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[remix of "Stayin' Alive"]

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[funky disco music]

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- ♪ Well, you can tell
by the way I use my walk ♪

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♪ ♪

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♪ Music loud ♪

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♪ Kicked around ♪

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♪ And now it's all right,
it's okay ♪

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♪ And you may look
the other way ♪

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♪ We can try to understand ♪

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♪ "The New York Times'"
effect on man ♪

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[siren wails]

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♪ Ah, ha, ha, ha ♪

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♪ Stayin' alive ♪

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Good evening to all of you.

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["How Can You Mend
a Broken Heart?"]

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[soft ballad]

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- ♪ I can think
of younger days ♪

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♪ When living for my life ♪

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♪ Was everything a man
could want to do ♪

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♪ I could never see tomorrow ♪

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♪ No one said a word ♪

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♪ About the sorrow ♪

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♪ How can you mend ♪

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♪ A broken heart? ♪

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♪ How can you stop the rain ♪

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♪ From falling down? ♪

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all: ♪ How can you stop ♪

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♪ The sun from shining? ♪

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♪ What makes the world
go round? ♪

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♪ Na, na, na-na-na-na ♪

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♪ Na-na-na-na-na ♪

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♪ Na-na-na-na ♪

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♪ Na-na-na ♪

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♪ Please help me mend ♪

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♪ My broken heart ♪

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- ♪ And let me live again ♪

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♪ Da-da, da-da-da ♪

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♪ Da-da-da-da ♪

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♪ Da-da-da-da-da-da ♪

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I am beginning
to recognize the fact

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that nothing is true.

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Nothing.

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My immediate family is gone.

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It's the same thing
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that someone will be left
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I have fantastic memories,

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but everybody's memory
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so they're just my memories,
you know?

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I know that Maurice
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a different kind of memory.

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[projector whirring]

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[Richard Swift's "Lady Luck"]

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- ♪ One, two, three, four ♪

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- I remember Barry saying
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And we said, "Oh, yeah."
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He's the big brother, you know.

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- We kind of saw ourselves
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and we always had
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that it became impossible
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there was an acoustic guitar
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and Robin and Maurice started
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and pretend to sing with me,

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and we started doing gigs
as a teenage act.

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♪ I, O ♪

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- We emigrated
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- All three of us had
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that we were going
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come hell or high water.

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♪ You know I love getting up
in the morning ♪

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♪ When the sun first strikes
the trees ♪

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Our father,
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but it didn't work out,
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and it was a team.

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- My mother,
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who kept the calm
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["How Many Birds"]

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- The Beatles
have just arrived

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for the first time
in our country.

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- When the Beatles came
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it was like, "That's what
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and they were singing
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like we did.

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- 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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- Making music was
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for the rest of our lives,

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so we thought, you know,
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we'll make happen.

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["Spicks and Specks"]

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- ♪ Where is the sun ♪

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we did an album
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and they became
our best demos.

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♪ The sun in my life ♪

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♪ It is dead ♪

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Dad and I did the rounds,

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met with industry people,

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and as we sat
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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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- My dad, he was very,
you know, "We gotta do this."

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- We loved the Beatles,

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so Dad had sent this stuff
to NEMS,

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the Brian Epstein offices.

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- Brian Epstein,
the man who built the Beatles

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into a cult,

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is now as well-known
as they are.

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- I was doing Brian's mail
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There was a letter
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of these three handsome,
cute guys

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who were very proactive
and who'd had some success.

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They came from Manchester,

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but they were writing
from Australia.

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I showed it to him.

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

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

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["Wine and Women"]

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"He's Australian

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- Somebody sent you a tape

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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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and composing I'd ever heard.

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all: ♪ If this should end ♪

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♪ I don't mind ♪

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♪ If this should end ♪

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♪ I will find ♪

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- ♪ What shall I do? ♪

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- ♪ What shall I do? ♪

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both: ♪ What shall I do? ♪

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- 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 surprised that
other bands were coming in.

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all: ♪ If this should end ♪

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- Robert was so eccentric.

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I mean, absolutely bonkers.

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and he would wear
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and he had a combover,
and it was all--

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who is this guy?

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- Whoever this man was,
he really believed in us.

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He was almost like a parent.

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- You can't deny talent,

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and the talent was so obvious.

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- Somebody mentioned that
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They were good friends of mine
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I said, "Is Maurice there,
then?

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Put Maurice on."
[champagne cork pops]

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He said,
"We've being signed up

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"by this guy
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"We're doing this recording.

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Why don't you come
and play guitar?"

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Caught a train into London
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So there they were.

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There were Barry, Robin,
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and the drummer,
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That night,

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my life changed completely.

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Completely.

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- The first evening
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there was a blackout.

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we just sat on the steps,

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and Barry was playing
his guitar.

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It was so echoey.

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I mean, 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

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of something happening to me."

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both: ♪ In the event ♪

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♪ Of something happening
to me ♪

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- And we thought, "Well,
what could come from that?"

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

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

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♪ Do you know what it's like
on the outside? ♪

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♪ Don't go talking too loud,
you'll cause a landslide ♪

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♪ Mr. Jones ♪

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- Because it was gonna be
our first single,

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we wanted a title
that captured the imagination,

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that got people's attention.

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- And "New York Mining
Disaster" was born then.

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- We had our first hit record
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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 that we might get
a hit in England,

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but we never dreamed
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in England and America as well.

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[Otis Redding's "Respect"]

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♪ ♪

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- So I came over
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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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- ♪ What you want ♪

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♪ Honey, you got it ♪

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- 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

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took me down there
to see Otis.

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- ♪ Hey, hey, hey ♪

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- And it was amazing.

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- Soul has always had
a special place

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in the Bee Gees' music.

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- We've always been influenced
by Black music.

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Smokey Robinson, Motown,

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all that was a big influence
on us.

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- Robert introduced us.

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

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"To Love Somebody" was born
that night.

261
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- ♪ Hey, hey, hey ♪

262
00:10:34,708 --> 00:10:36,583
- But unfortunately,

263
00:10:36,666 --> 00:10:38,458
Otis never got to record
the song.

264
00:10:38,541 --> 00:10:41,458
["To Love Somebody"]

265
00:10:41,541 --> 00:10:42,916
[soulful ballad]

266
00:10:43,000 --> 00:10:46,791
♪ There's a light ♪

267
00:10:46,875 --> 00:10:49,749
♪ A certain kind of light ♪

268
00:10:49,833 --> 00:10:52,333
♪ That never shone on me ♪

269
00:10:52,417 --> 00:10:54,958
♪ ♪

270
00:10:55,041 --> 00:10:58,292
♪ I want my life to be ♪

271
00:10:58,375 --> 00:11:00,916
♪ Lived with you ♪

272
00:11:01,000 --> 00:11:03,125
♪ Lived with you ♪

273
00:11:03,208 --> 00:11:05,292
- I mean,
I must have always known

274
00:11:05,375 --> 00:11:06,958
"To Love Somebody,"

275
00:11:07,041 --> 00:11:10,000
'cause that song is just,
like, in the ether.

276
00:11:10,083 --> 00:11:11,791
Those lyrics, "There's
a certain kind of light

277
00:11:11,875 --> 00:11:13,000
that never shone on me,"

278
00:11:13,083 --> 00:11:14,666
like, I don't even know
if he's talking about himself,

279
00:11:14,749 --> 00:11:17,125
but there was some point
where I got obsessed,

280
00:11:17,208 --> 00:11:19,000
like, tracking down
every cover version,

281
00:11:19,083 --> 00:11:21,499
like Nina Simone, the Animals.

282
00:11:21,583 --> 00:11:23,833
Some great singers have sung
that song, obviously,

283
00:11:23,916 --> 00:11:26,208
but his vocal,
when he sings it,

284
00:11:26,292 --> 00:11:28,499
I can still get chills
thinking about it.

285
00:11:28,583 --> 00:11:29,833
- ♪ Baby ♪

286
00:11:29,916 --> 00:11:34,333
all: ♪ You don't know
what it's like ♪

287
00:11:34,417 --> 00:11:39,167
♪ Baby, you don't know
what it's like ♪

288
00:11:39,250 --> 00:11:41,791
♪ To love somebody ♪

289
00:11:41,875 --> 00:11:44,499
♪ To love somebody ♪

290
00:11:44,583 --> 00:11:47,875
♪ The way I love you ♪

291
00:11:47,958 --> 00:11:50,541
- ♪ Aw, no, no ♪

292
00:11:50,624 --> 00:11:54,375
both: ♪ You don't know ♪
all: ♪ What it's like ♪

293
00:11:54,458 --> 00:11:58,041
- I just remember
this music being on,

294
00:11:58,125 --> 00:12:00,041
and I'm like, "Who's this?"

295
00:12:00,125 --> 00:12:03,375
And, "Why, it's the Bee Gees."

296
00:12:03,458 --> 00:12:04,833
And I was like, "The Bee Gees?"

297
00:12:04,916 --> 00:12:06,833
["In My Own Time"]

298
00:12:06,916 --> 00:12:08,749
It actually blew my mind.

299
00:12:08,833 --> 00:12:12,208
Those early records sound like
the Beatles' early records.

300
00:12:12,292 --> 00:12:15,833
- ♪ I received an invitation ♪

301
00:12:15,916 --> 00:12:18,375
- It's classic '60s guitar
pop sound,

302
00:12:18,458 --> 00:12:19,749
but then it had another thing
going on.

303
00:12:19,833 --> 00:12:23,208
- ♪ "Come
to the United Nations" ♪

304
00:12:23,292 --> 00:12:25,167
- You've got
the brothers singing,

305
00:12:25,250 --> 00:12:27,167
and when you've got
brothers singing,

306
00:12:27,250 --> 00:12:29,541
it's like an instrument
that nobody else can buy.

307
00:12:29,624 --> 00:12:32,958
- ♪ That was when
I was somebody ♪

308
00:12:33,041 --> 00:12:35,916
[bouncy rock music]

309
00:12:36,000 --> 00:12:40,791
all: ♪ In my own time ♪

310
00:12:40,875 --> 00:12:43,250
- You can't go buy that sound
in a shop.

311
00:12:43,333 --> 00:12:44,499
You can buy
a Fender Stratocaster

312
00:12:44,583 --> 00:12:47,916
and put it through a VOX amp
and sound like Buddy Holly.

313
00:12:48,000 --> 00:12:49,417
You can't sing
like the Bee Gees,

314
00:12:49,499 --> 00:12:50,583
because when you've got

315
00:12:50,666 --> 00:12:52,125
family members
singing together,

316
00:12:52,208 --> 00:12:53,708
it's unique.

317
00:12:53,791 --> 00:12:56,875
- It's the blend of the tones
of each brother.

318
00:12:56,958 --> 00:13:00,250
And Robin had this wonderful,
tear-jerking voice.

319
00:13:00,333 --> 00:13:02,749
["I Started a Joke"]

320
00:13:02,833 --> 00:13:04,458
[somber ballad]

321
00:13:04,541 --> 00:13:06,250
- Robin was a joyous kid.

322
00:13:06,333 --> 00:13:08,083
Hysterically funny.

323
00:13:08,167 --> 00:13:10,749
He took great joy
in being on television.

324
00:13:10,833 --> 00:13:13,167
This was the funniest kid
you could ever meet.

325
00:13:13,250 --> 00:13:14,958
- My father always used
to call him the nanny goat.

326
00:13:15,041 --> 00:13:16,791
'Cause Robin would go...
[silly vocalization]

327
00:13:16,875 --> 00:13:18,458
He'd be rehearsing
in the back of the car,

328
00:13:18,541 --> 00:13:19,791
you know,
doing all these phases

329
00:13:19,875 --> 00:13:21,624
and, you know...
♪ I love you-ooh ♪

330
00:13:21,708 --> 00:13:22,958
And he'd go, "Shut up!

331
00:13:23,041 --> 00:13:24,250
You sound like
a bloody nanny goat."

332
00:13:24,333 --> 00:13:25,958
♪ ♪

333
00:13:26,041 --> 00:13:29,624
- ♪ I started a joke ♪

334
00:13:29,708 --> 00:13:34,833
♪ Which started
the whole world crying ♪

335
00:13:34,916 --> 00:13:37,458
- Robin was always
a bit of a loner.

336
00:13:37,541 --> 00:13:39,666
- I like being spontaneous.

337
00:13:39,749 --> 00:13:40,833
I like being funny
with people,

338
00:13:40,916 --> 00:13:43,292
but you won't get that
right away with me, you see.

339
00:13:43,375 --> 00:13:46,125
- Robin had a wit that
no one could compete with.

340
00:13:46,208 --> 00:13:47,833
And he could be very dark too.

341
00:13:47,916 --> 00:13:51,292
- ♪ I looked at the skies ♪

342
00:13:51,375 --> 00:13:52,833
- Robin is not a person
who would say,

343
00:13:52,916 --> 00:13:54,167
"Oh, I love my brothers,"

344
00:13:54,250 --> 00:13:56,292
or, "Group hug."

345
00:13:56,375 --> 00:13:57,583
You know, none of that stuff.

346
00:13:57,666 --> 00:13:59,375
- I'm basically
a very shy person.

347
00:13:59,458 --> 00:14:01,167
I'm very hard to get to know.

348
00:14:01,250 --> 00:14:05,000
I have to really know somebody
before I reveal myself.

349
00:14:05,083 --> 00:14:08,875
♪ Till I finally died ♪

350
00:14:08,958 --> 00:14:15,000
♪ Which started
the whole world living ♪

351
00:14:15,083 --> 00:14:18,167
♪ Oh ♪

352
00:14:18,250 --> 00:14:19,499
- You know, I mean,
that's the voice.

353
00:14:19,583 --> 00:14:22,333
That's the voice
that reaches your heart.

354
00:14:22,417 --> 00:14:27,499
♪ ♪

355
00:14:27,583 --> 00:14:29,333
- We did a show
at the Saville Theatre,

356
00:14:29,417 --> 00:14:32,167
and Paul McCartney was there
with Jane Asher,

357
00:14:32,250 --> 00:14:33,458
because Robert had said,

358
00:14:33,541 --> 00:14:35,708
"Would you come
and see the boys?"

359
00:14:35,791 --> 00:14:36,708
- When you think that

360
00:14:36,791 --> 00:14:39,333
five months before all this
was going on,

361
00:14:39,417 --> 00:14:42,499
I was in Pitt Street buying up
the Beatle fan club book,

362
00:14:42,583 --> 00:14:45,250
and now here I am
partying with these guys.

363
00:14:45,333 --> 00:14:47,333
We felt like we'd arrived.

364
00:14:47,417 --> 00:14:49,666
Now I'm living out in Highgate
outside London.

365
00:14:49,749 --> 00:14:51,875
Barry's got a place
in Eaton Square.

366
00:14:51,958 --> 00:14:53,875
Robin's got a house
in St. George's Hill,

367
00:14:53,958 --> 00:14:55,041
beautiful area.

368
00:14:55,125 --> 00:14:57,541
- And Mum and Dad
had their own place,

369
00:14:57,624 --> 00:15:00,083
and, of course, Andy lived
with them.

370
00:15:00,167 --> 00:15:01,708
He was just like us,

371
00:15:01,791 --> 00:15:03,541
and he was always
tagging along,

372
00:15:03,624 --> 00:15:06,041
hoping that one day,
he would do this too.

373
00:15:06,125 --> 00:15:07,541
He would like to sing.

374
00:15:07,624 --> 00:15:09,666
- There was a lot of hits
in that short time,

375
00:15:09,749 --> 00:15:11,083
you know,
and after all the work

376
00:15:11,167 --> 00:15:13,000
we had done through clubs
and everything,

377
00:15:13,083 --> 00:15:14,666
I felt grown up, you know,

378
00:15:14,749 --> 00:15:16,208
so we made the most of it.

379
00:15:16,292 --> 00:15:18,292
- Very talented group of men,
the Bee Gees.

380
00:15:18,375 --> 00:15:20,458
- Once again,
the fabulous Bee Gees.

381
00:15:20,541 --> 00:15:22,125
- Here they are, and get
involved with the Bee Gees.

382
00:15:22,208 --> 00:15:23,125
Here they are.

383
00:15:23,208 --> 00:15:25,417
- ♪ I am man
and you are woman ♪

384
00:15:25,499 --> 00:15:26,749
♪ Who needs marriage? ♪

385
00:15:26,833 --> 00:15:29,292
♪ We are humans all ♪

386
00:15:29,375 --> 00:15:30,499
By then, we were flying,

387
00:15:30,583 --> 00:15:33,541
you know, just the most
amazing experience.

388
00:15:33,624 --> 00:15:35,875
♪ Then it would please you
if I should call ♪

389
00:15:35,958 --> 00:15:37,417
♪ ♪

390
00:15:37,499 --> 00:15:39,417
♪ Doesn't matter
what your name is ♪

391
00:15:39,499 --> 00:15:42,583
♪ I can do a million things
to you ♪

392
00:15:42,666 --> 00:15:43,708
As a pop group,

393
00:15:43,791 --> 00:15:45,749
this was the biggest moment
of our lives.

394
00:15:45,833 --> 00:15:47,250
Never expected.

395
00:15:47,333 --> 00:15:50,083
Hoped for
but never really expected.

396
00:15:50,167 --> 00:15:52,624
[drum solo]

397
00:15:52,708 --> 00:15:56,083
♪ ♪

398
00:15:56,167 --> 00:15:58,583
[crowd shouting]

399
00:15:58,666 --> 00:16:00,791
♪ No, no, no ♪

400
00:16:00,875 --> 00:16:02,458
♪ No, no ♪
[tires squealing]

401
00:16:02,541 --> 00:16:04,167
[engine revving]

402
00:16:04,250 --> 00:16:06,458
Then came "Massachusetts."

403
00:16:06,541 --> 00:16:08,791
Robin said, "I've got
this idea for a song."

404
00:16:08,875 --> 00:16:10,666
He sang the melody,

405
00:16:10,749 --> 00:16:13,541
and I just remember
our jaws dropping.

406
00:16:13,624 --> 00:16:17,000
[sweeping ballad]

407
00:16:17,083 --> 00:16:20,250
- ♪ Feel I'm going back ♪

408
00:16:20,333 --> 00:16:23,125
♪ To Massachusetts ♪

409
00:16:23,208 --> 00:16:26,167
♪ ♪

410
00:16:26,250 --> 00:16:29,458
♪ Something's telling me ♪

411
00:16:29,541 --> 00:16:32,292
♪ I must go home ♪

412
00:16:32,375 --> 00:16:34,458
♪ ♪

413
00:16:34,541 --> 00:16:36,833
all: ♪ And the lights ♪

414
00:16:36,916 --> 00:16:39,083
♪ All went down ♪

415
00:16:39,167 --> 00:16:43,375
♪ In Massachusetts ♪

416
00:16:43,458 --> 00:16:46,833
- ♪ The day I left ♪

417
00:16:46,916 --> 00:16:51,833
♪ Her standing on her own ♪

418
00:16:51,916 --> 00:16:55,000
- For me, they connected
from very early on.

419
00:16:55,083 --> 00:16:57,624
"Massachusetts" is probably
the first song,

420
00:16:57,708 --> 00:16:59,541
I think, that really resonates.

421
00:16:59,624 --> 00:17:03,958
There is a gospel quality
to it.

422
00:17:04,041 --> 00:17:06,666
There is a folk quality to it.

423
00:17:06,749 --> 00:17:09,624
I didn't know where the hell
Massachusetts was,

424
00:17:09,708 --> 00:17:11,041
but I found myself
singing that

425
00:17:11,125 --> 00:17:15,167
and translating it
to where I was from.

426
00:17:15,250 --> 00:17:16,417
- Robert runs up and he goes,

427
00:17:16,499 --> 00:17:18,833
"'Massachusetts' has just gone
to number one."

428
00:17:18,916 --> 00:17:20,000
We went, "What?"

429
00:17:20,083 --> 00:17:22,000
To have a number one
in England,

430
00:17:22,083 --> 00:17:23,875
you have no idea
how much we dreamed of this

431
00:17:23,958 --> 00:17:24,875
back in Australia.

432
00:17:24,958 --> 00:17:28,333
- ♪ And Massachusetts ♪

433
00:17:28,417 --> 00:17:33,916
♪ Is one place I have seen ♪

434
00:17:34,000 --> 00:17:36,208
♪ ♪

435
00:17:36,292 --> 00:17:38,875
- "Massachusetts"
from the Bee Gees.

436
00:17:38,958 --> 00:17:41,041
- I met the Bee Gees
at "Top of the Pops."

437
00:17:41,125 --> 00:17:42,541
I was young.

438
00:17:42,624 --> 00:17:45,167
Was I 16?
Maybe I was even 17.

439
00:17:45,250 --> 00:17:48,041
- Top pop girl in America,
top pop girl in Britain,

440
00:17:48,125 --> 00:17:49,583
the one and only Lulu.

441
00:17:49,666 --> 00:17:51,499
- ♪ Some people live
within the world ♪

442
00:17:51,583 --> 00:17:53,583
♪ And some people live
without it ♪

443
00:17:53,666 --> 00:17:55,666
♪ Some people gotta whisper
their love ♪

444
00:17:55,749 --> 00:17:58,541
♪ And some,
they gotta shout it ♪

445
00:17:58,624 --> 00:18:02,083
The Bee Gees were always
in the studio.

446
00:18:02,167 --> 00:18:03,708
They were always recording.

447
00:18:03,791 --> 00:18:05,125
[melodic piano notes]

448
00:18:05,208 --> 00:18:06,583
They would literally go
into the studio

449
00:18:06,666 --> 00:18:08,208
and start writing.

450
00:18:08,292 --> 00:18:11,417
I had never known
anything like that before.

451
00:18:11,499 --> 00:18:12,958
- We don't usually write
our lyrics

452
00:18:13,041 --> 00:18:14,791
till the day we sing them.

453
00:18:14,875 --> 00:18:17,250
We usually write our lyrics
in the studio itself.

454
00:18:17,333 --> 00:18:19,417
That seems to work
through thick and thin.

455
00:18:19,499 --> 00:18:21,250
It always works for us.

456
00:18:21,333 --> 00:18:23,791
- It's very hard to describe
how we write,

457
00:18:23,875 --> 00:18:25,292
but the only way
I can describe

458
00:18:25,375 --> 00:18:28,041
how we work at it
is by becoming one mind.

459
00:18:28,125 --> 00:18:30,208
- Maurice had unique insight

460
00:18:30,292 --> 00:18:32,083
into the way
Robin and I thought.

461
00:18:32,167 --> 00:18:33,708
[experimental piano chords]

462
00:18:33,791 --> 00:18:35,958
He would just be
fiddling around on the piano.

463
00:18:36,041 --> 00:18:38,417
He'd suddenly
play something, and,

464
00:18:38,499 --> 00:18:39,541
"What was that?"

465
00:18:39,624 --> 00:18:41,624
He was trying to please us

466
00:18:41,708 --> 00:18:44,167
and the way that we would all
try to please each other,

467
00:18:44,250 --> 00:18:46,833
and that sometimes was
the birth of a song.

468
00:18:46,916 --> 00:18:48,000
- All of a sudden,
we'll wake each other's

469
00:18:48,083 --> 00:18:49,958
little instincts up
and the melodies come.

470
00:18:50,041 --> 00:18:52,499
It's wonderful
when you hear it taking shape.

471
00:18:52,583 --> 00:18:53,791
Then it all blossoms.

472
00:18:53,875 --> 00:18:55,458
- The third verse
is four bars.

473
00:18:55,541 --> 00:18:56,958
- It's rolling.

474
00:18:57,041 --> 00:18:58,833
- They'd say, "Okay,
we're ready to roll," right?

475
00:18:58,916 --> 00:19:00,791
And they'd play the song,
and I'd work the chords out.

476
00:19:00,875 --> 00:19:02,125
Colin would figure out

477
00:19:02,208 --> 00:19:03,916
what he's gonna do
on the drums.

478
00:19:04,000 --> 00:19:05,583
They'd say, "Right, here we go.

479
00:19:05,666 --> 00:19:07,125
Let's go. Bang, bang, bang."

480
00:19:07,208 --> 00:19:08,167
Down it went.

481
00:19:08,250 --> 00:19:10,458
["Idea"]

482
00:19:10,541 --> 00:19:14,791
And that spontaneity
came out in the songs.

483
00:19:14,875 --> 00:19:17,916
- In those days, you knocked
an album out in three weeks.

484
00:19:18,000 --> 00:19:20,167
I think we had
three albums out in one year.

485
00:19:20,250 --> 00:19:23,333
both: ♪ But that was when
I got an idea ♪

486
00:19:23,417 --> 00:19:26,125
♪ Came like a gun
and shot in my ear ♪

487
00:19:26,208 --> 00:19:27,250
[crowd shouting]

488
00:19:27,333 --> 00:19:28,833
- ♪ Don't you think
it's time you got up ♪

489
00:19:28,916 --> 00:19:31,000
♪ And stood alone? ♪

490
00:19:31,083 --> 00:19:32,125
♪ ♪

491
00:19:32,208 --> 00:19:33,833
- When we went to Europe,

492
00:19:33,916 --> 00:19:36,499
there'd always be
a big bunch of kids outside

493
00:19:36,583 --> 00:19:38,167
waiting for us to arrive.

494
00:19:38,250 --> 00:19:39,833
It was a frightening time,

495
00:19:39,916 --> 00:19:42,375
because they crawled
all over the Mercedes.

496
00:19:42,458 --> 00:19:45,292
They were on the roof.
They were at the window.

497
00:19:45,375 --> 00:19:47,208
It was crazy.

498
00:19:47,292 --> 00:19:48,583
"Hey, guys.

499
00:19:48,666 --> 00:19:50,958
Do you think we're famous?
Could be."

500
00:19:51,041 --> 00:19:51,958
[laughs]

501
00:19:52,041 --> 00:19:54,041
[crowd cheering]

502
00:19:54,125 --> 00:19:55,375
- The Bee Gees,

503
00:19:55,458 --> 00:19:58,333
the most exciting sound
in the world.

504
00:19:58,417 --> 00:19:59,499
["World"]

505
00:19:59,583 --> 00:20:01,833
- ♪ Now ♪

506
00:20:01,916 --> 00:20:04,666
♪ I found ♪

507
00:20:04,749 --> 00:20:07,458
♪ That the world ♪

508
00:20:07,541 --> 00:20:09,833
♪ Is round ♪

509
00:20:09,916 --> 00:20:12,167
- If you've never been famous,

510
00:20:12,250 --> 00:20:13,583
the first time it happens,

511
00:20:13,666 --> 00:20:15,875
it's a very difficult thing
to handle.

512
00:20:15,958 --> 00:20:17,541
You don't know how to behave.

513
00:20:17,624 --> 00:20:19,167
You don't know
how to experience it.

514
00:20:19,250 --> 00:20:22,375
And that affected all of us
in its own way.

515
00:20:22,458 --> 00:20:24,041
[somber rock music]

516
00:20:24,125 --> 00:20:26,417
- I had six Rolls-Royces
before I was 21.

517
00:20:26,499 --> 00:20:27,749
I don't know
where they are now.

518
00:20:27,833 --> 00:20:28,749
[laughs]

519
00:20:28,833 --> 00:20:30,375
But I mean,
that's how crazy it was.

520
00:20:30,458 --> 00:20:33,125
- We were all very selfish
at that point.

521
00:20:33,208 --> 00:20:35,833
The testosterone kicked in,

522
00:20:35,916 --> 00:20:38,041
and the competition
of life began.

523
00:20:38,125 --> 00:20:40,041
["I've Gotta Get a Message
to You"]

524
00:20:40,125 --> 00:20:41,250
[mellow music]

525
00:20:41,333 --> 00:20:45,791
♪ I told him I'm in no hurry ♪

526
00:20:45,875 --> 00:20:48,417
♪ But if I broke her heart ♪

527
00:20:48,499 --> 00:20:50,499
♪ Then won't you tell her
I'm sorry? ♪

528
00:20:50,583 --> 00:20:54,083
- There was always a conflict
between Barry and Robin

529
00:20:54,167 --> 00:20:56,749
'cause they both had
fantastic voices

530
00:20:56,833 --> 00:20:58,708
and Robin wanted
to sing the song

531
00:20:58,791 --> 00:21:00,041
and Barry wanted to sing it.

532
00:21:00,125 --> 00:21:05,083
both: ♪ I've just gotta get
a message to you ♪

533
00:21:05,167 --> 00:21:07,791
all: ♪ Hold on ♪

534
00:21:07,875 --> 00:21:09,916
♪ Hold on ♪

535
00:21:10,000 --> 00:21:12,624
- Both of us wanted to be
individual performers.

536
00:21:12,708 --> 00:21:14,916
We all wanted
individual recognition.

537
00:21:15,000 --> 00:21:18,583
And therein lies the issue.

538
00:21:18,666 --> 00:21:22,333
all: ♪ Hold on ♪

539
00:21:22,417 --> 00:21:26,083
- I'm speaking to you
from a club in Hamburg,

540
00:21:26,167 --> 00:21:27,791
and I'm Barry Gibb
of the Bee Gees.

541
00:21:27,875 --> 00:21:29,083
Robin here.

542
00:21:29,167 --> 00:21:30,958
Robin, we've heard rumors
that the group is splitting up.

543
00:21:31,041 --> 00:21:32,458
Would you like to verify
those rumors?

544
00:21:32,541 --> 00:21:33,749
- If I was to say
that was true,

545
00:21:33,833 --> 00:21:35,749
then I would be
the premier of Russia.

546
00:21:35,833 --> 00:21:37,125
- I don't know.

547
00:21:37,208 --> 00:21:38,250
- Thank you very much,
Mr. Petersen.

548
00:21:38,333 --> 00:21:39,333
How about you, Mr. Melouney?

549
00:21:39,417 --> 00:21:40,791
- Oh, no.
I don't think it is.

550
00:21:40,875 --> 00:21:43,250
- No. No. No.

551
00:21:43,333 --> 00:21:46,125
["Don't Wanna Live
Inside Myself"]

552
00:21:46,208 --> 00:21:50,125
- I always say
that making music

553
00:21:50,208 --> 00:21:52,666
with your family

554
00:21:52,749 --> 00:21:55,916
is equally
the greatest strength

555
00:21:56,000 --> 00:21:57,791
and the greatest weakness
you could ever have

556
00:21:57,875 --> 00:21:59,833
in a musical partnership.

557
00:21:59,916 --> 00:22:01,624
[somber piano ballad]

558
00:22:01,708 --> 00:22:03,958
To get to the top
or near the top,

559
00:22:04,041 --> 00:22:06,250
you've gotta be
incredibly driven,

560
00:22:06,333 --> 00:22:09,167
and what drives you
is your ego.

561
00:22:09,250 --> 00:22:10,666
And when you get there

562
00:22:10,749 --> 00:22:12,958
and everybody's got an ego
about it,

563
00:22:13,041 --> 00:22:15,375
it can be tricky to stay there.

564
00:22:15,458 --> 00:22:17,833
- ♪ I am the searcher ♪

565
00:22:17,916 --> 00:22:22,375
♪ Of my fortunes ♪

566
00:22:22,458 --> 00:22:25,666
♪ I got my right hand ♪

567
00:22:25,749 --> 00:22:28,167
♪ On the wheel ♪

568
00:22:28,250 --> 00:22:30,041
- The three of us stopped
looking inwards to each other

569
00:22:30,125 --> 00:22:31,958
and all started
looking outwards

570
00:22:32,041 --> 00:22:34,666
to what we could be
individually.

571
00:22:34,749 --> 00:22:36,833
"To hell
with what my brothers think."

572
00:22:36,916 --> 00:22:39,499
And each one of us
was thinking that.

573
00:22:39,583 --> 00:22:42,666
both: ♪ Don't wanna live ♪

574
00:22:42,749 --> 00:22:46,000
♪ Inside myself ♪

575
00:22:46,083 --> 00:22:47,292
- To travel the world
when you're young

576
00:22:47,375 --> 00:22:48,458
with a family member

577
00:22:48,541 --> 00:22:50,875
gives you a certain sense
of who you are

578
00:22:50,958 --> 00:22:52,958
and where you've come from
and all that.

579
00:22:53,041 --> 00:22:56,167
So you kind of walk
that tightrope.

580
00:22:56,250 --> 00:22:58,208
- We'd been together
all our lives, don't forget.

581
00:22:58,292 --> 00:22:59,875
- We'd been together
since Robin and I were five,

582
00:22:59,958 --> 00:23:01,417
singing professionally.

583
00:23:01,499 --> 00:23:02,749
You know, it's a lot of years.

584
00:23:02,833 --> 00:23:05,041
- We'd been kids living
together with each other

585
00:23:05,125 --> 00:23:06,708
right up until
the time we arrived

586
00:23:06,791 --> 00:23:09,375
and even after we arrived
in England.

587
00:23:09,458 --> 00:23:14,375
- ♪ Don't wanna live
inside myself ♪

588
00:23:14,458 --> 00:23:15,708
Robin was first to say,

589
00:23:15,791 --> 00:23:18,541
"Well, I'm quitting
the group."

590
00:23:18,624 --> 00:23:22,499
I stopped really knowing Robin

591
00:23:22,583 --> 00:23:26,250
and his personal life
once we became famous.

592
00:23:26,333 --> 00:23:27,708
And the same with Mo.

593
00:23:27,791 --> 00:23:31,375
Our three lives were
three different lives.

594
00:23:31,458 --> 00:23:33,666
We were no longer living
the same life.

595
00:23:33,749 --> 00:23:40,708
♪ ♪

596
00:23:40,791 --> 00:23:42,208
- Brothers...

597
00:23:42,292 --> 00:23:44,749
in general,
it's a very complicated thing,

598
00:23:44,833 --> 00:23:46,875
you know?

599
00:23:46,958 --> 00:23:48,208
Emotions are heightened,

600
00:23:48,292 --> 00:23:52,167
and there's things that go back
to childhood about, you know,

601
00:23:52,250 --> 00:23:54,833
if one kid got more attention
than the other,

602
00:23:54,916 --> 00:23:56,708
and all these things play out

603
00:23:56,791 --> 00:23:58,541
in front of just a small group
of friends,

604
00:23:58,624 --> 00:24:00,875
but when you magnify that
with the whole world,

605
00:24:00,958 --> 00:24:02,791
it changes the game
a little bit.

606
00:24:02,875 --> 00:24:04,875
- Robin, that's a good picture.

607
00:24:04,958 --> 00:24:07,583
That's you, Barry,
Colin, Vince.

608
00:24:07,666 --> 00:24:09,749
- That's correct, yes.
- Do you miss 'em?

609
00:24:09,833 --> 00:24:11,125
- Well, it's not really
a matter

610
00:24:11,208 --> 00:24:12,458
of missing them, really.

611
00:24:12,541 --> 00:24:14,083
But I still see them
on and off, you know,

612
00:24:14,167 --> 00:24:16,125
so that's the way things go.

613
00:24:16,208 --> 00:24:18,000
I'll show you
the studio anyway.

614
00:24:18,958 --> 00:24:21,333
[George Bizet's "Habanera"]

615
00:24:21,417 --> 00:24:24,624
- It was really me and Robin
that were in conflict,

616
00:24:24,708 --> 00:24:26,624
and I think
Maurice was in the middle.

617
00:24:26,708 --> 00:24:28,458
- Story of my life, really.
[laughs]

618
00:24:28,541 --> 00:24:29,499
Barry would call me up
and say,

619
00:24:29,583 --> 00:24:30,666
"Well, can you call Robin
and tell him

620
00:24:30,749 --> 00:24:31,791
if he wants to do this?"

621
00:24:31,875 --> 00:24:33,125
And Robin would go,
"Well, give Barry a call

622
00:24:33,208 --> 00:24:34,292
and let him know
that I'm gonna be over."

623
00:24:34,375 --> 00:24:35,624
I said,
"Robin, you call Barry."

624
00:24:35,708 --> 00:24:36,958
"Barry, you call Robin."

625
00:24:37,041 --> 00:24:39,125
And they both said,
"No, we won't."

626
00:24:39,208 --> 00:24:41,000
And for 18 months,
they never did.

627
00:24:41,083 --> 00:24:42,833
- We had this fascination

628
00:24:42,916 --> 00:24:46,250
with calling
the newspapers up.

629
00:24:46,333 --> 00:24:49,417
You called "NME" or you called
"Disc" or "Music Echo"

630
00:24:49,499 --> 00:24:50,791
and you'd say...
[grumbles]

631
00:24:50,875 --> 00:24:52,583
"Robin said this about me,
and I just wanna be able

632
00:24:52,666 --> 00:24:55,167
to correct the record,"
and all that stuff.

633
00:24:55,250 --> 00:24:57,583
- It was a whole
strange episode of our lives,

634
00:24:57,666 --> 00:25:00,292
but a lot of things
had gone down at that time,

635
00:25:00,375 --> 00:25:04,000
and we needed time apart
to think about them.

636
00:25:04,083 --> 00:25:06,541
- At Caxton Hall,
VIP transport

637
00:25:06,624 --> 00:25:09,208
for very important pop star
Barry Gibb.

638
00:25:09,292 --> 00:25:10,333
He's getting married

639
00:25:10,417 --> 00:25:12,167
to 20-year-old
former Miss Edinburgh

640
00:25:12,250 --> 00:25:13,833
Linda Gray.

641
00:25:13,916 --> 00:25:16,333
[cheery music]

642
00:25:16,417 --> 00:25:18,708
- Their world was crazy
at that time.

643
00:25:18,791 --> 00:25:20,833
You know, at one time,
there was three brothers,

644
00:25:20,916 --> 00:25:24,167
and then all of a sudden,
it was three wives.

645
00:25:24,250 --> 00:25:27,000
- Maurice Gibb and Lulu
became Mr. and Mrs.

646
00:25:27,083 --> 00:25:28,791
at St. James' Parish Church

647
00:25:28,875 --> 00:25:31,333
at Gerrards Cross
in Buckinghamshire.

648
00:25:31,417 --> 00:25:34,541
- You think,
by marrying someone

649
00:25:34,624 --> 00:25:37,375
that you absolutely adore,

650
00:25:37,458 --> 00:25:39,708
you think it's gonna solve
all your problems,

651
00:25:39,791 --> 00:25:41,250
but really...

652
00:25:41,333 --> 00:25:42,499
- At Caxton Hall,

653
00:25:42,583 --> 00:25:45,083
Robin Gibb of the Bee Gees
marries Molly Hullis.

654
00:25:45,167 --> 00:25:46,375
[upbeat rock music]

655
00:25:46,458 --> 00:25:48,541
- Molly was
my first real love.

656
00:25:48,624 --> 00:25:50,417
The first serious one.

657
00:25:50,499 --> 00:25:52,375
But it was
a very traumatic time for me.

658
00:25:52,458 --> 00:25:55,375
[bombastic music]

659
00:25:55,458 --> 00:25:57,583
I went with my manager.

660
00:25:57,666 --> 00:25:59,000
He said, "Look, Robin,

661
00:25:59,083 --> 00:26:00,583
I'm gonna send you
to New Zealand."

662
00:26:00,666 --> 00:26:03,666
He says, "You're doing
the Redwood Park Festival."

663
00:26:03,749 --> 00:26:04,833
So I went there,
and of course,

664
00:26:04,916 --> 00:26:06,583
it was advertised
that the Bee Gees were coming,

665
00:26:06,666 --> 00:26:08,041
not just Robin Gibb, you see.

666
00:26:08,125 --> 00:26:11,708
[crowd shouting]

667
00:26:11,791 --> 00:26:13,833
All right.
Okay.

668
00:26:13,916 --> 00:26:16,208
- How'd you feel last night?

669
00:26:16,292 --> 00:26:17,583
- I have an obligation
to my audience

670
00:26:17,666 --> 00:26:19,041
not to look scared, and...

671
00:26:19,125 --> 00:26:22,250
I can't say
I really felt scared.

672
00:26:22,333 --> 00:26:23,458
I was terrified.
[laughs]

673
00:26:25,499 --> 00:26:29,041
♪ How far am I able to ♪

674
00:26:29,125 --> 00:26:31,417
[microphone feedback whining]

675
00:26:31,499 --> 00:26:34,499
[crowd screaming]

676
00:26:37,791 --> 00:26:40,041
- All three of us
became isolated,

677
00:26:40,125 --> 00:26:44,083
and all three of us
did things to each other

678
00:26:44,167 --> 00:26:46,083
that I think
we're all sorry for.

679
00:26:46,167 --> 00:26:48,916
[soft music]

680
00:26:49,000 --> 00:26:50,083
We loved each other.

681
00:26:50,167 --> 00:26:52,624
There was an enormous amount
of love between us.

682
00:26:52,708 --> 00:26:54,749
Growing up,
we did everything together.

683
00:26:54,833 --> 00:26:57,375
- We often thought
we were triplets.

684
00:26:57,458 --> 00:27:00,125
Because we all had
the same love.

685
00:27:00,208 --> 00:27:01,208
We had the same sense of humor.

686
00:27:01,292 --> 00:27:03,375
We had the same love
of the same kind of music.

687
00:27:03,458 --> 00:27:05,458
- Just typical kids, you know?

688
00:27:05,541 --> 00:27:07,958
But the one thing
that no one else was doing

689
00:27:08,041 --> 00:27:09,458
was that we were singing
in harmony,

690
00:27:09,541 --> 00:27:12,250
and beyond anything else,
that's all we cared about.

691
00:27:12,333 --> 00:27:14,499
♪ ♪

692
00:27:14,583 --> 00:27:16,916
We fell in love
with the Mills Brothers.

693
00:27:17,000 --> 00:27:19,958
They all did something unique
in their own way.

694
00:27:20,041 --> 00:27:20,958
And at the same time,

695
00:27:21,041 --> 00:27:23,000
Robin and I did
two different leads,

696
00:27:23,083 --> 00:27:25,666
and Maurice would always know
where to put that other melody

697
00:27:25,749 --> 00:27:27,000
to make a three-part harmony.

698
00:27:27,083 --> 00:27:29,791
They mirrored
what we wanted to be.

699
00:27:29,875 --> 00:27:32,458
- Do you find you miss
Robin and Maurice musically?

700
00:27:32,541 --> 00:27:33,624
- Yeah.
[chuckles]

701
00:27:33,708 --> 00:27:35,749
Not musically.

702
00:27:35,833 --> 00:27:38,292
I miss them both as brothers.

703
00:27:38,375 --> 00:27:40,749
- Something
about entering the world

704
00:27:40,833 --> 00:27:43,125
from the same place,
I think, has an effect

705
00:27:43,208 --> 00:27:44,916
on your ability
to sing together,

706
00:27:45,000 --> 00:27:49,541
your creative awareness,
and your artistic voice.

707
00:27:49,624 --> 00:27:52,875
- Could we see the Bee Gees
back together again?

708
00:27:52,958 --> 00:27:56,167
- That's a very strong point
that it could be.

709
00:27:56,250 --> 00:27:57,333
I can't say definitely,

710
00:27:57,417 --> 00:27:59,875
but I'd like to see
the Bee Gees again.

711
00:27:59,958 --> 00:28:02,375
[solemn music]

712
00:28:02,458 --> 00:28:05,375
- Mr. Epstein has been
unwell now for some months.

713
00:28:05,458 --> 00:28:07,458
And he's been in the habit
of taking tablets

714
00:28:07,541 --> 00:28:09,208
to help him sleep at night.

715
00:28:09,292 --> 00:28:11,292
He was found
in his second-floor bedroom

716
00:28:11,375 --> 00:28:14,167
just after 2:00 this afternoon
by his housekeeper.

717
00:28:14,250 --> 00:28:17,666
- When Brian died
and we restructured NEMS,

718
00:28:17,749 --> 00:28:19,333
Robert asked to become

719
00:28:19,417 --> 00:28:21,000
a more important
senior executive

720
00:28:21,083 --> 00:28:22,833
for the Beatles,

721
00:28:22,916 --> 00:28:24,708
and that wasn't acceptable
to them,

722
00:28:24,791 --> 00:28:28,250
so he then left the company

723
00:28:28,333 --> 00:28:31,875
and took with him Eric Clapton
and Bee Gees

724
00:28:31,958 --> 00:28:33,833
so he could start off
on his own.

725
00:28:33,916 --> 00:28:35,208
- We were an asset.

726
00:28:35,292 --> 00:28:37,041
We were one of those people
Robert needed

727
00:28:37,125 --> 00:28:39,041
as an element of going public.

728
00:28:39,125 --> 00:28:40,708
[camera shutters snapping]

729
00:28:40,791 --> 00:28:42,375
It was at the launching
of the company

730
00:28:42,458 --> 00:28:43,958
where we started
to communicate again.

731
00:28:44,041 --> 00:28:45,875
[applause]

732
00:28:45,958 --> 00:28:47,916
And once we came back
together again,

733
00:28:48,000 --> 00:28:49,666
we wrote "Lonely Days,"

734
00:28:49,749 --> 00:28:52,875
which reflected the idea
that we'd been broken up.

735
00:28:52,958 --> 00:28:56,708
- We'd always been boys
going up together,

736
00:28:56,791 --> 00:28:59,208
and I think
we came back together as men.

737
00:28:59,292 --> 00:29:01,292
We respected
each other's opinions,

738
00:29:01,375 --> 00:29:02,875
which we didn't before that.

739
00:29:02,958 --> 00:29:05,000
["How Can You Mend
a Broken Heart?"]

740
00:29:05,083 --> 00:29:06,208
If anything,
that was the good thing

741
00:29:06,292 --> 00:29:07,666
about the breakup.

742
00:29:07,749 --> 00:29:09,708
[soft ballad]

743
00:29:09,791 --> 00:29:12,791
♪ I can think
of younger days ♪

744
00:29:12,875 --> 00:29:14,875
- I had already started
a first verse and chorus.

745
00:29:14,958 --> 00:29:17,250
I knew what "How Can You Mend
a Broken Heart?" was,

746
00:29:17,333 --> 00:29:19,125
but then Robin walks in.

747
00:29:19,208 --> 00:29:21,250
I said, "I'm just working
on this song.

748
00:29:21,333 --> 00:29:22,624
Do you wanna do it with me?"

749
00:29:22,708 --> 00:29:23,958
And he went,
"Yeah, of course."

750
00:29:24,041 --> 00:29:29,417
- ♪ I could never see
tomorrow ♪

751
00:29:29,499 --> 00:29:31,458
- We'd been apart
for two years.

752
00:29:31,541 --> 00:29:32,624
If we hadn't been brothers,

753
00:29:32,708 --> 00:29:34,208
we wouldn't have lasted
half an hour.

754
00:29:34,292 --> 00:29:36,250
It just wouldn't have happened.

755
00:29:36,333 --> 00:29:38,583
♪ ♪

756
00:29:38,666 --> 00:29:40,458
♪ And ♪

757
00:29:40,541 --> 00:29:43,458
♪ How can you mend ♪

758
00:29:43,541 --> 00:29:44,875
♪ A broken heart? ♪

759
00:29:44,958 --> 00:29:48,583
Things started to just improve
over time, you know?

760
00:29:48,666 --> 00:29:50,583
♪ How can you stop the rain ♪

761
00:29:50,666 --> 00:29:52,250
♪ From falling down? ♪

762
00:29:52,333 --> 00:29:54,292
We became the Bee Gees again.

763
00:29:54,375 --> 00:29:58,000
all: ♪ How can you stop ♪

764
00:29:58,083 --> 00:30:01,250
♪ The sun from shining? ♪

765
00:30:01,333 --> 00:30:05,292
♪ What makes the world
go round? ♪

766
00:30:05,375 --> 00:30:07,167
♪ ♪

767
00:30:07,250 --> 00:30:08,749
- We came back together,
and we made

768
00:30:08,833 --> 00:30:10,417
two number one records
in America,

769
00:30:10,499 --> 00:30:12,083
so we were on a bit of a high.

770
00:30:12,167 --> 00:30:14,624
♪ ♪

771
00:30:14,708 --> 00:30:17,292
But we were
not really that good

772
00:30:17,375 --> 00:30:20,958
when it came to just doing
anything without a pill,

773
00:30:21,041 --> 00:30:22,791
you know,
or without a drink.

774
00:30:22,875 --> 00:30:24,125
It was destroying us.

775
00:30:24,208 --> 00:30:26,458
all: ♪ My broken heart ♪

776
00:30:26,541 --> 00:30:29,333
And that became the battle,

777
00:30:29,417 --> 00:30:31,833
the fight to survive
being a pop group.

778
00:30:31,916 --> 00:30:35,041
all: ♪ Da-da-da-da ♪

779
00:30:35,125 --> 00:30:39,333
- ♪ Da-da-da-da-da-da ♪

780
00:30:39,417 --> 00:30:42,417
[cheers and applause]

781
00:30:47,541 --> 00:30:50,292
Thank you very, very much
on behalf of my brothers,

782
00:30:50,375 --> 00:30:52,833
Robin

783
00:30:52,916 --> 00:30:56,083
and Maurice,

784
00:30:56,167 --> 00:30:59,417
and this beautiful orchestra,

785
00:30:59,499 --> 00:31:03,208
our lead guitarist,
Alan Kendall...

786
00:31:03,292 --> 00:31:04,333
- Robert Stigwood said,

787
00:31:04,417 --> 00:31:06,333
"The Bee Gees are gonna go
on a tour,

788
00:31:06,417 --> 00:31:08,666
and they want a guitar player
who can play bass as well,"

789
00:31:08,749 --> 00:31:10,666
'cause in those days,

790
00:31:10,749 --> 00:31:14,791
Maurice played bass, but he
would go on piano sometimes.

791
00:31:14,875 --> 00:31:18,499
And so I called him and I said,
"Well, I can't play bass,"

792
00:31:18,583 --> 00:31:21,000
and he said,
"Just say you can play bass,"

793
00:31:21,083 --> 00:31:23,083
so I said, "Okay,
I can play bass."

794
00:31:23,167 --> 00:31:25,875
[mellow rock music]

795
00:31:25,958 --> 00:31:29,250
I'll be honest, I was
very much into the lifestyle.

796
00:31:29,333 --> 00:31:30,541
I just loved
being on the road.

797
00:31:30,624 --> 00:31:33,083
I loved playing music,
chasing women.

798
00:31:33,167 --> 00:31:34,749
♪ ♪

799
00:31:34,833 --> 00:31:36,000
Maurice is so funny,

800
00:31:36,083 --> 00:31:38,041
'cause he was good
at magic tricks,

801
00:31:38,125 --> 00:31:41,208
and he'd like
to drink a little, as I did.

802
00:31:41,292 --> 00:31:43,250
Robin, I never really knew.

803
00:31:43,333 --> 00:31:46,583
I mean, I'd converse with him
but not as much as the others.

804
00:31:46,666 --> 00:31:48,916
And I would bump into him
every now and then

805
00:31:49,000 --> 00:31:51,875
wandering the corridors
of the hotel.

806
00:31:51,958 --> 00:31:55,041
And there's Barry
with his glamorous wife

807
00:31:55,125 --> 00:31:57,083
smoking a bowl, you know?

808
00:31:57,167 --> 00:31:58,333
♪ ♪

809
00:31:58,458 --> 00:32:00,916
My early days
with the Bee Gees

810
00:32:01,000 --> 00:32:03,791
were, for me, thrilling,

811
00:32:03,875 --> 00:32:06,375
even though I can understand
why it wasn't for them,

812
00:32:06,458 --> 00:32:08,958
'cause they weren't
necessarily selling out.

813
00:32:09,041 --> 00:32:11,624
[solemn music]

814
00:32:11,708 --> 00:32:12,916
- When we were broken up,

815
00:32:13,000 --> 00:32:15,958
the world changed radically
very quickly.

816
00:32:16,041 --> 00:32:17,749
And that was the beginning
of the period

817
00:32:17,833 --> 00:32:20,583
when there was just
no interest in us at all.

818
00:32:20,666 --> 00:32:22,292
- Remember, we were on tour.

819
00:32:22,375 --> 00:32:23,875
They'd try to keep Robin

820
00:32:23,958 --> 00:32:25,708
from looking out
into the audience,

821
00:32:25,791 --> 00:32:27,916
in case it was only half full.

822
00:32:28,000 --> 00:32:30,541
- When we got back home,
I turned to more drinking.

823
00:32:30,624 --> 00:32:33,583
I'd go to the pubs.
The police knew my car.

824
00:32:33,666 --> 00:32:36,583
I was becoming the town drunk.

825
00:32:36,666 --> 00:32:38,624
I mean, I think I had
about 2 grand in the bank

826
00:32:38,708 --> 00:32:40,833
and lived next order
to a fish and chips shop.

827
00:32:40,916 --> 00:32:42,916
- So by '74,

828
00:32:43,000 --> 00:32:46,292
we didn't think there was
gonna be much of a future.

829
00:32:46,375 --> 00:32:48,958
When you become famous,
you think everyone loves you

830
00:32:49,041 --> 00:32:50,250
and they're gonna love you
forever,

831
00:32:50,333 --> 00:32:51,624
and it's not true.

832
00:32:51,708 --> 00:32:53,791
["Marley Purt Drive"]

833
00:32:53,875 --> 00:32:55,624
[bluesy rock ballad]

834
00:32:55,708 --> 00:32:57,292
- All of a sudden now,
we had to work the clubs

835
00:32:57,375 --> 00:32:59,208
at the north of England
to pay the taxman,

836
00:32:59,292 --> 00:33:01,083
so we had
the Sheffield Fiesta,

837
00:33:01,167 --> 00:33:02,458
the Golden Garter
in Manchester,

838
00:33:02,541 --> 00:33:04,292
Batley Variety Club,

839
00:33:04,375 --> 00:33:06,083
great clubs of our time.

840
00:33:06,167 --> 00:33:07,749
- The Batley thing,

841
00:33:07,833 --> 00:33:10,125
it's where all the has-beens
went to play,

842
00:33:10,208 --> 00:33:11,624
and not saying
that they were has-beens,

843
00:33:11,708 --> 00:33:14,292
but it was like, "Oh, God,
not Batley," you know?

844
00:33:14,375 --> 00:33:16,333
- ♪ Sunday morning, woke up ♪

845
00:33:16,417 --> 00:33:19,375
- I was a waitress
at the Batley Variety Club.

846
00:33:19,458 --> 00:33:23,499
I really wasn't a fan
of the Bee Gees.

847
00:33:23,583 --> 00:33:25,708
The only thing I knew
about them was,

848
00:33:25,791 --> 00:33:26,791
you know, Maurice was mar--

849
00:33:26,875 --> 00:33:29,541
well, he was going through
a divorce with Lulu.

850
00:33:29,624 --> 00:33:33,041
- Yvonne came in,
and I saw her eyes.

851
00:33:33,125 --> 00:33:34,292
I don't know
about the rest of her.

852
00:33:34,375 --> 00:33:36,000
I just saw her eyes.

853
00:33:36,083 --> 00:33:39,000
And I said,
"I'm gonna marry her."

854
00:33:39,083 --> 00:33:41,583
And I knew
I was gonna marry her.

855
00:33:41,666 --> 00:33:43,125
- He was so cute.

856
00:33:43,208 --> 00:33:45,833
His personality was amazing.

857
00:33:45,916 --> 00:33:47,624
- Maurice had
this childlike quality,

858
00:33:47,708 --> 00:33:50,333
which is something
very special in men.

859
00:33:50,417 --> 00:33:53,708
- He loved dressing up
in police uniforms.

860
00:33:53,791 --> 00:33:55,875
Wherever we went on tour,

861
00:33:55,958 --> 00:33:57,708
they'd give him a hat,
give him a badge.

862
00:33:57,791 --> 00:33:58,791
- Is that his wallet?
- It's a badge.

863
00:33:58,875 --> 00:34:00,333
- Whoa!
[laughter]

864
00:34:00,417 --> 00:34:02,666
What was that?
- I'm not showing you now.

865
00:34:02,749 --> 00:34:04,041
- People loved him.

866
00:34:04,125 --> 00:34:05,875
He had the best smile ever.

867
00:34:05,958 --> 00:34:09,375
- I remember him teaching me
the showbiz smile,

868
00:34:09,458 --> 00:34:10,875
and he said,
"Well, the trick is,

869
00:34:10,958 --> 00:34:13,250
"you don't move your eyes

870
00:34:13,333 --> 00:34:15,583
and you just go like this."

871
00:34:15,666 --> 00:34:17,375
[laughs]

872
00:34:17,458 --> 00:34:19,000
And I'll be honest with you,

873
00:34:19,083 --> 00:34:22,208
I think Maurice was the glue
that held it all together.

874
00:34:22,292 --> 00:34:24,000
- Oh, I'm Mr. Fix-It.

875
00:34:24,083 --> 00:34:27,083
Either some discrepancy
between Barry and Robin,

876
00:34:27,167 --> 00:34:28,916
or if we're gonna make
a decision about something,

877
00:34:29,000 --> 00:34:30,375
"Well, what does
Maurice think?"

878
00:34:30,458 --> 00:34:33,708
But most of the time,
I'm like my mum.

879
00:34:33,791 --> 00:34:34,916
I'm the peacemaker.

880
00:34:35,000 --> 00:34:36,708
- You know,
if they'd not been brothers,

881
00:34:36,791 --> 00:34:38,875
they would not be together.

882
00:34:38,958 --> 00:34:41,250
No doubt in my mind.

883
00:34:41,333 --> 00:34:44,375
♪ ♪

884
00:34:44,458 --> 00:34:46,041
[soft music]

885
00:34:46,125 --> 00:34:48,250
- I met the Gibbs
when they were on a bit of a--

886
00:34:48,333 --> 00:34:50,125
shall we say, a downturn
in their career.

887
00:34:50,208 --> 00:34:51,624
Robert Stigwood made me,

888
00:34:51,708 --> 00:34:53,624
unaccountably,
the head of his record label.

889
00:34:53,708 --> 00:34:55,916
I was only 21 years old.

890
00:34:56,000 --> 00:34:57,417
I truly believed
it was because I was

891
00:34:57,499 --> 00:34:59,791
the only guy in the room
that I got the job.

892
00:34:59,875 --> 00:35:00,916
It was odd to me
because I thought,

893
00:35:01,000 --> 00:35:02,041
"If they can write those songs,

894
00:35:02,125 --> 00:35:03,791
how come they can't
be consistent?"

895
00:35:03,875 --> 00:35:05,083
If you got the ability
to write

896
00:35:05,167 --> 00:35:06,250
"How Can You Mend
a Broken Heart?"

897
00:35:06,333 --> 00:35:07,541
and "To Love Somebody,"

898
00:35:07,624 --> 00:35:09,583
where does that talent go?

899
00:35:09,666 --> 00:35:13,208
- I mean, there was two albums
in a row that were dismal.

900
00:35:13,292 --> 00:35:15,292
- Ahmet Ertegun
said to Robert,

901
00:35:15,375 --> 00:35:17,250
"You know,
maybe their time has gone,"

902
00:35:17,333 --> 00:35:18,749
'cause it was Atlantic
who were paying

903
00:35:18,833 --> 00:35:19,958
for these recordings,

904
00:35:20,041 --> 00:35:22,250
and Robert wouldn't hear of it,
of course.

905
00:35:22,333 --> 00:35:24,125
He would never let
the Bee Gees go.

906
00:35:24,208 --> 00:35:27,833
- There was this thing
about Stigwood--[laughs]

907
00:35:27,916 --> 00:35:31,417
Stigwood and his loyalties.

908
00:35:31,499 --> 00:35:33,666
I had a kind
of deep-seated resentment

909
00:35:33,749 --> 00:35:37,458
about the fact that,
you know, they were still

910
00:35:37,541 --> 00:35:38,499
his favorite.

911
00:35:38,583 --> 00:35:40,417
[Eric Clapton's
"Motherless Children"]

912
00:35:40,499 --> 00:35:42,333
[rollicking guitar music]

913
00:35:42,417 --> 00:35:44,833
I had come
out of a long period

914
00:35:44,916 --> 00:35:46,624
of addiction and alcoholism,

915
00:35:46,708 --> 00:35:49,583
and I went into
the sort of recovery period.

916
00:35:49,666 --> 00:35:51,167
♪ ♪

917
00:35:51,250 --> 00:35:54,292
All these musical ambitions
came to the surface,

918
00:35:54,375 --> 00:35:57,666
so I went to Miami to record.

919
00:35:57,749 --> 00:36:00,875
♪ ♪

920
00:36:00,958 --> 00:36:02,125
- We had a conversation
with Eric

921
00:36:02,208 --> 00:36:03,958
about making a comeback.

922
00:36:04,041 --> 00:36:05,167
Eric said, "Well,
I've just made this album

923
00:36:05,250 --> 00:36:07,749
"called '461 Ocean Boulevard'
in Miami.

924
00:36:07,833 --> 00:36:09,333
"Why don't you guys
make an album in America

925
00:36:09,417 --> 00:36:11,499
"instead of always
making an album in England,

926
00:36:11,583 --> 00:36:13,417
"and maybe the change
of environment

927
00:36:13,499 --> 00:36:15,666
will do something for you?"

928
00:36:15,749 --> 00:36:18,041
- The studio there
was unbelievable,

929
00:36:18,125 --> 00:36:21,666
and I think that's what

930
00:36:21,749 --> 00:36:23,833
the suggestion was about,
really.

931
00:36:23,916 --> 00:36:27,833
I thought those guys
were actually an R&B band

932
00:36:27,916 --> 00:36:30,541
that hadn't really
worked that out yet.

933
00:36:30,624 --> 00:36:32,833
And I thought,
"Man, this would be so good

934
00:36:32,916 --> 00:36:36,000
if they could pick up
on what's going on in America."

935
00:36:36,083 --> 00:36:39,624
- I do know that they had
to change something.

936
00:36:39,708 --> 00:36:40,833
That's when the whole idea

937
00:36:40,916 --> 00:36:43,958
of actually being
more of a band together

938
00:36:44,041 --> 00:36:45,125
rather than, you know,

939
00:36:45,208 --> 00:36:47,499
musicians and orchestras
and all that stuff.

940
00:36:47,583 --> 00:36:49,292
["Mr. Natural"]

941
00:36:49,375 --> 00:36:51,375
- Alan Kendall,
who was a friend of mine,

942
00:36:51,458 --> 00:36:54,624
said, "The Bee Gees
are looking for a drummer.

943
00:36:54,708 --> 00:36:56,916
You know, are you interested?"

944
00:36:57,000 --> 00:36:59,708
And I went, "Yes."
[laughs]

945
00:36:59,791 --> 00:37:02,624
"I think I'm interested.
Yeah. I am interested."

946
00:37:02,708 --> 00:37:05,208
- We needed to get
more energized

947
00:37:05,292 --> 00:37:06,708
and don't rely so much

948
00:37:06,791 --> 00:37:09,083
on the ballads
that we had been doing.

949
00:37:09,167 --> 00:37:12,041
- We wanted to be a band
so bad,

950
00:37:12,125 --> 00:37:14,041
and that was basically
the birth of it.

951
00:37:14,125 --> 00:37:16,875
- We had a great bass player,
Maurice.

952
00:37:16,958 --> 00:37:19,041
We had a great guitar player,
Alan.

953
00:37:19,125 --> 00:37:20,541
So really,
the only thing we needed

954
00:37:20,624 --> 00:37:22,375
was a keyboard player,

955
00:37:22,458 --> 00:37:24,375
and I thought, "Blue."

956
00:37:24,458 --> 00:37:27,375
[lively piano solo]

957
00:37:27,458 --> 00:37:30,916
♪ ♪

958
00:37:31,000 --> 00:37:32,708
- Dennis called and said,

959
00:37:32,791 --> 00:37:34,375
"Look, you know,
I'm putting a band together

960
00:37:34,458 --> 00:37:35,624
"with the Bee Gees,

961
00:37:35,708 --> 00:37:39,167
"and I've spoken to Barry,
and everybody's in agreement.

962
00:37:39,250 --> 00:37:40,916
Are you interested?"

963
00:37:41,000 --> 00:37:42,749
I said, "No. No.

964
00:37:42,833 --> 00:37:45,916
I'm having great fun.
I'm in a rock and roll band."

965
00:37:46,000 --> 00:37:47,708
Queen was our support act.

966
00:37:47,791 --> 00:37:50,749
I'm touring America and living
the rock and roll life.

967
00:37:50,833 --> 00:37:53,958
all: ♪ You don't get me,
I'm part of the union ♪

968
00:37:54,041 --> 00:37:57,875
♪ You don't get me,
I'm part of the union ♪

969
00:37:57,958 --> 00:38:01,041
- We'd grown up together
playing in bands in Cardiff.

970
00:38:01,125 --> 00:38:02,417
I said,
"We've known each other

971
00:38:02,499 --> 00:38:03,541
for a long time, right?"

972
00:38:03,624 --> 00:38:06,333
He said,
"Den, don't do this to me."

973
00:38:06,417 --> 00:38:08,417
And I said,
"I am doing it to you."

974
00:38:08,499 --> 00:38:10,541
I said, "Just do me one favor:

975
00:38:10,624 --> 00:38:12,417
"meet Barry.

976
00:38:12,499 --> 00:38:15,791
"And after you've met Barry,
if you don't wanna do it,

977
00:38:15,875 --> 00:38:17,624
I'll leave you alone."

978
00:38:17,708 --> 00:38:19,125
["Voices"]

979
00:38:19,208 --> 00:38:21,292
- Maurice and I had moved
to the Isle of Man,

980
00:38:21,375 --> 00:38:22,958
which is where we were born.

981
00:38:23,041 --> 00:38:25,916
Blue was the guy who was gonna
come to the Isle of Man

982
00:38:26,000 --> 00:38:28,167
and audition for us on piano.

983
00:38:28,250 --> 00:38:32,791
- ♪ If I were you
and you were me ♪

984
00:38:32,875 --> 00:38:34,583
- We were staying
in Barry's house,

985
00:38:34,666 --> 00:38:37,624
and it was Linda,
and then Maurice came over

986
00:38:37,708 --> 00:38:40,292
and Huey, the father.

987
00:38:40,375 --> 00:38:43,000
Instantly, you feel
comfortable with them.

988
00:38:43,083 --> 00:38:45,417
- They started talking
about synthesizers

989
00:38:45,499 --> 00:38:47,916
and Moogs,

990
00:38:48,000 --> 00:38:49,749
and Blue had them all.

991
00:38:49,833 --> 00:38:51,583
- There's the Sunday evening
I was leaving,

992
00:38:51,666 --> 00:38:55,083
and Huey said, "Hey,
we haven't heard you play."

993
00:38:55,167 --> 00:38:56,167
[laughs]

994
00:38:56,250 --> 00:38:58,833
- But my piano was so bad

995
00:38:58,916 --> 00:39:02,000
that he played something
and it just sounded awful.

996
00:39:02,083 --> 00:39:04,624
- It was just, like,
totally embarrassing.

997
00:39:04,708 --> 00:39:07,000
- I said, "Sounds fine
to me, man.

998
00:39:07,083 --> 00:39:08,292
Let's do it," you know?

999
00:39:08,375 --> 00:39:10,000
- Barry offered him the job.

1000
00:39:10,083 --> 00:39:12,208
- I'd always loved the music,

1001
00:39:12,292 --> 00:39:14,666
but the first time
you ever hear the Bee Gees

1002
00:39:14,749 --> 00:39:16,499
just when they're in a room
like this,

1003
00:39:16,583 --> 00:39:18,167
you know, it's just magic.

1004
00:39:18,250 --> 00:39:20,833
I think that's
what won me over with them.

1005
00:39:20,916 --> 00:39:22,083
I said yes,

1006
00:39:22,167 --> 00:39:25,167
and January the 1st, we left.

1007
00:39:25,250 --> 00:39:27,167
all: ♪ Doo-doo-doo,
doo-doo-doo ♪

1008
00:39:27,250 --> 00:39:30,791
♪ Doo-dee-doo, dah, day ♪

1009
00:39:35,417 --> 00:39:38,791
["Wind of Change"]

1010
00:39:38,875 --> 00:39:41,749
[upbeat R&B music]

1011
00:39:41,833 --> 00:39:48,833
♪ ♪

1012
00:39:51,583 --> 00:39:53,250
- Miami's a gateway city,

1013
00:39:53,333 --> 00:39:56,041
but in those days,
it was kind of sleepy.

1014
00:39:56,125 --> 00:39:59,333
You know, a little off
the beaten path.

1015
00:39:59,417 --> 00:40:01,916
But in the winter,
that was the place to be,

1016
00:40:02,000 --> 00:40:04,875
so Atlantic Records
would always book their acts

1017
00:40:04,958 --> 00:40:06,541
down at Criteria.

1018
00:40:06,624 --> 00:40:08,583
- ♪ And the lights ♪

1019
00:40:08,666 --> 00:40:10,250
- I was about
the number three engineer

1020
00:40:10,333 --> 00:40:11,375
at the studio.

1021
00:40:11,458 --> 00:40:12,499
I worked my way up,

1022
00:40:12,583 --> 00:40:14,833
and I was at that point
in my career

1023
00:40:14,916 --> 00:40:17,167
where I was ready for anything.

1024
00:40:17,250 --> 00:40:18,875
- ♪ Get on up ♪

1025
00:40:18,958 --> 00:40:20,749
♪ Look around ♪

1026
00:40:20,833 --> 00:40:24,749
♪ Can't you feel
the wind of change? ♪

1027
00:40:24,833 --> 00:40:26,791
- When we got to Miami,
all of a sudden, sunshine,

1028
00:40:26,875 --> 00:40:28,708
and, oh, you know?

1029
00:40:28,791 --> 00:40:30,458
This is paradise.

1030
00:40:30,541 --> 00:40:31,541
- We'd come from England,

1031
00:40:31,624 --> 00:40:34,083
and so there was nothing
sleepy about America.

1032
00:40:34,167 --> 00:40:36,250
- Put them in the same house
I'd rented for Eric Clapton,

1033
00:40:36,333 --> 00:40:38,417
461 Ocean Boulevard.

1034
00:40:38,499 --> 00:40:39,958
- I think the first thing
all of us did was

1035
00:40:40,041 --> 00:40:41,958
take pictures against
that palm tree, you know,

1036
00:40:42,041 --> 00:40:44,250
doing the Eric Clapton pose.

1037
00:40:44,333 --> 00:40:47,083
- ♪ We need a god down here ♪

1038
00:40:47,167 --> 00:40:48,541
- Being in that house
together,

1039
00:40:48,624 --> 00:40:50,292
you know, we were creative,

1040
00:40:50,375 --> 00:40:51,292
and we were a family.

1041
00:40:51,375 --> 00:40:53,083
I mean, I felt like that.

1042
00:40:53,167 --> 00:40:55,041
- It did make us close.

1043
00:40:55,125 --> 00:40:58,041
I mean, you had to be.
And we'd all watch TV at night.

1044
00:40:58,125 --> 00:41:00,083
The chemistry
was very exciting.

1045
00:41:00,167 --> 00:41:01,292
- When you got up
in the morning,

1046
00:41:01,375 --> 00:41:02,958
you went to breakfast;
you had a cup of tea.

1047
00:41:03,041 --> 00:41:05,833
It was all very relaxed.

1048
00:41:05,916 --> 00:41:11,167
- ♪ Can't you see
the wind of change? ♪

1049
00:41:11,250 --> 00:41:13,624
- It was strange, considering
the amount of pressure

1050
00:41:13,708 --> 00:41:16,083
that was really on the Bee Gees
at that time.

1051
00:41:16,167 --> 00:41:17,541
- They were about to drop us.

1052
00:41:17,624 --> 00:41:19,417
We had to adopt a new sound.

1053
00:41:19,499 --> 00:41:21,167
We had to adopt
a new attitude.

1054
00:41:21,250 --> 00:41:23,624
- So the next step was,
we brought Arif Mardin in

1055
00:41:23,708 --> 00:41:24,791
to produce them.

1056
00:41:24,875 --> 00:41:26,333
[Aretha Franklin's
"Day Dreaming"]

1057
00:41:26,417 --> 00:41:28,791
- ♪ Daydreaming
and I'm thinking of you ♪

1058
00:41:28,875 --> 00:41:30,125
- We'd often work
with other people,

1059
00:41:30,208 --> 00:41:31,499
but they weren't producers,

1060
00:41:31,583 --> 00:41:34,000
and this man
was a literal producer.

1061
00:41:34,083 --> 00:41:36,417
- They had expressed
how much they wanted to do

1062
00:41:36,499 --> 00:41:38,250
American R&B kind of stuff,

1063
00:41:38,333 --> 00:41:41,000
and Arif was, you know,
top of the heap for that.

1064
00:41:41,083 --> 00:41:44,208
- Arif was so instrumental
in producing Black artists,

1065
00:41:44,292 --> 00:41:45,666
and we wanted that input.

1066
00:41:45,749 --> 00:41:51,292
- ♪ It turns me right on
when I hear him say ♪

1067
00:41:51,375 --> 00:41:54,333
- We actually did an album
with Arif before that,

1068
00:41:54,417 --> 00:41:57,000
but Arif said, "We've gotta go
more into R&B,"

1069
00:41:57,083 --> 00:41:58,791
and we started
working together

1070
00:41:58,875 --> 00:42:02,083
right here in Miami,
down at Criteria.

1071
00:42:03,083 --> 00:42:05,000
- Well, I was in Studio B,

1072
00:42:05,083 --> 00:42:06,875
and Arif says to me,

1073
00:42:06,958 --> 00:42:09,875
"Carl, have I got a group
for you."

1074
00:42:09,958 --> 00:42:12,666
And of course, everybody knew
the Bee Gees.

1075
00:42:12,749 --> 00:42:14,833
It was a surprise
out of nowhere.

1076
00:42:14,916 --> 00:42:16,000
I was excited.

1077
00:42:16,083 --> 00:42:17,250
You know,
they sing like angels.

1078
00:42:17,333 --> 00:42:20,125
And they were as excited
as I was.

1079
00:42:20,208 --> 00:42:22,333
And Arif was right in there
with them.

1080
00:42:22,417 --> 00:42:23,499
- He said, "Look,

1081
00:42:23,583 --> 00:42:25,916
"if you're ever going
to break out brand-new,

1082
00:42:26,000 --> 00:42:27,083
"you gotta start now.

1083
00:42:27,167 --> 00:42:28,417
"You gotta shock the pants
off these people

1084
00:42:28,499 --> 00:42:29,708
who don't believe in you."

1085
00:42:29,791 --> 00:42:32,541
- Robert came and saw us
when we were making the album,

1086
00:42:32,624 --> 00:42:35,499
sat down with us on the beach,
and said, "Right.

1087
00:42:35,583 --> 00:42:37,250
"We're gonna start
from scratch.

1088
00:42:37,333 --> 00:42:38,791
"This is gonna be it.

1089
00:42:38,875 --> 00:42:40,083
Let's make it big."

1090
00:42:40,167 --> 00:42:42,041
- ♪ Whoa ♪

1091
00:42:42,125 --> 00:42:44,250
- If you said to me or anyone,

1092
00:42:44,333 --> 00:42:46,875
"Just go and write a hit song
right now,"

1093
00:42:46,958 --> 00:42:48,708
they would be able to craft
something good,

1094
00:42:48,791 --> 00:42:51,000
but it would probably be
missing this magic

1095
00:42:51,083 --> 00:42:53,208
that, if you work in music
long enough,

1096
00:42:53,292 --> 00:42:56,791
you understand
is running everything.

1097
00:42:56,875 --> 00:42:59,708
Like surfers with waves.
Surfers don't make the waves.

1098
00:42:59,791 --> 00:43:01,833
Fishermen don't make the fish.

1099
00:43:01,916 --> 00:43:03,333
Songwriters don't really
write songs.

1100
00:43:03,417 --> 00:43:04,749
You receive songs.

1101
00:43:04,833 --> 00:43:06,417
["Jive Talkin'"]

1102
00:43:06,499 --> 00:43:08,916
- Driving backwards
and forwards to Criteria,

1103
00:43:09,000 --> 00:43:11,417
this clickity-click thing
was going on in this bridge

1104
00:43:11,499 --> 00:43:13,292
every time we crossed over it.

1105
00:43:13,375 --> 00:43:14,708
And in my head,
it sounded like,

1106
00:43:14,791 --> 00:43:15,749
"ch, ch-ch, ch-ch."

1107
00:43:15,833 --> 00:43:19,125
[rhythmic clacking]

1108
00:43:19,208 --> 00:43:20,708
And it was gone.

1109
00:43:20,791 --> 00:43:23,749
And eventually, I started
singing to it in my head.

1110
00:43:23,833 --> 00:43:26,666
♪ Just your jive talkin' ♪

1111
00:43:26,749 --> 00:43:28,083
- I remember going
to the studio.

1112
00:43:28,167 --> 00:43:30,624
Barry said, "Can you do
chicken picking, Alan?"

1113
00:43:30,708 --> 00:43:33,583
I didn't really know
what it was.

1114
00:43:33,666 --> 00:43:35,708
So I just played this one note
and muted it.

1115
00:43:35,791 --> 00:43:37,083
Thought it sounded
like a chicken.

1116
00:43:37,167 --> 00:43:39,875
[mimicking guitar lick]

1117
00:43:39,958 --> 00:43:41,250
And mixed
with Barry's rhythm part,

1118
00:43:41,333 --> 00:43:43,208
it really worked, you know?

1119
00:43:43,292 --> 00:43:45,916
- ♪ It's just
your jive talkin' ♪

1120
00:43:46,000 --> 00:43:48,333
♪ You're telling me lies,
yeah ♪

1121
00:43:48,417 --> 00:43:50,250
♪ Jive talkin' ♪

1122
00:43:50,333 --> 00:43:52,624
♪ You wear a disguise ♪

1123
00:43:52,708 --> 00:43:54,417
♪ Jive talkin' ♪

1124
00:43:54,499 --> 00:43:56,958
♪ So misunderstood, yeah ♪

1125
00:43:57,041 --> 00:43:58,791
♪ Jive talkin' ♪

1126
00:43:58,875 --> 00:44:01,000
♪ You really no good ♪

1127
00:44:01,083 --> 00:44:02,125
- At that time, you know,

1128
00:44:02,208 --> 00:44:04,499
a handful of R&B artists
were using synthesizers,

1129
00:44:04,583 --> 00:44:08,125
so we went into this field

1130
00:44:08,208 --> 00:44:10,499
pioneering, in a way.

1131
00:44:10,583 --> 00:44:13,499
[synth solo]

1132
00:44:13,583 --> 00:44:14,666
♪ ♪

1133
00:44:14,749 --> 00:44:18,499
- Music is this huge energy
flying around everywhere,

1134
00:44:18,583 --> 00:44:20,791
and if you're lucky,
you get little slices of it

1135
00:44:20,875 --> 00:44:21,916
that turn into songs.

1136
00:44:22,000 --> 00:44:23,083
- There is a sort of--

1137
00:44:23,167 --> 00:44:25,167
- Like a radio transmitter.
- It's exactly like that.

1138
00:44:25,250 --> 00:44:26,791
It's almost as if
somebody's already written

1139
00:44:26,875 --> 00:44:28,916
the songs in the air
and they're giving them to us.

1140
00:44:29,000 --> 00:44:32,333
♪ Leaving me looking
like a dumbstruck fool ♪

1141
00:44:32,417 --> 00:44:34,791
♪ With all your jive talkin' ♪

1142
00:44:34,875 --> 00:44:35,833
♪ You're telling me lies ♪

1143
00:44:35,916 --> 00:44:37,041
- It was Robert
who really pressed

1144
00:44:37,125 --> 00:44:39,333
for "Jive Talkin'" to come out
as the first single,

1145
00:44:39,417 --> 00:44:41,875
because it was something
totally unexpected from us.

1146
00:44:41,958 --> 00:44:43,125
- We sent the record out

1147
00:44:43,208 --> 00:44:44,666
but without naming
the Bee Gees on it,

1148
00:44:44,749 --> 00:44:48,167
because by then,
their stock had fallen so low

1149
00:44:48,250 --> 00:44:49,875
with radio stations
in America,

1150
00:44:49,958 --> 00:44:52,167
and within hours

1151
00:44:52,250 --> 00:44:53,624
of the record landing
at all the radio stations,

1152
00:44:53,708 --> 00:44:55,000
they were calling in, saying,
"Who is this?

1153
00:44:55,083 --> 00:44:56,458
This is amazing."

1154
00:44:56,541 --> 00:44:59,292
[radio tuning]

1155
00:44:59,375 --> 00:45:01,833
- The British group who move
into number one this week

1156
00:45:01,916 --> 00:45:02,833
hit number one

1157
00:45:02,916 --> 00:45:05,292
exactly four years ago
to the week.

1158
00:45:05,375 --> 00:45:06,375
[drumroll]

1159
00:45:06,458 --> 00:45:09,167
The brand-new number one song
in the USA,

1160
00:45:09,250 --> 00:45:12,041
the Bee Gees
and "Jive Talkin'."

1161
00:45:12,125 --> 00:45:16,791
♪ ♪

1162
00:45:16,875 --> 00:45:18,375
- When "Jive Talkin'"
came out,

1163
00:45:18,458 --> 00:45:19,624
everybody went, "Who?

1164
00:45:19,708 --> 00:45:21,541
"The Bee Gees?
'Broken Heart' Bee Gees?

1165
00:45:21,624 --> 00:45:22,916
Are you kidding?"

1166
00:45:23,000 --> 00:45:24,541
- Something different
was happening,

1167
00:45:24,624 --> 00:45:26,167
and the brothers felt it too.

1168
00:45:26,250 --> 00:45:27,417
Miami, Miami Beach,

1169
00:45:27,499 --> 00:45:29,499
that whole vibe
turned them on.

1170
00:45:29,583 --> 00:45:31,875
- I just fell in love
with the atmosphere here.

1171
00:45:31,958 --> 00:45:34,749
It reminded me so much
of growing up in Australia.

1172
00:45:35,624 --> 00:45:36,833
- That's great, Rob.

1173
00:45:36,916 --> 00:45:38,875
- And from "Jive Talkin'"
onwards,

1174
00:45:38,958 --> 00:45:40,875
we kicked it up.

1175
00:45:40,958 --> 00:45:43,167
- The songwriting was
just very unique.

1176
00:45:43,250 --> 00:45:44,333
Nothing like it.

1177
00:45:44,417 --> 00:45:45,708
They would write on the spot,

1178
00:45:45,791 --> 00:45:47,875
and they would bounce
off each other.

1179
00:45:47,958 --> 00:45:50,417
- Okay, you let us know
when you're ready.

1180
00:45:50,499 --> 00:45:52,208
- "Nights on Broadway"
was one of those.

1181
00:45:52,292 --> 00:45:54,292
The guys had been to New York,
and they go, "Oh, this is--

1182
00:45:54,375 --> 00:45:56,250
we gotta write
a New York kind of song."

1183
00:45:56,333 --> 00:45:57,833
- Here we go.
Take ten.

1184
00:45:57,916 --> 00:45:59,916
- They just did it naturally
in the studio,

1185
00:46:00,000 --> 00:46:01,417
and everybody chipped in.

1186
00:46:01,499 --> 00:46:02,458
- Three, four.

1187
00:46:02,541 --> 00:46:05,916
[funky music]

1188
00:46:06,000 --> 00:46:08,041
♪ ♪

1189
00:46:08,125 --> 00:46:11,417
- ♪ Well, here we are ♪

1190
00:46:11,499 --> 00:46:13,541
♪ In a room
full of strangers ♪

1191
00:46:13,624 --> 00:46:15,583
Ahmet Ertegun came to Miami.

1192
00:46:15,666 --> 00:46:18,083
He was there when we were
cutting "Nights on Broadway."

1193
00:46:18,167 --> 00:46:20,458
At the time,
it was "Lights on Broadway."

1194
00:46:20,541 --> 00:46:22,749
♪ Blaming it all ♪

1195
00:46:22,833 --> 00:46:24,875
♪ On the lights on Broadway ♪

1196
00:46:24,958 --> 00:46:25,875
[music distorts]

1197
00:46:25,958 --> 00:46:28,458
And Ahmet went, "No."
[laughs]

1198
00:46:28,541 --> 00:46:30,791
He said, "You know,
you've got to get more adult

1199
00:46:30,875 --> 00:46:32,375
about the song."

1200
00:46:32,458 --> 00:46:34,749
So "Lights on Broadway"
became "Nights on Broadway."

1201
00:46:34,833 --> 00:46:38,624
- ♪ Well, I had to follow you ♪

1202
00:46:38,708 --> 00:46:40,250
♪ ♪

1203
00:46:40,333 --> 00:46:43,916
both: ♪ Though you did not
want me to ♪

1204
00:46:44,000 --> 00:46:46,000
♪ ♪

1205
00:46:46,083 --> 00:46:49,083
all: ♪ But that won't stop
my loving you ♪

1206
00:46:49,167 --> 00:46:50,791
♪ ♪

1207
00:46:50,875 --> 00:46:54,541
♪ I can't stay away ♪

1208
00:46:54,624 --> 00:46:57,125
♪ Blaming it all ♪

1209
00:46:57,208 --> 00:47:00,125
♪ On the nights on Broadway ♪

1210
00:47:00,208 --> 00:47:02,458
♪ Singing them love songs ♪

1211
00:47:02,541 --> 00:47:04,708
♪ Singing them
"straight to the heart" songs ♪

1212
00:47:04,791 --> 00:47:06,250
- We were completing
"Nights on Broadway."

1213
00:47:06,333 --> 00:47:08,167
We'd just done
most of the vocal tracks.

1214
00:47:08,250 --> 00:47:09,499
Usually, you know,
at the end, you know,

1215
00:47:09,583 --> 00:47:11,167
you have some ad-libs
or some kind of thing

1216
00:47:11,250 --> 00:47:12,666
to take us away
from the original melody

1217
00:47:12,749 --> 00:47:13,958
and have some fun.

1218
00:47:14,041 --> 00:47:15,666
- Arif suggested to the band,

1219
00:47:15,749 --> 00:47:18,167
"Hey, you know, we really need
some kind of background parts

1220
00:47:18,250 --> 00:47:21,375
that come in and express
the meaning of the song."

1221
00:47:21,458 --> 00:47:23,833
- He was looking for one of us
to scream,

1222
00:47:23,916 --> 00:47:25,875
in tune, if possible.

1223
00:47:25,958 --> 00:47:28,208
I said, "I'll go out
and give it a shot."

1224
00:47:28,292 --> 00:47:30,624
- Are we almost ready?
Let's do it.

1225
00:47:30,708 --> 00:47:32,000
- So he went out there
and he did

1226
00:47:32,083 --> 00:47:35,666
the "blaming it alls."

1227
00:47:35,749 --> 00:47:36,916
- [falsetto]
♪ Blame it all ♪

1228
00:47:37,000 --> 00:47:38,458
- ♪ On the nights
on Broadway ♪

1229
00:47:38,541 --> 00:47:41,000
- ♪ Blame it on the nights
on Broadway ♪

1230
00:47:41,083 --> 00:47:42,875
- Everybody in the control room
woke up,

1231
00:47:42,958 --> 00:47:45,666
and it was like,
"Oh, this is a new sound."

1232
00:47:45,749 --> 00:47:46,791
- ♪ Blame it all ♪

1233
00:47:46,875 --> 00:47:48,458
- ♪ On the nights
on Broadway ♪

1234
00:47:48,541 --> 00:47:49,916
- ♪ Blame it on the nights
on Broadway ♪

1235
00:47:50,000 --> 00:47:51,333
I was thinking,
"My God, I don't--

1236
00:47:51,417 --> 00:47:52,458
"where is this coming from?

1237
00:47:52,541 --> 00:47:53,499
I can do this."

1238
00:47:53,583 --> 00:47:55,958
My whole life, I didn't know
I could do this.

1239
00:47:56,041 --> 00:47:57,333
- Everybody's giving me credit.

1240
00:47:57,458 --> 00:47:59,583
No, he was singing it.
I said, "Keep on doing it."

1241
00:47:59,666 --> 00:48:01,666
- ♪ Blame it on the nights
on Broadway ♪

1242
00:48:01,749 --> 00:48:03,417
♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah ♪

1243
00:48:03,499 --> 00:48:05,083
♪ Ah ♪

1244
00:48:05,167 --> 00:48:07,167
♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah ♪

1245
00:48:07,250 --> 00:48:09,083
- Arif brought it out of us,
all that.

1246
00:48:09,167 --> 00:48:10,708
I mean, we weren't the first
to sing falsetto.

1247
00:48:10,791 --> 00:48:14,541
[The Stylistics' "Can't Give
You Anything (But My Love)"]

1248
00:48:14,624 --> 00:48:15,708
We loved the Stylistics.

1249
00:48:15,791 --> 00:48:18,708
We loved the Spinners,
the Delfonics.

1250
00:48:18,791 --> 00:48:21,333
They were all
falsetto lead singers.

1251
00:48:21,417 --> 00:48:24,749
- ♪ If I had money,
I'd go out ♪

1252
00:48:24,833 --> 00:48:29,208
♪ Buy you furs,
dress you like a queen ♪

1253
00:48:29,292 --> 00:48:31,250
- There's something to be said
about all music

1254
00:48:31,333 --> 00:48:33,541
is that it doesn't happen
in a vacuum.

1255
00:48:33,624 --> 00:48:37,208
The falsetto is very much
a Black tradition,

1256
00:48:37,292 --> 00:48:38,541
but they've translated it

1257
00:48:38,624 --> 00:48:42,624
into this interesting
interpretation of soul.

1258
00:48:42,708 --> 00:48:44,458
But I guess
more importantly for me,

1259
00:48:44,541 --> 00:48:45,458
it's emotional.

1260
00:48:45,541 --> 00:48:50,916
- [falsetto]
♪ Ah ♪

1261
00:48:51,000 --> 00:48:52,417
Because we were so excited
about this,

1262
00:48:52,499 --> 00:48:54,791
we started writing songs
for this voice.

1263
00:48:54,875 --> 00:48:57,250
- It created another dimension
of sound--

1264
00:48:57,333 --> 00:48:59,417
that's what we thought--
you know, emotionally.

1265
00:48:59,499 --> 00:49:02,875
It became another icon
of the Gibbs.

1266
00:49:02,958 --> 00:49:05,417
Everybody knew,
when you heard that falsetto,

1267
00:49:05,499 --> 00:49:07,041
that's the Bee Gees.

1268
00:49:07,125 --> 00:49:09,250
both: ♪ Be tender ♪

1269
00:49:09,333 --> 00:49:12,208
♪ With my love ♪

1270
00:49:12,292 --> 00:49:16,417
♪ You know how easy it is
to hurt me ♪

1271
00:49:16,499 --> 00:49:17,749
- When we sing songs like...

1272
00:49:17,833 --> 00:49:21,624
♪ You know how easy it is
to hurt me ♪

1273
00:49:21,708 --> 00:49:23,499
It's Barry and Robin
singing in unison.

1274
00:49:23,583 --> 00:49:27,000
But they mesh together so well
that it sounds like one voice.

1275
00:49:27,083 --> 00:49:30,125
But it's a different voice
from them separately.

1276
00:49:30,208 --> 00:49:31,958
- ♪ With my love ♪

1277
00:49:32,041 --> 00:49:36,624
both: ♪ You know
how easy it is to hurt me ♪

1278
00:49:36,708 --> 00:49:38,791
♪ Fanny, be tender ♪

1279
00:49:38,875 --> 00:49:40,916
- It's delivered
with such delicacy,

1280
00:49:41,000 --> 00:49:45,624
and the message in the lyrics

1281
00:49:45,708 --> 00:49:49,624
was what guys should say,
didn't say, couldn't say,

1282
00:49:49,708 --> 00:49:50,791
for whatever reasons.

1283
00:49:50,875 --> 00:49:52,624
It's the kind of music
you might've bought

1284
00:49:52,708 --> 00:49:53,749
and given to your girlfriend.

1285
00:49:53,833 --> 00:49:55,000
[laughs]

1286
00:49:55,083 --> 00:49:57,333
But that's what was special
about them.

1287
00:49:57,417 --> 00:50:00,958
both: [vocalizing]

1288
00:50:01,041 --> 00:50:03,333
♪ Fanny, be tender ♪

1289
00:50:03,417 --> 00:50:04,541
♪ With my love ♪

1290
00:50:04,624 --> 00:50:07,167
- "Main Course" became
a turning point for us.

1291
00:50:07,250 --> 00:50:08,958
Dennis Bryon on drums

1292
00:50:09,041 --> 00:50:12,000
and Blue Weaver
and Alan Kendall,

1293
00:50:12,083 --> 00:50:13,708
that became our band.

1294
00:50:13,791 --> 00:50:15,666
♪ With my love ♪

1295
00:50:15,749 --> 00:50:18,167
- ♪ 'Cause it's all
that I've got ♪

1296
00:50:18,250 --> 00:50:21,125
♪ And my love
won't desert me ♪

1297
00:50:21,208 --> 00:50:23,292
both: ♪ Be tender
with my love ♪

1298
00:50:23,375 --> 00:50:26,708
- One of their best qualities
was adaptability.

1299
00:50:26,791 --> 00:50:30,833
In many ways,
they were chameleons of pop.

1300
00:50:30,916 --> 00:50:32,333
- The way they changed

1301
00:50:32,417 --> 00:50:34,458
and the groove
they got into there

1302
00:50:34,541 --> 00:50:36,499
was so profound.

1303
00:50:36,583 --> 00:50:40,000
If that was something
that was initiated by me,

1304
00:50:40,083 --> 00:50:41,083
I can't think of any--

1305
00:50:41,167 --> 00:50:43,833
one of the great things
I've done in my life.

1306
00:50:43,916 --> 00:50:45,583
I'll take full credit.

1307
00:50:45,666 --> 00:50:47,208
[laughs]

1308
00:50:47,292 --> 00:50:50,292
[waves crashing]

1309
00:50:54,167 --> 00:50:57,583
- We're getting ready
to record the next album,

1310
00:50:57,666 --> 00:50:58,666
and we get this phone call

1311
00:50:58,749 --> 00:51:01,666
that Arif can't be involved
in this album.

1312
00:51:01,749 --> 00:51:04,000
[tense music]

1313
00:51:04,083 --> 00:51:06,375
Robert chose to take

1314
00:51:06,458 --> 00:51:08,417
the organization away
from Atlantic Records

1315
00:51:08,499 --> 00:51:11,041
and go private.

1316
00:51:11,125 --> 00:51:13,333
Atlantic, who were not happy
about that, said,

1317
00:51:13,417 --> 00:51:14,708
"Well, you're not using
Arif anymore

1318
00:51:14,791 --> 00:51:16,375
as a house producer."

1319
00:51:16,458 --> 00:51:18,041
I said,
"What about the next album?"

1320
00:51:18,125 --> 00:51:19,583
Arif--you know, I said,

1321
00:51:19,666 --> 00:51:21,916
"Who do you think can continue
where you left off?"

1322
00:51:22,000 --> 00:51:23,916
♪ ♪

1323
00:51:24,000 --> 00:51:25,749
- I got a call from Barry,

1324
00:51:25,833 --> 00:51:27,791
and he said,
"I want my studio time back

1325
00:51:27,875 --> 00:51:28,958
and I wanna work with you."

1326
00:51:29,041 --> 00:51:31,958
[scratchy music playing]

1327
00:51:32,041 --> 00:51:33,250
♪ ♪

1328
00:51:33,333 --> 00:51:35,000
And I'm in the control room.

1329
00:51:35,083 --> 00:51:36,708
I said to Dennis, the drummer,
I says, you know,

1330
00:51:36,791 --> 00:51:37,875
"That pattern you're playing
right now

1331
00:51:37,958 --> 00:51:39,583
is just a little too busy."

1332
00:51:39,666 --> 00:51:41,749
♪ ♪

1333
00:51:41,833 --> 00:51:43,417
He said,
"Well, what do you mean?"

1334
00:51:43,499 --> 00:51:45,458
I said, "I can't get
into specifics

1335
00:51:45,541 --> 00:51:47,250
about the note values."

1336
00:51:47,333 --> 00:51:50,250
I didn't have a technical term
for the open and closed hi-hat

1337
00:51:50,333 --> 00:51:51,583
or any of that stuff.

1338
00:51:51,666 --> 00:51:55,250
So apparently, you know,
I needed a communicator.

1339
00:51:55,333 --> 00:51:58,208
[funky groove]

1340
00:51:58,292 --> 00:51:59,666
- I was working
as an independent producer

1341
00:51:59,749 --> 00:52:01,958
on some pub band in London.

1342
00:52:02,041 --> 00:52:04,417
Carl called and he said,
"What are you doing?"

1343
00:52:04,499 --> 00:52:05,916
And I said,
"Well, I just finished the mix.

1344
00:52:06,000 --> 00:52:06,958
I'm on a plane tomorrow."

1345
00:52:07,041 --> 00:52:08,916
- Albhy went
to Berklee School of Music

1346
00:52:09,000 --> 00:52:09,958
in New England,

1347
00:52:10,041 --> 00:52:12,458
and he was
one of my best friends.

1348
00:52:12,541 --> 00:52:14,749
And he says, "I'll be
on the next flight to Florida."

1349
00:52:14,833 --> 00:52:17,208
- ♪ Baby, keep it coming ♪

1350
00:52:17,292 --> 00:52:19,958
- I got off the plane.
I went straight to the studio.

1351
00:52:20,041 --> 00:52:21,125
I walked in.

1352
00:52:21,208 --> 00:52:23,167
They were working
on "You Should Be Dancing."

1353
00:52:23,250 --> 00:52:24,292
They came in the control room,

1354
00:52:24,375 --> 00:52:25,916
and Barry said,
"What did you think?"

1355
00:52:26,000 --> 00:52:27,458
And I said,
"Well, I just got in,

1356
00:52:27,541 --> 00:52:29,624
but sounds awfully good."

1357
00:52:29,708 --> 00:52:32,125
We seemed to hit it off,
so I came back the next day.

1358
00:52:32,208 --> 00:52:34,292
- Now, what you have
to remember at the time,

1359
00:52:34,375 --> 00:52:35,499
Albhy was a hippie.

1360
00:52:35,583 --> 00:52:37,125
I mean, he was just different.

1361
00:52:37,208 --> 00:52:39,833
- ♪ I get nothing ♪

1362
00:52:39,916 --> 00:52:42,125
- Albhy used to hang
around the studio,

1363
00:52:42,208 --> 00:52:43,624
and I got on really well
with him.

1364
00:52:43,708 --> 00:52:46,791
I found out he played
on "I Shot the Sheriff"

1365
00:52:46,875 --> 00:52:47,958
with Eric.

1366
00:52:48,041 --> 00:52:51,499
- Albhy had an inroad
into technology,

1367
00:52:51,583 --> 00:52:52,749
and he had a great ear.

1368
00:52:52,833 --> 00:52:55,624
- Everybody just seemed to be,
I think, relieved

1369
00:52:55,708 --> 00:52:59,000
to have another ear
in the control room

1370
00:52:59,083 --> 00:53:01,250
to hear what they were doing
as a whole.

1371
00:53:01,333 --> 00:53:04,208
["Love So Right"]

1372
00:53:04,292 --> 00:53:07,208
[mellow ballad]

1373
00:53:07,292 --> 00:53:10,167
♪ ♪

1374
00:53:10,250 --> 00:53:12,167
In the beginning, when I came,

1375
00:53:12,250 --> 00:53:14,666
the three brothers
were clearly a unit.

1376
00:53:14,749 --> 00:53:16,499
Each of them knew
the way their brothers sang

1377
00:53:16,583 --> 00:53:18,041
and would be on the same mic

1378
00:53:18,125 --> 00:53:19,833
and they would lean in
or lean out

1379
00:53:19,916 --> 00:53:22,125
or complement
each other's voices.

1380
00:53:22,208 --> 00:53:24,000
They were in perfect synchrony.

1381
00:53:24,083 --> 00:53:27,833
all: ♪ How a love so right ♪

1382
00:53:27,916 --> 00:53:31,875
♪ Can turn out to be
so wrong ♪

1383
00:53:31,958 --> 00:53:34,499
- We found another sound.
We found a new sound.

1384
00:53:34,583 --> 00:53:36,666
I came up
with a lot of new ideas

1385
00:53:36,749 --> 00:53:38,333
to suit the falsetto.

1386
00:53:38,417 --> 00:53:40,208
Everybody was saying
the same thing:

1387
00:53:40,292 --> 00:53:42,541
"Do that falsetto again.
Do that falsetto again."

1388
00:53:42,624 --> 00:53:45,041
And so that was fine for me.
I was having a ball.

1389
00:53:45,125 --> 00:53:48,041
["You Should Be Dancing"]

1390
00:53:48,125 --> 00:53:50,708
[upbeat disco music]

1391
00:53:50,791 --> 00:53:54,375
- A lot of new music has been
coming out of Miami lately,

1392
00:53:54,458 --> 00:53:56,541
enough so
that we've even heard mentioned

1393
00:53:56,624 --> 00:53:59,041
the term "Miami Sound."

1394
00:53:59,125 --> 00:54:00,208
♪ ♪

1395
00:54:00,292 --> 00:54:03,916
- ♪ My baby moves
at midnight ♪

1396
00:54:04,000 --> 00:54:06,708
♪ Goes right on
till the dawn ♪

1397
00:54:06,791 --> 00:54:08,708
- This is actually
a really important period

1398
00:54:08,791 --> 00:54:11,833
for musicianship and production
and songwriting

1399
00:54:11,916 --> 00:54:13,791
that targets the dance floor.

1400
00:54:13,875 --> 00:54:15,624
♪ ♪

1401
00:54:15,708 --> 00:54:17,250
- ♪ What you doing
on your back? ♪

1402
00:54:17,333 --> 00:54:18,583
- It's a different
emotional energy,

1403
00:54:18,666 --> 00:54:21,083
which is about,
can you make the body move?

1404
00:54:21,167 --> 00:54:22,958
Can you make the body happy?

1405
00:54:23,041 --> 00:54:25,499
- ♪ You should be dancing ♪

1406
00:54:25,583 --> 00:54:27,749
♪ Yeah ♪

1407
00:54:27,833 --> 00:54:29,583
♪ Dancing, yeah ♪

1408
00:54:29,666 --> 00:54:31,083
- And certain songs
sounded like

1409
00:54:31,167 --> 00:54:34,791
the human embodiment
of a brass section.

1410
00:54:34,875 --> 00:54:36,916
The same way
a horn just punches...

1411
00:54:37,000 --> 00:54:38,250
- Yeah.

1412
00:54:38,333 --> 00:54:39,958
- That's what Barry's voice
reminds me of.

1413
00:54:40,041 --> 00:54:42,958
- ♪ Gives me power ♪

1414
00:54:43,041 --> 00:54:45,624
♪ Goes right down to my blood ♪

1415
00:54:45,708 --> 00:54:49,417
- I was always into arrangement
of instruments.

1416
00:54:49,499 --> 00:54:50,708
"You Should Be Dancing,"

1417
00:54:50,791 --> 00:54:54,208
their voices together
sound like trumpets to me.

1418
00:54:54,292 --> 00:54:58,000
- ♪ You should be dancing,
yeah ♪

1419
00:54:58,083 --> 00:54:59,624
- I am not high,
for the record.

1420
00:54:59,708 --> 00:55:02,958
I just wanna--
[laughter]

1421
00:55:03,041 --> 00:55:06,916
- [scatting to horn section]

1422
00:55:07,000 --> 00:55:07,916
It was a discovery.

1423
00:55:08,000 --> 00:55:09,916
We've discovered
a new audience.

1424
00:55:10,000 --> 00:55:10,916
- At the clubs,

1425
00:55:11,000 --> 00:55:13,499
"You Should Be Dancing"
exploded.

1426
00:55:13,583 --> 00:55:15,666
Not just, "Oh, well,
I heard that record

1427
00:55:15,749 --> 00:55:16,916
and I really liked it."

1428
00:55:17,000 --> 00:55:21,417
It was three times a night
at any club that you went to.

1429
00:55:21,499 --> 00:55:23,292
There was a whole industry

1430
00:55:23,375 --> 00:55:26,208
that was built
around this clubbing thing.

1431
00:55:26,292 --> 00:55:30,458
"Billboard" started a chart
that was dance music chart.

1432
00:55:30,541 --> 00:55:34,499
This billion-dollar industry
was being built

1433
00:55:34,583 --> 00:55:36,499
way before the Bee Gees.

1434
00:55:36,583 --> 00:55:38,624
A lot of people don't realize

1435
00:55:38,708 --> 00:55:42,708
disco started in the gay
and the Black community.

1436
00:55:42,791 --> 00:55:44,167
People don't understand

1437
00:55:44,250 --> 00:55:46,791
what it was like back then
for gay people.

1438
00:55:46,875 --> 00:55:48,375
There was a law in New York

1439
00:55:48,458 --> 00:55:51,833
that did not allow
people of the same sex

1440
00:55:51,916 --> 00:55:53,333
to dance together

1441
00:55:53,417 --> 00:55:57,000
in a place
that had a liquor license.

1442
00:55:57,083 --> 00:55:59,041
And then the law changed,

1443
00:55:59,125 --> 00:56:01,875
and that allowed me
to open my club.

1444
00:56:01,958 --> 00:56:03,375
- ♪ Whoo-hoo ♪

1445
00:56:03,458 --> 00:56:06,292
- A new era
of dance music started

1446
00:56:06,375 --> 00:56:09,041
in the gay underground clubs.

1447
00:56:09,125 --> 00:56:12,499
- [scatting to disco beat]

1448
00:56:12,583 --> 00:56:13,666
[Don Downing's "Dream World"]

1449
00:56:13,749 --> 00:56:18,333
- So the record industry wants
to name it,

1450
00:56:18,458 --> 00:56:20,749
package it, sell it.

1451
00:56:20,833 --> 00:56:23,541
That was the explosion

1452
00:56:23,624 --> 00:56:26,000
of the disco sound.

1453
00:56:26,083 --> 00:56:28,208
- ♪ Dream world ♪

1454
00:56:28,292 --> 00:56:32,708
♪ ♪

1455
00:56:32,791 --> 00:56:35,541
- We're down
at Criteria Sound Studios,

1456
00:56:35,624 --> 00:56:37,875
and currently, it's the studio

1457
00:56:37,958 --> 00:56:40,292
that's being used
by the Bee Gees.

1458
00:56:40,375 --> 00:56:43,041
What particular thing
about the studio

1459
00:56:43,125 --> 00:56:44,333
makes it so attractive?

1460
00:56:44,417 --> 00:56:46,333
- It's cheap.
- It's cheap, yeah.

1461
00:56:46,417 --> 00:56:50,208
- No.
Cheap it isn't, but--

1462
00:56:50,292 --> 00:56:53,000
- But the actual atmosphere
of the place is very relaxing.

1463
00:56:53,083 --> 00:56:54,583
We create better here
than we do anywhere else.

1464
00:56:54,666 --> 00:56:55,708
- Yeah.

1465
00:56:55,791 --> 00:56:57,208
- That's my story,
and I'm sticking to it.

1466
00:56:57,292 --> 00:56:58,916
[laughter]

1467
00:56:59,000 --> 00:57:02,375
[upbeat disco music]

1468
00:57:02,458 --> 00:57:04,916
America was
the ultimate dream.

1469
00:57:05,000 --> 00:57:07,250
As three kids, we said,

1470
00:57:07,333 --> 00:57:09,250
"One day, we're gonna have
houses in America

1471
00:57:09,333 --> 00:57:11,583
all next door to each other
with swimming pools."

1472
00:57:11,666 --> 00:57:12,791
[laughs]

1473
00:57:12,875 --> 00:57:14,125
And we thought,
"Oh, that'll be great."

1474
00:57:14,208 --> 00:57:19,417
♪ ♪

1475
00:57:19,499 --> 00:57:21,791
- It was a huge uprooting.

1476
00:57:21,875 --> 00:57:23,458
♪ ♪

1477
00:57:23,541 --> 00:57:25,541
It's a very large family,

1478
00:57:25,624 --> 00:57:28,417
and it just kept getting
bigger and bigger over time.

1479
00:57:28,499 --> 00:57:30,250
♪ ♪

1480
00:57:30,333 --> 00:57:33,583
Mum and Dad came to Miami
as quickly as we did.

1481
00:57:33,666 --> 00:57:35,749
I think they were probably
the happiest they'd ever been

1482
00:57:35,833 --> 00:57:36,958
in their lives.

1483
00:57:37,041 --> 00:57:40,375
And of course,
Andy came here with them.

1484
00:57:42,541 --> 00:57:45,833
- Andy was a gift
out of left field.

1485
00:57:45,916 --> 00:57:50,000
But I never knew he existed
until one day, he shows up

1486
00:57:50,083 --> 00:57:52,958
fresh from Australia.

1487
00:57:53,041 --> 00:57:55,083
- Andy was a great kid.

1488
00:57:55,167 --> 00:57:57,458
He could do anything
he set his mind to.

1489
00:57:57,541 --> 00:58:00,125
- Barry was Andy's idol.

1490
00:58:00,208 --> 00:58:02,250
They were almost like twins.

1491
00:58:02,333 --> 00:58:03,583
- We were very much alike.

1492
00:58:03,666 --> 00:58:05,833
We looked alike.
We had the same birthmarks.

1493
00:58:05,916 --> 00:58:07,624
I would say that we were
as much like twins

1494
00:58:07,708 --> 00:58:09,624
as Maurice and Robin.

1495
00:58:09,708 --> 00:58:11,583
- "Main Course"
and "Children of the World,"

1496
00:58:11,666 --> 00:58:12,624
which followed that,

1497
00:58:12,708 --> 00:58:13,749
they were, like,
triple platinum.

1498
00:58:13,833 --> 00:58:16,624
I think he really wanted
to be a part of that.

1499
00:58:16,708 --> 00:58:18,458
- They suggested
that I go to Australia,

1500
00:58:18,541 --> 00:58:20,125
as my brothers first did
in 1958

1501
00:58:20,208 --> 00:58:21,791
when I was only
five months old,

1502
00:58:21,875 --> 00:58:25,000
and start working there
and get some records released.

1503
00:58:25,083 --> 00:58:27,167
- Andy was very young then.

1504
00:58:27,250 --> 00:58:29,125
He had his little band.

1505
00:58:29,208 --> 00:58:30,708
- It was a process
of building him up,

1506
00:58:30,791 --> 00:58:34,083
getting him to play live,
getting him to be an artist.

1507
00:58:34,167 --> 00:58:35,499
- I was there for two years.

1508
00:58:35,583 --> 00:58:36,833
Out of the blue,
a phone call came

1509
00:58:36,916 --> 00:58:37,791
from my brother Barry

1510
00:58:37,875 --> 00:58:39,541
and said,
"I wanna produce you,"

1511
00:58:39,624 --> 00:58:41,375
and I think it was, like,
two weeks or something,

1512
00:58:41,458 --> 00:58:44,499
I was in the studio
to do a new album in Miami.

1513
00:58:44,583 --> 00:58:46,167
I didn't think I was ready.

1514
00:58:46,250 --> 00:58:47,208
- The first few times

1515
00:58:47,292 --> 00:58:49,375
on a real professional
studio microphone,

1516
00:58:49,458 --> 00:58:51,499
Andy was, like, petrified,

1517
00:58:51,583 --> 00:58:54,041
but, you know, Barry was there

1518
00:58:54,125 --> 00:58:56,875
and guided him through
and helped him with lyrics.

1519
00:58:56,958 --> 00:58:59,666
He was very receptive
to new ideas.

1520
00:58:59,749 --> 00:59:02,791
[Andy Gibb's "I Just Want
to Be Your Everything"]

1521
00:59:02,875 --> 00:59:05,083
And it didn't take him long,
you know,

1522
00:59:05,167 --> 00:59:08,208
to find, like, you know,
another groove.

1523
00:59:08,292 --> 00:59:11,167
[upbeat pop music playing]

1524
00:59:11,250 --> 00:59:13,250
♪ ♪

1525
00:59:13,333 --> 00:59:16,708
- ♪ For so long ♪

1526
00:59:16,791 --> 00:59:19,083
♪ You and me been
finding each other ♪

1527
00:59:19,167 --> 00:59:21,208
♪ For so long ♪

1528
00:59:21,292 --> 00:59:23,708
- The Bee Gees' point of view
was about having hit records

1529
00:59:23,791 --> 00:59:24,708
and being on the radio,

1530
00:59:24,791 --> 00:59:27,208
and so the greatest gift
that you could give

1531
00:59:27,292 --> 00:59:28,583
to your younger brother

1532
00:59:28,666 --> 00:59:30,417
would be to give him
that success,

1533
00:59:30,499 --> 00:59:33,333
to write songs with him,
to teach him to be a star.

1534
00:59:33,417 --> 00:59:36,000
- ♪ I, I ♪

1535
00:59:36,083 --> 00:59:39,916
♪ I just want to be
your everything ♪

1536
00:59:40,000 --> 00:59:41,541
- And then suddenly,
out of nowhere,

1537
00:59:41,624 --> 00:59:43,916
Andy had about three
number ones in a row.

1538
00:59:44,000 --> 00:59:45,875
- He was a teen idol.

1539
00:59:45,958 --> 00:59:47,958
There was talk about him
becoming a Bee Gee.

1540
00:59:48,041 --> 00:59:50,208
I think Robert saw
he had a younger audience.

1541
00:59:50,292 --> 00:59:52,208
Smart to keep him on his own.

1542
00:59:52,292 --> 00:59:55,916
- ♪ Oh, if I ♪

1543
00:59:56,000 --> 00:59:58,708
♪ If I stay here
without you, darling ♪

1544
00:59:58,791 --> 01:00:00,708
♪ I will die ♪

1545
01:00:00,791 --> 01:00:02,749
- All of a sudden,
he was the big thing.

1546
01:00:02,833 --> 01:00:05,041
There was a period
when we lived in the shadow

1547
01:00:05,125 --> 01:00:07,749
of Andy's band.

1548
01:00:07,833 --> 01:00:11,541
- ♪ To be your everything ♪

1549
01:00:11,624 --> 01:00:16,749
♪ ♪

1550
01:00:16,833 --> 01:00:18,541
- After
"Children of the World" album,

1551
01:00:18,624 --> 01:00:19,749
the next project,

1552
01:00:19,833 --> 01:00:22,000
we were booked
to record in France

1553
01:00:22,083 --> 01:00:24,916
'cause of the Elton John album
"Honky Château."

1554
01:00:25,000 --> 01:00:26,125
It sounded great.

1555
01:00:26,208 --> 01:00:29,250
- ♪ Bye-bye, château,
I must leave you ♪

1556
01:00:29,333 --> 01:00:30,749
♪ Though it breaks my heart ♪

1557
01:00:30,833 --> 01:00:33,000
- Robert sent us there--

1558
01:00:33,083 --> 01:00:34,666
I think it was
some kind of tax thing.

1559
01:00:34,749 --> 01:00:37,458
- We thought, "Well, if this
studio sounds that good,

1560
01:00:37,541 --> 01:00:39,292
"hell yeah, let's go off
to France.

1561
01:00:39,375 --> 01:00:40,333
Why not?

1562
01:00:40,417 --> 01:00:43,333
[Elton John's "Honky Cat"]

1563
01:00:43,417 --> 01:00:44,833
♪ ♪

1564
01:00:44,916 --> 01:00:48,583
- It wasn't the honky château
that Elton John had used.

1565
01:00:48,666 --> 01:00:51,666
[upbeat piano rock]

1566
01:00:51,749 --> 01:00:53,624
- Now, château sounds
absolutely gorgeous,

1567
01:00:53,708 --> 01:00:54,791
doesn't it?

1568
01:00:54,875 --> 01:00:56,958
Beautiful building,
great grounds and gardens

1569
01:00:57,041 --> 01:00:58,458
and ponds and fountains.

1570
01:00:58,541 --> 01:00:59,458
No.

1571
01:00:59,541 --> 01:01:01,458
[laughs]
It's nothing like that.

1572
01:01:01,541 --> 01:01:05,333
It was a half-built castle,
no central heating, nothing,

1573
01:01:05,417 --> 01:01:06,458
and it was a dump.

1574
01:01:06,541 --> 01:01:08,958
- We seemed to be
in the middle of nowhere.

1575
01:01:09,041 --> 01:01:11,083
Not a happy place to be.

1576
01:01:11,167 --> 01:01:12,833
- It was really
kind of decrepit.

1577
01:01:12,916 --> 01:01:15,292
I think it'd been used
to make porn movies.

1578
01:01:15,375 --> 01:01:17,167
- This was not right.

1579
01:01:17,250 --> 01:01:19,167
But because there was
a contract,

1580
01:01:19,250 --> 01:01:22,417
we just decided to, you know,
plow on through.

1581
01:01:22,499 --> 01:01:24,125
- We were going there
to mix a live album

1582
01:01:24,208 --> 01:01:26,375
called "Here At Last...Live."

1583
01:01:26,458 --> 01:01:28,333
- But also,
we were getting songs ready

1584
01:01:28,417 --> 01:01:29,583
for our new studio album,

1585
01:01:29,666 --> 01:01:32,000
which would be the follow-up
to "Children of the World."

1586
01:01:32,083 --> 01:01:35,333
- And we got a call
from Robert Stigwood.

1587
01:01:35,417 --> 01:01:38,333
[dramatic disco music]

1588
01:01:38,417 --> 01:01:41,541
♪ ♪

1589
01:01:41,624 --> 01:01:43,000
- A friend of mine, Nik Cohn,

1590
01:01:43,083 --> 01:01:45,041
wrote this piece
for "New York" magazine,

1591
01:01:45,125 --> 01:01:46,833
"Tribal Rites
of the New Saturday Night."

1592
01:01:46,916 --> 01:01:50,375
Disco was really underway,
in Manhattan, anyway,

1593
01:01:50,458 --> 01:01:52,041
but Nik Cohn's point was that

1594
01:01:52,125 --> 01:01:54,000
rather than just being
underground gay clubs,

1595
01:01:54,083 --> 01:01:56,375
straight couples are now going
to do the hustle

1596
01:01:56,458 --> 01:01:58,541
on a Saturday night
in the suburbs.

1597
01:01:58,624 --> 01:01:59,875
So I got Robert to buy
the film rights

1598
01:01:59,958 --> 01:02:02,708
to a magazine article,
of which there was no story.

1599
01:02:02,791 --> 01:02:04,417
But it caught
Robert's attention

1600
01:02:04,499 --> 01:02:06,292
because he saw

1601
01:02:06,375 --> 01:02:08,083
that that's a lead role
for an actor

1602
01:02:08,167 --> 01:02:09,708
if it was a movie.

1603
01:02:09,791 --> 01:02:10,749
He announced

1604
01:02:10,833 --> 01:02:12,208
at the Beverly Hills Hotel
at breakfast,

1605
01:02:12,292 --> 01:02:14,499
"I'm signing John Travolta
to a three-picture deal,"

1606
01:02:14,583 --> 01:02:15,833
and people thought he was mad.

1607
01:02:15,916 --> 01:02:17,499
He was a TV actor.

1608
01:02:17,583 --> 01:02:19,833
No one gets a million dollars
for three pictures.

1609
01:02:19,916 --> 01:02:21,708
Turned out to be the bargain
of the century, of course,

1610
01:02:21,791 --> 01:02:23,417
because he got him
for "Grease"

1611
01:02:23,499 --> 01:02:25,041
and the movie
we don't talk about,

1612
01:02:25,125 --> 01:02:26,708
"Moment by Moment,"

1613
01:02:26,791 --> 01:02:28,208
but two out of three's not bad.

1614
01:02:28,292 --> 01:02:30,375
[David Shire's "Salsation"]

1615
01:02:30,458 --> 01:02:31,875
I was still running
RSO Records,

1616
01:02:31,958 --> 01:02:34,499
so my job was
to do the soundtrack,

1617
01:02:34,583 --> 01:02:35,875
and my brief was,

1618
01:02:35,958 --> 01:02:37,916
"Put all of your favorite
disco tracks

1619
01:02:38,000 --> 01:02:39,125
"and everyone will play it
at a party

1620
01:02:39,208 --> 01:02:40,417
and they'll
never stop dancing."

1621
01:02:40,499 --> 01:02:43,458
[percussive dance music]

1622
01:02:43,541 --> 01:02:45,583
♪ ♪

1623
01:02:45,666 --> 01:02:47,417
These were comparatively easy,

1624
01:02:47,499 --> 01:02:50,916
but we needed the Bee Gees
to write a few songs.

1625
01:02:51,000 --> 01:02:52,541
- Phone call came through
from Robert,

1626
01:02:52,624 --> 01:02:54,417
saying, "I wanna make
this film."

1627
01:02:54,499 --> 01:02:56,749
- He said, "But I'm gonna need
two or three songs."

1628
01:02:56,833 --> 01:02:59,083
- It wasn't the idea that they
would do the soundtrack.

1629
01:02:59,167 --> 01:03:00,292
We knew they were busy.

1630
01:03:00,375 --> 01:03:02,208
"But have you got some songs?"
Robert said,

1631
01:03:02,292 --> 01:03:05,250
and they said, "Yeah, sure."

1632
01:03:05,333 --> 01:03:07,749
- Robert said,
"I'm sending you a script."

1633
01:03:07,833 --> 01:03:10,417
But we decided
not to read the script.

1634
01:03:10,499 --> 01:03:12,624
- We weren't writing
the "Fever" music.

1635
01:03:12,708 --> 01:03:16,417
We were writing our new album
and just having fun doing it.

1636
01:03:16,499 --> 01:03:17,666
- They already had
a couple of tunes

1637
01:03:17,749 --> 01:03:19,167
or some titles, anyway.

1638
01:03:19,250 --> 01:03:20,624
We thought,
"Let's leave it with them."

1639
01:03:20,708 --> 01:03:25,458
- What we ended up doing
was the demos of these songs.

1640
01:03:25,541 --> 01:03:26,499
- And I was really surprised

1641
01:03:26,583 --> 01:03:27,958
that, you know, it was
only a few weeks later

1642
01:03:28,041 --> 01:03:30,083
we got the songs.

1643
01:03:30,167 --> 01:03:34,749
We got a cassette,
and to this day, it's amazing.

1644
01:03:34,833 --> 01:03:37,749
["Stayin' Alive"]

1645
01:03:37,833 --> 01:03:39,875
♪ ♪

1646
01:03:41,208 --> 01:03:42,458
[tape whirring]

1647
01:03:42,541 --> 01:03:44,749
- ♪ On the waves of the air ♪

1648
01:03:44,833 --> 01:03:46,125
[tape whirring]

1649
01:03:46,208 --> 01:03:47,791
♪ You're in my life ♪

1650
01:03:47,875 --> 01:03:48,958
- It was just one
after the other.

1651
01:03:49,041 --> 01:03:51,333
You know, "Stayin' Alive,"
"More Than a Woman,"

1652
01:03:51,417 --> 01:03:53,833
"How Deep Is Your Love,"
"If I Can't Have You,"

1653
01:03:53,916 --> 01:03:54,958
"Night Fever"

1654
01:03:55,041 --> 01:03:56,292
on one cassette.

1655
01:03:56,375 --> 01:03:58,333
And I thought, "Yes.

1656
01:03:58,417 --> 01:03:59,875
We've got a soundtrack."

1657
01:03:59,958 --> 01:04:01,791
- You know,
you listen to that tape,

1658
01:04:01,875 --> 01:04:03,499
whoever was playing
on those records,

1659
01:04:03,583 --> 01:04:04,541
they would've been hits.

1660
01:04:04,624 --> 01:04:05,791
Those songs are so good.

1661
01:04:05,875 --> 01:04:07,958
You think, "Shit," you know?

1662
01:04:08,041 --> 01:04:10,167
"That's so cool."

1663
01:04:10,250 --> 01:04:11,458
- We had the demos,

1664
01:04:11,541 --> 01:04:12,708
and then we went
into the process

1665
01:04:12,791 --> 01:04:14,624
of making real records.

1666
01:04:14,708 --> 01:04:17,624
- Barry and Carl and I lived
in that control room,

1667
01:04:17,708 --> 01:04:19,167
I don't know, 16 hours a day.

1668
01:04:19,250 --> 01:04:21,541
- Yeah.
That was the only thing to do.

1669
01:04:21,624 --> 01:04:23,916
["Night Fever"]

1670
01:04:24,000 --> 01:04:25,833
We recorded
"Night Fever" first.

1671
01:04:25,916 --> 01:04:27,458
We actually had that
in the can.

1672
01:04:27,541 --> 01:04:29,499
♪ ♪

1673
01:04:29,583 --> 01:04:32,499
- Robert called and said,
"I need a title for the film."

1674
01:04:32,583 --> 01:04:35,292
"What I've got at the moment,"
I said, "is two titles:

1675
01:04:35,375 --> 01:04:37,499
'Stayin' Alive'
and 'Night Fever.'"

1676
01:04:37,583 --> 01:04:40,499
And he said, "'Night Fever.'

1677
01:04:40,583 --> 01:04:42,208
Hmm," he said, "sounds okay,"
he said,

1678
01:04:42,292 --> 01:04:45,083
"but it sounds
a bit too pornographic.

1679
01:04:45,167 --> 01:04:47,749
It'd need to be called
'Saturday Night,'" he said.

1680
01:04:47,833 --> 01:04:49,916
So it turned
into "Saturday Night Fever."

1681
01:04:50,000 --> 01:04:53,041
♪ Night fever, night fever ♪

1682
01:04:53,125 --> 01:04:55,041
♪ We know how to do it ♪

1683
01:04:55,125 --> 01:04:57,875
- We were editing "Fever"
on the lot at Paramount.

1684
01:04:57,958 --> 01:05:00,333
I was deluged
by Paramount people saying,

1685
01:05:00,417 --> 01:05:02,375
"How's your little disco movie
coming along?"

1686
01:05:02,458 --> 01:05:03,916
So that was a bit patronizing.

1687
01:05:04,000 --> 01:05:05,375
But the inspiring thing was

1688
01:05:05,458 --> 01:05:07,333
that Stigwood,
during postproduction, said,

1689
01:05:07,417 --> 01:05:08,749
"Why do we wait
for the release of the film?

1690
01:05:08,833 --> 01:05:09,958
Let's put out a single now."

1691
01:05:10,041 --> 01:05:12,250
And then he started
with the heads of Paramount,

1692
01:05:12,333 --> 01:05:13,375
like, "How many theaters?"

1693
01:05:13,458 --> 01:05:15,167
And they told him
something like 200.

1694
01:05:15,250 --> 01:05:17,708
He said, "I'm releasing
the record in every city.

1695
01:05:17,791 --> 01:05:19,875
Why can't it be
in every single city?"

1696
01:05:19,958 --> 01:05:21,208
So they made a deal

1697
01:05:21,292 --> 01:05:23,250
whereby if the record got
to the top 20,

1698
01:05:23,333 --> 01:05:25,083
they would increase
the number of screens.

1699
01:05:25,167 --> 01:05:27,208
If it got top ten,
they'd go more.

1700
01:05:27,292 --> 01:05:28,749
He said,
"I need the first record

1701
01:05:28,833 --> 01:05:29,791
to be number one."

1702
01:05:29,875 --> 01:05:32,749
["How Deep Is Your Love"]

1703
01:05:32,833 --> 01:05:34,375
[soft ballad]

1704
01:05:34,458 --> 01:05:37,583
- Stigwood phoned up
and said to Barry,

1705
01:05:37,666 --> 01:05:39,083
"I need the best love song

1706
01:05:39,167 --> 01:05:42,083
you've ever written
for the movie."

1707
01:05:42,167 --> 01:05:44,916
So we went into a room
in the château.

1708
01:05:45,000 --> 01:05:46,916
Chopin had stayed there.

1709
01:05:47,000 --> 01:05:48,541
So every time I looked
at this piano,

1710
01:05:48,624 --> 01:05:51,208
I envisaged Chopin
sitting down and playing.

1711
01:05:51,292 --> 01:05:52,749
♪ ♪

1712
01:05:52,833 --> 01:05:53,875
I sat down at the piano

1713
01:05:53,958 --> 01:05:56,417
and thought
of his Prelude in E Flat,

1714
01:05:56,499 --> 01:05:59,875
and I knew Barry could sing
in E flat.

1715
01:05:59,958 --> 01:06:01,250
When we were working
like that,

1716
01:06:01,333 --> 01:06:03,083
I had a cassette player.

1717
01:06:03,167 --> 01:06:06,083
- [vocalizing with piano]

1718
01:06:06,167 --> 01:06:09,458
♪ ♪

1719
01:06:09,541 --> 01:06:13,250
[indistinct chatter]

1720
01:06:13,333 --> 01:06:17,292
♪ Love again ♪

1721
01:06:17,375 --> 01:06:19,458
♪ Still in love ♪

1722
01:06:19,541 --> 01:06:21,958
- And I'm sure it happened
at that point.

1723
01:06:22,041 --> 01:06:24,208
Through
the stained glass window

1724
01:06:24,292 --> 01:06:27,000
came a beam of sunlight,
you know?

1725
01:06:27,083 --> 01:06:30,167
♪ Your eyes
in the morning sun ♪

1726
01:06:30,250 --> 01:06:31,666
♪ ♪

1727
01:06:31,749 --> 01:06:35,958
- ♪ I know your eyes
in the morning sun ♪

1728
01:06:36,041 --> 01:06:40,666
♪ I feel you touch me
in the pouring rain ♪

1729
01:06:40,749 --> 01:06:44,000
And that's a memory--
that'll last me all my life.

1730
01:06:44,083 --> 01:06:46,208
Never forget it.

1731
01:06:46,292 --> 01:06:47,333
Never forget it.

1732
01:06:47,417 --> 01:06:50,624
♪ ♪

1733
01:06:50,708 --> 01:06:51,666
- You know, all the feelings,

1734
01:06:51,749 --> 01:06:53,208
all the emotions
are still there.

1735
01:06:53,292 --> 01:06:55,875
When you talk about it,
it all comes back, you know?

1736
01:06:55,958 --> 01:06:58,083
♪ ♪

1737
01:06:58,167 --> 01:07:01,375
I have a--

1738
01:07:01,458 --> 01:07:04,666
my heart is in that song.

1739
01:07:04,749 --> 01:07:08,958
- ♪ I know your eyes
in the morning sun ♪

1740
01:07:09,041 --> 01:07:13,749
♪ I feel you touch me
in the pouring rain ♪

1741
01:07:13,833 --> 01:07:18,333
♪ And the moment
that you wander far from me ♪

1742
01:07:18,417 --> 01:07:22,833
♪ I wanna feel you
in my arms again ♪

1743
01:07:22,916 --> 01:07:27,541
♪ And you come to me
on a summer breeze ♪

1744
01:07:27,624 --> 01:07:32,333
♪ Keep me warm in your love,
then you softly leave ♪

1745
01:07:32,417 --> 01:07:35,875
♪ And it's me
you need to show ♪

1746
01:07:35,958 --> 01:07:38,916
♪ How deep is your love? ♪
- ♪ How deep is your love? ♪

1747
01:07:39,000 --> 01:07:42,083
all: ♪ How deep is your love? ♪

1748
01:07:42,167 --> 01:07:45,167
♪ I really mean to learn ♪

1749
01:07:45,250 --> 01:07:49,666
♪ 'Cause we're living
in a world of fools ♪

1750
01:07:49,749 --> 01:07:52,541
♪ Breaking us down ♪

1751
01:07:52,624 --> 01:07:57,041
♪ When they all should
let us be ♪

1752
01:07:57,125 --> 01:08:01,417
♪ We belong to you and me ♪

1753
01:08:01,499 --> 01:08:03,041
♪ ♪

1754
01:08:03,125 --> 01:08:05,541
- Everything came together.

1755
01:08:05,624 --> 01:08:08,417
But sadly,
Dennis had had some bad news.

1756
01:08:08,499 --> 01:08:11,624
- My mother was in hospital.
She had Alzheimer's.

1757
01:08:11,708 --> 01:08:14,875
So, you know, I told Barry
what was going on.

1758
01:08:14,958 --> 01:08:18,292
He said, you know, "Get Dick
to book you a flight now."

1759
01:08:18,375 --> 01:08:22,375
- He had to fly back to the UK,
and we had no drummer.

1760
01:08:22,458 --> 01:08:24,417
- We thought, "Well, we gotta
carry on writing

1761
01:08:24,499 --> 01:08:26,916
and getting
these tracks together."

1762
01:08:27,000 --> 01:08:29,250
[distorted rewinding drum]

1763
01:08:29,333 --> 01:08:30,875
- Okay, I know now.

1764
01:08:32,333 --> 01:08:35,000
[drumbeat playing]

1765
01:08:35,083 --> 01:08:37,375
- When I was at Berklee,
I had studied things

1766
01:08:37,458 --> 01:08:39,041
where they were
moving tapes around

1767
01:08:39,125 --> 01:08:41,541
and make sort of these
interesting sonic loops.

1768
01:08:41,624 --> 01:08:43,749
And when Dennis was not there,

1769
01:08:43,833 --> 01:08:46,125
I said,
"Well, why don't we just

1770
01:08:46,208 --> 01:08:47,458
"take a bar
out of 'Night Fever'?

1771
01:08:47,541 --> 01:08:48,833
"I think
it's a little slower tempo.

1772
01:08:48,916 --> 01:08:50,333
"We'll slow it down
a little bit

1773
01:08:50,417 --> 01:08:51,791
and see if we can make a loop
out of it."

1774
01:08:51,875 --> 01:08:54,833
["Night Fever" playing]

1775
01:08:54,916 --> 01:08:57,666
♪ ♪

1776
01:08:57,749 --> 01:09:00,833
We found a bar that we thought
had a really nice feel to it.

1777
01:09:00,916 --> 01:09:02,458
We copied it over to a...

1778
01:09:02,541 --> 01:09:05,333
- 1/2 inch four-track.
- 1/2 inch four-track.

1779
01:09:05,417 --> 01:09:08,749
- And spliced the tape
into a loop.

1780
01:09:08,833 --> 01:09:09,791
Tape dump.

1781
01:09:09,875 --> 01:09:13,458
[drumbeat playing]

1782
01:09:13,541 --> 01:09:15,000
- I was pretty good
at imagining

1783
01:09:15,083 --> 01:09:16,624
what you might be able to do,

1784
01:09:16,708 --> 01:09:18,749
but Carl was able
to make it happen.

1785
01:09:18,833 --> 01:09:22,624
- It was just necessity
being the mother of invention.

1786
01:09:22,708 --> 01:09:24,958
- No one had taken
a drumbeat before

1787
01:09:25,041 --> 01:09:27,541
and created a two-bar phrase.

1788
01:09:27,624 --> 01:09:29,791
We were breaking new ground.

1789
01:09:29,875 --> 01:09:30,958
- Perfect. Good.

1790
01:09:31,041 --> 01:09:34,541
- This is the first time
we had ever taken the song

1791
01:09:34,624 --> 01:09:36,875
and built it piece by piece
from the ground up,

1792
01:09:36,958 --> 01:09:38,458
and we started
with this drum loop.

1793
01:09:38,541 --> 01:09:40,000
[drumbeat]

1794
01:09:40,083 --> 01:09:41,791
And then we did a bass line.

1795
01:09:41,875 --> 01:09:43,666
[funky bass line]

1796
01:09:43,749 --> 01:09:44,833
And then a guitar part.

1797
01:09:44,916 --> 01:09:47,791
[swinging guitar riff]

1798
01:09:47,875 --> 01:09:49,833
♪ ♪

1799
01:09:49,916 --> 01:09:53,250
Never again would we rely
as much on the liveness.

1800
01:09:53,333 --> 01:09:54,208
We would always know

1801
01:09:54,292 --> 01:09:55,541
that we could
construct the song

1802
01:09:55,624 --> 01:09:56,833
and put the pieces together

1803
01:09:56,916 --> 01:09:59,499
based on the original vision
of the song

1804
01:09:59,583 --> 01:10:01,000
and how we imagined it.

1805
01:10:01,083 --> 01:10:04,000
["Stayin' Alive"]

1806
01:10:04,083 --> 01:10:07,624
- I got back to the sessions,
and there was just a buzz.

1807
01:10:07,708 --> 01:10:08,624
- When we did it, we thought,

1808
01:10:08,708 --> 01:10:10,167
"We're just doing this
temporarily,"

1809
01:10:10,250 --> 01:10:11,499
and when Dennis comes back,

1810
01:10:11,583 --> 01:10:13,167
we'll replace it
with real drums,"

1811
01:10:13,250 --> 01:10:15,875
but what happened is,
the feel was so amazing

1812
01:10:15,958 --> 01:10:17,041
that we couldn't get rid of it.

1813
01:10:17,125 --> 01:10:19,375
- He played it for me,
and I could tell

1814
01:10:19,458 --> 01:10:21,000
from the first listen.

1815
01:10:21,083 --> 01:10:24,541
I said, "Man, that is amazing."

1816
01:10:24,624 --> 01:10:26,417
- When you listen
to the drum track

1817
01:10:26,499 --> 01:10:29,000
on "Stayin' Alive,"
like, by itself,

1818
01:10:29,083 --> 01:10:31,708
it's really this super rugged,
like, tough thing.

1819
01:10:31,791 --> 01:10:35,875
It's like...
[mimicking drumbeat]

1820
01:10:35,958 --> 01:10:37,499
It's not pretty or pop
like you remember.

1821
01:10:37,583 --> 01:10:38,499
It's pretty tough.

1822
01:10:38,583 --> 01:10:41,708
♪ ♪

1823
01:10:41,791 --> 01:10:43,499
- "Stayin' Alive"
was the influence

1824
01:10:43,583 --> 01:10:45,541
that New York gave to us.

1825
01:10:45,624 --> 01:10:47,041
And the energy level
at that point

1826
01:10:47,125 --> 01:10:50,333
in the late '70s
was really that, you know?

1827
01:10:50,417 --> 01:10:51,875
It's survival. It's survival.

1828
01:10:51,958 --> 01:10:52,875
- This is '77.

1829
01:10:52,958 --> 01:10:54,749
Everybody know
that time is hard now.

1830
01:10:54,833 --> 01:10:56,250
You know,
if I was out there myself,

1831
01:10:56,333 --> 01:10:57,791
I would've got
what I wanted too.

1832
01:10:57,875 --> 01:10:58,916
- You were not
among the looters?

1833
01:10:59,000 --> 01:11:00,749
- No, I wasn't.
Unfortunate.

1834
01:11:00,833 --> 01:11:01,958
- Do you feel
personally threatened

1835
01:11:02,041 --> 01:11:03,250
by the .44 Caliber Killer?

1836
01:11:03,333 --> 01:11:04,417
- Yes, I do.

1837
01:11:04,499 --> 01:11:05,583
I don't feel free to go out,

1838
01:11:05,666 --> 01:11:08,083
to walk the streets
or go out at all.

1839
01:11:08,167 --> 01:11:10,208
- Very few people realize

1840
01:11:10,292 --> 01:11:11,583
it's to do with anything
but dance,

1841
01:11:11,666 --> 01:11:14,125
but the lyrics don't talk
about dance at all,

1842
01:11:14,208 --> 01:11:16,583
and the lyrics
very obviously state

1843
01:11:16,666 --> 01:11:18,125
the scenario of survival.

1844
01:11:18,208 --> 01:11:20,250
- ♪ Whether you're a brother
or whether you're a mother ♪

1845
01:11:20,333 --> 01:11:22,916
♪ You're stayin' alive,
stayin' alive ♪

1846
01:11:23,000 --> 01:11:24,958
♪ Feel the city breaking
and everybody shaking ♪

1847
01:11:25,041 --> 01:11:27,708
♪ And we're stayin' alive,
stayin' alive ♪

1848
01:11:27,791 --> 01:11:29,916
♪ Ah, ha, ha, ha ♪

1849
01:11:30,000 --> 01:11:31,499
♪ Stayin' alive,
stayin' alive ♪

1850
01:11:31,583 --> 01:11:34,417
- If you think about...
♪ Ha, ha, ha, ha ♪

1851
01:11:34,499 --> 01:11:37,624
I mean, that could very easily
have just been a horn line,

1852
01:11:37,708 --> 01:11:39,624
but instead,
their voices are so sick,

1853
01:11:39,708 --> 01:11:42,250
they're like,
"Nah, we're gonna sing it."

1854
01:11:42,333 --> 01:11:43,250
♪ ♪

1855
01:11:43,333 --> 01:11:46,375
- ♪ Oh, when you walk ♪

1856
01:11:46,458 --> 01:11:49,041
- The general fever
at the time

1857
01:11:49,125 --> 01:11:51,624
was, "You must see this film."

1858
01:11:51,708 --> 01:11:55,292
The songs precipitated
the interest.

1859
01:11:55,375 --> 01:11:57,958
It was
this cultural phenomenon.

1860
01:11:58,041 --> 01:12:00,791
["More Than a Woman"]

1861
01:12:00,875 --> 01:12:02,125
- In the first week
of release,

1862
01:12:02,208 --> 01:12:05,167
they were having to hire
extra staff in some cinemas

1863
01:12:05,250 --> 01:12:06,624
to stop them dancing
in the aisles.

1864
01:12:06,708 --> 01:12:08,958
- ♪ Girl, I've know you
very well ♪

1865
01:12:09,041 --> 01:12:10,333
♪ I've seen you growing
every day ♪

1866
01:12:10,417 --> 01:12:11,749
- Other movies
were being put back

1867
01:12:11,833 --> 01:12:14,208
or taken out of other screens
to make room for "Fever."

1868
01:12:14,292 --> 01:12:16,666
I mean, it was really
quite a phenomenon.

1869
01:12:16,749 --> 01:12:19,333
John took me aside
at one point and said,

1870
01:12:19,417 --> 01:12:20,458
"Hey, what do you think?

1871
01:12:20,541 --> 01:12:23,292
You think maybe
an Academy Award nomination?"

1872
01:12:23,375 --> 01:12:24,791
And I'm thinking,
"Jesus Christ, no."

1873
01:12:24,875 --> 01:12:26,292
I mean, this is ridiculous.

1874
01:12:26,375 --> 01:12:28,333
It's a dance movie, you know?

1875
01:12:28,417 --> 01:12:29,458
He had the last laugh.

1876
01:12:29,541 --> 01:12:31,833
- And John Travolta
in "Saturday Night Fever."

1877
01:12:31,916 --> 01:12:34,624
[cheers and applause]

1878
01:12:34,708 --> 01:12:35,666
- The "Fever" thing happened.

1879
01:12:35,749 --> 01:12:37,167
That's when
everything exploded.

1880
01:12:37,250 --> 01:12:39,000
Other record companies
were printing it.

1881
01:12:39,083 --> 01:12:40,958
Then our record company
couldn't keep up the pace.

1882
01:12:41,041 --> 01:12:42,000
- We didn't know
what was going on

1883
01:12:42,083 --> 01:12:44,958
because this was
just a soundtrack.

1884
01:12:45,041 --> 01:12:46,041
- Could I ask, for example,

1885
01:12:46,125 --> 01:12:48,541
what "Saturday Night Fever"
has grossed thus far?

1886
01:12:48,624 --> 01:12:50,833
- Around 110 million.
[audience cheers]

1887
01:12:50,916 --> 01:12:53,666
At the moment.
In America.

1888
01:12:53,749 --> 01:12:55,499
- In America?
- In America, yeah.

1889
01:12:55,583 --> 01:12:56,833
- And the album?

1890
01:12:56,916 --> 01:12:58,958
- The album, I think,
is nearing

1891
01:12:59,041 --> 01:13:02,292
18 million
double albums worldwide.

1892
01:13:02,375 --> 01:13:04,208
- But I mean, that would be
the record-breaker of all time.

1893
01:13:04,292 --> 01:13:07,375
- Yes, it's already
the biggest-grossing album

1894
01:13:07,458 --> 01:13:09,041
in the history of music.

1895
01:13:09,125 --> 01:13:11,541
- The statistics
are just incredible.

1896
01:13:11,624 --> 01:13:14,250
Four singles
from "Saturday Night Fever"

1897
01:13:14,333 --> 01:13:17,208
have hit number one
since the album was released,

1898
01:13:17,292 --> 01:13:20,333
more than from any other
new album in history.

1899
01:13:20,417 --> 01:13:22,208
That's just a few
of the statistics

1900
01:13:22,292 --> 01:13:25,041
that lead to gold records
like this.

1901
01:13:25,125 --> 01:13:27,125
And so it's my privilege
to say,

1902
01:13:27,208 --> 01:13:29,417
ladies and gentlemen,
will you welcome

1903
01:13:29,499 --> 01:13:31,041
the Bee Gees!

1904
01:13:31,125 --> 01:13:32,208
[cheers and applause]

1905
01:13:32,292 --> 01:13:33,749
[Walter Murphy's
"A Fifth of Beethoven"]

1906
01:13:33,833 --> 01:13:37,250
Has it changed your lives,
the enormous success of it?

1907
01:13:37,333 --> 01:13:38,833
[disco-tinged classical music]

1908
01:13:38,916 --> 01:13:41,791
- Yes, I can safely say
it's changed our lives.

1909
01:13:41,875 --> 01:13:44,250
[camera shutters clicking]

1910
01:13:44,333 --> 01:13:46,791
- The Bee Gees, I think,
were stunned by their success.

1911
01:13:46,875 --> 01:13:49,250
♪ ♪

1912
01:13:49,333 --> 01:13:51,875
- We were aware we were
creating a specific sound,

1913
01:13:51,958 --> 01:13:53,375
but we didn't know
what it was gonna do.

1914
01:13:53,458 --> 01:13:55,125
♪ ♪

1915
01:13:55,208 --> 01:13:57,250
- It did end up with them
having half the top ten

1916
01:13:57,333 --> 01:13:59,125
with these songs.

1917
01:13:59,208 --> 01:14:00,333
It was extraordinary.

1918
01:14:00,417 --> 01:14:01,749
Kind of the same domination
the Beatles had

1919
01:14:01,833 --> 01:14:03,292
in the '60s in America.

1920
01:14:03,375 --> 01:14:05,791
♪ ♪

1921
01:14:05,875 --> 01:14:08,292
- They were just everywhere.

1922
01:14:08,375 --> 01:14:10,250
- But our own friends
don't treat us the same way.

1923
01:14:10,333 --> 01:14:11,749
- What, from a distance,
they treat you?

1924
01:14:11,833 --> 01:14:14,083
- Well, I was speaking to one
of my friends the other day,

1925
01:14:14,167 --> 01:14:15,916
and as he was cleaning
my shoes, I said, "Listen."

1926
01:14:16,000 --> 01:14:17,292
[laughter]

1927
01:14:17,375 --> 01:14:18,916
- Stigwood said,

1928
01:14:19,000 --> 01:14:20,583
"Let's give the band
half a point or a quarter."

1929
01:14:20,666 --> 01:14:23,791
Now, that's not a percentage.
That's a tiny amount of money.

1930
01:14:23,875 --> 01:14:25,125
- But when you sell
as many copies

1931
01:14:25,208 --> 01:14:27,708
as "Saturday Night Fever" sold,

1932
01:14:27,791 --> 01:14:29,833
it turns out to be big money.

1933
01:14:29,916 --> 01:14:31,833
♪ ♪

1934
01:14:31,916 --> 01:14:32,916
- What are you doing

1935
01:14:33,000 --> 01:14:34,541
with these millions
of dollars?

1936
01:14:34,624 --> 01:14:36,292
- What are you doing
with your millions of dollars?

1937
01:14:36,375 --> 01:14:38,666
- Oh, no.
[laughter]

1938
01:14:38,749 --> 01:14:40,458
- It is the biggest night
of the year

1939
01:14:40,541 --> 01:14:41,833
for people
in the recording industry,

1940
01:14:41,916 --> 01:14:42,916
the Grammy Awards.

1941
01:14:43,000 --> 01:14:45,458
- And the winner is
"Saturday Night Fever."

1942
01:14:45,541 --> 01:14:48,250
[cheers and applause]
Whoo!

1943
01:14:48,333 --> 01:14:51,292
- For a soundtrack to win
Best Album was amazing.

1944
01:14:51,375 --> 01:14:52,791
It went on to be
one of the best-selling albums

1945
01:14:52,875 --> 01:14:54,167
in history.

1946
01:14:54,250 --> 01:14:56,791
♪ ♪

1947
01:14:56,875 --> 01:14:59,125
- We didn't know we were
defining the culture.

1948
01:14:59,208 --> 01:15:01,250
We were just still
Barry, Maurice, and Robin

1949
01:15:01,333 --> 01:15:02,749
wondering what the hell's
going on.

1950
01:15:02,833 --> 01:15:09,708
♪ ♪

1951
01:15:11,083 --> 01:15:13,208
- The fever
has been contagious.

1952
01:15:13,292 --> 01:15:16,000
Discos, the places in which
to dance away the night

1953
01:15:16,083 --> 01:15:18,167
and the morning hours,
are thriving.

1954
01:15:18,250 --> 01:15:19,791
What the fever has done
is made

1955
01:15:19,875 --> 01:15:22,916
just about anything
related to disco profitable.

1956
01:15:23,000 --> 01:15:24,499
Where there's money
to be made,

1957
01:15:24,583 --> 01:15:26,292
disco is the business.

1958
01:15:26,375 --> 01:15:29,499
- We didn't categorize
our songs as disco,

1959
01:15:29,583 --> 01:15:31,916
but then we weren't thinking
that way at all.

1960
01:15:32,000 --> 01:15:33,333
We were just thinking
about writing songs

1961
01:15:33,417 --> 01:15:35,624
based on this discovery
of this falsetto voice

1962
01:15:35,708 --> 01:15:37,833
and how well
that seemed to work.

1963
01:15:37,916 --> 01:15:39,041
- What the Bee Gees brought,

1964
01:15:39,125 --> 01:15:41,833
I always felt
they brought melody to disco.

1965
01:15:41,916 --> 01:15:45,167
Most disco at that point
was melody-free, you know?

1966
01:15:45,250 --> 01:15:47,583
This was a different take
on disco.

1967
01:15:47,666 --> 01:15:49,458
It was completely for--

1968
01:15:49,541 --> 01:15:51,541
for the broadest
possible audience.

1969
01:15:51,624 --> 01:15:52,749
- You got the lyrics?
- Yes.

1970
01:15:52,833 --> 01:15:53,791
- Great.
- Right here.

1971
01:15:53,875 --> 01:15:55,250
- Okay. Let's go.
- Straight into it.

1972
01:15:55,333 --> 01:15:56,749
[guitar strumming]

1973
01:15:56,833 --> 01:15:58,708
One, two, three, four.

1974
01:15:58,791 --> 01:16:02,208
[rough disco music playing]

1975
01:16:02,292 --> 01:16:03,833
Right.
Okay.

1976
01:16:03,916 --> 01:16:07,041
♪ ♪

1977
01:16:07,125 --> 01:16:10,208
[both vocalizing]

1978
01:16:10,292 --> 01:16:12,875
♪ ♪

1979
01:16:12,958 --> 01:16:15,375
- Hey, guys.
- It's too slow.

1980
01:16:15,458 --> 01:16:16,583
It would be nice
if we could find a bigger sound

1981
01:16:16,666 --> 01:16:17,666
for that solo.

1982
01:16:17,749 --> 01:16:18,666
- Great.

1983
01:16:18,749 --> 01:16:19,666
- The way we rehearsed it
last night.

1984
01:16:19,749 --> 01:16:21,916
- All right.
[punchy synth notes]

1985
01:16:22,000 --> 01:16:23,041
- Yeah.
Just like that.

1986
01:16:23,125 --> 01:16:24,041
Yeah. Beautiful.

1987
01:16:24,125 --> 01:16:25,375
Bring that sound in.
That's great.

1988
01:16:25,458 --> 01:16:26,791
[synth note]
Yeah.

1989
01:16:26,875 --> 01:16:28,375
- Okay, let's try it again.
- Okay.

1990
01:16:28,458 --> 01:16:30,583
One, two, three, four.

1991
01:16:30,666 --> 01:16:32,125
♪ Tragedy ♪

1992
01:16:32,208 --> 01:16:34,125
♪ When the feeling's gone
and you can't go on ♪

1993
01:16:34,208 --> 01:16:36,250
♪ It's tragedy ♪

1994
01:16:36,333 --> 01:16:38,458
♪ When the morning cries
and you don't know why ♪

1995
01:16:38,541 --> 01:16:40,250
♪ It's hard to bear ♪

1996
01:16:40,333 --> 01:16:42,250
♪ With no one beside you ♪

1997
01:16:42,333 --> 01:16:44,749
♪ You're going nowhere ♪

1998
01:16:44,833 --> 01:16:45,916
♪ ♪

1999
01:16:46,000 --> 01:16:47,208
♪ Ah ♪

2000
01:16:47,292 --> 01:16:49,041
- When we brought out
"Spirits Having Flown,"

2001
01:16:49,125 --> 01:16:51,083
it did phenomenally well.

2002
01:16:51,167 --> 01:16:54,250
At the same time, "Fever" was
still in the top ten.

2003
01:16:54,333 --> 01:16:56,749
You know, we could've left it
another year,

2004
01:16:56,833 --> 01:16:59,333
and it still probably would've
been a little too soon

2005
01:16:59,417 --> 01:17:01,458
with what was going on
with "Fever."

2006
01:17:01,541 --> 01:17:04,541
[Odyssey's
"Native New Yorker"]

2007
01:17:04,624 --> 01:17:07,958
[jazzy disco music]

2008
01:17:08,041 --> 01:17:10,583
♪ ♪

2009
01:17:10,666 --> 01:17:11,833
- Good morning, everybody.

2010
01:17:11,916 --> 01:17:13,791
Charley Steiner, 99X.

2011
01:17:13,875 --> 01:17:15,624
As is per usual for Monday,

2012
01:17:15,708 --> 01:17:19,125
a very busy day
coming into town.

2013
01:17:19,208 --> 01:17:21,833
I'm working
at a top 40 station

2014
01:17:21,916 --> 01:17:23,791
in New York, big one,

2015
01:17:23,875 --> 01:17:26,583
WXLO, but it was known as 99X.

2016
01:17:26,666 --> 01:17:29,541
And I was
the morning news guy.

2017
01:17:29,624 --> 01:17:33,499
Most radio stations
had a very small playlist,

2018
01:17:33,583 --> 01:17:37,791
and the Bee Gees probably had
the top four, top five hits

2019
01:17:37,875 --> 01:17:38,875
any given week.

2020
01:17:38,958 --> 01:17:40,958
- 13 CFRW.

2021
01:17:41,041 --> 01:17:42,250
Music of the Bee Gees
and "Tragedy."

2022
01:17:42,333 --> 01:17:43,292
- Get out on the dance floor

2023
01:17:43,375 --> 01:17:45,125
and do one more
with the Bee Gees.

2024
01:17:45,208 --> 01:17:46,791
- All the Gibb brothers
together, the Bee Gees,

2025
01:17:46,875 --> 01:17:47,958
"You Should Be Dancing."

2026
01:17:48,041 --> 01:17:49,499
You should be shaking
that thing one time.

2027
01:17:49,583 --> 01:17:52,333
- And for those of us
at the radio station,

2028
01:17:52,417 --> 01:17:53,499
we're--
[laughs]

2029
01:17:53,583 --> 01:17:55,125
We're gonna take hostages.

2030
01:17:55,208 --> 01:17:56,875
["Too Much Heaven"]

2031
01:17:56,958 --> 01:17:59,167
- And if you haven't had
enough Bee Gees music yet,

2032
01:17:59,250 --> 01:18:01,333
well, we've got more.

2033
01:18:01,417 --> 01:18:04,167
Guess you could kind of
call it over-giving.

2034
01:18:04,250 --> 01:18:05,666
- And then Andy Gibb too.

2035
01:18:05,749 --> 01:18:09,125
He was like the caboose
on this musical train.

2036
01:18:09,208 --> 01:18:12,958
It was like waves in the sea.

2037
01:18:13,041 --> 01:18:17,208
- ♪ Nobody gets
too much heaven no more ♪

2038
01:18:17,292 --> 01:18:19,375
- You're right on the top
of the world.

2039
01:18:19,458 --> 01:18:22,666
What is it that drives you
back on the road?

2040
01:18:22,749 --> 01:18:25,375
- When we make records
and when we're in the studio,

2041
01:18:25,458 --> 01:18:28,333
we never really see
who buys those records.

2042
01:18:28,417 --> 01:18:30,292
I think getting on the road
means that to us.

2043
01:18:30,375 --> 01:18:33,208
It means that we come
face-to-face with people

2044
01:18:33,292 --> 01:18:34,833
to whom our records mean a lot.

2045
01:18:34,916 --> 01:18:38,208
But to be sure, doing a tour
is an enormous amount of work.

2046
01:18:38,292 --> 01:18:40,541
The only thing that I noticed
that's not right is,

2047
01:18:40,624 --> 01:18:41,875
it doesn't actually say
the Bee Gees,

2048
01:18:41,958 --> 01:18:43,041
and I think
it should actually--

2049
01:18:43,125 --> 01:18:44,125
the Bee Gees' name should be--

2050
01:18:44,208 --> 01:18:46,583
it should be "Bee Gees,
Spirits Having Flown."

2051
01:18:46,666 --> 01:18:49,208
["Love You Inside Out"]

2052
01:18:49,292 --> 01:18:52,000
- The '79 tour
was a complete sellout.

2053
01:18:52,083 --> 01:18:55,000
- The Bee Gees hadn't toured
since 1976,

2054
01:18:55,083 --> 01:18:56,624
and that tour was a promotion

2055
01:18:56,708 --> 01:18:58,083
for the "Spirits Having Flown"
album,

2056
01:18:58,167 --> 01:18:59,417
but it was celebrating

2057
01:18:59,499 --> 01:19:01,541
"Saturday Night Fever"
as well, you know.

2058
01:19:01,624 --> 01:19:03,541
- 25,000 people
are supposed to be here.

2059
01:19:03,624 --> 01:19:04,791
- It's gonna be great.

2060
01:19:04,875 --> 01:19:06,375
- You don't mind the Bee Gees
in the rain?

2061
01:19:06,458 --> 01:19:07,916
- No.
- No, not at all.

2062
01:19:08,000 --> 01:19:09,916
- We've been here
since 9:00 this morning.

2063
01:19:10,000 --> 01:19:12,041
- They're worth waiting
in the rain for.

2064
01:19:12,125 --> 01:19:14,583
- I mean, it was huge.

2065
01:19:14,666 --> 01:19:16,749
Dodger Stadium,
places like that.

2066
01:19:16,833 --> 01:19:18,875
We used to dream of this.

2067
01:19:18,958 --> 01:19:20,958
Having people in the audience
like Barbra Streisand

2068
01:19:21,041 --> 01:19:22,749
watching your show
and loving it, you know,

2069
01:19:22,833 --> 01:19:25,292
I mean, these are fantasies.

2070
01:19:25,375 --> 01:19:27,083
You're in a sort
of goldfish bowl on tour.

2071
01:19:27,167 --> 01:19:28,417
You know, it's like,
you don't see much

2072
01:19:28,499 --> 01:19:29,417
of what's going on out there.

2073
01:19:29,499 --> 01:19:31,083
- Anyway, the most
important thing is

2074
01:19:31,167 --> 01:19:32,292
what we're gonna do
after the show.

2075
01:19:32,375 --> 01:19:33,708
[laughter]
- What do you wanna do?

2076
01:19:33,791 --> 01:19:35,083
- That's what we're here
to talk about.

2077
01:19:35,167 --> 01:19:36,583
- It's here.

2078
01:19:36,666 --> 01:19:38,417
The Disco Body Shaper,

2079
01:19:38,499 --> 01:19:40,666
the brand-new
exerciser sensation

2080
01:19:40,749 --> 01:19:42,250
that's sweeping the country.

2081
01:19:42,333 --> 01:19:44,083
Send for yours today.

2082
01:19:44,167 --> 01:19:47,499
- Buy it today,
be a disco star tonight.

2083
01:19:47,583 --> 01:19:49,583
- Let's disco to Burger King.

2084
01:19:49,666 --> 01:19:51,749
- It all goes back
to one thing

2085
01:19:51,833 --> 01:19:53,417
and the same thing
that's happening now:

2086
01:19:53,499 --> 01:19:54,583
greed.

2087
01:19:54,666 --> 01:19:56,292
[Rick Dees' "Disco Duck"]

2088
01:19:56,375 --> 01:20:00,292
Greed is the thing
that happens in people

2089
01:20:00,375 --> 01:20:03,333
that really ruins
a lot of shit.

2090
01:20:03,417 --> 01:20:04,958
- ♪ Went to a party
the other night ♪

2091
01:20:05,041 --> 01:20:06,000
- In the beginning,

2092
01:20:06,083 --> 01:20:07,958
you would buy
a disco-bannered record

2093
01:20:08,041 --> 01:20:09,791
and it would be a great song,

2094
01:20:09,875 --> 01:20:11,666
no matter which one
you picked out.

2095
01:20:11,749 --> 01:20:14,499
- ♪ Moving my feet
to the disco beat ♪

2096
01:20:14,583 --> 01:20:18,833
- But then some executive
in diapers decided,

2097
01:20:18,916 --> 01:20:21,000
"Let's put 'disco'

2098
01:20:21,083 --> 01:20:23,749
on all these records
we wanna sell,"

2099
01:20:23,833 --> 01:20:26,125
and it wasn't
good music anymore.

2100
01:20:26,208 --> 01:20:27,958
It was garbage.

2101
01:20:28,041 --> 01:20:29,624
- ♪ Look at me ♪

2102
01:20:29,708 --> 01:20:33,125
♪ I'm the disco duck ♪

2103
01:20:33,208 --> 01:20:35,749
- [Donald Duck voice]
Ah, get down, mama.

2104
01:20:35,833 --> 01:20:37,000
- So that was, I think,
the straw

2105
01:20:37,083 --> 01:20:38,208
that broke the camel's back.

2106
01:20:38,292 --> 01:20:39,499
- ♪ Disco ♪

2107
01:20:39,583 --> 01:20:40,708
♪ Disco duck ♪

2108
01:20:40,791 --> 01:20:42,916
- Disco
as a purely musical form

2109
01:20:43,000 --> 01:20:45,000
is, you know, dead.

2110
01:20:45,083 --> 01:20:46,000
- I hated it.

2111
01:20:46,083 --> 01:20:47,458
Couldn't think
of anything redeem--

2112
01:20:47,541 --> 01:20:48,666
it was old people's music.

2113
01:20:48,749 --> 01:20:51,333
- It was a very easy thing

2114
01:20:51,417 --> 01:20:54,833
to get involved with
for commercial reasons.

2115
01:20:54,916 --> 01:20:56,499
- [Donald Duck voice]
♪ Everybody's doing ♪

2116
01:20:56,583 --> 01:20:58,375
♪ The disco ♪

2117
01:20:58,458 --> 01:20:59,833
- I'd like to show you

2118
01:20:59,916 --> 01:21:02,208
how we destroy
the disco records.

2119
01:21:02,292 --> 01:21:04,499
This is how I do it.

2120
01:21:04,583 --> 01:21:06,833
Have to kind of get worked up
a little bit.

2121
01:21:06,916 --> 01:21:08,125
It's like--
- Yeah.

2122
01:21:08,208 --> 01:21:10,000
- And then I just--

2123
01:21:10,083 --> 01:21:11,958
[music slows to a stop]

2124
01:21:12,041 --> 01:21:13,333
Oof.
That felt good.

2125
01:21:13,417 --> 01:21:14,458
[Ted Nugent's "Stranglehold"]

2126
01:21:14,541 --> 01:21:16,333
- Our next guest tonight
is Steve Dahl.

2127
01:21:16,417 --> 01:21:19,208
And he is a disc jockey
for station WLUP-FM

2128
01:21:19,292 --> 01:21:20,875
out in Chicago, Illinois,

2129
01:21:20,958 --> 01:21:22,541
and he hates disco music.

2130
01:21:22,624 --> 01:21:25,375
- Steve Dahl was kind of hard
to avoid in Chicago.

2131
01:21:25,458 --> 01:21:28,541
[bold rock music]

2132
01:21:28,624 --> 01:21:34,041
♪ ♪

2133
01:21:34,125 --> 01:21:36,541
Steve Dahl was on the radio
saying, "Disco sucks.

2134
01:21:36,624 --> 01:21:38,541
Disco sucks."

2135
01:21:38,624 --> 01:21:40,541
I was 14.

2136
01:21:40,624 --> 01:21:42,541
I listened to the Loop,

2137
01:21:42,624 --> 01:21:45,666
the radio station that this
kind of centered around.

2138
01:21:45,749 --> 01:21:47,708
- He brings helium
to the studio,

2139
01:21:47,791 --> 01:21:50,417
inhales it and imitates
the Bee Gees on the air,

2140
01:21:50,499 --> 01:21:52,208
and then breaks up
their records.

2141
01:21:52,292 --> 01:21:54,167
- [high-pitched]
♪ How deep is your love? ♪

2142
01:21:54,250 --> 01:21:57,083
[laughter]
♪ How deep is your love? ♪

2143
01:21:57,167 --> 01:22:01,250
♪ I really need to know ♪

2144
01:22:01,333 --> 01:22:04,916
- You know, when you do
all those things,

2145
01:22:05,000 --> 01:22:06,458
like put out garbage,

2146
01:22:06,541 --> 01:22:10,250
you know, have radio
being--feeling ostracized

2147
01:22:10,333 --> 01:22:13,250
and a lot of straight people
feeling threatened,

2148
01:22:13,333 --> 01:22:17,250
it creates a real poison.

2149
01:22:17,333 --> 01:22:19,624
[crowd cheering]

2150
01:22:19,708 --> 01:22:21,041
- Hello again, everybody.

2151
01:22:21,125 --> 01:22:23,916
Harry Caray and Jimmy Piersall
from Comiskey Park,

2152
01:22:24,000 --> 01:22:27,417
where we're gonna have
a wild night tonight,

2153
01:22:27,499 --> 01:22:29,041
a twilight doubleheader.

2154
01:22:29,125 --> 01:22:31,583
- I was an usher
at Comiskey Park.

2155
01:22:31,666 --> 01:22:33,125
That was my first job.

2156
01:22:33,208 --> 01:22:36,250
- Look at that crowd
out there.

2157
01:22:36,333 --> 01:22:37,375
- 50,000 people,

2158
01:22:37,458 --> 01:22:38,708
the largest crowd
of the season,

2159
01:22:38,791 --> 01:22:41,250
showed up
at Chicago's Comiskey Park.

2160
01:22:41,333 --> 01:22:43,125
Many had come
for Disco Demolition Night,

2161
01:22:43,250 --> 01:22:44,916
a promotional gimmick.

2162
01:22:45,000 --> 01:22:47,958
15,000 others had to be
turned away.

2163
01:22:48,041 --> 01:22:49,125
- Steve Dahl says,

2164
01:22:49,208 --> 01:22:52,333
"We're gonna let everybody in
the White Sox park

2165
01:22:52,417 --> 01:22:55,417
"for 98¢

2166
01:22:55,499 --> 01:22:57,250
"if you bring a disco record,

2167
01:22:57,333 --> 01:22:58,791
"and we're gonna blow
those records up

2168
01:22:58,875 --> 01:23:00,333
in the middle of center field."

2169
01:23:00,417 --> 01:23:02,624
[tense music]

2170
01:23:02,708 --> 01:23:05,125
We're letting people in.

2171
01:23:05,208 --> 01:23:09,250
I pointed out
to my chief usher,

2172
01:23:09,333 --> 01:23:11,833
"That record, that record,
that record,

2173
01:23:11,916 --> 01:23:14,167
"that record, that record,
that record,

2174
01:23:14,250 --> 01:23:16,250
"those aren't disco records.

2175
01:23:16,333 --> 01:23:18,583
Those are just--
those are R&B records."

2176
01:23:18,666 --> 01:23:20,875
♪ ♪

2177
01:23:20,958 --> 01:23:24,000
And the thing that I noticed

2178
01:23:24,083 --> 01:23:26,333
more than anything

2179
01:23:26,417 --> 01:23:29,167
was just mostly Black records.

2180
01:23:29,250 --> 01:23:30,791
[crowd cheering]

2181
01:23:30,875 --> 01:23:31,958
- At the same time

2182
01:23:32,041 --> 01:23:34,000
all this stuff is going down
in Chicago,

2183
01:23:34,083 --> 01:23:35,833
we were playing the stadiums.

2184
01:23:35,916 --> 01:23:38,375
It was an amazing tour.

2185
01:23:38,458 --> 01:23:41,000
We were sort of, like,
in our own little world,

2186
01:23:41,083 --> 01:23:43,125
not thinking about
the outside world.

2187
01:23:43,208 --> 01:23:46,125
[upbeat disco music playing]

2188
01:23:46,208 --> 01:23:50,292
♪ ♪

2189
01:23:50,375 --> 01:23:53,292
[crowd roaring]

2190
01:23:53,375 --> 01:24:00,375
♪ ♪

2191
01:24:15,791 --> 01:24:18,333
- He struck him out,
and the ball game is over.

2192
01:24:18,417 --> 01:24:21,167
[cheers and applause]

2193
01:24:22,833 --> 01:24:26,375
- Okay, let's usher Steve
down to the explosives

2194
01:24:26,458 --> 01:24:30,375
with a loud
"Disco sucks" chant.

2195
01:24:30,458 --> 01:24:32,375
Disco sucks!

2196
01:24:32,458 --> 01:24:34,583
all: Disco sucks!

2197
01:24:34,666 --> 01:24:36,666
Disco sucks!

2198
01:24:36,749 --> 01:24:38,833
Disco sucks!

2199
01:24:38,916 --> 01:24:40,749
Disco sucks!

2200
01:24:40,833 --> 01:24:42,250
Disco sucks!

2201
01:24:42,333 --> 01:24:43,875
["You Should Be Dancing"
playing]

2202
01:24:43,958 --> 01:24:45,541
- Ladies and gentlemen,
our brother Andy.

2203
01:24:45,624 --> 01:24:48,583
[crowd cheering]

2204
01:24:48,666 --> 01:24:50,583
♪ ♪

2205
01:24:50,666 --> 01:24:52,541
♪ My baby moves at midnight ♪

2206
01:24:52,624 --> 01:24:54,250
♪ ♪

2207
01:24:54,333 --> 01:24:55,791
♪ Goes right on till the dawn ♪

2208
01:24:55,875 --> 01:24:58,000
♪ ♪

2209
01:24:58,083 --> 01:25:00,292
♪ My woman takes me higher ♪

2210
01:25:00,375 --> 01:25:01,791
♪ ♪

2211
01:25:01,875 --> 01:25:03,916
♪ My woman keeps me warm ♪

2212
01:25:04,000 --> 01:25:05,916
♪ ♪

2213
01:25:06,000 --> 01:25:08,000
all: ♪ What you doing
on your back? ♪

2214
01:25:08,083 --> 01:25:09,292
♪ Oh-ho ♪

2215
01:25:09,375 --> 01:25:11,916
♪ What you doing
on your back? ♪

2216
01:25:12,000 --> 01:25:15,417
♪ Ah, you should be dancing ♪

2217
01:25:15,499 --> 01:25:17,708
♪ Yeah ♪

2218
01:25:17,791 --> 01:25:20,541
♪ Dancing, yeah ♪

2219
01:25:20,624 --> 01:25:25,499
♪ ♪

2220
01:25:25,583 --> 01:25:26,749
- Come on!

2221
01:25:26,833 --> 01:25:28,541
- Andy joined us onstage
for "You Should Be Dancing,"

2222
01:25:28,624 --> 01:25:30,958
and it was
the four of us together,

2223
01:25:31,041 --> 01:25:32,583
and Andy joined my mic,

2224
01:25:32,666 --> 01:25:34,458
so we were singing
around the one mic,

2225
01:25:34,541 --> 01:25:36,666
and he kept looking up,
and he stood back and he goes,

2226
01:25:36,749 --> 01:25:39,041
"Can you believe this shit?"

2227
01:25:39,125 --> 01:25:41,250
all: ♪ Yeah ♪
- Come on.

2228
01:25:41,333 --> 01:25:43,749
- Nobody could believe
what was going on.

2229
01:25:43,833 --> 01:25:45,125
And to see
the four of us onstage,

2230
01:25:45,208 --> 01:25:46,583
when I looked over
and saw Barry and Robin

2231
01:25:46,666 --> 01:25:48,000
and I saw Andy in front of me,
I thought,

2232
01:25:48,083 --> 01:25:50,458
"This is how it's gotta be."

2233
01:25:50,541 --> 01:25:53,583
- ♪ Yeah ♪

2234
01:25:53,666 --> 01:25:58,833
♪ ♪

2235
01:25:58,916 --> 01:26:00,624
- How 'bout the Bee Gees?

2236
01:26:00,708 --> 01:26:04,458
[crowd booing]

2237
01:26:04,541 --> 01:26:06,292
Well, listen, we took
all the disco records

2238
01:26:06,375 --> 01:26:08,499
that you brought tonight,

2239
01:26:08,583 --> 01:26:11,708
threw 'em in a giant box,

2240
01:26:11,791 --> 01:26:15,333
and we're gonna blow 'em up
real good.

2241
01:26:15,417 --> 01:26:22,417
♪ ♪

2242
01:26:25,749 --> 01:26:28,167
[fireworks popping]

2243
01:26:28,250 --> 01:26:32,499
One, two, three, boom!

2244
01:26:32,583 --> 01:26:35,041
[explosion booms]

2245
01:26:35,125 --> 01:26:37,624
[cheers and applause]

2246
01:26:37,708 --> 01:26:40,000
That blew 'em up real good!

2247
01:26:40,083 --> 01:26:46,499
♪ ♪

2248
01:26:46,583 --> 01:26:48,292
- ♪ Dance ♪

2249
01:26:48,375 --> 01:26:51,167
- They'd tell you as an usher,
every now and then,

2250
01:26:51,250 --> 01:26:53,125
you're gonna get
a drunk person

2251
01:26:53,208 --> 01:26:54,833
storming the field.

2252
01:26:54,916 --> 01:26:57,375
Try to grab 'em,
hold on to 'em, or whatever.

2253
01:26:57,458 --> 01:27:00,167
But everybody ran on the field.

2254
01:27:00,250 --> 01:27:02,749
- ♪ Dance ♪

2255
01:27:02,833 --> 01:27:04,375
♪ Dance ♪

2256
01:27:04,458 --> 01:27:06,250
♪ Dance ♪

2257
01:27:06,333 --> 01:27:08,833
♪ Dance, dance ♪

2258
01:27:08,916 --> 01:27:11,208
- When I got older,
I recognized

2259
01:27:11,292 --> 01:27:15,708
that this was actually the end
of a era.

2260
01:27:15,791 --> 01:27:17,208
- ♪ Dance ♪

2261
01:27:17,292 --> 01:27:18,208
♪ Dance ♪

2262
01:27:18,292 --> 01:27:19,708
- It was a book burning.

2263
01:27:19,791 --> 01:27:22,167
It was a racist,

2264
01:27:22,250 --> 01:27:25,041
homophobic book burning.

2265
01:27:25,125 --> 01:27:28,666
And the Bee Gees
got caught up in that

2266
01:27:28,749 --> 01:27:31,083
because they were
part of that culture

2267
01:27:31,167 --> 01:27:33,875
that was lifting
a lot of people up.

2268
01:27:33,958 --> 01:27:38,250
♪ ♪

2269
01:27:38,333 --> 01:27:39,583
[cheers and applause]

2270
01:27:39,666 --> 01:27:40,958
- Thank you.
We love you.

2271
01:27:41,041 --> 01:27:43,333
And we'll see you again.
Bye-bye.

2272
01:27:45,541 --> 01:27:48,458
[solemn music]

2273
01:27:48,541 --> 01:27:49,916
♪ ♪

2274
01:27:50,000 --> 01:27:53,791
- Nearly 7,000 spectators held
their very own demolition.

2275
01:27:53,875 --> 01:27:56,666
Game two of the doubleheader
was canceled last night.

2276
01:27:56,749 --> 01:28:00,208
That game will be forfeited.

2277
01:28:00,292 --> 01:28:02,499
- The anti-disco movement

2278
01:28:02,583 --> 01:28:05,083
was almost anti-Bee Gees
at that point.

2279
01:28:05,167 --> 01:28:07,916
- Ironically, the soundtrack
to "Saturday Night Fever,"

2280
01:28:08,000 --> 01:28:09,916
the album
that made them superstars,

2281
01:28:10,000 --> 01:28:12,583
also branded them
as a disco group.

2282
01:28:12,666 --> 01:28:14,250
- Because you can dance to it,
I mean,

2283
01:28:14,333 --> 01:28:15,916
doesn't necessarily make it
a disco song.

2284
01:28:16,000 --> 01:28:17,583
I mean, you can dance
to lots of songs.

2285
01:28:17,666 --> 01:28:20,000
- You really don't wanna be
labeled "disco"...

2286
01:28:20,083 --> 01:28:21,292
- No, no.
- At all, do you?

2287
01:28:21,375 --> 01:28:23,000
- Because our music
is a variety

2288
01:28:23,083 --> 01:28:24,250
of different kinds of music.

2289
01:28:24,333 --> 01:28:25,958
It shouldn't be called
just that.

2290
01:28:26,041 --> 01:28:28,000
- So people hated disco.

2291
01:28:28,083 --> 01:28:30,167
Hated it.

2292
01:28:30,250 --> 01:28:31,583
- We had FBI
and Secret Service

2293
01:28:31,666 --> 01:28:33,624
around the airplane every time
we landed in a certain place

2294
01:28:33,708 --> 01:28:35,458
'cause of the bomb threats.

2295
01:28:35,541 --> 01:28:37,958
It was scary stuff.

2296
01:28:38,041 --> 01:28:39,292
- We were perplexed,

2297
01:28:39,375 --> 01:28:40,708
'cause I got that vibe
from them.

2298
01:28:40,791 --> 01:28:42,499
You know,
"Why are people doing this?"

2299
01:28:42,583 --> 01:28:44,250
- The Bee Gees claim

2300
01:28:44,333 --> 01:28:46,458
some radio stations
around the country

2301
01:28:46,541 --> 01:28:49,167
are refusing to play
their new single.

2302
01:28:49,250 --> 01:28:50,458
- The Bee Gees are not allowed
to have a hit

2303
01:28:50,541 --> 01:28:51,791
because they had
a lot of success

2304
01:28:51,875 --> 01:28:52,958
with "Saturday Night Fever."

2305
01:28:53,041 --> 01:28:54,125
That, to me, is crap.

2306
01:28:54,208 --> 01:28:56,791
- Radio is, of course,
very difficult to get back

2307
01:28:56,875 --> 01:28:58,250
once you lose them.

2308
01:28:58,333 --> 01:29:00,541
Back then,
if you weren't on the radio,

2309
01:29:00,624 --> 01:29:01,624
there was nothing.

2310
01:29:01,708 --> 01:29:03,541
- Let's all grow up.
We're just a pop group.

2311
01:29:03,624 --> 01:29:04,833
We're not a political force.

2312
01:29:04,916 --> 01:29:06,333
We're just making music.

2313
01:29:06,417 --> 01:29:07,916
But I don't think there's
any reason to chalk us off

2314
01:29:08,000 --> 01:29:09,499
because we existed in the '70s

2315
01:29:09,583 --> 01:29:11,499
and we would like to exist
in the '80s, you know.

2316
01:29:11,583 --> 01:29:14,375
Does anybody mind if we exist
in the '80s, thank you?

2317
01:29:14,458 --> 01:29:17,000
- It was so overwhelming,

2318
01:29:17,083 --> 01:29:20,041
and the whole dynamic changed.

2319
01:29:20,125 --> 01:29:22,791
- There were just crazy days.

2320
01:29:22,875 --> 01:29:25,041
I preferred Maurice
as Maurice not being a Bee Gee,

2321
01:29:25,125 --> 01:29:26,499
if that makes sense to you.

2322
01:29:26,583 --> 01:29:30,041
I preferred him as Maurice,
not being a Bee Gee.

2323
01:29:30,125 --> 01:29:31,708
- Suddenly, they realized

2324
01:29:31,791 --> 01:29:34,000
that they were in
a different position.

2325
01:29:34,083 --> 01:29:37,083
Robin went through a kind of--

2326
01:29:37,167 --> 01:29:39,833
it wasn't a breakdown,
but it was just something

2327
01:29:39,916 --> 01:29:43,208
where he felt very shy
of being in public

2328
01:29:43,292 --> 01:29:45,417
and doing things for a while.

2329
01:29:45,499 --> 01:29:48,041
- The backlash was
a very frightening experience.

2330
01:29:48,125 --> 01:29:49,833
When things get to that point,

2331
01:29:49,916 --> 01:29:53,208
you're out of control
of the whole thing.

2332
01:29:53,292 --> 01:29:55,167
- We thought the Bee Gees
better go on the back burner

2333
01:29:55,250 --> 01:29:57,375
for a while
until this dies down

2334
01:29:57,458 --> 01:29:59,041
or something, you know.

2335
01:29:59,125 --> 01:30:01,417
We couldn't do anything
as the Bee Gees at all.

2336
01:30:01,499 --> 01:30:03,208
♪ ♪

2337
01:30:03,292 --> 01:30:05,458
- Well, backlash,
I'm really good on.

2338
01:30:09,666 --> 01:30:13,541
Any band that is successful

2339
01:30:13,624 --> 01:30:16,499
is going to have

2340
01:30:16,583 --> 01:30:20,208
some form of resist--
that's just the law of nature.

2341
01:30:20,292 --> 01:30:21,208
[somber music]

2342
01:30:21,292 --> 01:30:23,417
When they get so successful,

2343
01:30:23,499 --> 01:30:24,916
sometimes the only
interesting thing

2344
01:30:25,000 --> 01:30:27,292
to say about them is,
"Oh, I don't like them.

2345
01:30:27,375 --> 01:30:29,458
"Everyone else likes, you know,
'How Deep Is Your Love.'

2346
01:30:29,541 --> 01:30:32,333
I don't--
you know, it's stupid."

2347
01:30:32,417 --> 01:30:34,250
For bands of my generation,

2348
01:30:34,333 --> 01:30:36,250
you understand
about the ups and downs.

2349
01:30:36,333 --> 01:30:38,583
You can see it.
Like, where are the pitfalls?

2350
01:30:38,666 --> 01:30:40,916
What is the shit
you're gonna take?

2351
01:30:41,000 --> 01:30:43,083
When might this happen?
When might that happen?

2352
01:30:43,167 --> 01:30:44,958
For those people
that were on the first wave

2353
01:30:45,041 --> 01:30:48,208
of sort of global
pop superstardom,

2354
01:30:48,292 --> 01:30:49,958
if you wanna call it that,

2355
01:30:50,041 --> 01:30:51,083
it was new to them.

2356
01:30:51,167 --> 01:30:52,916
Like, "Why does everyone
suddenly hate our band?

2357
01:30:53,000 --> 01:30:55,083
"We sold 8 billion records
last year.

2358
01:30:55,167 --> 01:30:57,208
What's the deal?"

2359
01:30:57,292 --> 01:30:59,458
So it's confusing.

2360
01:30:59,541 --> 01:31:01,250
- It was not
just the Bee Gees

2361
01:31:01,333 --> 01:31:05,791
but the idea of dance

2362
01:31:05,875 --> 01:31:07,458
in that period,

2363
01:31:07,541 --> 01:31:10,417
it was no longer acceptable

2364
01:31:10,499 --> 01:31:13,000
for this kind of music
to carry the weight,

2365
01:31:13,083 --> 01:31:15,000
to carry the industry.

2366
01:31:15,083 --> 01:31:16,583
♪ ♪

2367
01:31:16,666 --> 01:31:18,499
Everybody was at that point
in their lives

2368
01:31:18,583 --> 01:31:22,375
where they began to look
for other things to do.

2369
01:31:23,875 --> 01:31:26,417
And Andy was having
problems too.

2370
01:31:26,499 --> 01:31:28,125
- Andy?
Andy...

2371
01:31:28,208 --> 01:31:30,125
- I saw him in Malibu.

2372
01:31:30,208 --> 01:31:31,250
He'd been involved

2373
01:31:31,333 --> 01:31:33,624
with a lot of people
who were doing drugs,

2374
01:31:33,708 --> 01:31:35,333
and he was doing drugs.

2375
01:31:35,417 --> 01:31:37,791
He was doing cocaine.

2376
01:31:37,875 --> 01:31:40,583
I talked to him
outside on the balcony,

2377
01:31:40,666 --> 01:31:42,583
saying, you know, "This is
really a nice house, Andy.

2378
01:31:42,666 --> 01:31:44,749
"It's a nice car out there,
that Porsche.

2379
01:31:44,833 --> 01:31:46,000
"Really nice.

2380
01:31:46,083 --> 01:31:48,375
You're not gonna keep all this,
you know."

2381
01:31:48,458 --> 01:31:49,833
And he said,
"What do you mean?"

2382
01:31:49,916 --> 01:31:51,833
I said,
"You do what you're doing,

2383
01:31:51,916 --> 01:31:53,333
"this stuff will vanish.

2384
01:31:53,417 --> 01:31:54,791
"All this stuff will go.

2385
01:31:54,875 --> 01:31:57,167
Your career will go
out the window, everything."

2386
01:31:57,250 --> 01:32:00,208
And he says, "I know. I know.
I know what I have to do."

2387
01:32:00,292 --> 01:32:03,041
- There was a lot of chaos
that I didn't witness,

2388
01:32:03,125 --> 01:32:05,666
but I was aware of it.

2389
01:32:05,749 --> 01:32:07,000
We were scattered
all over the place

2390
01:32:07,083 --> 01:32:08,333
for a little while.

2391
01:32:08,417 --> 01:32:10,208
♪ ♪

2392
01:32:10,292 --> 01:32:14,041
Robin was either in New York,
or Maurice was in England.

2393
01:32:14,125 --> 01:32:15,499
I was alone at the time,

2394
01:32:15,583 --> 01:32:18,000
and I got a phone call
from Barbra.

2395
01:32:18,083 --> 01:32:20,708
♪ ♪

2396
01:32:20,791 --> 01:32:23,333
She asked me
about writing songs for her,

2397
01:32:23,417 --> 01:32:26,666
and that terrified me.

2398
01:32:26,749 --> 01:32:29,375
I don't know if I can do this,
you know?

2399
01:32:29,458 --> 01:32:30,708
So I called my brothers,

2400
01:32:30,791 --> 01:32:33,375
and I said,
"This is what we gotta do.

2401
01:32:33,458 --> 01:32:35,499
And let's do it."

2402
01:32:35,583 --> 01:32:37,749
And that's how
the "Guilty" album came about.

2403
01:32:37,833 --> 01:32:40,499
[Barry Gibb's "Woman in Love"]

2404
01:32:40,583 --> 01:32:41,875
[acoustic pop music]

2405
01:32:41,958 --> 01:32:44,833
We really could not get
on the radio.

2406
01:32:44,916 --> 01:32:48,375
So the whole idea was
to write for other people.

2407
01:32:48,458 --> 01:32:49,708
Let's be songwriters.

2408
01:32:49,791 --> 01:32:52,417
Let's try and graduate
from being a group

2409
01:32:52,499 --> 01:32:55,583
that's probably...

2410
01:32:55,666 --> 01:32:58,000
beginning to fade, you know?

2411
01:32:58,083 --> 01:33:00,708
Let's see if we can
dance around that.

2412
01:33:00,791 --> 01:33:04,292
♪ Life is a moment in space ♪

2413
01:33:04,375 --> 01:33:07,041
♪ When the dream is gone ♪

2414
01:33:07,125 --> 01:33:10,208
♪ It's a lonelier place ♪

2415
01:33:10,292 --> 01:33:12,583
- It was more about outlets
for writing,

2416
01:33:12,666 --> 01:33:16,125
writing songs
that aren't Bee Gees songs.

2417
01:33:16,208 --> 01:33:18,083
They have an attitude
somewhere else.

2418
01:33:18,167 --> 01:33:19,833
- ♪ I stumble and fall ♪

2419
01:33:19,916 --> 01:33:24,541
♪ But I give you it all ♪

2420
01:33:24,624 --> 01:33:28,292
♪ I am a woman in love ♪

2421
01:33:28,375 --> 01:33:30,417
♪ And I do anything ♪

2422
01:33:30,499 --> 01:33:33,458
♪ To get you into my world ♪

2423
01:33:33,541 --> 01:33:36,083
- Now, Robin, you and Barry
cowrote "Woman in Love,"

2424
01:33:36,167 --> 01:33:38,541
which became
the international smash.

2425
01:33:38,624 --> 01:33:41,208
Was it difficult
taking the woman's perspective?

2426
01:33:41,292 --> 01:33:43,791
- Oh, no.
[laughter]

2427
01:33:43,875 --> 01:33:45,250
- It's our way of doing things.

2428
01:33:45,333 --> 01:33:46,292
We will assume that role

2429
01:33:46,375 --> 01:33:47,916
within the song
to write the song.

2430
01:33:48,000 --> 01:33:49,875
- After
the Barbra Streisand album,

2431
01:33:49,958 --> 01:33:52,083
managers would call up
all the time:

2432
01:33:52,167 --> 01:33:53,958
"Gee, can I get together
with you guys?

2433
01:33:54,041 --> 01:33:55,333
Will you make my record?"

2434
01:33:55,417 --> 01:33:56,833
And, you know,
established artists.

2435
01:33:56,916 --> 01:33:58,333
- ♪ Oh ♪

2436
01:33:58,417 --> 01:34:03,000
♪ Why do you have to be
a heartbreaker ♪

2437
01:34:03,083 --> 01:34:04,541
♪ When I'm just being ♪

2438
01:34:04,624 --> 01:34:06,749
♪ What you want me to be? ♪

2439
01:34:06,833 --> 01:34:10,458
- ♪ Get in the middle
of a chain reaction ♪

2440
01:34:10,541 --> 01:34:12,624
♪ You get a medal
when you're lost in action ♪

2441
01:34:12,708 --> 01:34:13,791
- It was just as important
for us

2442
01:34:13,875 --> 01:34:15,583
to have an artist singing
one of our songs

2443
01:34:15,666 --> 01:34:18,333
and being on the radio
as it was for ourselves.

2444
01:34:18,417 --> 01:34:19,916
both: ♪ Islands in the stream ♪

2445
01:34:20,000 --> 01:34:21,958
♪ That is what we are ♪

2446
01:34:22,041 --> 01:34:23,958
♪ No one in between ♪

2447
01:34:24,041 --> 01:34:26,333
♪ How can we be wrong? ♪

2448
01:34:26,417 --> 01:34:27,583
♪ Sail away with me ♪

2449
01:34:27,666 --> 01:34:29,458
- When you write a song
with someone in mind

2450
01:34:29,541 --> 01:34:31,000
that you really love

2451
01:34:31,083 --> 01:34:33,833
and then that person ends up
singing it,

2452
01:34:33,916 --> 01:34:35,624
there's no reward like it.

2453
01:34:35,708 --> 01:34:40,208
- ♪ Immortality ♪

2454
01:34:40,292 --> 01:34:41,833
♪ Oh, baby ♪

2455
01:34:41,916 --> 01:34:45,541
♪ There is a vision
and a fire in me ♪

2456
01:34:45,624 --> 01:34:47,624
♪ Oh ♪

2457
01:34:47,708 --> 01:34:50,833
- We wrote so many
different types of song,

2458
01:34:50,916 --> 01:34:53,666
and that created
that new determination

2459
01:34:53,749 --> 01:34:56,833
for us to become
the Bee Gees again.

2460
01:34:56,916 --> 01:34:59,333
all:
♪ When a lonely heart breaks ♪

2461
01:34:59,417 --> 01:35:02,541
♪ It's the one that forsakes ♪

2462
01:35:02,624 --> 01:35:05,833
♪ It's the dream
that we stole ♪

2463
01:35:05,916 --> 01:35:07,583
- I think, over time,

2464
01:35:07,666 --> 01:35:10,041
we became
more and more unified.

2465
01:35:10,125 --> 01:35:11,499
By '85,

2466
01:35:11,583 --> 01:35:13,041
we really got it together
as a group.

2467
01:35:13,125 --> 01:35:15,167
♪ ♪

2468
01:35:15,250 --> 01:35:17,791
We became a real band again.

2469
01:35:17,875 --> 01:35:20,375
["For Whom the Bell Tolls"]

2470
01:35:20,458 --> 01:35:23,541
all: ♪ For you, it's goodbye ♪

2471
01:35:23,624 --> 01:35:25,708
♪ For me, it's to cry ♪

2472
01:35:25,791 --> 01:35:29,749
♪ For whom the bell tolls ♪

2473
01:35:29,833 --> 01:35:31,624
- We never really had
a category.

2474
01:35:31,708 --> 01:35:33,875
We just had different periods,

2475
01:35:33,958 --> 01:35:36,499
and we managed to fit
into different eras,

2476
01:35:36,583 --> 01:35:38,375
and we saw a lot of people

2477
01:35:38,458 --> 01:35:41,499
who were the champions
of their era come and go.

2478
01:35:41,583 --> 01:35:44,499
We didn't always connect,
but we stayed around.

2479
01:35:44,583 --> 01:35:46,791
We managed to defy
the criticism

2480
01:35:46,875 --> 01:35:47,875
most of the time.

2481
01:35:47,958 --> 01:35:50,875
all: ♪ It's the one
that forsakes ♪

2482
01:35:50,958 --> 01:35:54,583
♪ It's the dream
that we stole ♪

2483
01:35:54,666 --> 01:35:55,875
- And I just hope and pray

2484
01:35:55,958 --> 01:35:58,250
that the music lasts,
you know?

2485
01:35:58,333 --> 01:35:59,749
Because I begin to recognize

2486
01:35:59,833 --> 01:36:01,875
that there's not as much time
in front of me

2487
01:36:01,958 --> 01:36:04,624
as there is behind me.

2488
01:36:04,708 --> 01:36:07,624
[somber music]

2489
01:36:07,708 --> 01:36:10,749
♪ ♪

2490
01:36:10,833 --> 01:36:11,916
- Hi, Australia.

2491
01:36:12,000 --> 01:36:13,791
This is Andy Gibb
here in Miami,

2492
01:36:13,875 --> 01:36:15,583
and I'd like to wish
all you kids--

2493
01:36:15,666 --> 01:36:16,958
One more time?

2494
01:36:17,041 --> 01:36:19,916
♪ ♪

2495
01:36:20,000 --> 01:36:21,083
Hi, Australia.

2496
01:36:21,167 --> 01:36:22,749
This is Andy Gibb
here in Miami,

2497
01:36:22,833 --> 01:36:24,125
and I'd like to wish
all the kids

2498
01:36:24,208 --> 01:36:26,791
and all my friends in Australia
a very merry Christmas

2499
01:36:26,875 --> 01:36:28,125
and a happy New Year.

2500
01:36:28,208 --> 01:36:29,958
♪ ♪

2501
01:36:30,041 --> 01:36:34,250
- ♪ Ah, ah ♪

2502
01:36:34,333 --> 01:36:38,958
♪ Ah, ah ♪

2503
01:36:39,041 --> 01:36:45,958
♪ Ah, ah, ah ♪

2504
01:36:46,041 --> 01:36:48,417
♪ ♪

2505
01:36:48,499 --> 01:36:49,666
- Barry was first,

2506
01:36:49,749 --> 01:36:51,791
and then, in fact, Robin's
half an hour older than I am,

2507
01:36:51,875 --> 01:36:53,250
and we're twins,

2508
01:36:53,333 --> 01:36:55,958
and that's
how we basically met.

2509
01:36:56,041 --> 01:36:56,958
[laughs]

2510
01:36:57,041 --> 01:37:01,125
- ♪ Ah, ah ♪

2511
01:37:01,208 --> 01:37:05,833
♪ Ah, ah ♪

2512
01:37:05,916 --> 01:37:10,167
♪ Ah, ah ♪

2513
01:37:10,250 --> 01:37:11,458
- Robert Stigwood,
this is for you.

2514
01:37:11,541 --> 01:37:12,458
- No, you didn't do it.

2515
01:37:12,541 --> 01:37:13,791
You gotta react to the thing.
- What line?

2516
01:37:13,875 --> 01:37:14,958
Oh, the reaction?

2517
01:37:15,041 --> 01:37:15,958
- Yeah.
- All right.

2518
01:37:16,041 --> 01:37:17,499
- It's a close-up.
- Okay.

2519
01:37:17,583 --> 01:37:19,041
Oh, yeah, that's right.
Sorry, do it again.

2520
01:37:19,125 --> 01:37:20,458
- Yeah, do it again.
- Do it again.

2521
01:37:20,541 --> 01:37:22,000
Okay.

2522
01:37:22,083 --> 01:37:23,624
Robert Stigwood,
this is for you.

2523
01:37:23,708 --> 01:37:28,041
- ♪ Ah ♪

2524
01:37:28,125 --> 01:37:33,375
♪ Ah, ah, ah ♪

2525
01:37:33,458 --> 01:37:37,833
♪ Ah, ah ♪

2526
01:37:37,916 --> 01:37:41,375
♪ Ah, ah ♪

2527
01:37:41,458 --> 01:37:46,167
[cheers and applause]

2528
01:37:46,250 --> 01:37:47,292
- Ladies and gentlemen,

2529
01:37:47,375 --> 01:37:49,833
an Oscar nominee
for "Saturday Night Fever,"

2530
01:37:49,916 --> 01:37:52,458
John Travolta.

2531
01:37:52,541 --> 01:37:54,541
- Tonight

2532
01:37:54,624 --> 01:37:57,125
the Recording Academy
is celebrating

2533
01:37:57,208 --> 01:38:00,167
three brothers
who changed my life

2534
01:38:00,250 --> 01:38:02,541
and the world of music forever,

2535
01:38:02,624 --> 01:38:05,624
and though brothers Robin
and Maurice are sadly gone,

2536
01:38:05,708 --> 01:38:08,666
we are thrilled to be joined
by a brother like no other,

2537
01:38:08,749 --> 01:38:11,458
one of the most successful
singer-songwriters

2538
01:38:11,541 --> 01:38:14,417
of our times,
my friend Barry Gibb.

2539
01:38:14,499 --> 01:38:16,708
[cheers and applause]

2540
01:38:16,791 --> 01:38:21,208
- ♪ Hmm ♪

2541
01:38:21,292 --> 01:38:25,666
[vocal looping]

2542
01:38:25,749 --> 01:38:28,666
♪ Feel I'm going back ♪

2543
01:38:28,749 --> 01:38:31,666
♪ To Massachusetts ♪

2544
01:38:31,749 --> 01:38:34,375
♪ ♪

2545
01:38:34,458 --> 01:38:37,375
♪ Something's telling me ♪

2546
01:38:37,458 --> 01:38:40,167
♪ I must go home ♪

2547
01:38:40,250 --> 01:38:43,292
- They're a brilliant chapter
in the book of music.

2548
01:38:43,375 --> 01:38:44,875
You know,
some people are a footnote.

2549
01:38:44,958 --> 01:38:45,916
Some people take up--

2550
01:38:46,000 --> 01:38:48,458
the Beatles and Dylan
take up huge--

2551
01:38:48,541 --> 01:38:49,875
But the Bee Gees are there.

2552
01:38:49,958 --> 01:38:53,417
all: ♪ The day I left ♪

2553
01:38:53,499 --> 01:38:57,208
♪ Her standing on her own ♪

2554
01:38:57,292 --> 01:38:59,458
- You go back and look
at their body of work,

2555
01:38:59,541 --> 01:39:01,916
and it's some of the best
songs ever written.

2556
01:39:02,000 --> 01:39:05,208
- ♪ About the life
in Massachusetts ♪

2557
01:39:05,292 --> 01:39:06,749
- There's nothing else to say
about the Bee Gees

2558
01:39:06,833 --> 01:39:08,417
except they were
fucking awesome.

2559
01:39:08,499 --> 01:39:11,458
- ♪ Speak about the people ♪

2560
01:39:11,541 --> 01:39:15,292
♪ I have seen ♪

2561
01:39:15,375 --> 01:39:19,250
all: ♪ And the lights
all went down ♪

2562
01:39:19,333 --> 01:39:22,958
♪ In Massachusetts ♪

2563
01:39:23,041 --> 01:39:26,041
♪ And Massachusetts ♪

2564
01:39:26,125 --> 01:39:30,958
♪ Is one place I have seen ♪

2565
01:39:31,041 --> 01:39:34,083
- ♪ And Massachusetts ♪

2566
01:39:34,167 --> 01:39:39,333
all: ♪ Is one place
I have seen ♪

2567
01:39:39,417 --> 01:39:42,417
[cheers and applause]

2568
01:39:46,541 --> 01:39:49,541
[birds singing]

2569
01:39:52,041 --> 01:39:55,458
- When I think about it now,

2570
01:39:55,541 --> 01:39:57,875
I think about
how it all sort of started.

2571
01:39:59,541 --> 01:40:01,791
We just had this dream,

2572
01:40:01,875 --> 01:40:04,292
and we thought, "Well,

2573
01:40:04,375 --> 01:40:06,292
what do we want
to be famous for?"

2574
01:40:08,417 --> 01:40:11,041
It turns out
it was the songwriting.

2575
01:40:11,125 --> 01:40:14,833
[somber piano music]

2576
01:40:14,916 --> 01:40:18,041
And I think
everything we set out to do,

2577
01:40:18,125 --> 01:40:20,208
we did, against all odds.

2578
01:40:20,292 --> 01:40:22,333
♪ ♪

2579
01:40:22,417 --> 01:40:24,333
I can't honestly come to terms
with the fact

2580
01:40:24,417 --> 01:40:26,167
that they're not here anymore.

2581
01:40:26,250 --> 01:40:28,167
Never been able to do that.

2582
01:40:28,250 --> 01:40:32,333
♪ ♪

2583
01:40:32,417 --> 01:40:34,167
I'm always reliving it.

2584
01:40:34,250 --> 01:40:35,499
It's always,
"What would Robin think?"

2585
01:40:35,583 --> 01:40:37,333
or, "What would
Maurice think?"

2586
01:40:37,417 --> 01:40:39,167
And Andy.

2587
01:40:39,250 --> 01:40:40,624
It never goes away.

2588
01:40:40,708 --> 01:40:43,666
♪ ♪

2589
01:40:43,749 --> 01:40:47,041
And what I wanted
to say earlier

2590
01:40:47,125 --> 01:40:49,000
is that I'd rather have 'em
all back here,

2591
01:40:49,083 --> 01:40:50,583
no hits at all.

2592
01:40:50,666 --> 01:40:55,749
♪ ♪

2593
01:40:55,833 --> 01:40:58,749
["Run to Me" playing]

2594
01:40:58,833 --> 01:41:01,749
[heartfelt
acoustic guitar music]

2595
01:41:01,833 --> 01:41:05,541
♪ ♪

2596
01:41:05,624 --> 01:41:08,541
[cheers and applause]

2597
01:41:08,624 --> 01:41:13,541
♪ ♪

2598
01:41:13,624 --> 01:41:16,916
♪ If ever you got rain
in your heart ♪

2599
01:41:17,000 --> 01:41:18,417
♪ ♪

2600
01:41:18,499 --> 01:41:20,041
♪ Someone has hurt you ♪

2601
01:41:20,125 --> 01:41:22,499
♪ And torn you apart ♪

2602
01:41:22,583 --> 01:41:23,666
♪ ♪

2603
01:41:23,749 --> 01:41:25,875
♪ Am I unwise ♪

2604
01:41:25,958 --> 01:41:28,208
♪ To open up your eyes ♪

2605
01:41:28,292 --> 01:41:30,916
♪ To love me? ♪

2606
01:41:31,000 --> 01:41:33,749
♪ And when you got
nothing to lose ♪

2607
01:41:33,833 --> 01:41:35,125
♪ ♪

2608
01:41:35,208 --> 01:41:37,083
♪ Nothing to pay for ♪

2609
01:41:37,167 --> 01:41:39,375
♪ And nothing to choose ♪

2610
01:41:39,458 --> 01:41:40,417
♪ ♪

2611
01:41:40,499 --> 01:41:42,708
♪ Am I unwise ♪
- ♪ Oh, no ♪

2612
01:41:42,791 --> 01:41:44,916
- ♪ To open up your eyes ♪

2613
01:41:45,000 --> 01:41:47,958
♪ To love me? ♪
- ♪ Run to me ♪

2614
01:41:48,041 --> 01:41:51,208
♪ Whenever you're lonely ♪

2615
01:41:51,292 --> 01:41:53,541
♪ Run to me ♪

2616
01:41:53,624 --> 01:41:56,624
♪ If you need a shoulder ♪

2617
01:41:56,708 --> 01:41:59,125
all: ♪ Now and then ♪

2618
01:41:59,208 --> 01:42:01,875
♪ You need someone older ♪

2619
01:42:01,958 --> 01:42:05,958
♪ So, darling ♪

2620
01:42:06,041 --> 01:42:11,000
♪ You run to me ♪

2621
01:42:11,083 --> 01:42:14,208
[cheers and applause]

2622
01:42:38,666 --> 01:42:41,583
["Stayin' Alive"]

2623
01:42:41,666 --> 01:42:48,666
♪ ♪

2624
01:42:51,791 --> 01:42:54,541
- ♪ Well, you can tell
by the way I use my walk ♪

2625
01:42:54,624 --> 01:42:57,208
♪ I'm a woman's man,
no time to talk ♪

2626
01:42:57,292 --> 01:42:59,167
♪ Music loud and women warm ♪

2627
01:42:59,250 --> 01:43:01,499
♪ I've been kicked around
since I was born ♪

2628
01:43:01,583 --> 01:43:04,000
all: ♪ And now it's all right,
it's okay ♪

2629
01:43:04,083 --> 01:43:06,333
♪ And you may look
the other way ♪

2630
01:43:06,417 --> 01:43:08,708
♪ We can try to understand ♪

2631
01:43:08,791 --> 01:43:11,041
♪ "The New York Times'" effect
on man ♪

2632
01:43:11,125 --> 01:43:13,167
♪ Whether you're a brother
or whether you're a mother ♪

2633
01:43:13,250 --> 01:43:15,666
♪ You're stayin' alive,
stayin' alive ♪

2634
01:43:15,749 --> 01:43:17,791
♪ Feel the city breaking
and everybody shaking ♪

2635
01:43:17,875 --> 01:43:20,333
♪ And we're stayin' alive,
stayin' alive ♪

2636
01:43:20,417 --> 01:43:22,666
♪ Ah, ha, ha, ha ♪

2637
01:43:22,749 --> 01:43:24,875
♪ Stayin' alive,
stayin' alive ♪

2638
01:43:24,958 --> 01:43:27,125
♪ Ah, ha, ha, ha ♪

2639
01:43:27,208 --> 01:43:31,499
♪ Stayin' alive ♪

2640
01:43:31,583 --> 01:43:35,708
[cheers and applause]

2641
01:43:35,791 --> 01:43:37,499
- ♪ And you walk ♪

2642
01:43:37,583 --> 01:43:41,375
♪ ♪

2643
01:43:41,458 --> 01:43:43,541
♪ Life going nowhere ♪

2644
01:43:43,624 --> 01:43:46,583
♪ Somebody help me ♪

2645
01:43:46,666 --> 01:43:48,375
♪ Somebody help me, yeah ♪

2646
01:43:48,458 --> 01:43:52,875
♪ ♪

2647
01:43:52,958 --> 01:43:55,041
♪ Life going nowhere ♪

2648
01:43:55,125 --> 01:43:58,250
♪ Somebody help me ♪

2649
01:43:58,333 --> 01:44:05,250
♪ I'm stayin' alive ♪

2650
01:44:05,333 --> 01:44:08,875
♪ ♪

2651
01:44:08,958 --> 01:44:11,041
♪ Life going nowhere ♪

2652
01:44:11,125 --> 01:44:13,833
♪ Somebody help me ♪

2653
01:44:13,916 --> 01:44:15,875
♪ Somebody help me, yeah ♪

2654
01:44:15,958 --> 01:44:17,916
♪ ♪

2655
01:44:18,000 --> 01:44:20,083
♪ Somebody ♪

2656
01:44:20,167 --> 01:44:22,417
♪ Life going nowhere ♪

2657
01:44:22,499 --> 01:44:25,958
♪ Somebody help me ♪

2658
01:44:26,041 --> 01:44:32,958
♪ I'm stayin' alive ♪

2659
01:44:33,041 --> 01:44:36,250
♪ ♪

2660
01:44:36,333 --> 01:44:39,333
[cheers and applause]

2661
01:44:56,125 --> 01:44:59,167
crowd: Barry, Barry, Barry,

2662
01:44:59,250 --> 01:45:03,666
Barry, Barry, Barry,
Barry, Barry, Barry,

2663
01:45:03,749 --> 01:45:08,624
Barry, Barry, Barry,
Barry, Barry, Barry.

2664
01:45:08,708 --> 01:45:11,624
["Butterfly"]

2665
01:45:11,708 --> 01:45:14,125
[soft acoustic guitar music]

2666
01:45:14,208 --> 01:45:16,833
One, two, three, four.

2667
01:45:16,916 --> 01:45:23,875
♪ ♪

2668
01:45:27,541 --> 01:45:30,749
all: ♪ Green fields ♪

2669
01:45:30,833 --> 01:45:34,749
♪ Where we used to wander ♪

2670
01:45:34,833 --> 01:45:36,791
♪ ♪

2671
01:45:36,875 --> 01:45:42,041
♪ Purple valleys ♪

2672
01:45:42,125 --> 01:45:45,167
♪ Near my home ♪

2673
01:45:45,250 --> 01:45:47,458
♪ ♪

2674
01:45:47,541 --> 01:45:52,167
♪ We would play there ♪

2675
01:45:52,250 --> 01:45:55,541
♪ Beneath the sky ♪

2676
01:45:55,624 --> 01:45:58,125
♪ ♪

2677
01:45:58,208 --> 01:46:00,708
♪ Then I kissed you ♪

2678
01:46:00,791 --> 01:46:03,499
♪ ♪

2679
01:46:03,583 --> 01:46:06,499
♪ Butterfly ♪

2680
01:46:06,583 --> 01:46:10,208
♪ ♪

2681
01:46:10,292 --> 01:46:14,208
♪ Young girl ♪

2682
01:46:14,292 --> 01:46:17,708
♪ You came restless ♪

2683
01:46:17,791 --> 01:46:19,499
♪ ♪

2684
01:46:19,583 --> 01:46:24,875
♪ And you left me ♪

2685
01:46:24,958 --> 01:46:27,875
♪ Here to cry ♪

2686
01:46:27,958 --> 01:46:30,208
♪ ♪

2687
01:46:30,292 --> 01:46:35,375
♪ My big teardrops ♪

2688
01:46:35,458 --> 01:46:39,208
♪ In red pastures ♪

2689
01:46:39,292 --> 01:46:40,541
♪ ♪

2690
01:46:40,624 --> 01:46:43,167
♪ For I loved you ♪

2691
01:46:43,250 --> 01:46:45,916
♪ ♪

2692
01:46:46,000 --> 01:46:48,749
♪ Butterfly ♪

2693
01:46:48,833 --> 01:46:51,083
♪ ♪

2694
01:46:51,167 --> 01:46:55,041
♪ Butterfly ♪

2695
01:46:55,125 --> 01:46:57,541
♪ Yeah ♪

2696
01:46:57,624 --> 01:47:00,167
♪ I dream about you ♪

2697
01:47:00,250 --> 01:47:04,208
♪ Lonely without you,
butterfly ♪

2698
01:47:04,292 --> 01:47:06,624
♪ ♪

2699
01:47:06,708 --> 01:47:10,417
♪ Butterfly ♪

2700
01:47:10,499 --> 01:47:13,041
♪ Yeah ♪

2701
01:47:13,125 --> 01:47:15,624
♪ Each night I'm sleeping ♪

2702
01:47:15,708 --> 01:47:19,624
♪ Your face comes creeping,
butterfly ♪

2703
01:47:19,708 --> 01:47:23,208
♪ ♪

2704
01:47:23,292 --> 01:47:26,375
♪ Green fields ♪

2705
01:47:26,458 --> 01:47:30,208
♪ Where we used to wander ♪

2706
01:47:30,292 --> 01:47:32,083
♪ ♪

2707
01:47:32,167 --> 01:47:37,417
♪ Purple valleys ♪

2708
01:47:37,499 --> 01:47:40,125
♪ Near my home ♪

2709
01:47:40,208 --> 01:47:42,417
♪ ♪

2710
01:47:42,499 --> 01:47:46,958
♪ We would play there ♪

2711
01:47:47,041 --> 01:47:50,499
♪ Beneath the sky ♪

2712
01:47:50,583 --> 01:47:52,791
♪ ♪

2713
01:47:52,875 --> 01:47:55,250
♪ For I loved you ♪

2714
01:47:55,333 --> 01:47:57,833
♪ ♪

2715
01:47:57,916 --> 01:48:00,833
♪ Butterfly ♪

2716
01:48:00,916 --> 01:48:02,958
♪ ♪

2717
01:48:03,041 --> 01:48:06,458
♪ Butterfly ♪

2718
01:48:06,541 --> 01:48:09,333
♪ Yeah ♪

2719
01:48:09,417 --> 01:48:11,791
♪ I dream about you ♪

2720
01:48:11,875 --> 01:48:15,791
♪ Lonely without you,
butterfly ♪

2721
01:48:15,875 --> 01:48:18,083
♪ ♪

2722
01:48:18,167 --> 01:48:21,583
♪ Butterfly ♪

2723
01:48:21,666 --> 01:48:24,333
♪ Yeah ♪

2724
01:48:24,417 --> 01:48:26,708
♪ Each night I'm sleeping ♪

2725
01:48:26,791 --> 01:48:30,958
♪ Your face comes creeping,
butterfly ♪

2726
01:48:31,041 --> 01:48:33,375
♪ ♪

2727
01:48:33,458 --> 01:48:40,375
♪ Butterfly ♪

2728
01:48:40,458 --> 01:48:47,208
♪ ♪

2729
01:48:47,292 --> 01:48:50,208
["Words"]

2730
01:48:50,292 --> 01:48:53,208
[soft piano ballad]

2731
01:48:53,292 --> 01:48:59,000
♪ ♪

2732
01:48:59,083 --> 01:49:03,333
- ♪ Smile
an everlasting smile ♪

2733
01:49:03,417 --> 01:49:07,333
♪ A smile can bring you
near to me ♪

2734
01:49:07,458 --> 01:49:10,041
♪ ♪

2735
01:49:10,125 --> 01:49:15,041
♪ Don't ever let me
find you gone ♪

2736
01:49:15,125 --> 01:49:19,417
♪ 'Cause that would bring
a tear to me ♪

2737
01:49:19,499 --> 01:49:22,708
♪ ♪

2738
01:49:22,791 --> 01:49:26,833
♪ Talk in everlasting words ♪

2739
01:49:26,916 --> 01:49:31,250
♪ And dedicate them all
to me ♪

2740
01:49:31,333 --> 01:49:33,875
♪ ♪

2741
01:49:33,958 --> 01:49:38,708
♪ And I will give you
all my life ♪

2742
01:49:38,791 --> 01:49:43,083
♪ I'm here if you should call
to me ♪

2743
01:49:43,167 --> 01:49:45,708
♪ ♪

2744
01:49:45,791 --> 01:49:47,499
♪ You think ♪

2745
01:49:47,583 --> 01:49:50,458
♪ That I don't even mean ♪

2746
01:49:50,541 --> 01:49:56,083
♪ I single word I say ♪

2747
01:49:56,167 --> 01:49:59,624
♪ It's only words ♪

2748
01:49:59,708 --> 01:50:02,708
♪ And words are all I have ♪

2749
01:50:02,791 --> 01:50:06,875
♪ To take your heart away ♪

2750
01:50:06,958 --> 01:50:08,417
♪ ♪

2751
01:50:08,499 --> 01:50:12,208
♪ It's only words ♪

2752
01:50:12,292 --> 01:50:15,749
♪ And words are all I have ♪

2753
01:50:15,833 --> 01:50:18,333
♪ To take your heart ♪

2754
01:50:18,417 --> 01:50:22,541
♪ Away ♪

2755
01:50:22,624 --> 01:50:29,624
♪ ♪

2756
01:50:40,041 --> 01:50:42,041
[bright tone]