Robin Gibb: Me and My Songs, a Tribute

# In the event of something happening to me

# There is something I would like you all to see

# It's just a photograph of someone that I knew

# Have you seen my wife, Mr Jones?

# Do you know what it's like on the outside?

# Don't go talking too loud, you'll cause a landslide, Mr Jones

# I keep straining my ears to hear a sound

# Maybe someone is digging underground

# Or have they given up and all gone home to bed?

# Thinking those who once existed must be dead

# Have you seen my wife, Mr Jones?

# Do you know what it's like on the outside?

# Don't go talking too loud, you'll cause a landslide

# Mr Jones

# In the event of something happening to me... #

'I've been writing songs all my life with my brothers.

'There is a kind of emotional development in a song

'that you have to really concentrate on.

'It's not just about the words, for instance.

'It's about harmonics and the emotional feeling.

'It is a sense of a song building and flowering

'and having an emotional attachment to the listener.'

# Don't go talking too loud, you'll cause a landslide... #

We were very influenced by American music, living in Australia.

You got more of it because there was more radio stations

playing 24-hour pop music on the air, like they were in America.

Our very early influences were actually in folk and R & B,

because... Or soul, I should say.

We arrived back in the UK in about February, 1967

having worked our way over on a ship. That's how poor we were.

It was a very exciting period, because the UK still ruled America

in a way that it dictated the trends

and everything was new and original. Nobody was copying each other.

And it was just exciting to be a part of this whole boom

that Britain was enjoying.

I would like to say that I'm very glad that the group and myself

came to England in February.

I'd just like to give a pound to someone who can stand up and explain

to me I Am The Walrus by the Beatles.

Tonight, Massachusetts from The Bee Gees.

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

# Feel I'm goin' back to Massachusetts

# Something's telling me I must go home

# And the lights all went down in Massachusetts

# The day I left her standing on her own

# Tried to hitch a ride to San Francisco

# Got to do the things I wanna do

# And the lights all went down in Massachusetts

# They brought me back to see my way with you

# Talk about my life in Massachusetts... #

'We arrived from Australia, and there were thousands and thousands

'and thousands of artists and groups

'queuing up for discovery

'and encouragement and support and wanting to do well.

'But of course, we arrived with this blind belief that we were

'going to cut through all that.

'We were songwriters, and in those days

'if you wrote your own songs, it was about merit.'

# And Massachusetts

# Is one place I have seen. #

Welcome back to My World Of Music, and again, the Bee Gees.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

# The preacher talked with me and he smiled

# Said come and walk with me Come and walk one more mile

# Now for once in your life you're alone

# But you ain't got a dime

# There's no time for the phone

# I just gotta get a message to you

# Hold on

# Hold on

# One more hour and my life will be through

# Hold on

# Hold on... #

'Harmonies, for us, were always a natural

'cos we started harmonising as kids.

'Cos we were three brothers, I think we had natural harmony,

'and everything we sang in a certain way, we'd just fall into it.

'We were never taught music

'and we were never taught to read music,

'and in a sense, still can't. And it's all in the head.

'And the harmonising was just completely between the three of us,

'and nobody really showed us how to do it.'

# Well, I laughed but that didn't hurt

# And it's only her love that keeps me wearing this dirt

# Now I'm crying but deep down inside

# Well, I did it to him

# Now it's my turn to die

# I just gotta get a message to you

# Hold on

# Hold on

We'd met Robert Stigwood and Brian Epstein, the manager of the Beatles

in a very short period of time as we were in the studio

making our first record.

For them, it was always the most important thing

to keep your eye on success in America.

As far as they were concerned, if you didn't have America,

it didn't matter how much success you had in this country, it wasn't going to work.

And so it was always essential that that was the ultimate goal.

# Good morning Mister Sunshine

# You brighten up my day

# Come sit beside me

# In your way

# I see you every morning

# Outside the restaurants

# The music plays so nonchalant... #

'We'd worked everywhere in the States and for months and months on end.

'And we were staying in Holiday Inns'

from Morehead, Kentucky to Chattanooga,

the Deep South, so Deep South we ended up in Mexico.

# Lonely days

# Lonely nights

# Where would I be without my woman?

# Lonely days

# Lonely nights

# Where would I be without my woman?

# Lonely days

# Lonely nights

# Where would I be without my woman?

# Lonely days

# Lonely nights

# Where would I be without my woman...? #

When you're starting out,

even in this country, you're doing Nottingham Boathouse

up to your hips and water and not being paid a penny, you know.

You don't always start out where you want to be. It's where you end up.

And you have to pay your dues.

It wasn't all, you know, fantastic at the beginning,

but you've got to start somewhere and you've got to get out there

and do your bit.

# It's just your jive talkin'

# Tellin' me lies

# Jive talkin'

# You wear a disguise

# Jive talkin'

# So misunderstood, yeah

# Jive talkin' You're really no good

# Oh, my child You'll never know

# Just what you mean to me

# Oh, my child You got so much

# You gonna take away my energy With all your

# Jive talkin'

# You tellin' me lies, yeah

# Good lovin' still gets in my eyes

# Nobody believe what you say

# It's just your jive talkin' that gets in the way

KEYBOARD SOLO

# Oh, my love You're so good... #

As composers, we always thought that, first and foremost,

we must explore all kinds of music.

Our love was always R & B, soul, erm...

bass music.

-# All your

-Jive talkin'

# You tellin' me lies, yeah

# Jive talkin'

# You wear a disguise

# Jive talkin'

# So misunderstood, yeah

# Jive talkin'

# You just ain't no good... #

'It was the grooves that really got us, and we wanted to put melody

'and harmonies into that groove,'

because it's very playable.

Even on British radio and American radio today,

you can play one of our records next to a current record

and it stands up because of the grooves.

And I think that's because we always were influenced very early on

in our compositions by black American music.

# Listen to the ground

# There is movement all around

# There is somethin' goin' down

# And I can feel it

# On the waves of the air

# There is dancin' out there

# If there's somethin' we can share

# We can steal it

# And that sweet city woman

# She moves through the light

# Controlling my mind and my soul

# When you reach out for me, yeah

# And the feelin' is right

# Night fever, night fever

# We know how to do it

# Gimme the night fever, night fever

# We know how to show it

# Here I am Prayin' for this moment to last

# Livin' on the music so fine, Born on the wind

# Makin' it mine

# Night fever, night fever

# We know how to do it

# Gimme the night fever, night fever

# We know how to show it... #

'We knew nothing about the word disco.

'Disco was not... Well, in Europe, disco was always short'

for discotheque, it always had been.

There was no music that we knew of that was called disco.

And what we were doing in recording was R & B.

Or blue-eyed souls, they would have called it.

# I know your eyes in the morning sun

# I feel you touch me in the pouring rain

# And the moment that you wander far from me

# I wanna feel you in my arms again

# And you come to me on a summer breeze

# Keep me warm in your love then you softly leave

# And it's me you need to show

# How deep your love

# How deep is your love How deep is your love... #

'We were actually writing our new studio album in a chateau,

'in the Honky Chateau in France, and Robert Stigwood called'

from Los Angeles and said, "We've got this very low-budget film

"for Paramount, tribal rights of a Saturday night based on an article

"in the New York Times by Nick Cohen. Have you got any new songs?"

And we said, "We haven't got time to stop and write new songs.

"We've got these songs written, Staying Alive, How Deep Is Your Love,

"Night Fever, If I Can't Have You, More Than A Woman, blah-blah-blah,

"Come over and have a listen."

So Paramount and Robert Stigwood, a week later,

came to the studio in France and they listened.

"Mm, yeah, OK, yeah." And that was the last we heard.

# Well, you can tell by the way I use my walk

# I'm a woman's man no time to talk

# Music loud and women warm

# I've been kicked around since I was born

# And now it's all right, it's OK

# And you may look the other way

# We can try to understand

# The New York Times' effect on man

# Whether you're a brother or whether you're a mother

# You're stayin' alive, stayin' alive

# Feel the city breakin' and everybody shakin'

# Stayin' alive, stayin' alive

# Ah, ha, ha, ha, stayin' alive stayin' alive

# Ah, ha, ha, ha

# Stayin' alive...#

Nine months later, the film opened in Los Angeles and exploded.

John Travolta in Saturday Night Fever.

# Well, you can tell by the way I use my walk

# I'm a woman's man no time to talk

# Music loud and women warm

# I've been kicked around since I was born

# And now it's all right, that's OK

# And you may look the other way...#

I don't think anybody has any idea what it was like when Fever was out.

You couldn't really control it. It was staggering.

It was number one for six months on Billboard, the album,

it was just incredible.

Nothing like it had ever occurred before that.

Nobody actually said this is going to be

the biggest selling soundtrack album in history and it still is.

Nobody said it was going to be, you know,

it was going to sell 50 million albums, it's ridiculous.

John Lennon said in a Playboy interview,

a month before he died, in an exclusive interview,

he said he wished he could have had a Saturday Night Fever in his career.

# Baby, oh no

# I've been stuck here I've been searchin' so long

# Baby, don't go

# Millions of people were wrong

# In the dark of the cold light of day

# I will still be here

# If my heart and my soul had their way

# You would still be here

# Another lonely night in New York

# And I'm just a soul in the heart of the city

# Just another lonely night in New York...#

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

# I'm in the middle of a chain reaction

# You give me all the after midnight action

# I wanna get you where I can let you make all that love to me... #

British composers, and I think this is very special to British composers,

are not afraid to go into no-go areas, particularly in America.

Chain Reaction - Diana Ross, Barbra Streisand - Woman In Love...

# I am a woman in love

# And I'd do anything to get you into my world

# And hold you within...#

Emotion, which was recorded by Beyonce in this century.

# In the words of a broken heart it's just emotions

# Taking me over

# Caught up in sorrow

# Lost in this song

# But if you don't come back come home to me, darling

# Don't you know there's nobody left in this world

To hold me tight... #

Islands in the stream which I wrote for Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers, it's a country song,

but very few people, even in America can get into

the Nashville Mafia which is where, if you want to write a country act,

it's very hard. They have their own composers.

# Islands in the stream

# That is what we are

# No one in between

# How can we be wrong?

# Sail away with me

# To another world

# And we rely on each other, ah-ah

# From one lover to another, ah-ah...#

We just happened by chance to write this song

and record Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers, and it's the most

successful country song in America and the world right now.

# Everything is nothing if you got no one

# And you just walk in tonight...#

Yet written by guys who weren't in Nashville.

That's a rarity but we weren't afraid to go there, to go into that area.

# Islands in the stream

# That is what we are

# No one in between

# How can we be wrong?

# Sail away with me

# To another world

# And we rely on each other, ah-ah

# From one lover to another, ah-ah

# Whoa, won't you sing?

# Tell me, sail away, sail away with me...#

Yay, Kenny!

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

We welcome back one of the legendary pop groups of the '70s.

I remember my granny dandling me on her knee...

LAUGHTER

..as she hummed early hits like Massachusetts, Words,

Gotta Get A Message To You

and who can forget Saturday Night Fever, Stayin' Alive, Jive Talkin'?

They are back to win your hearts and your minds with a new single.

You Win Again, ladies and gentlemen, welcome, the Bee Gees!

APPLAUSE

# I couldn't figure why

# You couldn't give me what everybody needs

# I shouldn't let you kick me when I'm down

# My baby

# I find out everybody knows that

# You've been using me

# I'm surprised you

# Let me stay around you

# One day I'm gonna lift the cover and look inside your heart

# We gotta level before we go

# And tear this love apart

# There's no fight you can't fight

# This battle of love with me

# You win again

# So little time

# We do nothing but compete

# There's no life on earth

# No other could see me through

# You win again

# Some never try

# But if anybody can, we can

# And I'll be, I'll be

# Following you

# Oh, girl...#

You'd just go from one project to the next. Some work better than others.

You would never think about whether you were going to have success

or more success.

You just enjoy what you're doing and get on and it is your life.

# Oh, girl I've known you very well

# I've seen you growing everyday

# I never really looked before

# But now you take my breath away

# Suddenly you're in my life

# Part of everything I do

# You got me working day and night

# Just trying to keep a hold on you

# Here in your arms I found my paradise

# My only chance for happiness

# And if I lose you now I think I would die

# Oh say you'll always be my baby

# We can make it shine

# We can take forever just a minute at a time

# More than a woman

# More than a woman to me...#

When you've got this huge catalogue,

there are very few acts which have created these catalogues.

You've got the Beatles, you've got Abba, Elton and so on.

We've had, recorded, produced, are responsible for 22 US number ones.

It's a record we are proud of.

# More than a woman

# More than a woman to me.

# More than a woman...#

We've become a part of music history when you can sit back and say,

you know, we've got that.

You can't take it away, it's there.

# More than a woman.#

CHEERING

It's still on the radio today and that is what makes me proud,

They are timeless and they last and they are still influencing people.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

# There's a light

# A certain kind of light

# That never shone on me

# I want my life to be

# Lived with you

# Lived with you

# There's a way

# Everybody said

# To do each and every little thing

# But what does it bring

# If I ain't got you

# Ain't got you, baby

# You don't know what it's like

# Baby, you don't know what it's like

# To love somebody

# To love somebody

# The way I love you

# In my brain

# I see your face again

# I know my frame of mind

# You ain't got to be so blind

# And I'm blind, so so very blind

# I'm a man

# Can't you see what I am

# I live and I breathe for you

# But what good does it do

# If I ain't got you, ain't got you

# Baby, you don't know what it's like

# Baby, you don't know what it's like

# To love somebody

# To love somebody

# The way I love you

# No doubt it's true

# Baby, you don't know what it's like

# Baby, you don't know what it's like

# To love somebody

# To love somebody

# The way I love you...#

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Thank you! I love you!

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