“Let’s all grow up, we’re just a pop group,” Barry urges in an archival interview. The film also delves into unpleasant moments in their career, from Robin getting booed offstage after his first solo show in 1970 to the backlash they faced following Disco Demolition Night in Chicago’s Comiskey Park nine years later. “He was so enthusiastic about them and their musical gifts.” “It was so fun to talk to him, I forgot we were doing the interview,” Marshall laughs.
Eric Clapton doesn’t give interviews, so that was amazing.” Justin Timberlake also appears, praising the band to such extreme measures that he promises the cameramen he’s not high. However famous people are, there’s all sorts of reasons why they don’t want to be interviewed. “Of all the projects that we’ve worked on, it was the one where everybody you asked would say yes. “We could have done a whole film just on Noel Gallagher’s interview,” Sinclair says. “When you’ve got brothers singing, it’s like an instrument that nobody else can buy,” Gallagher says. They breakdown the joys of making music with family members, and the brutal tensions that comes with it. Marshall also interviewed members of brother bands, including Oasis’ Noel Gallagher and Nick Jonas of the Jonas Brothers. “Talking to the family was really important.” “When we talked to Yvonne Gibb, she remembered that they had some eight-millimeter footage that was in a shoebox under a bed somewhere,” Marshall explains. Much of the footage was supplied by the Gibb family, who gave Marshall complete creative independence. It features rare footage and new interviews with Barry Gibb from his home in Miami, as well as interviews with his late brothers Robin and Maurice. The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart, out December 12th on HBO, aims to tell the band’s whole saga from start to finish. “He said, ‘If you guys will do that, I’ll give you everything.’”
“We said we wanted to reintroduce him to his audience, because time has passed,” Sinclair tells Rolling Stone. So when director Frank Marshall and producer Nigel Sinclair approached Barry Gibb for a documentary, the last living Bee Gee asked what they had in mind. The Bee Gees created music for nearly five decades, but their legacy is often reduced to a brief period in the late Seventies when they became the most famous disco band on the planet thanks to the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack.
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