![]() ![]() I wanted all of them at the same time talking about what their life was like and reflecting back, and then I would have Barry come in every once in a while to sort of be the narrator of those periods.”Ī 25-song soundtrack was released to complement The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend A Broken Heart. “David Leaf did these wonderful interviews with the three of them that were very candid. “I wanted Robin and Maurice to have their own voices, and Barry really wanted to have as much as we could from his brothers’ perspectives,” Marshall says. Robin and Maurice-the brother who took on the role of family peacekeeper-certainly get their share of screen time, thanks in large part to those previous interviews. “It was interesting, maybe it was like a therapy session to talk about things because he talked about things in a way he may not have talked about in the heyday.” There is a lot of sadness,” says Marshall, who says the two quickly developed a rapport and still talk weekly. ![]() It’s all down to perception.” His pain in being left as the sole storyteller is palpable. Maurice passed away in 2003, of complications caused by a twisted intestine, and Robin died in 2012, of complications from cancer and intestinal surgery.Īs the eldest brother declares at the opening of the nearly two-hour film, “I am beginning to recognize the fact that nothing is true. Andy, who struggled with drug addiction, died first, in 1988, at the age of 30. At the age of 74, he's had to say goodbye to all three of his brothers. ![]() How they created the drum loop for Stayin’ Alive.īehind the hits, however, there was a lot of drama, drama that still seems to haunt Barry Gibb. How the clickity-clack of their car driving across the Biscayne Bay bridge to Criteria Recording Studios in Miami inspired the opening sequence in Jive Talkin’. How Barry and Robin, at the request of their manger Robert Stigwood, originally wrote To Love Somebody for Otis Redding, but Redding died before he ever got to record it. The stories behind the songs are nothing short of spectacular. The musical brilliance of Barry and twin brothers Robin and Maurice also extended to youngest brother Andy, whose songs also soared to the top of the charts and who deservedly gets his own chapter in the documentary. They had this amazing impact on music and pop culture, so I’d like to introduce, and reintroduce, the real Bee Gees and five decades of musical brilliance.” “A lot of people just tie them to the disco period, and that’s not fair. “I think people don’t know what heavyweights they were,” says Marshall, who produced films including The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Seabiscuit. The documentary dives deep into the earlier pop melodies, their reinvention after the massive “Disco Sucks” backlash-a fascinating chapter of this story-and their ability to remain at the top of their game penning and producing songs for artists including Barbra Streisand ( Guilty) and Dolly Parton ( Islands in the Stream). and won the 1977 Grammy for album of the year, the trio was so much more than disco. While the group was omnipresent in the mid- to late-‘70s with the explosion of The Saturday Night Fever soundtrack, which has sold more than 16 million copies in the U.S. More than 1,000 of them, in fact, including 20 No. Viewers of all generations should be ready to immediately spiral down a Bees Gees rabbit hole, which frankly isn't a bad place to be as we wrap this most trying of years.Ībove all, it reminds us of the majestic ways this band of brothers could craft a song. CNN Films’ Amy Entelis and Courtney Sexton are executive producers.What is front and center in the doc is the music, and what a magnificent opus it is. “Just Call Out My Name” is directed and produced by Marshall, and produced by Aly Parker and The Kennedy / Marshall Company. They reflect on their shared music and performances throughout the decades for the film. The famed musicians of “The Section,” comprised of Danny Kortchmar, Russ Kunkel, and Lee Sklar, backed the duo in each of the 1970, 2007, and 2010 shows. The new film captures the beloved songwriters’ triumphant 2010 Troubadour Reunion Tour of arena concerts around the world. Courtney Sexton Exiting CNN Films to Rejoin Participant Overseeing Documentary FilmĪfter King and Taylor famously performed together at The Troubador in 1970, they organized a reunion show for the club’s 50th anniversary in 2007, playing six sold out shows with hits like “So Far Away,” “I Feel the Earth Move,” and “You’ve Got a Friend.” As Taylor recalls in the film, those shows were so much fun that he and King hatched plans for an 2010 world tour. The HBO documentary The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart traces the decades-long arc of a band that mastered a rare pop skill: adaptation. ![]()
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