BEE GEES DOCUMENTARY 2020 UK ARCHIVE

“I don’t know where they are now, but that’s how crazy it was.” But it wasn’t all plain sailing. “I had six Rolls Royces before I was 21,” says Maurice. “I mean, bonkers.”Ĭlick to load video Success brought material riches…and personal challenges But the management deal came as a surprise to Eric Clapton, who explains that he thought the agreement that he and Cream had with Stigwood was exclusive.

Maurice says the group went from being Beatles nuts to partying with them, in five months. He took them on, promoting them extensively in the British media and helping to set the scene for the striking “New York Mining Disaster 1941” to become their debut UK hit. “Robin and Maurice started to collaborate and sing with me, and we started doing gigs as a teenage act.” Robert Stigwood’s adoption of the Bee Gees surprised Eric ClaptonĪustralian entrepreneur Robert Stigwood embraced the eager trio early in 1967, when his NEMS management colleague Brian Epstein passed him their demo tape. “My ninth Christmas, there was an acoustic guitar at the end of my bed,” recalls Barry.

BEE GEES DOCUMENTARY 2020 UK ARCHIVE

The Gibb boys inherited some of their creative drive from their father, Hugh, himself a musician and described by Maurice in an archive interview in the film as “the most ambitious man, I think, in the Gibb clan.” The moment it all went up a notch came one festive season. The birth of the Bee Gees can be pinpointed at December 25, 1954

Here are ten lesser-known morsels that help to make up these engrossing tales of the brothers Gibb. It also contains new and often revealing interviews with Barry and with friends and admirers Eric Clapton, Mark Ronson, Noel Gallagher, Lulu, Nick Jonas, Chris Martin, and Justin Timberlake. The Polygram Entertainment presentation offers some fascinating archive material, with home movies, indelible hits, improbable haircuts, and the keepsakes of so many decades in the public eye.

Bee gees documentary 2020 uk