#BEE GEES DOCUMENTARY 2020 UK MOVIE#

The documentary includes incredible footage from a festival where a riot nearly breaks out because the whole band have been advertised but only Robin turns up as a solo act, along with chilling scenes from Disco Demolition Night: a racist, homophobic act of “book burning” for black music. The other contributors featured are well-suited to speak on specific aspects of the group’s expansive career, including Noel Gallagher’s discussion on performing with siblings and Chris Martin’s on receiving hatred for commercial success. What’s great about How Can You Mend a Broken Heart is that it presents the Bee Gees through their own words by incorporating new input from the trio’s living brother Barry and archival interviews with the late Robin and Maurice. It makes the case for the subjects as “pop chameleons” – never categorisable but always adaptable – as they weathered the British Invasion, the birth of the Miami Sound Machine, and the disco boom, followed by subsequent backlash that ushered in a zeitgeist of dross in the 1980s.

#BEE GEES DOCUMENTARY 2020 UK MOVIE#

This new documentary speaks very highly of the Bee Gees, charting the Gibb brothers’ Beatles-like beginnings to their later success as supreme songwriters for stars such as Diana Ross and Dolly Parton, via a little-known disco album called Saturday Night Fever.įrank Marshall’s (husband of LucasFilm’s president Kathleen Kennedy) movie is remarkably brisk, covering decades of musical ground in under two hours.

Bee gees documentary 2020 uk