BEE GEES _ Norwegian Interview 1993

is [Music] is [Music] we have just seen paying the price of love and telling you about all the effects it was more like a movie for me we wanted something this time that was going to be a little more groundbreaking we'd never really been in the video arena we'd never really competed at that at that level we're usually just records and this time around we wanted to do something that was visually interesting as well and eye candy and expensive expenses yes the title paying the price of love yeah but after being in the pub business now for 30 years what is paying the price of success we paid we've paid [Laughter] our dues there is a certain price you pay you pay you sacrifice uh although i mean there are certain sacrifices that other people would interpret as being sacrifices that we wouldn't uh there's a certain personal uh side of your life that sacrificed it my my first marriage was probably uh ruined by it but uh but i had two great kids from it so that was that was it was good there's downsides uh to all their long long careers we lost our brother andy five years ago at 30 years old it's a price more so that he really paid because of uh the confidence that he had in his life but also it's a price we pay because it's um because it was part and parcel of our life too and we lost our father last year uh probably more due to the fact of what happened to andy five years earlier so it's it's all all connected there are other ups and downs in everybody's lives and i suppose uh when you have a career like ours you can have more than there's a feeling that it comes with it [Applause] [Music] every time [Music] [Applause] [Music] i don't think we're the kind of group that people would want to know too many too many spicy things about i think we're sort of on the fringe of that but i i know what you mean by saying that uh that we are public domain and people will tend to write about you when you do things normal things i think it's also because of what we do i mean because the business we're in it goes into territory no matter what you do you can always do something really good but people like to read bad stuff they don't like to read good stuff about you they always like to read the bad so that sells more papers so you will make the so-called tabloids or um in america it's called the inquirer there's these kind of papers that are out there and they sell more than any other newspaper because it's pure made-up of gossip a lot of it's totally untrue but people like to read it you know just for that moment while they're reading it try to believe it but it's not necessarily true so it comes with the territory i don't think you see much of us in gossip columns anyway we're not that type of act you know there's no there's no scandals or uh or anything you would speak of that exists in our lives privately [Music] no no okay if you insist thank you it's only awesome children and family values are the most important thing for you now is that the reason why we've chosen a subject like the children of bosnia and sing for them and help them and raise money well we dedicated our song blue island we wrote we wrote that for the children of yugoslavia um because we'd heard the stories about the spiritualists who upon contacting the other side heard it described as a blue island and we wanted to write a song about the fact that heaven might indeed be a blue island and uh it's our message to the children of yugoslavia or former yugoslavia uh that um that if that that at the end of everything else even worse comes to worst we all meet together on a blue island at some time and it's it's a happy thought and a positive thought and at some point we'd like to do a concert for the children of yugoslavia it's an optimistic song it's a optimism yeah but but the question today is how do you help the children of yugoslavia because you can't get in there to help them there should be some system set up where we can get all the children out let people fight but get the children out of there first please put them someplace safe so they'll be okay until it's all over with you know but you see all we can do is really make people aware of it we can't do anything physically it's not a fact of raising money i think money that's that's an old adage about well you can feed and clothe the ones that have escaped or at least but you can't get in yeah and if to help the people already in there getting money in there is worthless it doesn't mean it you never really know if it's where it's going anyway [Music] down [Music] do you remember july or all six to seven you know slow yes yes do you remember oslo yeah yes we do yes we do we um yeah we were up on a mountain at a recording at a studio doing a television show and you uh performed the close another door we also did massachusetts i think with a fishnet background it was like a like a fishing boat like fishing that is many years [Music] it's [Music] listen to my eyes clouds another dog [Music] when i was young i used to say [Music] the life i had was very sad it all went down [Music] [Applause] [Music] listen to my eyes [Music] won't you run away [Music] won't you run away [Music] but i've been told at this time [Music] foreign ah [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] you haven't been in norway since that's 26 years supposed to go on the last two of unfortunately the promoter of the promotion that was going on in scandinavian countries particularly wasn't very good so uh the next time we toured would definitely but i i i heard it was just simply a matter that we weren't selling tickets and that happens you know um by the promotion yeah but it might be the same but this time around mostly not me i don't know the promotion is there it wasn't there for us to come but we should be definitely going had we been had it been handled properly it might have been better but uh but we're coming this time no matter what so you know we're we're coming to play the warframes are noticeable [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] do you consider melbourne or australia as your home audience or is that in britain or in the states we're sort of we're we're british yeah first off but we were brought up in australia so it's it's a second home to us and we do have an affinity with the australian audiences um a lot of our um early years performing was was all done in australia so a lot of our a lot of our groundwork um learning about our craft was done in australia uh but we've also spent many years in america so we're sort of multicultural we're not we're not um based in any particular area but we're british born and uh and damn it british it's very hard i mean we like australia but we don't it's very it's a very long way to go and we don't get down there too much flight time very long uh we're going to see uh well bgs goes unplugged in the medley and maurice would you describe your brothers during work time on stage on stage actually it's once again we we have a lot of fun we don't um uh go out seriously uh we we all have a great eye contact on stage we all know what's going on um roman can be a bit moody which is rob uh but pensive uh but it's thoughtful yeah and um we're also mad perfectionists you know it's like on stage if the balance isn't right on the monitors and things like that it's like it gets a little awkward but uh other than that i think uh going on stage as as in making records as in writing the songs we all have the same kind of chemistry than that mixes so on stage it's the same thing the only difference is you're seeing the people who put you up there which is it's a great way of saying thank you and that's that's a wonderful experience as well so the three of us together all have the same kind of thoughts i do notice sometimes when uh barry used to have terrible back pain on stage and he covered it really well but i could see an eye contact where you go oh god i'm in agony but it still carried on with the show but now you know he's taken care of he just turns his back on the audience what i'm saying is i noticed that his dedication is not to let the show down because of the pain he was going through we carry him up in a bucket [Music] it rains every day i think a lot of times the artist can dictate what what the people want and certain certain uh respect radio does as well the i think to some degree that the public are actually starved of the kind of things they really want i'm not given what they want sometimes artists have to push forward and give and show and and come up with the with the actual uh product that people are actually demanding my movies are being force-fed to people now and and music is force-fed uh so the audience doesn't really have a choice about what they hear what they see as a movie or what they listen to as music so um we're not on that bandwagon that we're just making this album was just for us we're making this album out of fun out of what we like we're getting a very good reaction to the album by radio and the media but what we feel today is that a lot of you and the reason we're probably getting a great reaction from radio especially the initial reaction to radio in the uk has been fantastic and i think one of the reasons the reaction is there is because a lot of the there's a lot of the sales and singles in albums right now are very very low indeed and i think this demonstrates that people are tired of buying the stable diet of all wrap and heavy metal that's fine i like heavy metal i like and i like rap but it's too one-dimensional you can't just expect the kids and the public just to want one kind of music all the time and pop music was never that way popular music was never that way it was always a cauldron of different cultures into one that was the whole foundations of popular music and i think people are missing that um [Applause] [Music] you [Music] [Applause] [Music] you used to sing wish you were here in memory of your deceased brother andy and in this concert you have dedicated how deep is your love to him mm-hmm why is this change of tune well on the last concert we couldn't sing wish you were here live it was very hard it wasn't good i don't mean that we couldn't you know sing it properly it was just very emotional to sing and it was upsetting uh how deep is your love wasn't sir because wish you were here was was written for andy so when we sang it on stage a couple of times it was really hard to sing it because of the emotions involved and it sort of upset us a lot for the rest of the show if you like but it was just sort of upsetting to sing it and it was even hard to do the vocals on the record and the actual track itself because it took us a while before we actually started singing it because of the emotions and how deep is your love was not especially written for andy but it meant that his love was very important to us so that's why we dedicated that song because it was a lot easier to sing because when we were singing wish you were here all you would think what we could think about was that terrible day when we found out that andy has to work [Music] [Music] saturday night fever andy was to make one more album himself and we were to make one more album and then we were to join forces um but it never came to be because of what happened so it's a regret it's one of our regrets and there are numerous regrets you know the things you things you always want to say to somebody and you don't say and now we wish we'd set so you know you have to go through all those things too guilt anger you blame yourself you blame um you blame show business you blame hollywood for what happened to andy but then again you have to come to terms with the fact that we all run our lives individually the way we see fit and andy had a lot of problems and uh and it's just the way things go and maybe it was meant to be is [Music] breaking us down when they all shall let us be we belong to you and me [Applause] [Music] can you teach me to sing falsetto stand out right now stand up let's start let's jump into the deep end yeah yeah do we have to stand up actually it started with nights on broadway with you know he was producing the main course and he wanted to know if someone could uh scream at the end and do some adelibs barry said i'll go and do it and then he said can you do it in falsetto and barry said well i'll have a go and he did and the next song we did uh because it sounded good he wanted to sing the lead which was fanny b tender he said maybe i'll sing the lead in falsetto yeah but it was something that really wasn't new to us uh because of the stylistics the dell phonics all those people were out of the time they were doing the falsettos long before we did but it was just something that we tried something new again and we loved r b music we loved the black r b music we like frankie valley a lot too yeah those early four seasons records so because we discovered the falsetto we could do those r b songs with a lot more emotion right yeah and the falsetto lead is wow [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] somebody help me [Music] help me [Music] [Applause] you have changed the title from your old you should be dancing to decadence that's right do you think that is a way of telling that this was superficial and a little bit decadent well it was decadent when it first came out but it was the only time we would only have done this with this song because it was the only obvious dance record we ever wrote first of all it's done for fun and secondly it's a remake not a remix uh with uh all the volumes so for people just have to take it for what it is we were just it was an extra track that we wanted to have fun with and not really a design sales tool for the albums and it's not to be taken seriously just have fun with it we had a lot of requests for people who wanted to do it besides ourselves they wanted to remix the original they wanted to do different things like that and it was it was basically our engineer and our programmer tim moore and femi who we'd heard dancing in the clubs on days off when we weren't recording they decided to do an updated version of it and played it to us and it was so good yeah it was a lot of fun but it's there it's great it's you know we enjoyed it and it's nice to hear a different version of something after the event [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] this is your 30th album and you have different styles aren't you ever afraid of that people should miss the unique bg sound well we've done the unique uh when we start singing it's our sound when we start writing songs it's our songs it's our music i mean when you when you hear this album i don't think you can i don't think you i don't think you think it's anyone else but the vg's yeah no matter what styles it is no matter what the style is i think this but this album is very much getting back to our roots it's much of the style um of the earlier bg's than the than than the last two albums so uh can i just say that yes this album's for fun you can do this album's it's 30 albums down the line you know and it's a time in our lives where we think we ought to be having fun and we just chose the kind of music this time that that uh that we like the kind of songs that we like the different influences of different artists for instance kiss of life is probably influenced by the beach boys to some extent with the harmonies and perhaps phil collins people like that um have a slightly harder edge with a slightly harder edge but but nevertheless you know uh there are certain musical influences from other artists that exist on this album it's us just having fun this time not taking ourselves quite so seriously and i think once again that reflects the title sizes and everything uh it really means two things it means that judging ourselves is one and also in the actual um don't judge a book by its cover that's it don't judge us based on disco or what music might have been called 20 years ago uh just judges on the listen to the music itself and try not to uh be taken in by the media's perception of what we are so of what they think we are i also like the idea of the sizes and everything meaning our image and how you perceive this is not necessarily so and when you listen to the album then you make the judgment also size is everything [Music] come on [Music] you win again so many times [Music] anybody [Music] [Applause] you

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