{"id":131706,"date":"2020-12-12T08:30:33","date_gmt":"2020-12-12T05:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-the-bee-gees-how-can-you-mend-a-broken-heart-an-enthralling-doc\/"},"modified":"2020-12-12T08:30:33","modified_gmt":"2020-12-12T05:30:33","slug":"watch-the-bee-gees-how-can-you-mend-a-broken-heart-an-enthralling-doc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-the-bee-gees-how-can-you-mend-a-broken-heart-an-enthralling-doc\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch &#8216;The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart&#8217;: An Enthralling Doc"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3c336ec364c\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3c336ec364c\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-the-bee-gees-how-can-you-mend-a-broken-heart-an-enthralling-doc\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98The_Bee_Gees_How_Can_You_Mend_a_Broken_Heart_An_Enthralling_Doc%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart&#8217;: An Enthralling Doc&#8221;<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-the-bee-gees-how-can-you-mend-a-broken-heart-an-enthralling-doc\/#%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98The_Bee_Gees_How_Can_You_Mend_a_Broken_Heart_An_Enthralling_Doc%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;&#8216;The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart&#8217;: An Enthralling Doc&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98The_Bee_Gees_How_Can_You_Mend_a_Broken_Heart_An_Enthralling_Doc%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart&#8217;: An Enthralling Doc&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98The_Bee_Gees_How_Can_You_Mend_a_Broken_Heart_An_Enthralling_Doc%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;&#8216;The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart&#8217;: An Enthralling Doc&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n                        One of the things that made the Beatles, when they first arrived, seem magical was the uncanny way the look and sound of all four of them matched up. For all their iconic differences, they had variations on the same thick billowy dark hair, gleaming lemon-shaped smile, and Liverpool singsong and mocking twinkle. They seemed as related as brothers.<\/p>\n<p>The Bee Gees, of course, <em>were<\/em> brothers (there were three of them), a fact that in itself isn\u2019t remarkable, though like the Beatles they rhymed in ways that were at once visual, temperamental, and sonic. They had different versions of the same Aussie overbite (though Barry had the handsome-jock version, Robin looked like a gopher, and Maurice was the cute everyman). All three exuded an angelic serenity. And those voices! To say that the Gibb brothers blended together with seamless perfection wouldn\u2019t do the sound they created justice. United by a silky timbre that was in their DNA, those voices, crooning and soaring, often into the higher register, fused as gorgeously as the colors of a rainbow.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart,\u201d which premieres Saturday, Dec. 12, on HBO, is a gratifying, conventional, heartfelt documentary that tells the story of one of the great pop groups, but part of the film\u2019s excitement is how thoroughly it explores the question of where, exactly, the Bee Gees fit into the pop firmament. How deep was their greatness? Even if you love them (as I do), that\u2019s not such an easy question to answer. There is, of course, the God-like strata of pop music, the rarefied upper echelon of Olympus: the Beatles, the Stones, Dylan. And the Bee Gees weren\u2019t quite <em>there<\/em>. Those artists were revolutionaries whose music remade the culture. The Bee Gees, in their incandescent and sublimely melodic way, worked inside idioms they didn\u2019t create \u2014 in the late \u201960s they sounded like the Beatles with a touch of Herman\u2019s Hermits (whereas the Beatles sounded like no one but themselves), and in the \u201970s they were dance-pop avatars playing with a form they both followed and heightened. Yet you could make a case (I would) that \u201cStayin\u2019 Alive,\u201d along with \u201cBillie Jean,\u201d is the most stupendous pop song of the last 45 years.<\/p>\n<p>The Bee Gees elevated catchiness to a kind of transcendence. The blissed-out harmonies, the melodic rapture that caressed you with its melancholy sweetness <em>(\u201cHow-w-w could you stop\u2026the sun from shining?\u2026What makes the world go round?\u201d<\/em>), the way their songs had unexpected chord changes that could make an emotion leap into the next dimension \u2014 if you didn\u2019t like the Bee Gees, it\u2019s probably safe to say you don\u2019t like pop music. They wrote over 1,000 songs, including 20 number-one singles in the U.S. and the U.K., and those songs became the soundtrack to a lot of people\u2019s lives.<\/p>\n<p>If you do love the Bee Gees, or just like them a lot, or even if you\u2019re too young to have grown up with them and are curious, \u201cHow Can You Mend a Broken Heart\u201d is a movie you\u2019ll want to see. Directed by Frank Marshall, it isn\u2019t just a nostalgia <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trip<\/a> (though how could it not be?). It tells the Bee Gees\u2019 story from the ground up, with never-before-seen archival footage and lots of highly illuminating talking heads (the clips of Robin and Maurice, who died in 2012 and 2003, respectively, are lifted from an extensive interview conducted in 1999).<\/p>\n<p>Barry Gibb, who is now 74, <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ears before the camera as a more wizened version of himself, with thin white hair and a voice that dips into gravel, but the sense of looking back that he brings is quite moving. The film examines the Bee Gees\u2019 vast array of influences and dizzying ups and downs on the pop charts, and though it doesn\u2019t get too much into their personal lives, it touches on enough of their rivalries \u2014 mostly between Barry and Robin \u2014 to give you a sense of where they meshed with one another and where they didn\u2019t. In its middlebrow celebratory way, \u201cHow Can You Mend a Broken Heart\u201d reveals the Bee Gees\u2019 saga to be one of the most fascinating and, at times, awe-inspiring in the history of pop.<\/p>\n<p>We think of the Bee Gees as extraordinarily popular, which they were, but my God, the whiplash <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series<\/a> of fades and comebacks they experienced! Put on the map by their musician father, who was like Joe Jackson or the Beach Boys\u2019 dad minus the sadism, they\u2019d sung together professionally since the late \u201950s (they started doing gigs in their hometown of Brisbane when Robin and Maurice, who were twins, were just five), and they sounded like the missing link between the Everly Brothers and the Fab Four. The Beatles, in effect, were who they\u2019d always wanted to be (floppy hair, three-part harmony, pop as an elevated art form), so they sent off a letter to the Beatles\u2019 manager, Brian Epstein, who said: Let\u2019s give them to Robert Stigwood (who was from Australia and was an associate of Epstein\u2019s company, NEMS).<\/p>\n<p>Stigwood loved them and signed them. He was a true believer. And the Bee Gees, moving to London, brought off something startlingly sly: They made themselves part of the British Invasion. Their first single, \u201cNew York Mining Disaster 1941,\u201d was released in April 1967, and it was a hit; they never looked back. Other hits followed. We see a clip of Robin standing solo in the music video for \u201cI Started a Joke,\u201d and it\u2019s one of the most beautifully forlorn things you\u2019ve ever heard. But by 1969, the Bee Gees were played out. Their records were beginning to tank, and the rivalry between Barry and Robin, who were both lead singers, had reached a fallout point.<\/p>\n<p>They broke up \u2014 a dissolution that didn\u2019t last. And after they reunited, in the middle of 1970, the music they made, starting with \u201cLonely Days,\u201d was different: more mature, more hauntingly lyrical. I will testify that \u201cHow Can You Mend a Broken Heart,\u201d released in late 1971, had the trancelike effect on the radio that the Carpenters\u2019 \u201c(They Long to Be) Close to You\u201d did. Listening to that song, it was as if time itself was standing still, as if all the tumult of the counterculture were melting away.<\/p>\n<p>So the Bee Gees got big again \u2014 and then, before you know it, they were has-beens again. It was almost in their nature to flow in and out of the culture. They were saved, in a very real way, by Eric Clapton, who\u2019d rejuvenated his own career with \u201c461 Ocean Boulevard,\u201d recorded in Miami. Clapton told them to get out of England and do an album in America \u2014 specifically, at the Miami recording studio, Criteria, where he had made his album. They took his advice, hooking up with the record producer Arif Mardin, who\u2019d worked with a number of prominent R&amp;B artists, and the result was \u201cMain Course,\u201d which included the sublimely percolating \u201cJive Talkin\u2019.\u201d Inspired by the clackety-clack of car tires on the rickety bridge they rode over each day to get to the studio, it was the song that, in 1975, relaunched them into the stratosphere as a dance band. And you know what came next.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow Can You Mend a Broken Heart\u201d is full of terrific stories, like the one about how Robert Stigwood, in 1967, took Barry to see Otis Redding at the Apollo Theater. He introduced the two and said that he wanted Barry to write a song for Otis. \u201cTo Love Somebody\u201d was that song, but Redding died before he could record it. And as timeless as the Bee Gees\u2019 version is, you get chills imagining how he would have done it.<\/p>\n<p>Robin Gibb explains that the group always wrote their lyrics in the studio the day they recorded them. Which suggests that these weren\u2019t ripped-from-the-heart poems; the Bee Gees were working in the Brill Building tradition of knocking the song out. There\u2019s a funny anecdote about how during the recording of \u201cMain Course,\u201d they\u2019d all been to New York and wanted to write a song about it, so they came up with a starry-eyed number called \u201cAll the Lights on Broadway.\u201d Ahmet Ertegun, the head of Atlantic Records, came down to Miami, heard the song, and said no way. He said they needed to be more adult, and he changed it to \u201cNights on Broadway.\u201d That was a small masterstroke (it gave the song its hint of sin), but it was only at the end of the session, when they were fooling around, that Barry added the sunburst falsetto echo of the chorus. That one improvised moment transformed their sound. Their signature would now be a falsetto so high, so gospel pure, so <em>Bee Gees<\/em> that it poked through the clouds. (Justin Timberlake compares their voices to trumpets.)<\/p>\n<p>Tapped by Stigwood to write a handful of songs for the disco movie he was producing (people thought Stigwood was insane for hiring John Travolta, then known for playing Vinnie Barbarino, as the lead), they went to stay at the same \u201chonky chateau\u201d where Elton John had recorded the album of that name and found it to be a chilly dump. But they hunkered down.<\/p>\n<p>We hear a tape of them composing \u201cHow Deep Is Your Love,\u201d working with the keyboard wizard Blue Weaver, who helped to noodle the song toward its gorgeous modalities. And the movie offers a thrilling deconstruction of how \u201cStayin\u2019 Alive\u201d was created. The Bee Gees\u2019 drummer, Dennis Bryon, had to leave the sessions to attend to his mother, who\u2019d been diagnosed with Alzheimer\u2019s. So the producer, Albhy Galuten, took a drum phrase out of \u201cNight Fever,\u201d slowed it down, and turned it into a loop. That slightly slowed-down drum loop \u2014 a technique George Martin used to hypnotic effect on many Beatles tracks \u00ad\u2014 gave the song its one-of-a-kind infectious gravity. They built it up from there, piece by piece: the bass, the distinctive guitar hook, and the vocals that, when the movie finally came out, seemed to be speaking from behind Travolta\u2019s strutting macho fa\u00e7ade.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow Can You Mend a Broken Heart\u201d captures just how big \u201cSaturday Night Fever\u201d made the Bee Gees, and how that success fulfilled and intimidated them. It meant that they had nowhere to go but down \u2014 and with their roller-coaster karma, you\u2019d better believe that was in the cards. The movie, however, cuts one serious corner on how and why that happened. It leaves out any mention of \u201cSgt. Pepper\u2019s Lonely Hearts Club Band\u201d (1978), the Stigwood-produced Hollywood musical debacle that starred the Bee Gees and seriously tarnished their image. Given how honest the documentary is about their previous failings, the omission is a bit odd.<\/p>\n<p>Yet the film captures, with more depth than I\u2019ve ever seen, the anti-disco fervor that rose up in the shadow of disco\u2019s popularity, culminating in the infamous \u201cDisco Demolition Night\u201d on July 12, 1979, at Comiskey Park in Chicago. The DJ Steve Dahl arranged for any patron to be let in for just 98 cents if they brought a disco record to be added to the pile and blown up. But the producer and house-music innovator Vince Lawrence, who was on hand as a young stadium usher, makes the point that many of the records people brought weren\u2019t disco records; they were just R&amp;B records. He\u2019s right when he calls it \u201ca book-burning,\u201d and one can hear a reverberation of it in the inflammatory culture war of today.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re shown a clip of the Bee Gees on a talk show desperately trying to distance themselves from the \u201cdisco\u201d brand, and that\u2019s a bit sad, since they should have defended it. Then again, the pressure they were under was tremendous. They got bomb threats and were blackballed by the radio industry. This led, ironically, to one of their most creative chapters, which is that they made themselves over into behind-the-scenes composer-producers, creating timeless songs for artists like Barbra Streisand (\u201cWoman in Love\u201d), Dionne Warwick (\u201cHeartbreaker\u201d), and Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers (\u201cIslands in the Stream\u201d), all suffused with the echoey lushness of the Bee Gees\u2019 sound. Considering that they\u2019d started out in the late \u201960s, this was an extraordinary fourth act.<\/p>\n<p>In the film, Barry Gibb speaks movingly about his brothers, and about how much he misses them. (Andy, their younger sibling who became a teen idol, died at 30 after struggling for years with addiction.) He says, at the end, that he would trade the hits for them being here now. The movie captures what truly charming fellows the Bee Gees were (Maurice, so recessive on stage, is quite the flinty raconteur), and it makes you miss them too. But of course we don\u2019t have to miss them, because their music never left. And one of the effects of a movie like this one is to drive you back to some of those tracks, or to discover the ones you didn\u2019t know. I\u2019ll confess that I had only a distant awareness of \u201cFanny (Be Tender with My Love),\u201d off of \u201cMain Course.\u201d But ever since I saw \u201cHow Can You Mend a Broken Heart\u201d I can\u2019t stop playing it. 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