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2. “Keppel Road: The Life And Music of the Bee Gee” (VHS)

March 1997 saw Melvyn Bragg’s “The South Bank Show” air an hour special look at the life of the Bee Gees. In June 1997 a 90 minute version of that program was released as a home video. The show begins with Robin, Barry (on guitar) and Maurice (on keyboard) sitting in a circle at their Middle Ear Recording Studio singing “Still Waters”.

We get to travel with Robin, Maurice and Barry back to their childhood in Manchester. Here the brothers stand in the room of their Keppel Road home where they first sang in harmony. They visited Oswald Road School where Maurice remebers entrance where they would stand by the wall and sing to the other childern. They stand on a street corner and sing “Lollipop”. They walk through the alleyway that brought them to the Gaumount Theatre where they sang in public for the first time.

During interviews the brothers talk about thier influences, the families move to Australia, meeting Robert Stigwood, the disco craze, their move to Miami Beach and younger brother Andy.

We the boys sing “Jive Talkin”, “Tragedy”, “To Love Somebody”, “New York Mining Disaster 1941″, “I’ve Gotta Get A Message To You”, “I Surrender” and “I Could Not Love You More”.

We joing Robin, Maurice and Barry in the studio as they work on a new song “Just In Case”.

With interviews,  archive footage and music we are brought through the life of the Bee Gees.