[sirens] [applause] good evening to all of you. [applause] [applause] i am beginning to recognize the fact that nothing is true. nothing. it is all down to perception. my immediate family is gone, but that is life. it s the same thing with every family, that somebody will be left in the end. and this time in life i have fantastic memories, but everybody s memory is different so they re just my memories, you know? i know that morris and robin would ve had a different kind of memory. i remember barry saying that when they were going to be really famous. and we said oh yeah, he s a big brother, you know? we kind of saw ourselves as triplets, rather than me and maurice being twins. where the same polls growing up, then it became impossible to see each other as normal brothers. my night christmas there was an acoustic guitar at the end of my bed, and robin and morris started to collaborate and producing with me. we started doing gigs as a teenage act. we we
well you can tell by the way i use my walk you may look the other way ah, ah, ah, ah staying alive how did you people get back here. come on, come on. get him out of here. thank you very much. good evening to all of you. living for my life everything a man could want to do i could never see tomorrow no one said a word about the sorrow how can you stop the rain from falling down how can you stop the sun from shining what makes the world go around mend my broken heart and let me [ cheers and applause ] i am beginning to recognize the fact that nothing is true. nothing. it s all down to perception. my immediate family is gone. but that s life. it s the same thing with every family, that someone will end up in the end. and this time in life, i have fantastic memories. but everybody s memory is different. so, they re just my memories, you know? i know that maw rhymaurice and robin would have had a different kind of memory
Brothers Barry, Maurice and Robin Gibb find early fame in the 1960s and go on to write over 1,000 songs, including 20 No. 1 hits. This film follows the group s.
who buys those records. getting on the road means that to us. we come face to face with people to whom our records mean a lot. to be sure, doing a tour is an enormous amount of work. the only thing that i know that is not right is that it doesn t actually say the bee gees it should say the bee gees spirits having fun. the tour was a complete sellout. the bee gees have not tour since 1976, and the tour was a promotion for the spirits having flown album, but it was celebrating saturday fever as well. 25,000 people are supposed to be here. we ve been here since 9:00 this morning. they are worth waiting in the rain for. it was huge. dodgers stadium, places like that. we used to dream of, this and then people in the audience like barbara streisand watching it and loving it. these are fantasies.
gees are looking for a drummer. are you interested? i went, yes, i think i m interested. yeah. i am interested. we needed to get more energized and don t rely so much on the ballads that we had been doing. we wanted to be a band so bad. and that was basically the birth of it. we had a great bass player, maurice. we had a great guitar player, alan. really the only thing we needed was a keyboard player. i thought lou. dennis called and said, look, you know, i m putting a band together with the bee gees. and i ve spoken to barry, and everybody s in agreement. are you interested? i said, no. no. i m having great fun. i m in a rock and roll band. queen was our support act. i m touring america and living the rock and roll life.