Bee Gees Special TOTP2

We're the Bee Gees - welcome to TOTP2.

Hi, this is Steve Wright. This is the TOTP2 Bee Gees Special -

all songs introduced by Barry, Maurice and Robin.

New performances and classic archive.

TOTP2 - a Bee Gees Special!

# It's just your jive talkin'

# You're telling me lies, yeah

# Jive talkin'

# You wear a disguise

# Jive talkin'

# So misunderstood

# Jive talkin'

# You really no good

# Oh, my child

# You'll never know

# Just what you mean to me

# Oh, my child

# You got so much

# You're gonna take away my energy

# With all your jive talkin'

# You're telling me lies, yeah

# Good lovin'

# Still gets in my eyes

# Nobody believes what you say

# It's just your jive talkin'

# That gets in the way

# Baba-daba-dab, baba-daba-dab

# Baba-daba-dab, baba-daba-dab

# Baba-daba-dab, baba-daba-dab

# Baba-daba-dab, baba-daba-dab

# Oh, my love

# You're so good

# Treating me so cruel

# There you go with your fancy lies

# Leavin' me lookin' like a dumbstruck fool

# With all your jive talkin'

# You're telling me lies, yeah

# Jive talkin'

# You wear a disguise

# Jive talkin'

# So misunderstood, yeah

# Jive talkin'

# You just ain't no good

# Love talkin'

# Is all very fine, yeah

# Jive talkin'

# Just isn't a crime

# And if there's somebody

# You'll love till you die

# Then all that jive talkin'

# Just gets in your eye

# Baba-daba-dab, baba-daba-dab

# Baba-daba-dab, baba-daba-dab

# Baba-daba-dab, baba-daba-dab

# Baba-daba-dab, baba-daba-dab... #

CHEERING

Come on!

# Jive talkin'

# You're telling me lies, yeah

# Good lovin'

# Still gets in my eyes

# Nobody believes what you say

# It's just your jive talkin'

# That gets in the way

# L-L-L-Love talkin'

# Is all very fine, yeah

# Jive talkin'

# Just isn't a crime

# And if there's somebody

# You'll love till you die

# Then all that jive talkin'

# Just gets in your eye, yeah, yeah

# Oh, jive talkin'

# Jive talkin'

# Jive talkin', yeah

# Jive talkin'

# Huh, huh, huh

# Jive talkin'

# Huh, huh, huh

# Jive talkin', all right, all right

# Jive talkin', yeah. #

This Is Where I Came In is the title of our new album and single.

It reflects our feelings about five or six decades of music

and how that's influenced us as children and as we are now.

It's a definitive album for us - each person gets to record and write something of their own.

So it's a mixed bag.

A mixed bag, but it was a different avenue for us, an experiment, and we like it.

# I've seen the story

# I've read it over once or twice

# I said that you say

# A little bit of bad advice

# I've been in trouble

# It's happened to me all of my life

# I've lied and you lie

# And who would get the sharpest knife

# You know I shouldn't be somebody like that

# I'm not the kind of man to throw his hat into the ring and

# Go down without following through

# The day turns into night

# Go down following through

# The day turns into night

# Ohhh, ohhh, ohhh Ohhh, ohhh, ohhh

# Ohhh, ohhh, ohhh

# This is just where I came in

# Hope rides on

# But I'll go anywhere

# Yes, I'll go anywhere with you

# Time has gone

# But I'll go anywhere

# Yes, I'll go anywhere with you

# This is the danger zone

# This is where I came in

# They know not what they do

# Forgive them all their sins

# They know they cannot take away

# What you have given me

# Ohhh, ohhh, ohhh

# Ohhh, ohhh, ohhh

# Ohhh, ohhh, ohhh

# This is just where I came in

# Fade into colour

# Colour into black and white

# Under the bedclothes

# Everything will be all right

# I know that you know

# Nothing ever stays the same

# Said so, I said so

# The love will never speak its name

# Never gonna find somebody like you

# Beauty with a brain and a body too

# I could never make a move on a woman that leads me on

# She's got a little bit of something for everyone

# It's a little too late and the wolf is on the run

# Hope rides on

# But I'll go anywhere

# Yes, I'll go anywhere with you

# Time has gone

# But I'll go anywhere

# Yes, I'll go anywhere with you

# I always told myself

# I would regret this day

# That I would fall apart

# And watch you walk away

# That you would cry out loud

# And I would stand aside

# Ohhh, ohhh, ohhh

# Ohhh, ohhh, ohhh

# Ohhh, ohhh, ohhh

# This is just where I came in

# Ohhh, ohhh, ohhh

# Ohhh, ohhh, ohhh

# Ohhh, ohhh, ohhh

# This is just where I came in

# Ohhh, ohhh, ohhh

# Ohhh, ohhh, ohhh

# Ohhh, ohhh, ohhh

# This is just where I came in. #

To Love Somebody was written for Otis Redding, who said, "What?!"

-Which album was that? First one?

-Bee Gees 1st, yeah.

On our first album. It was started in New York and finished in London.

And not a moment too soon!

# 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 say

# To do each and every little thing

# But what good 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

# Mmm, 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

# Cos 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. #

We wrote Sacred Trust for the Backstreet Boys. They said, "What?!"

No! They loved it, but people that write for them stopped them... Someone stopped them from doing it.

So we decided to do it ourselves. Strangely enough, nobody stopped us!

# I meant to fight it to the finish but you made me forget

# And though it's possible I'm dreaming, don't wake yet

# You know I love you I can't see the day for night

# You know I twist around and turn around and then I give in

# You end in control of me It's really a sin

# Don't know what you're doing to me

# But I know it's a cri-i-ime

# And maybe I can't last another night

# And every mornin' is eternity

# And from the depth of my soul

# I can't let another day go by

# Follow my heart right up to the end

# As far as the eye can see

# Faithful and true

# Living up to your sacred trust in me

# Never give up to somebody else

# I know where my heart should be

# I'm faithful and true

# I'm living up to

# Your sacred trust in me

# Your sacred trust in me

# Take me and you make me do what you please

# I stumble and I tremble and I'm weak at the knees

# The vision that lies before me is not reality

# I tell you I can't wait another night

# For every secret that you saw with me

# And you and I get to know

# That it's real, that it's real

# I follow my heart

# It leads me to you

# You know that my love should be

# And you can be sure I'm doing it for

# Your sacred trust in me I will...

# Never give up to somebody else

# Cos you know where my heart should be

# I'm faithful and true

# I'm living up to your sacred trust in me

# Your sacred trust...

# In me

# I follow my heart

# And it leads me to you

# I know that my love should be

# You can be sure

# I knew it before

# Your sacred trust in me I will...

# Never give up to somebody else

# There's nowhere my heart should be

# I'm faithful and true

# And living up to...

# Your sacred trust in me

# Your sacred trust-t-t. #

You're watching the Bee Gees on TOTP2.

How Deep Is Your Love? was our ballad for Saturday Night Fever.

It wasn't written for the film - no songs were. It was all an accident,

including the success of the film, we believe was an accident.

No-one intended for it to do what it did. It's about how deep your love is.

-It's a love song, not a disco song.

-It's an R and B ballad.

Somebody said Destiny's Child have done Emotion.

They called that a disco song...

-It's strange how they can call ballads disco songs.

-We take umbrage.

-Umbrage Wells!

-Umbrage Wells. Yes, these are ballads...

These are ordinary ballads - soul ballads.

-It was R and B in those days. It's always been an R and B ballad.

-The great thing's the harmonies.

# 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 and then you softly leave

# And it's me you need to show

-# How deep is your love

-Is your love

# How deep is your love

# I really need to learn

# Cos we're living in a world of fools

# Breaking us down

# When they all should let us be

# We belong to you and me

# I believe in you

# You know the door to my very soul

# You're the light in my deepest, darkest hour

# You're my saviour when I fall

# And you may not think I care for you

# When you know down inside

# That I really do

# And it's me you need to show

# How deep is your love

# Is your love How deep is your love

# I really need to learn

# Cos we're living in a world of fools

# Breaking us down

# When they all should let us be

# We belong to you and me

# La, la-la, la, la, la-la

# Na, na-na, na, na-na, na, na, na

# Na, na-na, na, na-na, na, na-na, na, na, na

# La, la-la, la, la, la, la-la, la

# And you come to me on a summer breeze

# Keep me warm in your love and then you softly leave

# And it's me you need to show

# How deep is your love

# Is your love How deep is your love

# Ahhhh

# I really need to learn I really need to learn

# Cos we're living in a world of fools

# Breaking us down

# When they all should let us be

# We belong to you and me

# La, la, la, la-la

# Ahhhhh

-# How deep is your love, how deep is your love

-Ahhhhhh

# I really need to learn

# Cos we're livin' in a world of fools

# Breakin' us down

# When they all should let us be

# We belong to you and me

# La, la, la-la, la... #

With Wedding Day, we tried to decide between being subtle or obvious, and chose obvious.

-Get married?

-Yeah.

-Yeah.

Yeah, it's just a very obvious song, a very traditional song, and we went to the extreme.

-We wanted to write the ultimate romance... What is it?

-In your face?

-Yeah(!)

..ceremonial song. What people might catch on to and may play at their wedding.

We think it's romantic and reminds us of our wives... Things like that.

# People think they've reached what we came here for

# Take each other, walk through the open door

# For the first time that I saw you to the way you look tonight

# I was shaken by your spirit

# I was blinded by your light

# And the world I used to see is gone without a trace

# Replace your your eyes and the smile upon your face

# And I will not turn away

# Cos you might disappear

# I was haunted by your heart and I felt that you were here

# And funny when the time has shrunk, When lightning strikes

# You're not alone

# Baby, I would pray for you, my whole life through

# To-o-o-day

# For we'll be together

# Husband and wife

# Now and for ever

# The rest of our lives

# Well, take me to heaven

# Take me tonight

# There is nothing words can say

# On this our wedding day

# Oh, now is the hour, Now is the sowing of the seed

# I will take tomorrow, I will lay it at your feet

# And the two of us escape from the sadness of the world

# From the thunder and the darkness, from the hunger and the hurt

# You know I will remember when my mission bell

# It rings your name

# And baby there will never be

# A memory, like you-u-u

-# We will...

-Be together

# Husband and wife

# Lovers for ever

# Lovers for life

# Oh, oh, take me to heaven

# Take me tonight

# There is nothing words can say

# On this our wedding day

# This is my pledge to you

# I will follow through, to the end

# And we will find another place

# To be home again

# Tonight, I'm gonna find true love

# True love

# And we'll be together

# Husband and wife

# Now and for ever

# Lovers for life

-# Oh, take me to heaven

-Ahhh-ahhhh

-# Take me tonight

-Ahhh-ahhh

# There is nothing words can say

# On this our wedding day

# On this our wedding

# Da-a-a-a-a-ay. #

It's an unusual song, it doesn't really have its influences in anything, really

except that the melody was heard over the droning of a Viscount engine over Essen, Germany.

You can hear melodies in the engine. I don't know if you know that(!)

We heard the melody in the engines.

-When you took those drugs!

-And you picked up on it!

-Out of your box.

-No, no, no!

And it was a moment of inspiration.

So the pilot landed the plane,

-and we drove to the...

-IBC?

-No, not the IBC, we were in Essen.

It's 1,000 miles from IBC.

-To the hotel...

-No wonder it took so long to get there!

-..and finished I Started A Joke.

# I started a joke

# Which started the whole world laughing

# Oh, if I'd only seen

# That the joke was on me

# Oh, no

# I started to cry

# Which started the whole world laughing

# Oh, if I'd only seen

# That the joke was on me

# I-I-I looked at the skies

# Running my hands over my eyes

# And I fell out of bed

# Hurting my head

# From things that I'd said

# Till I finally died

# Which started the whole world living

# Oh, if I'd only seen

# That the joke was on me

# I looked at the skies

# Running my hands over my eyes

# And I fell out of bed

# Hurting my head

# From things that I'd said

# Till I finally died

# Which started the whole world living

# Oh, if I'd only seen

# That the joke was on me

# Oh-oh, no

# That the joke was on me-e-e-e, me-e-e-e

# O-o-o-h, o-oh, o-oh, please

# No, no, no. #

WILD CHEERING AND SHOUTING

Man In The Middle is one of my tracks.

-We ran off and did two to three...

-We walked.

-I didn't go anywhere(!)

To approach this album we tried to do it differently, so we each went off and did two to three tracks.

And we did the rest together.

So this the first track I cut,

-and I enjoyed it cos I'm doing the backing, and I'm jamming, and...

-Self expression.

-Self expression.

-It could be the middle of a romance, the middle of anything really...

-We know.

-We know what it's about.

But it was my way of self expression, and having fun.

# I've got a plan that can never go wrong

# You took advantage and the damage's done

# They don't come back to me, baby

# It all comes back to me

# I played the fool and I went off the track

# When I think of what it cost when the die was cast

# You know I had to be crazy

# You know I had to be

# I've been tellin' lies

# And you forgive me, but my heart still cries

# And you can understand

# I'm just the man in the middle of a complicated plan

# No-one to show me the signs

# I'm just a creature of habit in a complicated world

# Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide

# I know I let you down in so many ways

# I know that sorry doesn't tell you what you need me to say

# But I would die for you, baby

# Yes, I would die for you

# I've been in disguise

# You forgive me and I'll love will rise

# You can understand I'm just a man in the middle of a complicated plan

# No-one to show the light

# I guess I'm weary for battle but I've just began to fight

# Nowhere to run to, nowhere to hide

# I'm just a man in the middle of a complicated plan

# No-one to show me the light

# I guess I'm weary for battle but I've just began to fight

# Nowhere to run to, nowhere to hide

-# I'm just the man in the middle

-Woo-woo-woo

-# The only man in the middle

-Woo-woo-woo

# A fool of a man in the middle

# Woo-woo-woo

# Nowhere to run to, nowhere to hide

-# I'm just the man in the middle

-Woo-woo-woo

-# The only man in the middle

-Woo-woo-woo

-# The stupid man in the middle

-Woo-woo-woo

# Nowhere to run to, nowhere to hide. #

APPLAUSE

Now more from Barry, Maurice and Robin - The Bee Gees.

The song was influenced by the name of the state.

It was written on a boat in New York harbour.

We wanted something with an unusual title.

That's how it was born - our first number one.

-We were going to call it Boat In New York Harbour.

-Massachusetts seemed to roll off the tongue.

It was also our flower power period. It was like "if you're going to San Francisco" but the opposite.

We were going to call it Rhode Island but couldn't get our tongue round the "R"s.

# Feel I'm goin' back to Massachusetts

# Something's telling me I must go home

# And the lights all went out in Massachusetts

# The day I left her standing on her own

# Tried to hitch a ride to San Francisco

# Gotta do the things I wanna do

# And the lights all went out in Massachusetts

# The day I left her standing on her own

# Talk about the life in Massachusetts

# Speak about the people I have seen

# And the lights all went out in Massachusetts

# And Massachusetts is one place I have seen

# I will remember Massachusetts

# I will remember Massachusetts

# I will remember Massachusetts

# I will remember Massachusetts. #

She Keeps On Coming we recorded like we did in the late '60s.

It was very basic. It was a rocker.

-That was a John Lennon guitar, wasn't it?

-Yes.

It was another guitar of John's.

It was the sound again - something caught our imagination.

We wanted something fun to rock to.

-Yeah.

-She Keeps On Coming was appropriate.

# We've forged together

# I don't know how we have

# But then I can't explain it

# I wasn't thinking of her

# But Mother Nature

# She put us both together

# And then she touched us

# And we ran, ran, ran, like

# So I said I love her

# She told me that don't matter

# I tried to kiss her

# And every dream is shattered

# Don't really want it

# Except the morning after

# Look in the mirror like a rabbit in the headlights

# She keeps on coming back for more

# She keeps on coming back for more

# She keeps on coming back for more

# Champagne and roses

# Breakfast in bed

# Fighting each other

# I'm out of my head

# She keeps on coming back for more

# She keeps on coming back for more

# Woah-woah

# Woah-woah

# Woah-woah

# Woah-woah

# Woah-woah

# Woah-woah

# Woah-woah

# Woah-woah

# She ain't no Cleopatra

# I ain't Julius Caesar

# I ain't no Casanova

# She ain't no Mona Lisa

# She'd charm a nation

# She'd stare you out to die

# We were flying when she ran, ran, ran, like

# I ain't no Valentino

# She ain't no Greta Garbo

# No Aphrodite

# I'll never be Apollo

# But when we come together

# There's no-one else can follow

# There's no tomorrow when we ran, ran, ran, like

# She keeps on coming back for more

# She keeps on coming back for more

# She keeps on knocking at the door

# Drunk with desire

# Erotic delights

# Sooner or later

# She'll kiss you good night

# She keeps on coming back for more

# She keeps on coming back for more

# Woah-woah

# Woah-woah

# Woah-woah

# Woah-woah

# Woah-woah

# Woah-woah

# Woah-woah

# Woah-woah

-# Dream time

-I've got love

# Always here

# Oh, my heart goes right under

-# She's gone

-Disappeared

# She keeps on coming back for more

# She keeps on coming back for more

# She keeps on coming back for more

# Woah-woah

# Woah-woah. #

-You Win Again was '85?

-'87.

-'87.

I'm always two years out!

-Story of your life.

-Always playing catch-up.

-It is.

-'87...

-Pleasantly surprised when you find out it's two years later!

I surpassed myself once, then went back and got myself!

You Win Again was the launch of our new digital studio.

We did it in Miami. We'd be doing a lot of artists up to that time.

-"Doing"?

-Recording.

-Please be clear.

-I'm sorry.

We'd just finished Chain Reaction with Diana Ross.

-You can't be "doing" Diana Ross. You don't want to go there.

-No.

-You were doing a diva!

-Morris is a diva.

-Morris is a diva.

-I'm a diva.

You Win Again had all the different sounds. We had a new record company.

A lot of changes were going on. You Win Again was up and experimental.

-With the drums.

-The stomp sound.

-Which nobody wanted.

When it was a hit, everyone said, "I knew that would work." When it's a success, everyone likes it.

Before it is, nobody wants to do it.

-That was a great pop record.

-Success has long coat tails.

-It has many managers.

-Yeah, maybe that's true.

# 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

-I'll be

-I'll be

# Following you

# Oh, girl

# Oh, baby

# Oh, baby

# I shake you from now on

# I'm gonna break down your defences one by one

# I'm gonna hit you from all sides

# Lay your fortress open wide

# Nobody stops this body from taking you

# You better beware

# I swear I'm gonna be there one day when you fall

# I could never let you cast aside

# The greatest love of all

# 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

-I'll be

-I'll be

# Following you

# Oh, girl

Let me here you CHEERING

# 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

-I'll be

-I'll be

# Following you. #

Thank you! Thank you for coming.

We'll see you soon.