The Story of the Bee Gees

Just watched this on Amazon Prime Video. It tells of Barry, Robin, and Maurice Gibb as they went from three pre-teen kids forced to sing live after the record they were going to mime to broke before they reached the theater they were going to perform in to having some success in Australia to going back to England with some of their first worldwide hits to Robin leaving for a solo career leaving Barry and Maurice performing as a duo to Robin coming back resulting in their first No. 1 hit with "How Can You Mend a Broken Heart" to then not having any more hits before they started doing some Disco songs including their blockbuster status as a result of the soundtrack of Saturday Night Fever to then writing for other artists like Barbra Streisand and Diana Ross... All that plus having younger brother Andy Gibb also becoming a success on his own and him occasionally joining with them like on "You Should Be Dancin'" as seen on film here. This 45 min. doc had quite a number of great Bee Gees songs over the years performed by them. I'll just now say seek this one out on Amazon Prime Video!

Must be a U.K. or Australian production; some of the songs that are featured (in their entirety) will be unfamiliar to U.S. viewers. Do we really need to see those tired old music videos that do little to tell their story? Where are the interviews with friends, family, etc. that knew them so well and could give us the straight dope? I liked the Bee Gees, right up through the disco era; never minded Barry's falsetto, but 'Tragedy' sounds ridiculous here. And didn't 'The Bee Gees' actually become 'The Barry Gibbs' in the late 70's? Sounds like only him on the vocals from that point on. Seems like a glossed-over 'Story' to me. Skip this. Just dust off the old records if you want to reminisce.

I love the Bee Gees and was hoping to learn much more about them. Well, I sure didn't learn much from "The Story of the Bee Gees"....mostly because it shows way too many musical clips and had little in the way of story about their lives. And, by the time it was over, I still learned little about them as people...how they got along, their marriages and children and more.

In addition to learning little the film seemed to have only fair sound and much of the footage seemed from home movie cameras...not so much of the band but of crowds and the like.

Overall, if you want to learn more about them and appreciate their legacy, read a Wikipedia article while listening to their tunes on Spotify.