What was it like to hear how other highly successful music artists feel about The Bee Gees? Were there things that most surprised you, from listening to how they talked about their music? It’s interesting to see how The Bee Gees have influenced so many other artists and so many current artists, like Justin Timberlake, Chris Martin, Nick Jonas and Noah Gallagher, who we see in the film. There are survivors out there, and there’s still a lot of great music to be made. He’s been doing it a long time, and he’s got the same band. He’s survived and transcended, all these decades. Another person who does that is Bruce Springsteen. They set the pace and have survived a long time, as well. When you look at how she controls what she does and what she’s saying, she’s amazing. There are a lot of artists today that wanna project who they are. Ed Sheeran is another singer/songwriter that has his own style. MARSHALL: Sure, Justin Timberlake is a perfect example, and he was influenced by them. How do you think they’re most underappreciated and what do you hope people get from seeing everything that you lay out in the film about their career?Īre there artists now that you hear, that don’t necessarily sound like The Bee Gees, but sound very much like their own thing and that know who they are, with that level of ease and comfort? One of the things that really struck me in watching this was just how effortlessly The Bee Gees moved between styles of music. That’s what comes out and you can feel it. When they’re sitting around creating those amazing songs, it’s part of that. The Bee Gees were able to survive five decades of changing styles and changing tastes, and adapt to it, but it is their passion. It’s the same for The Bee Gees, in that the songs they wrote, a lot of people wanted to hear. Steven Spielberg has an audience sensibility, where the movies that he likes to make, a lot of people wanna see. Who knows why it works, but it certainly does, in such a huge way. You’ve gotta go with your own passion, and the stories that you’d like to tell and the music that you’d like to create. If I had a formula, I would have been retired. MARSHALL: It’s what connects to the collective unconscious that’s there, at the time. That all came together in a way that you like to hear about a movie that’s successful – that people have ideas and instincts and follow their dreams.īecause you have been around the film business and the music business, do you see any similarities between what makes a great and hugely successful album and what makes a great and hugely successful movie? He had great taste and he was a great producer and manager. He was almost like a father figure to them. They didn’t just wanna go their own way, and I think that was really important. They were collaborative, but they also listened to the people around them. He was great manager, and they listened to him. Robert Stigwood was a big part of their success. Bill Oakes is still as amazed today as he was back then, when that cassette arrived and those five songs were on it, all hits. He knew that these guys would write great songs. But that’s what was great about Stigwood (a producer on Saturday Night Fever). MARSHALL: I probably wouldn’t have done it. When you set out to do this, what was the film that you thought you would be making and how different did it ultimately turn out to be, or is it pretty close to what you thought it would be? It’s not just one lyric repeated, over and over again. They tell a story, which is really interesting. MARSHALL: I think that’s the thing that goes unnoticed. I’m familiar with the music of The Bee Gees, but watching this documentary made me really listen to their lyrics in a way that I hadn’t really before, and it was so interesting to hear the songs in a new way and to really listen to what they were saying. When you look at the body of their work over five decades, you understand how important they are to pop music. To be honest, the people that I had talked to felt that they were lightweights when they’re really heavyweights. People know their music, but they don’t know much about them.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |