Keppel Road: The Life and Music of The Bee Gees

• Cat.no: 0543103
• Cert: E
• Running time: 93 minutes
• Released : 17th March 1997
• Sound: Stereo
• Price: £12.99
• (C) Irish Screen Entertainment UK 1997.

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Director:

Tony Cash

Producer:

Andrew Bell

Narrated by:

Melvyn Bragg

Keppel Road – The Life And Music of The Bee Geesis the definitive accountof a band who have spent 30 years at the top of the charts, telling their storyfrom their childhood in Keppel Road, Manchester, bringing things up to date,with over 150 million records sold worldwide, including 9 Gold albums,3 Platinum albums, three straight No.1 albums in the U.S. alone, and an on-goingrun of chart success, their latest single, Alone, going in at No.5 andspending 3 weeks at that position, a feat in today’s UK singles chart wheresingles tend to go straight in and then down soon afterwards, which wasfollowed by their new album, Still Waters going straight in at No.2.

Keppel Road presents a personal portrait of the Bee Gees by use ofin-depth interviews with Barry, Maurice and Robin, archive footage of the trio,as well as exclusive behind-the-scenes material of the brothers filmed duringa live recording session of their new album.

Originally this documentary was shown as a South Bank Show special,but this video contains an extra 40 minutes previously unshown, with theexclusive material showing the Bee Gees performing specially filmed versionsof their classic hits including, Jive Talkin’, Tragedy, To Love Somebody,N.Y. Mining Disaster 1941, and I’ve Just Gotta Get A Message To You,as well as tracks from their new album, I Surrender, and I Could NotLove You More.

In all the time that they’ve been around, they’ve been involved with some ofthe most memorable songs of all time, with their songs being covered by alarge range of artists such as Elvis Presley, N-Trance, Boyzone andTake That.

Put simply, this is the video which no Bee Gees fan should be without, andwill inform as to what kick-started their meteoric rise to fame and hasenabled their continued success, how they all coped with the death of brotherAndy, how they’ve managed to remain friends as well as colleagues, and howstardom has affected their personal lives.

Review copyright © Dominic Robinson, 1997.