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
That palm tree doing the eric clapton pose. being in that house together, we were creative, and we were a family. i felt like that. it did make us close. i mean, you had to be. and we d all watch tv at night. the chemistry was very exciting. when you got up in the morning, you went to breakfast. you had a cup of tea. it was all very relaxed. it was strange, considering the amount of pressure that was really on the bee gees at that time. they were about to drop us. we had to adopt a new sound. we had to adopt a new attitude. so, the next step was we brought in martin to produce them. we d often work with other people, but they weren t producers. and this man was a literal producer. they had expressed how much they wanted to do american r&b kind of tough, and reef was
Ambitious man. we loved the beatles. ryan epstein, the man who built the beatles into a cult is now as well known as they are. i was doing ryan s mail most of the time. there was a lesson about a father of these three handsome, cute guys who were very proactive and had success. they came from australia, and they were rising from australia. i showed it to him. brian said, yeah, yeah, it s very nice. he said, well, give it to robert. he s australian, and he s good at these kind of things. somebody sent you a tape of these boys from australia? yes, they did. i heard it, and i was absolutely astounded. it was the most brilliant harmony singing and composing i had ever heard. i don t mind i will find
what shall i do what shall i do what shall i do what shall i do at the time, robert was my manager. signed to robert on what i thought was an exclusive deal. i was surprised other acts were coming in. robert, was who so eccentric i mean, absolutely bonkers he was australian, but he spoke like an english gentleman. and he would wear these really big, flashy ties. and he had a comb over. and it was all just, who is this guy? whoever this man was, he really believes in us. he was almost like a parent. you can t deny talent. and the talent was so obvious. somebody mentioned that the bee gees were in town. they were good friends of mine
Up. and we started with the drum loop. and then we did a bass line. and then a guitar part. never again would we rely as much on the liveness. we would always know we could construct the song and put the pieces together based on the original vision of the song and how we imagined it. i got back to the sessions, and there was just a buzz. when we did it, we thought, we re just doing this temporarily. when dennis comes back, we ll replace it with real drums. what happened was the feel was so amazing, we couldn t get away from it. i could tell from the first listen, i said, man, that is amazing. when you listen to the drum track on staying alive by itself, it s really this super-rugged, tough thing. it s like it s not pretty or pop like you