How the clickity-clack of their car driving across the Biscayne Bay bridge to Criteria Recording Studios in Miami inspired the opening sequence in Jive Talkin’. How Barry and Robin, at the request of their manger Robert Stigwood, originally wrote To Love Somebody for Otis Redding, but Redding died before he ever got to record it. The stories behind the songs are nothing short of spectacular. The musical brilliance of Barry and twin brothers Robin and Maurice also extended to youngest brother Andy, whose songs also soared to the top of the charts and who deservedly gets his own chapter in the documentary. They had this amazing impact on music and pop culture, so I’d like to introduce, and reintroduce, the real Bee Gees and five decades of musical brilliance.” “A lot of people just tie them to the disco period, and that’s not fair. “I think people don’t know what heavyweights they were,” says Marshall, who produced films including The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Seabiscuit. The documentary dives deep into the earlier pop melodies, their reinvention after the massive “Disco Sucks” backlash-a fascinating chapter of this story-and their ability to remain at the top of their game penning and producing songs for artists including Barbra Streisand ( Guilty) and Dolly Parton ( Islands in the Stream). and won the 1977 Grammy for album of the year, the trio was so much more than disco. ![]() While the group was omnipresent in the mid- to late-‘70s with the explosion of The Saturday Night Fever soundtrack, which has sold more than 16 million copies in the U.S. More than 1,000 of them, in fact, including 20 No. Viewers of all generations should be ready to immediately spiral down a Bees Gees rabbit hole, which frankly isn't a bad place to be as we wrap this most trying of years.Ībove all, it reminds us of the majestic ways this band of brothers could craft a song. ![]() What is front and center in the doc is the music, and what a magnificent opus it is.
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