:48,524 --> 01:23:53,109
And the thing that I noticed
more than anything

1472
01:23:54,279 --> 01:23:56,861
was just mostly black records.

1473
01:23:58,325 --> 01:24:01,567
Maurice: At the same time all this stuff
is going on in Chicago,

1474
01:24:01,703 --> 01:24:03,239
we were playing the stadiums.

1475
01:24:03,372 --> 01:24:04,953
It was an amazing tour.

1476
01:24:06,333 --> 01:24:08,494
We were sort of like
in our own little world.

1477
01:24:08,627 --> 01:24:10,663
Not thinking about the outside world.

1478
01:24:43,537 --> 01:24:46,700
Caray: He struck him out
and the ball game is over.

1479
01:24:50,502 --> 01:24:54,211
Announcer: Ok, let's Usher Steve dahl
to the explosives

1480
01:24:54,339 --> 01:24:57,376
with a loud "disco sucks' chant!

1481
01:24:58,760 --> 01:25:04,217
Disco sucks!

1482
01:25:04,349 --> 01:25:06,385
= disco sucks!

1483
01:25:06,518 --> 01:25:09,893
Disco sucks!

1484
01:25:11,189 --> 01:25:13,145
Barry: Ladies and gentlemen,
our brother Andy!

1485
01:25:18,280 --> 01:25:20,111
J my baby moves at midnight

1486
01:25:21,908 --> 01:25:23,398
j goes right on till the dawn

1487
01:25:26,038 --> 01:25:28,120
j my woman takes me higher

1488
01:25:29,583 --> 01:25:31,539
j my woman keeps me warm

1489
01:25:33,462 --> 01:25:34,998
j what you doin' on your back?

1490
01:25:35,839 --> 01:25:36,874
J' yeah, yeah

1491
01:25:37,007 --> 01:25:38,838
j what you doin' on your back?

1492
01:25:39,718 --> 01:25:44,428
J' ahh, you should be dancing, yeah

1493
01:25:45,474 --> 01:25:48,557
j' dancing, yeah

1494
01:25:52,689 --> 01:25:54,145
come on!

1495
01:25:54,274 --> 01:25:56,811
Maurice: Andy joined us on stage
for "you should be dancing,"

1496
01:25:56,943 --> 01:26:00,231
and it was the four of us together,
and Andy joined my mic.

1497
01:26:00,364 --> 01:26:01,979
So we were singing around the one mic.

1498
01:26:02,115 --> 01:26:04,447
And he kept looking over
and stood back and goes,

1499
01:26:04,576 --> 01:26:06,612
“can you believe this shit?"

1500
01:26:08,872 --> 01:26:10,392
Nobody could believe
what was going on.

1501
01:26:11,458 --> 01:26:14,370
And to see the four of us on stage,
when I saw Barry and Robin

1502
01:26:14,503 --> 01:26:17,223
and I saw Andy in front of me I thought,
"this is how it's gotta be."

1503
01:26:19,091 --> 01:26:21,173
J yeah

1504
01:26:26,598 --> 01:26:29,886
How about the Bee Gees?

1505
01:26:32,145 --> 01:26:35,228
Well, listen, we took all the disco
records that you brought tonight,

1506
01:26:36,274 --> 01:26:38,105
we got 'em in a giant box.

1507
01:26:39,361 --> 01:26:43,149
And we're gonna blow 'em up real gooa!

1508
01:26:56,211 --> 01:26:59,044
One, two, three...

1509
01:26:59,673 --> 01:27:00,913
Boom!

1510
01:27:05,429 --> 01:27:07,636
I'ney blew up real good!

1511
01:27:15,772 --> 01:27:18,935
Lawrence: They tell you as an Usher,
"every now and then,

1512
01:27:19,067 --> 01:27:22,309
you're gonna get a drunk person
storming the field.

1513
01:27:22,446 --> 01:27:24,903
Try to grab them, hold on to them,”
or whatever.

1514
01:27:25,031 --> 01:27:27,738
But everybody ran on the field.

1515
01:27:35,959 --> 01:27:39,326
When I got older, I recognized that...

1516
01:27:40,130 --> 01:27:42,746
This was actually the end of an era.

1517
01:27:45,719 --> 01:27:47,334
It was a book burning.

1518
01:27:47,471 --> 01:27:52,636
It was a racist,
homophobic book burning.

1519
01:27:52,768 --> 01:27:56,226
And the Bee Gees got caught up in that,

1520
01:27:56,354 --> 01:28:01,519
because they were part of that culture
that was lifting a lot of people up.

1521
01:28:07,073 --> 01:28:10,611
Barry: Thank you, we love youl!
And we'll see you again. Bye-bye.

1522
01:28:17,584 --> 01:28:21,293
Reporter: Nearly 7,000 spectators
held their very own demolition.

1523
01:28:21,421 --> 01:28:24,254
Game two of the doubleheader
was canceled last night.

1524
01:28:24,382 --> 01:28:26,293
That game will be forfeit.

1525
01:28:27,886 --> 01:28:32,095
The anti-disco movement
was almost anti-Bee Gees at that point.

1526
01:28:32,974 --> 01:28:35,807
Reporter: Ironically, the soundtrack
to "Saturday night fever,"

1527
01:28:35,936 --> 01:28:40,145
the album that made them superstars,
also branded them as a disco group.

1528
01:28:40,273 --> 01:28:43,686
Because you can dance to it doesn't
necessarily make it a disco song.

1529
01:28:43,819 --> 01:28:45,605
You can dance to lots of songs.

1530
01:28:45,737 --> 01:28:48,854
Host: You really don't wanna be labeled
"disco" at all, do you?

1531
01:28:48,990 --> 01:28:51,572
Because our music is a variety
of different kinds of music.

1532
01:28:51,701 --> 01:28:53,487
It shouldn't be called just that.

1533
01:28:53,620 --> 01:28:55,576
Some people hated disco.

1534
01:28:55,705 --> 01:28:56,865
Hated it.

1535
01:28:57,499 --> 01:28:59,739
Maurice: We had FBI and secret service
round the airplane

1536
01:28:59,835 --> 01:29:02,515
every time we landed in a certain place
because of the bomb threats.

1537
01:29:03,129 --> 01:29:04,665
It was scary stuff.

1538
01:29:05,674 --> 01:29:06,834
We were perplexed.

1539
01:29:06,967 --> 01:29:10,084
Cos I got that vibe from them,
"why are people doing this?"

1540
01:29:10,804 --> 01:29:13,887
Reporter: The Bee Gees claim
some radio stations around the country

1541
01:29:14,015 --> 01:29:16,631
are refusing to play their new single.

1542
01:29:16,768 --> 01:29:18,759
The Bee Gees
are not allowed to have a hit

1543
01:29:18,895 --> 01:29:21,637
because they had success with
Saturday night fever. That is crap.

1544
01:29:21,773 --> 01:29:25,812
Galuten: Radio is very difficult
to get back once you lose them.

1545
01:29:25,944 --> 01:29:29,061
Back then, if you weren't on the radio,
there was nothing.

1546
01:29:29,197 --> 01:29:32,360
Let's all grow up, we're just a pop
group, we're not a political force.

1547
01:29:32,492 --> 01:29:35,609
We're just making music, but I don't
think there's any reason to chalk us off

1548
01:29:35,745 --> 01:29:38,987
because we existed in the "70s
and would like to exist in the '80s.

1549
01:29:39,124 --> 01:29:42,036
Does anybody mind if we exist
in the '80s, thank you?

1550
01:29:42,168 --> 01:29:45,205
It was so overwhelming and...

1551
01:29:45,338 --> 01:29:47,624
The whole dynamic changed.

1552
01:29:47,757 --> 01:29:50,123
Yvonne: They were just crazy days.

1553
01:29:50,260 --> 01:29:51,750
I preferred Maurice as Maurice,

1554
01:29:51,887 --> 01:29:54,003
not being a bee gee,
if that makes sense to you.

1555
01:29:54,139 --> 01:29:57,677
I preferred him as Maurice,
not being a bee gee.

1556
01:29:58,435 --> 01:30:01,177
Dwina: Suddenly they realized
that they were in a different position.

1557
01:30:01,313 --> 01:30:03,520
Robin went through a kind of a...

1558
01:30:04,858 --> 01:30:08,442
It wasn't a breakdown,
but it was just something where

1559
01:30:08,570 --> 01:30:12,734
he felt very shy of being in public
and doing things for a while.

1560
01:30:12,866 --> 01:30:15,403
Robin: The backlash
was a very frightening experience.

1561
01:30:15,535 --> 01:30:20,529
When things get to that point, you're
out of control of the whole thing.

1562
01:30:20,665 --> 01:30:23,122
We thought the Bee Gees
better go on the back burner

1563
01:30:23,251 --> 01:30:25,867
until this dies down
or something, you know.

1564
01:30:26,671 --> 01:30:28,832
We couldn't do anything
as the Bee Gees at all.

1565
01:30:30,926 --> 01:30:32,917
Well, backlash I'm really good on.

1566
01:30:34,763 --> 01:30:36,094
Uh...

1567
01:30:37,265 --> 01:30:41,304
Any band... that is successful

1568
01:30:41,436 --> 01:30:45,805
is going to have...
Some form of resistance.

1569
01:30:45,941 --> 01:30:47,772
That's just the law of nature.

1570
01:30:48,944 --> 01:30:50,775
When they get so successful,

1571
01:30:50,904 --> 01:30:53,862
sometimes the only interesting thing
to say about them

1572
01:30:53,990 --> 01:30:55,070
is, "oh, I don't like them.

1573
01:30:55,158 --> 01:30:57,274
Everyone else likes
'how deep is your love.'

1574
01:30:57,410 --> 01:30:58,775
you know, it's stupid.”

1575
01:30:59,788 --> 01:31:01,824
For bands of my generation,

1576
01:31:01,957 --> 01:31:04,539
you understand about the ups
and downs, you can see it.

1577
01:31:04,668 --> 01:31:08,001
Like, where are the pitfalls'?
What is the shit you're gonna take?

1578
01:31:08,880 --> 01:31:10,745
When might this happen?
When might that happen?

1579
01:31:10,882 --> 01:31:12,747
For those people
that were on the first wave

1580
01:31:12,884 --> 01:31:17,093
of sort of global pop superstardom,
if you want to call it that,

1581
01:31:17,222 --> 01:31:20,510
it was new to them, like, "why does
everyone suddenly hate our band?

1582
01:31:20,642 --> 01:31:23,634
We sold eight billion records last year.
What's the deal?"

1583
01:31:24,688 --> 01:31:25,894
So it's confusing.

1584
01:31:27,190 --> 01:31:32,230
It was not just the Bee Gees,
but the idea of dance.

1585
01:31:33,780 --> 01:31:36,943
In that period,
it was no longer acceptable

1586
01:31:38,159 --> 01:31:42,528
for this kind of music to carry
the weight, to carry the industry.

1587
01:31:44,499 --> 01:31:47,366
Everybody was at that point
in their lives where they...

1588
01:31:47,502 --> 01:31:49,834
They began to look
for other things to do.

1589
01:31:51,631 --> 01:31:53,997
And Andy was having problems, too.

1590
01:31:55,677 --> 01:31:57,213
Maurice: I saw him in Malibu,

1591
01:31:57,345 --> 01:32:00,462
and he'd been involved with
a lot of people who were doing drugs.

1592
01:32:00,890 --> 01:32:03,848
And he was doing drugs,
he was doing cocaine.

1593
01:32:05,437 --> 01:32:08,224
I talked to him outside
on the balcony,

1594
01:32:08,356 --> 01:32:10,267
saying, "this is really
a nice house, Andy,

1595
01:32:10,400 --> 01:32:13,517
it's a nice car out there,
that Porsche, really nice.

1596
01:32:13,653 --> 01:32:15,769
You're not gonna keep all this,
you know."

1597
01:32:15,905 --> 01:32:17,361
He said, "what do you mean?"

1598
01:32:17,490 --> 01:32:20,732
I said, "you do what you're doing,
this stuff will vanish.

1599
01:32:20,869 --> 01:32:24,077
All this stuff will go. Your career
will go out the window, everything."

1600
01:32:24,205 --> 01:32:27,538
And he said, "I know,
I know what I have to do."

1601
01:32:27,667 --> 01:32:32,081
There was a lot of chaos that I
didn't witness, but I was aware of it.

1602
01:32:33,631 --> 01:32:35,872
We were scattered
all over the place for a little while.

1603
01:32:38,011 --> 01:32:41,629
Robin was either in New York
and Maurice was in england.

1604
01:32:41,765 --> 01:32:45,553
I was alone at the time
and I got a phone call from Barbra.

1605
01:32:48,313 --> 01:32:50,929
She'd asked me about
writing songs for her.

1606
01:32:51,066 --> 01:32:53,648
And that terrified me.

1607
01:32:53,777 --> 01:32:56,268
I don't know if I can do this, you know?

1608
01:32:57,155 --> 01:33:00,397
So I called my brothers, and I said,
"this is what we gotta do.

1609
01:33:00,533 --> 01:33:01,864
And let's do it."

1610
01:33:03,244 --> 01:33:05,701
And that's how
the guilty album came about.

1611
01:33:09,626 --> 01:33:12,368
We really could not get on the radio.

1612
01:33:12,504 --> 01:33:14,916
So the whole idea
was to write for other people.

1613
01:33:16,257 --> 01:33:17,588
Let's be songwriters.

1614
01:33:17,717 --> 01:33:21,380
Let's try and graduate
from being a group that's probably...

1615
01:33:23,098 --> 01:33:25,635
Beginning to fade, you know?

1616
01:33:25,767 --> 01:33:27,803
Let's see if we can dance around that.

1617
01:33:28,561 --> 01:33:31,928
Barry: [ Life is a moment in space

1618
01:33:32,065 --> 01:33:34,647
j when the dream is gone

1619
01:33:34,776 --> 01:33:37,734
j' it's a lonelier place

1620
01:33:37,862 --> 01:33:39,898
Richardson: It was more
about outlets for writing.

1621
01:33:40,031 --> 01:33:43,694
Writing songs
that aren't Bee Gees songs.

1622
01:33:43,827 --> 01:33:45,658
They have an attitude somewhere else.

1623
01:33:45,787 --> 01:33:47,903
Streisand: J I stumble and fall

1624
01:33:48,039 --> 01:33:52,078
j but! Give you it all

1625
01:33:52,210 --> 01:33:55,873
j 1am a woman in love

1626
01:33:56,005 --> 01:33:58,212
j' and I'd do anything

1627
01:33:58,341 --> 01:34:01,174
j' to get you into my world...

1628
01:34:01,302 --> 01:34:03,759
Host: Now, Robin, you and Barry
co-wrote "woman in love,"

1629
01:34:03,888 --> 01:34:05,753
which became the international smash.

1630
01:34:05,890 --> 01:34:08,506
Was it difficult taking
the woman's perspective?

1631
01:34:08,643 --> 01:34:10,725
Oh, no.

1632
01:34:11,437 --> 01:34:13,052
It's our way of doing things.

1633
01:34:13,189 --> 01:34:15,509
We will assume that role
within the song to write the song.

1634
01:34:15,608 --> 01:34:19,601
After the Barbra Streisand album,
managers would call up all the time.

1635
01:34:19,737 --> 01:34:22,774
"Gee, can I get together with you guys?
Will you make my record?"

1636
01:34:22,907 --> 01:34:24,363
You know, established artists.

1637
01:34:24,492 --> 01:34:25,823
J oh, oh

1638
01:34:25,952 --> 01:34:30,742
j why do you have to be
a heartbreaker

1639
01:34:30,874 --> 01:34:34,287
j when I was being
what you want me to be?

1640
01:34:34,419 --> 01:34:38,003
J get in the middle of a chain reaction

1641
01:34:38,131 --> 01:34:40,713
j you get a medal
when you're lost in action...

1642
01:34:40,842 --> 01:34:43,482
It was just as important for us to have
an artist singing our songs

1643
01:34:43,511 --> 01:34:45,923
and being on the radio
as it was for ourselves.

1644
01:34:46,055 --> 01:34:47,386
J islands in the stream

1645
01:34:47,515 --> 01:34:49,471
j that is what we are

1646
01:34:49,601 --> 01:34:51,512
j no one in between

1647
01:34:51,644 --> 01:34:53,930
j how can we be wrong?

1648
01:34:54,063 --> 01:34:55,178
J' sail away with me...

1649
01:34:55,315 --> 01:34:58,603
Maurice: When you write a song with
someone in mind that you really love,

1650
01:34:58,735 --> 01:35:03,149
and then that person ends up singing it,
there's no reward like it.

1651
01:35:03,281 --> 01:35:07,820
J immortality

1652
01:35:07,952 --> 01:35:09,317
j oh, baby

1653
01:35:09,454 --> 01:35:13,117
j there is a vision and a fire in me

1654
01:35:13,249 --> 01:35:14,705
j oh

1655
01:35:14,834 --> 01:35:17,450
Barry: We wrote
so many different types of songs.

1656
01:35:18,504 --> 01:35:20,369
And that created
that new determination...

1657
01:35:21,299 --> 01:35:23,335
For us to become the Bee Gees again.

1658
01:35:24,510 --> 01:35:26,876
J when a lonely heart breaks

1659
01:35:27,013 --> 01:35:30,096
j it's the one that forsakes

1660
01:35:30,225 --> 01:35:33,592
j it's the dream that we stole

1661
01:35:33,728 --> 01:35:37,641
Barry: I think over time,
we became more and more unified.

1662
01:35:37,774 --> 01:35:40,641
By "85, we really
got it together as a group.

1663
01:35:42,820 --> 01:35:45,311
We became a real band, again.

1664
01:35:47,867 --> 01:35:51,109
J' for you it's goodbye

1665
01:35:51,246 --> 01:35:53,282
j for me its to cry

1666
01:35:53,414 --> 01:35:57,373
j for whom the bell tolls

1667
01:35:57,502 --> 01:35:59,242
we never really had a category.

1668
01:35:59,379 --> 01:36:01,461
We just had different periods.

1669
01:36:01,589 --> 01:36:04,171
And we managed
to fit into different eras.

1670
01:36:04,300 --> 01:36:08,384
And we saw a lot of people who were
the champions of their era come and go.

1671
01:36:09,347 --> 01:36:12,054
We didn't always connect
but we stayed around.

1672
01:36:12,183 --> 01:36:15,391
We managed to defy the criticism,
most of the time.

1673
01:36:15,520 --> 01:36:18,512
J it's the one that forsakes

1674
01:36:18,648 --> 01:36:22,266
j it's the dream that we stole

1675
01:36:22,402 --> 01:36:25,018
and I just hope and pray
that the music lasts, you know.

1676
01:36:25,947 --> 01:36:29,610
Because I begin to recognize that
there's not as much time in front of me

1677
01:36:29,742 --> 01:36:31,198
as there is behind me.

1678
01:36:38,251 --> 01:36:41,288
Hi, Australia.
This is Andy gibb here in Miami.

1679
01:36:41,421 --> 01:36:43,036
And I'd like to wish all you kids...

1680
01:36:43,172 --> 01:36:44,457
One more time.

1681
01:36:47,552 --> 01:36:50,294
Hi, Australia.
This is Andy gibb here in Miami.

1682
01:36:50,430 --> 01:36:53,092
And I'd like to wish all the kids
and all my friends in Australia

1683
01:36:53,224 --> 01:36:55,715
a very merry Christmas
and a happy new year.

1684
01:36:57,812 --> 01:37:01,350
J' ahh, ahh...

1685
01:37:16,080 --> 01:37:19,117
Barry was first. In fact, Robin's
half an hour older than I am.

1686
01:37:19,250 --> 01:37:24,586
And we're twins. And that's how
we basically met.

1687
01:37:37,894 --> 01:37:40,931
- Robert stigwood, this is for you.
- You gotta watch the thing.

1688
01:37:41,064 --> 01:37:45,228
Oh, the reaction? All right, ok.

1689
01:37:45,360 --> 01:37:48,648
Oh, yeah, that's right.
Sorry, do it again. Ok.

1690
01:37:49,530 --> 01:37:51,111
Robert stigwood, this is for you.

1691
01:38:13,638 --> 01:38:16,004
Announcer: Ladies and gentiemen,
an Oscar nominee

1692
01:38:16,140 --> 01:38:19,257
for "Saturday night fever,”
John Travolta!

1693
01:38:20,269 --> 01:38:24,603
Tonight, the recording academy
is celebrating

1694
01:38:24,732 --> 01:38:30,022
three brothers who changed my life
and the world of music forever.

1695
01:38:30,154 --> 01:38:33,066
And though brothers Robin and Maurice
are sadly gone,

1696
01:38:33,199 --> 01:38:36,236
we are thrilled to be joined
by a brother like no other,

1697
01:38:36,369 --> 01:38:40,032
one of the most successful
singer-songwriters of our times,

1698
01:38:40,164 --> 01:38:41,904
my friend, Barry gibb.

1699
01:38:44,419 --> 01:38:46,125
J hmm...

1700
01:38:53,261 --> 01:38:59,257
J' feel I'm going back to massachusetfts

1701
01:39:02,061 --> 01:39:07,772
j something's telling me
I must go home

1702
01:39:07,900 --> 01:39:10,892
Gallagher: They're a brilliant chapter
in the book of music.

1703
01:39:11,028 --> 01:39:12,313
Some people are a footnote.

1704
01:39:12,447 --> 01:39:15,189
Some people take up...
The Beatles and Dylan take up huge...

1705
01:39:15,992 --> 01:39:17,323
But the Bee Gees are there.

1706
01:39:18,077 --> 01:39:22,537
J' the day I left her standing

1707
01:39:22,665 --> 01:39:24,872
j on her own

1708
01:39:25,001 --> 01:39:27,162
Timberlake: You go back
and look at their body of work

1709
01:39:27,295 --> 01:39:29,055
and it's some of the best songs
ever written.

1710
01:39:29,130 --> 01:39:32,668
J' talk about the life
in Massachusetts...

1711
01:39:32,800 --> 01:39:34,882
There's nothing else to say
about the Bee Gees except

1712
01:39:35,011 --> 01:39:36,251
they were fucking awesome.

1713
01:39:36,387 --> 01:39:41,222
J speak about the people
I have seen

1714
01:39:43,102 --> 01:39:46,765
j' and the lights all went down

1715
01:39:46,898 --> 01:39:49,640
j in Massachusetts

1716
01:39:50,526 --> 01:39:53,563
j and Massachusetts

1717
01:39:53,696 --> 01:39:57,484
j' is one place I have seen

1718
01:39:58,618 --> 01:40:01,735
j and Massachusetts

1719
01:40:01,871 --> 01:40:06,410
j' is one place I have seen

1720
01:40:19,555 --> 01:40:21,546
Barry: When I think about it now,

1721
01:40:22,934 --> 01:40:25,175
I think about
how it all sort of started.

1722
01:40:27,188 --> 01:40:28,553
We just had this dream.

1723
01:40:29,649 --> 01:40:33,642
And we thought, well,
"what do we want to be famous for?"

1724
01:40:35,905 --> 01:40:37,941
It turns out it was the songwriting.

1725
01:40:42,537 --> 01:40:47,702
And I think everything we set out to do,
we did, against all odds.

1726
01:40:49,835 --> 01:40:51,746
I can't honestly
come to terms with the fact

1727
01:40:51,879 --> 01:40:53,744
that they're not here anymore.

1728
01:40:53,881 --> 01:40:55,246
Never been able to do that.

1729
01:40:59,887 --> 01:41:01,468
I'm always reliving it.

1730
01:41:01,597 --> 01:41:04,464
It's always, "what would Robin think
or what would Maurice think?"

1731
01:41:05,226 --> 01:41:07,968
And Andy. It never goes away.

1732
01:41:11,857 --> 01:41:14,724
And what I wanted to say earlier

1733
01:41:14,860 --> 01:41:17,818
is that I'd rather have them
all back here and no hits at all.

1734
01:41:41,095 --> 01:41:44,553
J' if ever you've got rain in your heart

1735
01:41:46,017 --> 01:41:49,976
j someone has hurt you
and torn you apart

1736
01:41:51,522 --> 01:41:56,983
j am I unwise to open up your eyes
to love me?

1737
01:41:58,529 --> 01:42:01,362
J' and when you've got nothing to lose

1738
01:42:02,742 --> 01:42:07,076
j' nothing to pay for
and nothing to choose

1739
01:42:08,205 --> 01:42:13,290
j am I unwise to open up
your eyes to love me?

1740
01:42:13,419 --> 01:42:18,664
J' run to me whenever you're lonely

1741
01:42:18,799 --> 01:42:24,169
j run to me if you need a shoulder

1742
01:42:24,305 --> 01:42:29,345
j' now and then, you need someone older

1743
01:42:29,477 --> 01:42:33,015
j' so, darling

1744
01:42:33,731 --> 01:42:37,599
j you run to me

1745
01:43:19,443 --> 01:43:22,025
J well, you can tell by the way
I use my walk

1746
01:43:22,154 --> 01:43:24,611
j I'm a woman's man, no time to talk

1747
01:43:24,740 --> 01:43:26,651
j music loud and women warm

1748
01:43:26,784 --> 01:43:29,241
j' I've been kicked around
since I was born

1749
01:43:29,370 --> 01:43:31,611
j and now it's all right, it's ok

1750
01:43:31,747 --> 01:43:33,863
j' and you may look the other way

1751
01:43:33,999 --> 01:43:36,160
j we can try to understand

1752
01:43:36,293 --> 01:43:38,659
j the "New York times" ' effect on man

1753
01:43:38,796 --> 01:43:40,774
j whether you're a brother
or whether you're a mother

1754
01:43:40,798 --> 01:43:43,084
j you're stayin' alive
stayin' alive

1755
01:43:43,217 --> 01:43:45,253
j feel the city breakin'
and everybody shakin'

1756
01:43:45,386 --> 01:43:47,877
j and we're stayin' alive
stayin' alive

1757
01:43:48,013 --> 01:43:50,174
j' ah, ha, ha, ha

1758
01:43:50,307 --> 01:43:52,514
j stayin' alive, stayin' alive

1759
01:43:52,643 --> 01:43:54,884
j' ah, ha, ha, ha

1760
01:43:55,020 --> 01:43:59,013
j stayin' alive...

1761
01:44:03,237 --> 01:44:04,818
J' as you walk

1762
01:44:08,993 --> 01:44:11,154
j' life goin' nowhere

1763
01:44:11,287 --> 01:44:13,278
j somebody help me

1764
01:44:14,081 --> 01:44:15,992
j somebody help me, yeah

1765
01:44:20,337 --> 01:44:21,952
j' life goin' nowhere

1766
01:44:22,798 --> 01:44:24,914
j somebody help me

1767
01:44:25,885 --> 01:44:29,548
j' I'm stayin' alive...

1768
01:44:36,479 --> 01:44:38,390
J' life goin' nowhere

1769
01:44:38,522 --> 01:44:40,683
j somebody help me

1770
01:44:41,525 --> 01:44:43,390
j somebody help me, yeah

1771
01:44:45,362 --> 01:44:46,647
j somebody

1772
01:44:47,615 --> 01:44:49,947
j' life goin' nowhere

1773
01:44:50,075 --> 01:44:52,031
j somebody help me

1774
01:44:53,537 --> 01:44:57,121
j' I'm stayin' alive...

1775
01:45:41,919 --> 01:45:44,331
Barry: One, two, three, four...

1776
01:45:55,015 --> 01:45:57,506
J! Green fields

1777
01:45:58,477 --> 01:46:02,345
j where we used fo wander

1778
01:46:04,358 --> 01:46:08,226
j' purple valleys

1779
01:46:09,613 --> 01:46:12,525
j' near my home

1780
01:46:15,160 --> 01:46:18,448
j we would play there

1781
01:46:19,915 --> 01:46:23,203
j' beneath the sky

1782
01:46:25,754 --> 01:46:28,336
j' and then I kissed you

1783
01:46:31,135 --> 01:46:33,877
j' butterfly

1784
01:46:37,933 --> 01:46:39,889
j' young girl

1785
01:46:41,854 --> 01:46:45,221
j you came restless

1786
01:46:47,151 --> 01:46:50,518
j and you left me

1787
01:46:52,489 --> 01:46:55,231
j' here to cry

1788
01:46:57,828 --> 01:47:00,786
j my big tears

1789
01:47:03,042 --> 01:47:06,375
j' in red pastures

1790
01:47:08,339 --> 01:47:10,921
j' for I loved you

1791
01:47:13,677 --> 01:47:16,259
j' butterfly

1792
01:47:18,891 --> 01:47:23,351
j' butterfly, yeah

1793
01:47:25,314 --> 01:47:27,771
j' I dream about you

1794
01:47:27,900 --> 01:47:31,813
j' lonely without you, butterfly

1795
01:47:34,323 --> 01:47:38,987
j' butterfly, yeah

1796
01:47:40,704 --> 01:47:43,116
j' each night I'm sleeping

1797
01:47:43,248 --> 01:47:47,082
j' your face comes creeping, butterfly

1798
01:47:50,881 --> 01:47:53,213
j! Green fields

1799
01:47:54,093 --> 01:47:57,836
j where we used fo wander

1800
01:47:59,848 --> 01:48:03,636
j' purple valleys

1801
01:48:04,937 --> 01:48:07,644
j' near my home

1802
01:48:10,192 --> 01:48:13,355
j we would play there

1803
01:48:14,655 --> 01:48:17,863
j' beneath the sky

1804
01:48:20,327 --> 01:48:22,864
j' for I loved you

1805
01:48:25,457 --> 01:48:28,039
j' butterfly

1806
01:48:30,546 --> 01:48:35,085
j butterfly, yeah

1807
01:48:36,969 --> 01:48:39,426
j' I dream about you

1808
01:48:39,555 --> 01:48:41,967
j' lonely without you

1809
01:48:42,099 --> 01:48:43,430
j' butterfly

1810
01:48:45,769 --> 01:48:50,138
j' butterfly, yeah

1811
01:48:52,026 --> 01:48:54,438
j' each night I'm sleeping

1812
01:48:54,570 --> 01:48:58,404
j' your face comes creeping, butterfly

1813
01:49:00,951 --> 01:49:06,947
j' butterfly...

1814
01:49:26,935 --> 01:49:30,803
J smile an everlasting smile

1815
01:49:30,939 --> 01:49:35,273
j' a smile can bring you near to me

1816
01:49:37,905 --> 01:49:42,524
j don't ever let me find you down

1817
01:49:42,659 --> 01:49:47,119
j' cos that would bring a tear to me

1818
01:49:50,292 --> 01:49:54,285
j' talk in everlasting words

1819
01:49:54,421 --> 01:49:58,539
j and dedicate them all fo me

1820
01:50:01,470 --> 01:50:06,180
j and I will give you all my life

1821
01:50:06,308 --> 01:50:10,392
j I'm here if you should call to me

1822
01:50:13,357 --> 01:50:18,021
j you think that I don't even mean

1823
01:50:18,153 --> 01:50:23,648
j' a single word I say

1824
01:50:23,784 --> 01:50:27,026
j' it's only words

1825
01:50:27,162 --> 01:50:30,120
j and words are all I have

1826
01:50:30,249 --> 01:50:33,741
j' to take your heart away

1827
01:50:35,921 --> 01:50:39,288
j' it's only words

1828
01:50:39,967 --> 01:50:43,334
j and words are all I have

1829
01:50:43,470 --> 01:50:45,961
j' to take your heart

1830
01:50:46,098 --> 01:50:49,841
j away

1831
01:51:03,240 --> 01:51:06,232
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