#BEE GEES DOCUMENTARY MUSIC MOVIE#

It received positive reviews and has been nominated for six Emmy Awards, including the Emmy Award for Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Special. The film had its worldwide release on Decemthrough HBO Max. It follows the life and career of legendary, award-winning family band The Bee Gees. The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend A Broken Heart is an American documentary film, directed by Frank Marshall. You can contact Shirley by email at or via Twitter. Shirley McMarlin is a Tribune-Review staff writer. Tickets for the New York Bee Gees are $38-$68, available at 72 or. They know what to expect, and they're ready to dance and sing.' 'People come to the shows all charged up.

'That's the wonderful part of it - the body of work is so great, we don't go off on our own tangents,' Mazzeo said. Mazzeo said interest in his tribute band was boosted by the 2020 documentary, 'The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart,' which chronicles the original group's rise and musical evolution.Īudiences are treated to faithful renditions of the songs. The trio is backed by Peter Lazos on drums, Mike Flyntz on lead guitarist and background vocals and Tammi Flyntz singing female lead and background vocals. They style themselves to resemble the Gibb brothers at the height of their fame. In addition to Mazzeo, the New York Bee Gees include Tom Flyntz as Robin Gibb and Manny Focarazzo as Maurice Gibb. Various members have played with The Alan Parsons Project, Happy Together Tour, Meatloaf, Queen, Blue Oyster Cult, Riot, Herman's Hermits and Enrique Iglesias. He met his current band mates while playing in a variety of local bands. 'By the time I hit my teens, I told my father, 'Dad, I hate to upset you, but the clarinet ain't cool.' So I went to the guitar,' he said.

Mazzeo, 63, started playing the clarinet at age 6. King's Blues Club in New York City, where they soon became regulars. The New York Bee Gees debuted in 2014 at the former B.B. 'I thought there could be a market there, and I could always sing really high,' he added. I saw a void in the Bee Gees market, specifically up and down the Eastern Seaboard. 'There were a lot of Beatles and those kinds of acts, but I wanted to do something out of the ordinary.

'I decided I wanted to do something different, and I started looking at tribute acts,' Mazzeo said. They formerly played together in the Hit Squad, covering dance, rock and top-40 songs from the 1970s through the 2000s. Mazzeo is joined in the band by a group of Long Island, N.Y.-based musicians whom he has known and performed with for more than 20 years.

#BEE GEES DOCUMENTARY MUSIC MOVIE#

Mazzeo said his personal favorite Bee Gees song is 'How Deep Is Your Love,' a 1977 pop ballad featured with other Bee Gees material in the 'Saturday Night Fever' movie soundtrack. 'Their music was something I was attracted to growing up, but never in a million years thought that I would end up performing it.' The structure of the songs is brilliant the production is absolutely brilliant,' said Peter Mazzeo, who portrays Barry Gibb, who lent his falsetto to the Bee Gees' disco-era hits and is the sole surviving brother.

The Bee Gees first charted in 1967, with 'New York Mining Disaster 1941.' The trio racked up 29 Top Forty hits, including nine Billboard Hot 100 No. Saturday at The Palace Theatre in Greensburg. The New York Bee Gees tribute band will plumb the depths of the band's oeuvre, during a show at 8 p.m. 5-The Bee Gees rode the disco wave of the late 1970s, with hits like 'Stayin' Alive,' 'You Should Be Dancing' and 'Night Fever.'īut there's more to the catalog of the three Australian Gibb brothers than those catchy, danceable tunes.

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