Bee Gees - Interview, 2001.

treinta Y Cinco años de carrera y cygwin aqui para dos muy bien parados it's great to be here thank you um this is for Mexico and my first question is I was reading you know everything they've written about you lately and it's amazing it's 35 years and I mean there's not many groups from the rocky era that are still here and as well as you're doing it's it's amazing i mean when i when i was reading the amount of songs the amount of records you've sold what is the secret I mean it's 35 years after new millennium and VG is still here I don't think we have it I don't think there is a secret no I just got a raise but I'm keeping it yeah I know I never be corny but we love we love music and if that's really it you know there isn't any real trick to it you widget we've always loved music and we'll go on presenting music and no matter how old we get so at this age is a good age for us we're in our prime as we like to put it yeah sounds like actors you know my Richard Dreyfuss or Michael Caine it just I'm gonna cop your Antony Hopkins that the word right outta my gusset yeah it's Sam yeah it's something that we just said week ago we think we like to get better as we get further down the line we just want to eat we're learning all the time yes I mean that sounds great but there's a special blend that's why desperation done remakes of your songs and yeah and have you know extraordinary hits with with your music I mean there's something special in the Bee Gees that nobody else has the lyrics the way you write the way you I don't know yeah well we think you're right but we couldn't tell you what that is we think you're right because as to his three brothers and we we have certain insights with regard to our music that other people don't have with regard to our music it just you can't pick what it is but we sort of know what it is and we'd like to come up with ideas that move us if the idea moves us we know we're going somewhere with it and we don't we don't work to actually make other people happy we work to make ourselves happy this is where I came in I mean the title is very self descriptive but it's it's so refreshing it's so new but it's yet so you so back to the roots what what not does this album represent I mean this album does it represents a cycle a cycle of decades of all the music that we've heard of been influenced by and and brought up on and and and now it's all in decades and it's all being put together on an album and the thing about doing this album is we also recorded it like we did during that time of the late 60s and so forth in England and it was very coos tick it was very natural sounding and not over produced and a lot of things happening yeah but we also cut sums individually yeah I know one went off yeah yeah like we like to approach you tell me the process how do I decide okay this is what we're having made of any own having been as many albums have we made we needed that how did we go into a new album we can't just do the same we can't use the same feelings and the same attitude and even the same room let's let's the three of us get some self-expression as to each of us do something individually and then do four songs together and that will give us a refreshing you know a new sort of feeling so you're always looking for that every album mm-hmm you know the Volkswagen van you had at the beginning and you see the portray of your mom and it's like all going back to the roots how important is simplicity how important anymore so important less is sometimes a lot more so it's well we've worked with different people over the years even predict different producers on the last album we had six different producers so this one we we know that some we've learnt a lot and Burdine produces ourselves that's the nice thing we produced this album yeah and we knew what we wanted we knew what we did we already knew we knew what we were doing are you that you were getting weary of other things what they wanted yeah and we really knew all the time we just need to be assuring and this making this album was part of that adventure too so it showed in each other's individual work so that's why it's so diverse because when we came together not one of us knew what the other ones are doing but also our fans get a feel now for each brother they get a feel for what each brother does and the character of each brother personality and we've never done that before so it sort of worked in different ways so you sat down you had I don't know over 20 factory sounds wouldn't know how do you narrow it down to 14 or out of the Hat well we sort of all sat down and got ideas a bunch of it actually got a bunch of ideas that some Robin took an idea from or up I was taking ideas ideas yeah but then ended up easy the rewrites in them or doing something different and we just sit I think being that left alone for that that time and we didn't have any limit on anything you know already not nobody showed all the time you know and just create just do what you wanted to do you know and we already knew we were doing everything together with all the other stuff so it was no like we were all running off doing solos no but but we were curious what what would each of us do if we had our own way you know it's it's worked out for us it's worked out in the way you said it's everything on the album is different now tell me something okay 35 years together right I almost fell Oh actually yeah non-speaking terms during the odessa album I mean right after what how do you manage to keep on flowing respecting each each other's individuality and still be a whole such an import questions no idea because we're brothers no there's no technical kind of answer or or cut and dry answer to that except that we just enjoy what we do we just have fun yeah and some things are more fun than others and if it's not fun we don't do it we'll do something else and the whole key to what we do is to really enjoy or get off on what we're doing at that particular we were not to bicker anymore we don't we don't we don't argue with each other anymore yeah we love doing we love doing what we love to do yeah what would you say is the best and worst aspect of each one of you like oh really isn't any of that it's just you know we don't get personal about each other anymore it's nothing when we're writing it's not a person we feel personal but we don't yet know we don't feel those ways we don't think about what's bad or good about each other yeah those personal things don't come into our music and the way we write it's just not we do have separate personal lives that we do have but will variety of work together it's about having fun is by enjoying getting a buzz going and business there's no such thing as negativity yeah just look around you yeah we've been asked before what's the worst thing has ever happened to us and we thought well who wants to hear that ya know and we've got a recycling you know we're gonna have a piano falling on Brooklyn boy okay yeah grand piano it never made the papers to change this forever yeah trapped the five days of the piano is terrible grand piano yeah under five okay no no I believe it's a fiber gateway we tell you our worst moment and non-believers out of five we gotta say that's why we never end what I ever get him in the room he said we're an if I really said is that a fire and we said no what would be coming yeah so there was another day so no we did a very clever thing we set fire to the building the fire we came dangled smuggling again ya know it was really happened it is the best moment we've all changed a lot of the fire engine turning out we're all about a foot shorter than we used to be yes but other than that way we were probably the worst moment for us is obviously losing our brother Andy yeah that was priceless below that we've had and but people ask us that that's the only thing yeah what's the worst thing a loot how bro that was obviously is the worst thing I don't think will ever be a piece with that it was I care brother I mean that to lose your kid brother is a devastating thing inspected for our parents so we had to watch our parents suffering in a way that we couldn't understand and that is allude to use your to lose your youngest son the younger child pretty intense I on the other side of the other side too we've come to believe that he's with us you know so we know he's and dad with him now so we know he's looked after and we believe that he's always with us so it's it's so much it true or not it's a nice way to believe yeah you grow a lot inside numb and life's too short you know it can be taken away like that yeah so you puts different values on things another gram piano yeah like the grumpy how personal is this album berry don't you help us yeah no it's a sir yeah give me a story you want to exchange something comes some comfort feelings emotion places and people for us to tell you a story about any one of those songs wouldn't be there it would be increments of relationships increments of situations and I think also being being writers being a bit like being an acting take on a role and you write about it and I think other people can actually relate to this when they hear the song and they all automatically think you might have experienced that emotion that you're singing about but I think that's the capacity of the writer being able to create a situation that listener can relate to and that is what we do and this the same as a writer like Charles Dickens writing books that people can relate to that is something that you do and have a knack of doing that's great that write a song in the blocking thing no if I did I guess it all comes from the heart yes right you and Billy give someone a story you just be able to you all you can say is well it just comes from there and there's no inclination for it one thing is this but it is personal the situations that we do write write do happen to people and they are real the piano the piano it's for my state by its legs the extra mile take tomorrow and we're running out of castles no the extra mile was written to the Olympic Games yes because we thought we were going to do the Olympic Games and then when we find out we weren't doing the Olympic Games we thought well let's keep us off this women couldn't run because my mother's running I can sing and run at the same time yeah this is so a bit of a moral thing there - yeah we've always gone that extra mile and everything we've done yeah see it's what you read into it all night I mean counting all right you have gonna pull the amount of remakes hmm not surprising to us - yeah thanks for Diane War which is you know heart breaker is right I run my face on and Diana Ross and Michael Jackson and Lu Bu say harvesting barbra streisand Kenny root Kenny Rogers doli doli yeah yeah and all these really makes from Rod Stewart and sing yeah take that I mean we just as amazed we're just as amazed by it but you know what it keeps us going to keeps us alive keeps us vibrant when we see that our material is is being used in a very contemporary way it might be twenty years old but when we see people think using it and treating it in a modernistic way it really tells us an awful lot about what we've done the generational appeal the multi-generational because amazing I think a lot of the reasons is because the songs that we've always written have always appealed to young people we've never written for older people with the young people so right from the time we were teenagers ourselves so that is what we do and our songs automatically do have an appeal yeah young I think we got stung by the Beatles when we were we were teenagers you know and if you listened to the early Beatles stuff they were really written to children you know hello goodbye and I Yellow Submarine were basically children's songs they had legitimate social meanings to them but they were really children's song nursery right yeah and so we were bitten by that at the same time we thought you the only way they go is to be completely imaginative and to think in terms of what a child might think when the child hears your song and not always older people yeah and it still seems to ring true today people love things that set their imaginations are well obviously you have a very loyal fan base I mean I'm 33 I grew up with right that's okay that sounds like the movie I am dumb but I mean I just outside the valet guys he's like 18 in all you're gonna go interview the Bee Gees I mean there's no generational gap where it doesn't seem to be there's probably one there but with the you know yeah we liked about that I'll probably one morning at the hotel do you authorize all the remakes no no we have no control over no they do but usually out of respect they send it to us before they're released in together which is they release it just one day before the release so we can't do anything there must be one said stars they destroy this song you know good day arthritis Oh Robbie Williams I started joke yeah I think that was pretty willful I mean there's somebody willfully trying to destroy one of our songs and there's no way he can ever say I just wanted to do a different version because he didn't do any version at all so that's the only criticism we have of any covers of our song and we don't even know Robbie he's probably a lovely guy hmm what she's television all the time favorite that it was like he well it's not so much a capital oh well no baby it would still be broken heart by yeah mile green without reading yeah yeah then we were blown away when Elvis did woods so we were always planted by who's doing the song yeah I mean as writers you I mean you have to people have done our songs out of respect not to take Nick you know it's it's been done out of respect so you can't really turn around and say oh you can't release that because it's not a good version or something you were always flat if anyone doesn't we are we're flooded tremendously and as writers I think anybody in our position would be blown away with what's happening with their songs the older songs we living the success they had before 20 years later that's an amazing islands in the stream became ghetto superstar we just over what's that all about yeah what are you gonna do you can't change the no we liked it yeah what's your kids day I mean what do our kids say get out the way get out of the way yeah can I borrow the keys in the car it was so much I felt proud of their parents other fathers that the I think that's true yeah but they know even commenting among dad and does this and dad does that they don't really see it as other people see it so it's hard for parents it's not you can't be a B G at home it doesn't work because hit with a John Travolta picture music today because you know before groups artist was so complete like you guys you produce you write and compose you sing multi-talented I mean these days in the industry it's like a little bit of you know electronic technology and there you go BAM well not interesting you should you should even be interested in all of that stuff because it fascinates us because we've never we didn't come from a period where you created a group where groups were created by the record company or by someone else yeah mmm settle the monkeys later on popping the monkeys but no we know we never saw that before so you had to be a group that grew up being a group from children you know and today now it's said that they gather people they like it's like putting a basketball team together you know we need we need a nori ental girl we need a black guy so you see a lot of that and it's really it comes from that American political correctness you know we need something to appeal to everybody so let's put a group together with all different nationalities marketing it's really marketing now and and you know you have to you know wish out all these kids look because some of them will become really famous the ones that don't are the ones you will eat but concern us yeah as they get exploited and they lose a lot of they don't get paid well know what the record company is nobody else no sacred trust yeah oh and they loved it they loved it their management apportioning their management nixed it um so it's obviously their own publishing reasons you know they didn't write it so yeah because if you wrote the song you you've met you you made money on the public so that's one of the things today most kids are told what to record and not theirs that they can't have it in their heart to do a song that they really love and they bring it to the board if the people involved have nothing to do with the song they can't record it so it's a big business and it was such a great song we said no we're doing it in it so you got the battle of the song yeah it was a bit distressing for us because you can have an artist love the song and not be allowed to record it well you've been influenced you were talking about culture I mean spent a food lived in free culture Asian is American English Latin I hear laughing yes well we were but we grew up in three cultures we grew up in there England we grow up in Australia for at least nine years in Australia and so that was the whole Asian influence you know we're not we but I speak with an enormous amount of traveling his children enormous amount of traveling we were in the pyramids we were in India so those experiences really affected us you know in a creative way you know children don't get to see those places as children hmm very few captain's cabin yes one oh yeah the end of a bundle yeah as the same once again as writers you you're flattered when people want to do your songs thinking there is a nice record no there's certainly in certain different songs there is yes for instance loose talk costs lives is extremely lap on this album and I'd love to hear Julio do it I'd love to hear someone do it that's yeah and because I wrote it with him in mind really yeah he don't tell me those stories he did mask no weird noises only you don't mind he says you know doesn't know about it well yeah cool well I know who you are quite well so he sort of rubbed off on me at some point beg your pardon I wouldn't make that comment I didn't know that we're all friends maybe I don't know that about the Beatles there is part of the Beatles in yes of course there in yeah well the people weren't just a group yeah yeah everything the Beatles to our tremendous no doubt about it the Beatles a tremendous influence in our music and have been most of our lives they were the first group that actually influence with the world of group writing their own songs and innovative and experimental and that really inspired us so they had a real big impact we were teenagers hmm loser that we did so there's actually another no doubt about it well the does London's guitar on it yeah which I used which is the Gibson monic which isn't one of his older ones I got my 21st birthday so that's I had the story he died off but you just sorta took the guitar I think he's well sort of the quiet or sneak out yeah yes it was one of the used on the the fi pal days and the the acoustic ballad like this boy and all that sort of stuff by the the hit the hard day's night period this is a very very difficult question I think oh good as you said it's like yeah a baby out of wait who's your favorite but if you had to pick one song out of 35 years well we all have our favorite suggests it's hard no question about that because narrowed down to one they're so hard a lot of songs that we like weren't actually singles and some of our favorite songs on albums that no answer no I'd really listen to or don't remember um I mean I guess I love to love somebody I think Robin probably loves I started joke because it came from his heart so and we all have the songs that can I love my old man songs do we did together I feel like you like heaven too much heaven yeah too much heaven is he also some of the songs the sessions how they were born and how they were done how they finished also affects how you feel about so each one has its own story so the sill I got a song I wrote for the feel like woman in love mmm Barbra Streisand and because it is not just one yeah yeah yeah not ready I think she was trying to cue as episode like a ton of bricks tell me your tale tell me a tale - another story just done I mean to finish up it this is very impressive there's a wool Technicolor coat I mean it country color treatment does your booze Technicolor coat color change girls do that yeah that was uh Chad the color Dreamcoat yeah again but we'd like that the current one is like very representative like yeah so with the highlighter would your position like well I think Technicolor dreams is definitely the 1930s no coward and then only using all of those days yes and how would you all right Morris reminds me of the Beach Boys yeah I'll walk in there got a really oily chairs oh yeah that was more of a summary thing I'm like I know what I came in is there's no question that's that Beatles I think if she keeps on coming is in a way yeah huh yeah which I love yeah wedding day is represented of early Bee Gees yeah and some TV think yeah provident Providence yeah so it's the each one has its own sort of sound and the way it was recorded was a bit different than from the other times but mostly of what we did here was really record more or less what we used to do when we were in the late 60s and keep it simple and you know just had fun doing it and not too many electronic things going on okay I can't leave without two questions one is obviously this question makes us sick sorry Night Fever but you know it doesn't doesn't make you sick I don't know where you got that from like I said we're very proud of you but going I think what you know what it is is that we've been asked about it so many times I don't know how to answer the question anymore but of course Oh music they have allows of their own that was a tough question very proud of this one that's an easy question we love the music's here oh yeah it's living in that syndrome is difficult you know because people tend to not watched it want to forget what you did and so it's sort of it can blur everything else you're doing and so that's the only reason that we would we would go oh you really have the life of its own now well when you have a new album out you sort of want to focus on that every artist feels the same way doesn't matter what's excessive in behind you ya know touring well if we if we literally do a world tour it will be a world tour we do a tour instead of doing it half-assed with your one night here and there it'll be a full thrust and of course Mexico will be involved in mariya of course no question lot of people either are high a lot of people there in Mexico you you in particular you're there sitting there scratching your balls how dare you how dare you thank you very much thank you thank you very much Thank You Paula you know los BG's Spanish not now I mean viva viva la BG's los VG not be no entiendo well you won't see my BG which I don't like else

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