From there we go back in time to when the Gibb brothers were just young lads growing up on the Isle of Man before the family relocates to Australia. We flash forward to "Miami 2019" as Barry Gibb, the only surviving member of the Gibb brothers, rues "My immediate family is gone". As the documentary opens, we hear the disco-charging "Stayin' Alive" over the opening titles and then go straight into a live concert from 1979 in Oakland.
"The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend A Broken Heart" (2020 release 111 min.) is a documentary about the famed pop trio.
And, yes, you do get quite a few scenes of their live performances from throughout their careers that you get a real feeling for the excitement of their fan base. If you want to know about the music of the Bee Gees and as much about their lives as is necessary to discuss that, then I think you will enjoy this documentary. If you are looking for some personal gossipy tell all piece, this is not that. At the end, Barry Gibb says that he thinks he and his brothers accomplished what they set out to do, and that he hopes that their music lives on. It really helps with the central thesis that the Bee Gees saw themselves first as song writers and as performers second. I particularly loved that much of the documentary was about the Bee Gees' creative process, both with writing and recording. This documentary follows their rise to fame in the 60s, even before the Beatles hit the scene ("That's what WE are trying to be!" says one of the brothers) through a short breakup to a return to recording when they think that maybe their time is past in the early 70s, then a relocation to Miami in 1975 and the origins of the "Miami sound" and everything that came after. And they never actually "disappeared" from music at all. I remembered their ballads from the 60s and early 70s when I was a kid and their disco music from when I was in college and the fact that they all seemed to suddenly disappear, and of course I remembered the tragedy of Andy Gibb, but the story is much more complex than that. Before this I had only cursory knowledge of the Bee Gees. Obviously missing his brothers badly, probably never anticipating being the last one standing since he is the oldest, but don't think this rockumentary is a downer because it is not. is what I think of when Barry Gibb is interviewed for this documentary in present day.
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