![]() ![]() Marshall says that period of excess led the brothers to move to Miami, at the suggestion of Eric Clapton. ![]() (L to R) Maurice Gibb, Robin Gibb and Barry Gibb perform in 1979. “They kind of woke up one day and said, ‘This has got to stop if we're going to stay together.’” Inevitably the drugs and the alcohol started to take its toll,” Marshall says. They had everybody throwing things at them. “They were kind of on the front wave of global pop stardom. Marshall says despite jealousy between the brothers, they eventually became a cohesive unit while songwriting and developing ideas. “ let Robert Stigwood take the Bee Gees and develop them into the amazing musical group that they became, and he really became their sort of father figure,” Marshall says.īefore their breakthrough in the U.S., the Bee Gees had hits in the U.K., such as “Massachusetts” and “I’ve Gotta Get a Message To You.” Once they moved to England, businessman Brian Epstein discovered the trio and introduced them to Robert Stigwood, who later became the band’s manager. When the Gibbs first formed the band and lived in Brisbane, their father Hugh was their manager and helped create their first demos. Maurice and Robin have died since then, leaving just Barry, now 74 years old.īarry Gibb is the centerpiece of a new documentary about this family called “ The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend A Broken Heart,” out now on HBO Max.ĭirector Frank Marshall says he approached the documentary as an examination of brotherhood and family. With their fame and riches came drugs, jealousy, in-fighting, and the death of their younger brother Andy Gibb, who was 30 when he died from a drug-related heart attack. Robin and Maurice were twins and Barry was three years older, but they often said it felt like they were triplets. The Bee Gees - brothers Barry, Robin, and Maurice Gibb - became pop idols in the late 1960s and then mega stars in the 1970s.
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