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How a New Doc Reclaims the Bee Gees’ Legacy
Director and producer of
How Can You Mend A Broken Heart discuss tackling the Australian trio’s saga and introducing their music to a whole new generation
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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.
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. “We said we wanted to reintroduce him to his audience, because time has passed,” Sinclair tells