HBO Documentary Films has acquired all North American rights to the feature-length documentary The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart about the legendary band who wrote more than 1,000 songs, including twenty number one hits throughout their career. You need to Wikipedia "Albhy Galuten" sometime just for kicks!)ĮP204: The Hollywood & Levine Mini-Play Festival!ĮP203: Mistletoe Miscellaneous & Why I hate making.Posted by Phil on in All, documentary, Film, musical, News | 0 comments In fact, who else would they have made available but all the musicians who played on Bee Gees records? "Whoa!", I said, "Albhy Galuten on piano?" The fella goes, "Yeah, you've heard of him?" "Only the keyboard guy on the Bee Gees tunes!" I was pawing over it and I started reading the musician roster on the label of all the folks he'd hired to play on his session. He had booked a recording session down at Criterion and he came back with the master tape. There was a jock there who was also a musician. ![]() I used to hang occasionally with those dudes. I have had a deep, lifelong love for any recording that was built to come out of a radio speaker perfectly (see also: "Lightning Strikes", "Let's Hang On!" etc.).īack in the late '70s I worked at a station in West Palm Beach with a Country FM across the hall. The two most obvious examples of that were "Emotion" by Samantha Sang (wherever you are!) and my very own personal number one guilty Hot AC pleasure of all time, "Heartbreaker" by Dionne Warwick. Olympus of hit record production down there in Miami, they could produce other artists and still come out with an easily-identifiable "Bee Gees record". You know what I found fascinating about the Bee Gees? By the time they'd climbed the Mt. Well worth seeing, even if you still have no desire to ever hear “Stayin’ Alive” again. Was all the money, fame, women, gold records and legacy worth it? I thought the best moment of the film was when Barry Gibb answered that question. Of the four brothers (including Andy), only one is left. ![]() This was certainly mentioned but more in passing. To one degree or another they all fell prey to drug and alcohol addiction. That's the part of the story we all did know going in. Marshall chose to emphasize their career and not the steep price they paid for it. That's way more important than "should the group break up?" In the case of the Bee Gees, happily, blood was thicker than platinum. ![]() But when you add to that family dynamics, played against the many traps of success you test the very foundation of the family unit. ![]() Rock group dynamics are always complex - you have different personalities and backgrounds and ultimate career goals. (I’m only sorry it wasn’t a documentary for CNN because then they might’ve interviewed me.) There’s great archival footage and interviews with the Gibb brothers over the years so the story was mostly told in their own words. And I actually found myself engrossed in their story. I actually got a much better appreciation of their talent. THE BEE GEES: HOW DO YOU MEND A BROKEN HEART, directed by Frank Marshall, is one of the best rock documentaries I’ve ever seen. Their songs were played to death during the disco era and Barry Gibb’s falsetto always sounded like a cat being strangled.īut more and more people were raving about it so I decided to give it a whirl. Not that I disliked the Bee Gees, but I never got what the excitement was all about. I have to admit, when I saw there was a new documentary about the Bee Gees on HBO Max I yawned.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |