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Release Date: 2003-10-07 |
Running Time 44 Min
Format: DVD MOVIE
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Guilty pleasure.......2006-11-28
I really enjoyed this movie because it deals with bullys in a very different way. I bet it got some snickers from some of the teachers that watched this movie. I highly recommend this movie to anyone that has dealt with bullys in thier life.
One of those unexpected pleasures.......2005-10-09
I just happened onto this little independent film, and must tell you - was pleasently surprised. I really didn't know what to expect from this film, but as I was watching it I soon realized that my eyes were glued to the screen for the full 108 minutes that it ran. I know that many of the other reviewers have stated excellent observations, however, I would just like to add my endorsement. Check this one out. Rent it, buy it . . . you won't be dissapointed. As I was watching; it did remind me of another picture I saw years ago titled "Class of '84." These two films would make a great double-bill!
I've seen all 3 versions of this film.......2004-12-11
And this is the weakest. This film began some years ago as Detention, a black black-comedy with lots of gritty raw footage. A movie that grabbed you by the lapels and shook you, it precluded all mealy-mouthed hem-hawing about good and evil. But that same year, another film with the same name was released, and this Detention got lost. Andy recut it, chopped about 30 minutes, gave it a new name, and offered Very Special Ed, a brilliant, scathing, frightening movie that worked in every direction. I had thought the original unimprovable. I was wrong.
But now he has recut it again, and it is diminished by the newest rearrangements. Some scenes were (I think) reshot, and they seem curiously without energy, as if everyone felt they had done this once already. The forcefulness is lost, and the new ending, while similar to the previous versions, again, comes out a bit tepid.
A wonderful film is in here, this just isn't it. Still pretty good, with some flashes that are so good they shake you (e.g. the now shortened assembly scene where the teachers are learning just how many times they are supposed to look at a student) but overall, a notch below its previous lives.
One wishes it success, but the disappointment of seeing something wonderful reduced, for whatever reasons, is saddening.
Loved this movie --.......2003-10-24
This is one of those movies that I wish I had the opportunity to assist with the script. I would have had that substitute teacher ripping the throats out of some those smart mouth high schoolers! lol
Besides the fact that I was mesmerized by the good looks of the leading man, (The substitute teacher) the movie was really good. It kept my attention til the end. Not a bad way to spend an hour and a half. A real gem. A must for my DVD collection.
Learning Curve Gets Down to Business!.......2003-10-07
Some times we just have to cut to the chase and get down to business. "Learning Curve" does just that - writer/director Andy Anderson has a particular take on life and it vividly shows in this film. "Curve" is not a movie you see every day. The market forces would never create a story like this as it should be - this is where independent filmmaking shines. So, a high school teacher can't teach his students - they just don't want to learn (not that they CAN'T learn!)...I've been witness to situations similar to this in my high school days. I was put in low-level applied classes with all the goof-offs and Dopeheads and Metal Heads: all who didn't want to learn a thing. Needless to say I wasn't one of them, I did want to learn, but spending three years with these types of students left me with a sour after taste in my mouth in regards to the public school system...So, now comes "Learning Curve" and with this teacher's method of teaching, I applaude with great glee. Learning through imprisonment and electric shock cuts through the B.S. and gets right to the heart of the matter. And what's more, IT WORKED! They did begin to learn! Overall, Mr. Anderson has crafted a film that's part satire, part reality and part shocking. This is his second feature film and I hope that I won't have to wait years and years to see his next effort on the big screen!
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- You Should Be Dancing!
- A Very Disappointing DTS
- ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT!!!!
- I'm an amateur when it comes to the Bee Gees but this blew me away!
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Starring: Barry Gibb , Maurice Gibb , Robin Gibb , Stephen Gibb , and Olivia Newton-John
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Taped as a lavish cable television special in 1997, <I>One Night Only</I> trades on the Bee Gees' shape-shifting career as pop survivors. Over the course of 111 minutes, this straightforward concert, produced at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas and groomed for both video and CD posterity, sprints through 31 songs from their past three decades. Even after the inevitable disco jokes are expended, and the jaundiced viewer contemplates the role hats, hairspray, and comb-overs now play in dressing the once stylishly long-haired troika, the Gibb brothers' signature vocal harmonies and hook-laden song craft beg respect.
Casual listeners can't be blamed for equating the Bee Gees with the dance floor bonanza they reaped through 1978's <I>Saturday Night Fever</I>, yet that commercial zenith was actually the culmination of a comeback for a group that had seemed washed up by the early '70s. <I>One Night Only</I> thankfully takes an even-handed view of both their original late '60s hits ("Massachusetts," "To Love Somebody," "Lonely Days"), building from a cannily Beatle-browed vocal sound, and the '70s blue-eyed soul ("Jive Talkin'," "Nights on Broadway") that led them naturally into disco. The <I>Fever</I> hits are here, as are Gibb originals that clicked for other acts; the family circle also widens for a posthumous duet with their late brother, Andy Gibb, while Celine Dion gets star billing in the collaborative "Immortality." <I>--Sam Sutherland</I>
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The Brothers Gibb perform their greatest hits from the '60s to the '90s in a concert filmed at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, their first U.S. concert in nearly 10 years. In addition to their smash hits, the Bee Gees perform songs written for and made hits by other artists. Songs: You Should Be Dancing, Alone, Massachusetts, To Love Somebody, I've Gotta Get a Message to You, Words, Closer than Close, Islands in the Stream, One, Our Love (Don't Throw It All Away) [a special duet with their late brother Andy Gibb], Night Fever/More Than a Woman, Still Waters, Lonely Days, Morning of My Life, New York Mining Disaster 1941, Too Much Heaven, I Can't See Nobody, Run to Me, And the Sun Will Shine, Nights on Broadway, How Can You Mend a Broken Heart, Heartbreaker, Guilty, Immortality (with Celine Dion), Tragedy, I Started a Joke, Grease (with Frankie Valli), Jive Talkin', How Deep is Your Love, Stayin' Alive, You Should Be Dancing.
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Touching final curtain call for the Brothers Gibb.......2007-02-27
It would be but a few years after this triumphant return to the live stage that Maurice Gibb would tragically pass under unfortunate circumstances. In the mid to late 90s, the Brothers Gibb were enjoying a much-deserved and much-belated re-evaluation and renaissance of popularity, with the release of the great album Still Water. Not only that, but everything 70s was cool again- disco, bell bottoms, smiley faces- and of course, the "disco" inventors themselves, the swaggering, hairy-chested, big-teethed, gold-medallioned falsetto-singing Bee Gees.
But it is unfortunate that this iconic caricature attached to a popular fad of the era is what the Bee Gees are mostly known for. Because take away this albatross from their necks and what you have are amazing songs, dating back to the late 60s, when their unique take on Beatle-esque harmonics, combined with a talent for melodies of great sensitivity, melancholy, and beauty, as well as their trademark vibrato, created a distinct sound.
The fact remains that the Saturday Night Fever tracks were in the can BEFORE the movie, and were added at the request of boss Stigwood. These were not "disco" songs. They were funky, tropical Arif Mardin-produced Miami rnb/dance and sublime balladry. Granted, they took the disco ball and ran with it- but wouldn't you, given the opportunity? For a while there, the Bee Gees bestrode the pop world like a 3-headed beast. And unlike the Beatles, they outstayed their welcome, oversaturated and thrown into the trash heap of disco hatred, accelerated by the Sgt Pepper film debacle. Forced to retreat, they became in-demand songwriters and producers.
All that musical history is here, as Barry states as the show gets started. They re-trace 30 years of stunning songwriting genius. From the 60s into the early 70s, from the disco era, from the underestimated 80s and 90s tracks, as well as the classics written for others- including an emotional, poignant "duet" with Andy Gibb on Don't Throw It All Away. There is also a nice appearance by a Titanic-peaking Celine Dion, on the underrated gem "Immortality", with the Bee Gees on backing vocals.
With a great backing band, heavenly harmonies, people like Olivia Newton-John in the adoring audience, and the classic self-deprecating Gibb wit, humility and brotherly barbing, you can't lose on this wonderful concert.
You Should Be Dancing!.......2006-08-07
I remember seeing this show on TV when first performed. I was impressed then, I'm still impressed now. Naturally, a person's voice will lower in register with age, so it should come as no surprise that Barry and the Brothers Gibb don't go sky-high in their harmonies as they used to. That said, they still have a three part harmony that's just beautiful and unique in all of pop music. Their unique vocal harmony and chemistry are front and center here,as they go through four decades of song, both their own hits and songs written for others. This show was performed and taped at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, and the crowd seems a bit dressed up for a concert, but I guess they were dressed for a night out. The sound quality on this disc is fine, but I had to turn the volume higher for this show than on other concert discs I have, so perhaps a move up to DTS wouldn't be a bad idea. The picture quality is fine and razer-sharp. I don't think they left any song in their catalogue out, even having Andy Gibb, sadly departed, "Guest" in a beautiful quartet,"Don't Throw It All Away". Celine Dion appears as well, in "Immortality", and they sound so GOOD together one wonders why they haven't done more together since. Of course, all the "Saturday Night Fever" songs are here, and they are wonderful. All in all, this is a fantastic show, very straight-forward, with no gimics or flashy stage show to distract form the incredible three-part singing that is the hallmark of the BeeGees.
A Very Disappointing DTS.......2006-02-26
I owned a 5.1 digital surround version of this dvd earlier and subsequently I purchased an amplifier with DTS. Because DVDs like ELO's Zoom Tour and Diane Krall's Live In Paris sound marvelously well in DTS I assumed Bee Gees One Night Only would sound equally good. What a disappointment!. The sound engineer did a very bad job indeed. The center channel produces no vocals and the back surround speakers have a very week sound, as well as delayed sound. This dvd does no justice at all to DTS.
ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT!!!!.......2006-01-26
Absolutely fantastic!!!! i've grown up with this music all my life....They are just brilliant.. don't think there is any words in the world to describe how i feel about this dvd. and to make things absolutely great i got the DVD at the brillaint price as well.
It just brings back so many great memories.....
WELL DONE GUYS! U DESERVE A GOLDEN MEDAL FOR YOUR CONTRIBUTION TOWARDS TH EMUSIC INDUSTRY...
LOVE YOU GUYS
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I'm an amateur when it comes to the Bee Gees but this blew me away!.......2005-11-21
I am surprised of how good these guys are! They were around for 5 decades and brought out zillions of albums and toured so many times. And then this live concert came out!
I don't even know that much about them compared with other people but am just starting to get into them myself!
It has all their hits from the 1950's til their then-current album Still Waters. They do a duet with Celine Dion and it sounds heavenly to hear them sing together. I find it incredible the backing musicians can be with them for such a long time such as John Merchant and now even Andy Gibb (Barry's eldest son) plays with them at this concert.
There is a good vibe on this concert, the TV panel in the background is quite effective as it takes you down memory lane showing you their clips from various decades! The trio are all dressed in black, false setto or ordinary singing tone, they are hear in this vibrant concert still going strong after all these years! This 3 people deserve a gold medal for singing these songs so and keeping their fans and new generations of fans! Writings songs for such famous movies like Grease and Saturday Night Fever! They should be so proud of what they have acheived throughout their lifetime. Excellent song choice, great harmonies and good covers chosen!
Only one thing I didn't like is it's too hard to see Olivia Newton-John in the audience when they make a note about "Australian greats" -- they never focus the light on here properly enough, and when the little girl gives Barry the flower boquet, the poor little girl doesn't realize the song "Guilty" is about to start and Barry arrogantly tells her to "shoo!" while sweeping the flowers in front of her! Excuse me!
Oh well, I am not a picky reviewer and like to be as realistic as possible.
One other gripe I have is on the video edition, there was no song list! I find that rotten because I had to find the song list on Internet and then print it out and add a little sheet at the back of the video case! We expect the companies that release music items to tell you what songs are on where and when -- just like a DVD telling you how many scences the movie has!
Apart from these unfortunate disappointments, it's worth watching them! The sound is absolutely perfect! I love the guitarist -- he has such good timing and delivery was brillant.
Brillant music! Talented musicians! Great show! Get it now! They are "veterans," but far from dead!
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ASIN: 630192844X
Release Date: 1987-07-15 |
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Great concert footage!.......2006-05-23
This VHS used to be very hot in the 80s, especially after the Moonlighting series success. Apparently it hasn't yet been released on DVD and the vhs format is supposed to be the only available one, right now. The mockumentary is hugely funny and enjoyable and the final concert footage is the real highlight of it all.Pity they didn't put more of Willis' live performance in it! If you're a big Bruno fan (and you still own a vcr) buy this item. It's a real must!
Return, don't return just STAY!.......2001-08-21
I'm Brasilian, so I'll try! Bruce is great like actor, so imagine like singer! Oh my God! I have his CD. But was so hard get this CD. I get in Germany! 7.000 km from Brazil! So, I want this VHS...
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- A valuable documentary for Bee Gees fans
- Outstanding Piece as told by the brothers Gibb themselves!
- ITS GREAT I LOVE IT!
- Wonderful!
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Keppel Road - The Life and Music of the Bee Gees
Starring: Andy Gibb , Robin Gibb , Barry Gibb , Maurice Gibb , and Bee Gees
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Release Date: 1997-06-10 |
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A valuable documentary for Bee Gees fans.......2006-07-21
Produced in Britain in 1997, this documentary seems to give the viewer a very deep, personal look into Barry, Robin and Maurice's lives. We see the place in Manchester where they grew up, the theatre where they first sang, even their school. We are also invited into the studio to witness how the guys craft a typical song. Numerous celebrities offer comments about their talents such as Sir George Martin. Some of their songs (interspersed throughout) have also been made into low-budget video clips (obviously just for the benefit of this production), some of them live, some lip-synced.
I'll admit it does feel like the production team were trying to create something worthwhile but delivered a bundle of segments thrown together without much forethought. At least, that's how it looks to me, but that certainly doesn't mean I don't like this presentation. I just don't think it is in the same class as the "This Is Where I Came In" documentary from 2001 which is of impeccable quality. To be fair, "Keppel Road" contains some history in greater detail.
A Bee Gees fan would certainly do well to add this documentary to their collection.
Outstanding Piece as told by the brothers Gibb themselves!.......2003-11-28
This is a must have in your video library. It's their life story as can only be honestly told by Barry, Robin, and the late Maurice Gibb. It's astonishing, chilling, extraordinary, real.
If a Gibb lover, this cannot be overlooked. The footage takes you back in time, and brings you into their current lives. Jam-packed with interviews of Barry, Maurice and Robin, and it's complimented with the most amazing music ever written! I have the video and also the DVD! Get it if you appreciate their contribution to the music industry. You will not be sorry you did. A truly exceptional piece.
ITS GREAT I LOVE IT!.......2003-07-10
ITS GREAT I LOVE IT THE INTERVIEWS WERE GREAT I HAVE ON VHS!
FROM A BIG BEE GEES FAN KIRSTEN
Wonderful!.......2003-06-15
As a long time fan of the Bee Gees, it was impossible for me to pass this video. Watching Barry, Robin and Maurice go back to their childhood home and watching their career up and downs was really enjoyable. Listening to them talk about their lives, the highs and the heartaches, one realizes that these three guys are just "Ordinary People" doing something extraordinary. I especially enjoyed watching them work in the studio and explain how they write a song. And, of course, the performances are great. They are all very talented songwriters and performers, and is is so sad to know that there will never be any new songs written by or with the assistance of Maurice Gibb. He is greatly missed by this fan.
Great Video...............2003-05-31
This is a very informative Video. I enjoyed it very much. Especially seeing how they write a song in the studio. They also sing two songs from there "Still Waters" album. Upbeat "I Surrender" and "I Could Not Love You More". Also, some of their other popular songs. If you like great music and want to see where they grew up. Then get this Video. You won't be dissappointed. Happy listening.
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- Touching final curtain call for the Brothers Gibb
- You Should Be Dancing!
- A Very Disappointing DTS
- ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT!!!!
- I'm an amateur when it comes to the Bee Gees but this blew me away!
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Starring: Barry Gibb , Maurice Gibb , Robin Gibb , Stephen Gibb , and Olivia Newton-John
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Release Date: 1998-11-24 |
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Taped as a lavish cable television special in 1997, <I>One Night Only</I> trades on the Bee Gees' shape-shifting career as pop survivors. Over the course of 111 minutes, this straightforward concert, produced at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas and groomed for both video and CD posterity, sprints through 31 songs from their past three decades. Even after the inevitable disco jokes are expended, and the jaundiced viewer contemplates the role hats, hairspray, and comb-overs now play in dressing the once stylishly long-haired troika, the Gibb brothers' signature vocal harmonies and hook-laden song craft beg respect.
Casual listeners can't be blamed for equating the Bee Gees with the dance floor bonanza they reaped through 1978's <I>Saturday Night Fever</I>, yet that commercial zenith was actually the culmination of a comeback for a group that had seemed washed up by the early '70s. <I>One Night Only</I> thankfully takes an even-handed view of both their original late '60s hits ("Massachusetts," "To Love Somebody," "Lonely Days"), building from a cannily Beatle-browed vocal sound, and the '70s blue-eyed soul ("Jive Talkin'," "Nights on Broadway") that led them naturally into disco. The <I>Fever</I> hits are here, as are Gibb originals that clicked for other acts; the family circle also widens for a posthumous duet with their late brother, Andy Gibb, while Celine Dion gets star billing in the collaborative "Immortality." <I>--Sam Sutherland</I>
Description
The Brothers Gibb perform their greatest hits from the '60s to the '90s in a concert filmed at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, their first U.S. concert in nearly 10 years. In addition to their smash hits, the Bee Gees perform songs written for and made hits by other artists. Songs: You Should Be Dancing, Alone, Massachusetts, To Love Somebody, I've Gotta Get a Message to You, Words, Closer than Close, Islands in the Stream, One, Our Love (Don't Throw It All Away) [a special duet with their late brother Andy Gibb], Night Fever/More Than a Woman, Still Waters, Lonely Days, Morning of My Life, New York Mining Disaster 1941, Too Much Heaven, I Can't See Nobody, Run to Me, And the Sun Will Shine, Nights on Broadway, How Can You Mend a Broken Heart, Heartbreaker, Guilty, Immortality (with Celine Dion), Tragedy, I Started a Joke, Grease (with Frankie Valli), Jive Talkin', How Deep is Your Love, Stayin' Alive, You Should Be Dancing.
Customer Reviews:
Touching final curtain call for the Brothers Gibb.......2007-02-27
It would be but a few years after this triumphant return to the live stage that Maurice Gibb would tragically pass under unfortunate circumstances. In the mid to late 90s, the Brothers Gibb were enjoying a much-deserved and much-belated re-evaluation and renaissance of popularity, with the release of the great album Still Water. Not only that, but everything 70s was cool again- disco, bell bottoms, smiley faces- and of course, the "disco" inventors themselves, the swaggering, hairy-chested, big-teethed, gold-medallioned falsetto-singing Bee Gees.
But it is unfortunate that this iconic caricature attached to a popular fad of the era is what the Bee Gees are mostly known for. Because take away this albatross from their necks and what you have are amazing songs, dating back to the late 60s, when their unique take on Beatle-esque harmonics, combined with a talent for melodies of great sensitivity, melancholy, and beauty, as well as their trademark vibrato, created a distinct sound.
The fact remains that the Saturday Night Fever tracks were in the can BEFORE the movie, and were added at the request of boss Stigwood. These were not "disco" songs. They were funky, tropical Arif Mardin-produced Miami rnb/dance and sublime balladry. Granted, they took the disco ball and ran with it- but wouldn't you, given the opportunity? For a while there, the Bee Gees bestrode the pop world like a 3-headed beast. And unlike the Beatles, they outstayed their welcome, oversaturated and thrown into the trash heap of disco hatred, accelerated by the Sgt Pepper film debacle. Forced to retreat, they became in-demand songwriters and producers.
All that musical history is here, as Barry states as the show gets started. They re-trace 30 years of stunning songwriting genius. From the 60s into the early 70s, from the disco era, from the underestimated 80s and 90s tracks, as well as the classics written for others- including an emotional, poignant "duet" with Andy Gibb on Don't Throw It All Away. There is also a nice appearance by a Titanic-peaking Celine Dion, on the underrated gem "Immortality", with the Bee Gees on backing vocals.
With a great backing band, heavenly harmonies, people like Olivia Newton-John in the adoring audience, and the classic self-deprecating Gibb wit, humility and brotherly barbing, you can't lose on this wonderful concert.
You Should Be Dancing!.......2006-08-07
I remember seeing this show on TV when first performed. I was impressed then, I'm still impressed now. Naturally, a person's voice will lower in register with age, so it should come as no surprise that Barry and the Brothers Gibb don't go sky-high in their harmonies as they used to. That said, they still have a three part harmony that's just beautiful and unique in all of pop music. Their unique vocal harmony and chemistry are front and center here,as they go through four decades of song, both their own hits and songs written for others. This show was performed and taped at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, and the crowd seems a bit dressed up for a concert, but I guess they were dressed for a night out. The sound quality on this disc is fine, but I had to turn the volume higher for this show than on other concert discs I have, so perhaps a move up to DTS wouldn't be a bad idea. The picture quality is fine and razer-sharp. I don't think they left any song in their catalogue out, even having Andy Gibb, sadly departed, "Guest" in a beautiful quartet,"Don't Throw It All Away". Celine Dion appears as well, in "Immortality", and they sound so GOOD together one wonders why they haven't done more together since. Of course, all the "Saturday Night Fever" songs are here, and they are wonderful. All in all, this is a fantastic show, very straight-forward, with no gimics or flashy stage show to distract form the incredible three-part singing that is the hallmark of the BeeGees.
A Very Disappointing DTS.......2006-02-26
I owned a 5.1 digital surround version of this dvd earlier and subsequently I purchased an amplifier with DTS. Because DVDs like ELO's Zoom Tour and Diane Krall's Live In Paris sound marvelously well in DTS I assumed Bee Gees One Night Only would sound equally good. What a disappointment!. The sound engineer did a very bad job indeed. The center channel produces no vocals and the back surround speakers have a very week sound, as well as delayed sound. This dvd does no justice at all to DTS.
ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT!!!!.......2006-01-26
Absolutely fantastic!!!! i've grown up with this music all my life....They are just brilliant.. don't think there is any words in the world to describe how i feel about this dvd. and to make things absolutely great i got the DVD at the brillaint price as well.
It just brings back so many great memories.....
WELL DONE GUYS! U DESERVE A GOLDEN MEDAL FOR YOUR CONTRIBUTION TOWARDS TH EMUSIC INDUSTRY...
LOVE YOU GUYS
GISELA NOBLE
I'm an amateur when it comes to the Bee Gees but this blew me away!.......2005-11-21
I am surprised of how good these guys are! They were around for 5 decades and brought out zillions of albums and toured so many times. And then this live concert came out!
I don't even know that much about them compared with other people but am just starting to get into them myself!
It has all their hits from the 1950's til their then-current album Still Waters. They do a duet with Celine Dion and it sounds heavenly to hear them sing together. I find it incredible the backing musicians can be with them for such a long time such as John Merchant and now even Andy Gibb (Barry's eldest son) plays with them at this concert.
There is a good vibe on this concert, the TV panel in the background is quite effective as it takes you down memory lane showing you their clips from various decades! The trio are all dressed in black, false setto or ordinary singing tone, they are hear in this vibrant concert still going strong after all these years! This 3 people deserve a gold medal for singing these songs so and keeping their fans and new generations of fans! Writings songs for such famous movies like Grease and Saturday Night Fever! They should be so proud of what they have acheived throughout their lifetime. Excellent song choice, great harmonies and good covers chosen!
Only one thing I didn't like is it's too hard to see Olivia Newton-John in the audience when they make a note about "Australian greats" -- they never focus the light on here properly enough, and when the little girl gives Barry the flower boquet, the poor little girl doesn't realize the song "Guilty" is about to start and Barry arrogantly tells her to "shoo!" while sweeping the flowers in front of her! Excuse me!
Oh well, I am not a picky reviewer and like to be as realistic as possible.
One other gripe I have is on the video edition, there was no song list! I find that rotten because I had to find the song list on Internet and then print it out and add a little sheet at the back of the video case! We expect the companies that release music items to tell you what songs are on where and when -- just like a DVD telling you how many scences the movie has!
Apart from these unfortunate disappointments, it's worth watching them! The sound is absolutely perfect! I love the guitarist -- he has such good timing and delivery was brillant.
Brillant music! Talented musicians! Great show! Get it now! They are "veterans," but far from dead!
Average customer rating:
- Touching final curtain call for the Brothers Gibb
- You Should Be Dancing!
- A Very Disappointing DTS
- ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT!!!!
- I'm an amateur when it comes to the Bee Gees but this blew me away!
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- This Is Where I Came In - The Official Story of the Bee Gees
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Release Date: 1999-10-19 |
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Taped as a lavish cable television special in 1997, <I>One Night Only</I> trades on the Bee Gees' shape-shifting career as pop survivors. Over the course of 111 minutes, this straightforward concert, produced at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas and groomed for both video and CD posterity, sprints through 31 songs from their past three decades. Even after the inevitable disco jokes are expended, and the jaundiced viewer contemplates the role hats, hairspray, and comb-overs now play in dressing the once stylishly long-haired troika, the Gibb brothers' signature vocal harmonies and hook-laden song craft beg respect.
Casual listeners can't be blamed for equating the Bee Gees with the dance floor bonanza they reaped through 1978's <I>Saturday Night Fever</I>, yet that commercial zenith was actually the culmination of a comeback for a group that had seemed washed up by the early '70s. <I>One Night Only</I> thankfully takes an even-handed view of both their original late '60s hits ("Massachusetts," "To Love Somebody," "Lonely Days"), building from a cannily Beatle-browed vocal sound, and the '70s blue-eyed soul ("Jive Talkin'," "Nights on Broadway") that led them naturally into disco. The <I>Fever</I> hits are here, as are Gibb originals that clicked for other acts; the family circle also widens for a posthumous duet with their late brother, Andy Gibb, while Celine Dion gets star billing in the collaborative "Immortality." <I>--Sam Sutherland</I>
Description
The Brothers Gibb perform their greatest hits from the '60s to the '90s in a concert filmed at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, their first U.S. concert in nearly 10 years. In addition to their smash hits, the Bee Gees perform songs written for and made hits by other artists. Songs: You Should Be Dancing, Alone, Massachusetts, To Love Somebody, I've Gotta Get a Message to You, Words, Closer than Close, Islands in the Stream, One, Our Love (Don't Throw It All Away) [a special duet with their late brother Andy Gibb], Night Fever/More Than a Woman, Still Waters, Lonely Days, Morning of My Life, New York Mining Disaster 1941, Too Much Heaven, I Can't See Nobody, Run to Me, And the Sun Will Shine, Nights on Broadway, How Can You Mend a Broken Heart, Heartbreaker, Guilty, Immortality (with Celine Dion), Tragedy, I Started a Joke, Grease (with Frankie Valli), Jive Talkin', How Deep is Your Love, Stayin' Alive, You Should Be Dancing.
Customer Reviews:
Touching final curtain call for the Brothers Gibb.......2007-02-27
It would be but a few years after this triumphant return to the live stage that Maurice Gibb would tragically pass under unfortunate circumstances. In the mid to late 90s, the Brothers Gibb were enjoying a much-deserved and much-belated re-evaluation and renaissance of popularity, with the release of the great album Still Water. Not only that, but everything 70s was cool again- disco, bell bottoms, smiley faces- and of course, the "disco" inventors themselves, the swaggering, hairy-chested, big-teethed, gold-medallioned falsetto-singing Bee Gees.
But it is unfortunate that this iconic caricature attached to a popular fad of the era is what the Bee Gees are mostly known for. Because take away this albatross from their necks and what you have are amazing songs, dating back to the late 60s, when their unique take on Beatle-esque harmonics, combined with a talent for melodies of great sensitivity, melancholy, and beauty, as well as their trademark vibrato, created a distinct sound.
The fact remains that the Saturday Night Fever tracks were in the can BEFORE the movie, and were added at the request of boss Stigwood. These were not "disco" songs. They were funky, tropical Arif Mardin-produced Miami rnb/dance and sublime balladry. Granted, they took the disco ball and ran with it- but wouldn't you, given the opportunity? For a while there, the Bee Gees bestrode the pop world like a 3-headed beast. And unlike the Beatles, they outstayed their welcome, oversaturated and thrown into the trash heap of disco hatred, accelerated by the Sgt Pepper film debacle. Forced to retreat, they became in-demand songwriters and producers.
All that musical history is here, as Barry states as the show gets started. They re-trace 30 years of stunning songwriting genius. From the 60s into the early 70s, from the disco era, from the underestimated 80s and 90s tracks, as well as the classics written for others- including an emotional, poignant "duet" with Andy Gibb on Don't Throw It All Away. There is also a nice appearance by a Titanic-peaking Celine Dion, on the underrated gem "Immortality", with the Bee Gees on backing vocals.
With a great backing band, heavenly harmonies, people like Olivia Newton-John in the adoring audience, and the classic self-deprecating Gibb wit, humility and brotherly barbing, you can't lose on this wonderful concert.
You Should Be Dancing!.......2006-08-07
I remember seeing this show on TV when first performed. I was impressed then, I'm still impressed now. Naturally, a person's voice will lower in register with age, so it should come as no surprise that Barry and the Brothers Gibb don't go sky-high in their harmonies as they used to. That said, they still have a three part harmony that's just beautiful and unique in all of pop music. Their unique vocal harmony and chemistry are front and center here,as they go through four decades of song, both their own hits and songs written for others. This show was performed and taped at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, and the crowd seems a bit dressed up for a concert, but I guess they were dressed for a night out. The sound quality on this disc is fine, but I had to turn the volume higher for this show than on other concert discs I have, so perhaps a move up to DTS wouldn't be a bad idea. The picture quality is fine and razer-sharp. I don't think they left any song in their catalogue out, even having Andy Gibb, sadly departed, "Guest" in a beautiful quartet,"Don't Throw It All Away". Celine Dion appears as well, in "Immortality", and they sound so GOOD together one wonders why they haven't done more together since. Of course, all the "Saturday Night Fever" songs are here, and they are wonderful. All in all, this is a fantastic show, very straight-forward, with no gimics or flashy stage show to distract form the incredible three-part singing that is the hallmark of the BeeGees.
A Very Disappointing DTS.......2006-02-26
I owned a 5.1 digital surround version of this dvd earlier and subsequently I purchased an amplifier with DTS. Because DVDs like ELO's Zoom Tour and Diane Krall's Live In Paris sound marvelously well in DTS I assumed Bee Gees One Night Only would sound equally good. What a disappointment!. The sound engineer did a very bad job indeed. The center channel produces no vocals and the back surround speakers have a very week sound, as well as delayed sound. This dvd does no justice at all to DTS.
ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT!!!!.......2006-01-26
Absolutely fantastic!!!! i've grown up with this music all my life....They are just brilliant.. don't think there is any words in the world to describe how i feel about this dvd. and to make things absolutely great i got the DVD at the brillaint price as well.
It just brings back so many great memories.....
WELL DONE GUYS! U DESERVE A GOLDEN MEDAL FOR YOUR CONTRIBUTION TOWARDS TH EMUSIC INDUSTRY...
LOVE YOU GUYS
GISELA NOBLE
I'm an amateur when it comes to the Bee Gees but this blew me away!.......2005-11-21
I am surprised of how good these guys are! They were around for 5 decades and brought out zillions of albums and toured so many times. And then this live concert came out!
I don't even know that much about them compared with other people but am just starting to get into them myself!
It has all their hits from the 1950's til their then-current album Still Waters. They do a duet with Celine Dion and it sounds heavenly to hear them sing together. I find it incredible the backing musicians can be with them for such a long time such as John Merchant and now even Andy Gibb (Barry's eldest son) plays with them at this concert.
There is a good vibe on this concert, the TV panel in the background is quite effective as it takes you down memory lane showing you their clips from various decades! The trio are all dressed in black, false setto or ordinary singing tone, they are hear in this vibrant concert still going strong after all these years! This 3 people deserve a gold medal for singing these songs so and keeping their fans and new generations of fans! Writings songs for such famous movies like Grease and Saturday Night Fever! They should be so proud of what they have acheived throughout their lifetime. Excellent song choice, great harmonies and good covers chosen!
Only one thing I didn't like is it's too hard to see Olivia Newton-John in the audience when they make a note about "Australian greats" -- they never focus the light on here properly enough, and when the little girl gives Barry the flower boquet, the poor little girl doesn't realize the song "Guilty" is about to start and Barry arrogantly tells her to "shoo!" while sweeping the flowers in front of her! Excuse me!
Oh well, I am not a picky reviewer and like to be as realistic as possible.
One other gripe I have is on the video edition, there was no song list! I find that rotten because I had to find the song list on Internet and then print it out and add a little sheet at the back of the video case! We expect the companies that release music items to tell you what songs are on where and when -- just like a DVD telling you how many scences the movie has!
Apart from these unfortunate disappointments, it's worth watching them! The sound is absolutely perfect! I love the guitarist -- he has such good timing and delivery was brillant.
Brillant music! Talented musicians! Great show! Get it now! They are "veterans," but far from dead!
Average customer rating:
- Touching final curtain call for the Brothers Gibb
- You Should Be Dancing!
- A Very Disappointing DTS
- ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT!!!!
- I'm an amateur when it comes to the Bee Gees but this blew me away!
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Bee Gees: One Night Only
Starring: Barry Gibb , Maurice Gibb , Robin Gibb , Stephen Gibb , and Olivia Newton-John
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- This Is Where I Came In - The Official Story of the Bee Gees
- Bee Gees - Live by Request
- Bee Gees - One Night Only (DTS Edition)
- Elton John - One Night Only (The Greatest Hits Live at Madison Square Garden)
- Bee Gees - One Night Only / The Official Story
ASIN: B00005R5I0 |
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Taped as a lavish cable television special in 1997, <I>One Night Only</I> trades on the Bee Gees' shape-shifting career as pop survivors. Over the course of 111 minutes, this straightforward concert, produced at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas and groomed for both video and CD posterity, sprints through 31 songs from their past three decades. Even after the inevitable disco jokes are expended, and the jaundiced viewer contemplates the role hats, hairspray, and comb-overs now play in dressing the once stylishly long-haired troika, the Gibb brothers' signature vocal harmonies and hook-laden song craft beg respect.
Casual listeners can't be blamed for equating the Bee Gees with the dance floor bonanza they reaped through 1978's <I>Saturday Night Fever</I>, yet that commercial zenith was actually the culmination of a comeback for a group that had seemed washed up by the early '70s. <I>One Night Only</I> thankfully takes an even-handed view of both their original late '60s hits ("Massachusetts," "To Love Somebody," "Lonely Days"), building from a cannily Beatle-browed vocal sound, and the '70s blue-eyed soul ("Jive Talkin'," "Nights on Broadway") that led them naturally into disco. The <I>Fever</I> hits are here, as are Gibb originals that clicked for other acts; the family circle also widens for a posthumous duet with their late brother, Andy Gibb, while Celine Dion gets star billing in the collaborative "Immortality." <I>--Sam Sutherland</I>
Customer Reviews:
Touching final curtain call for the Brothers Gibb.......2007-02-27
It would be but a few years after this triumphant return to the live stage that Maurice Gibb would tragically pass under unfortunate circumstances. In the mid to late 90s, the Brothers Gibb were enjoying a much-deserved and much-belated re-evaluation and renaissance of popularity, with the release of the great album Still Water. Not only that, but everything 70s was cool again- disco, bell bottoms, smiley faces- and of course, the "disco" inventors themselves, the swaggering, hairy-chested, big-teethed, gold-medallioned falsetto-singing Bee Gees.
But it is unfortunate that this iconic caricature attached to a popular fad of the era is what the Bee Gees are mostly known for. Because take away this albatross from their necks and what you have are amazing songs, dating back to the late 60s, when their unique take on Beatle-esque harmonics, combined with a talent for melodies of great sensitivity, melancholy, and beauty, as well as their trademark vibrato, created a distinct sound.
The fact remains that the Saturday Night Fever tracks were in the can BEFORE the movie, and were added at the request of boss Stigwood. These were not "disco" songs. They were funky, tropical Arif Mardin-produced Miami rnb/dance and sublime balladry. Granted, they took the disco ball and ran with it- but wouldn't you, given the opportunity? For a while there, the Bee Gees bestrode the pop world like a 3-headed beast. And unlike the Beatles, they outstayed their welcome, oversaturated and thrown into the trash heap of disco hatred, accelerated by the Sgt Pepper film debacle. Forced to retreat, they became in-demand songwriters and producers.
All that musical history is here, as Barry states as the show gets started. They re-trace 30 years of stunning songwriting genius. From the 60s into the early 70s, from the disco era, from the underestimated 80s and 90s tracks, as well as the classics written for others- including an emotional, poignant "duet" with Andy Gibb on Don't Throw It All Away. There is also a nice appearance by a Titanic-peaking Celine Dion, on the underrated gem "Immortality", with the Bee Gees on backing vocals.
With a great backing band, heavenly harmonies, people like Olivia Newton-John in the adoring audience, and the classic self-deprecating Gibb wit, humility and brotherly barbing, you can't lose on this wonderful concert.
You Should Be Dancing!.......2006-08-07
I remember seeing this show on TV when first performed. I was impressed then, I'm still impressed now. Naturally, a person's voice will lower in register with age, so it should come as no surprise that Barry and the Brothers Gibb don't go sky-high in their harmonies as they used to. That said, they still have a three part harmony that's just beautiful and unique in all of pop music. Their unique vocal harmony and chemistry are front and center here,as they go through four decades of song, both their own hits and songs written for others. This show was performed and taped at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, and the crowd seems a bit dressed up for a concert, but I guess they were dressed for a night out. The sound quality on this disc is fine, but I had to turn the volume higher for this show than on other concert discs I have, so perhaps a move up to DTS wouldn't be a bad idea. The picture quality is fine and razer-sharp. I don't think they left any song in their catalogue out, even having Andy Gibb, sadly departed, "Guest" in a beautiful quartet,"Don't Throw It All Away". Celine Dion appears as well, in "Immortality", and they sound so GOOD together one wonders why they haven't done more together since. Of course, all the "Saturday Night Fever" songs are here, and they are wonderful. All in all, this is a fantastic show, very straight-forward, with no gimics or flashy stage show to distract form the incredible three-part singing that is the hallmark of the BeeGees.
A Very Disappointing DTS.......2006-02-26
I owned a 5.1 digital surround version of this dvd earlier and subsequently I purchased an amplifier with DTS. Because DVDs like ELO's Zoom Tour and Diane Krall's Live In Paris sound marvelously well in DTS I assumed Bee Gees One Night Only would sound equally good. What a disappointment!. The sound engineer did a very bad job indeed. The center channel produces no vocals and the back surround speakers have a very week sound, as well as delayed sound. This dvd does no justice at all to DTS.
ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT!!!!.......2006-01-26
Absolutely fantastic!!!! i've grown up with this music all my life....They are just brilliant.. don't think there is any words in the world to describe how i feel about this dvd. and to make things absolutely great i got the DVD at the brillaint price as well.
It just brings back so many great memories.....
WELL DONE GUYS! U DESERVE A GOLDEN MEDAL FOR YOUR CONTRIBUTION TOWARDS TH EMUSIC INDUSTRY...
LOVE YOU GUYS
GISELA NOBLE
I'm an amateur when it comes to the Bee Gees but this blew me away!.......2005-11-21
I am surprised of how good these guys are! They were around for 5 decades and brought out zillions of albums and toured so many times. And then this live concert came out!
I don't even know that much about them compared with other people but am just starting to get into them myself!
It has all their hits from the 1950's til their then-current album Still Waters. They do a duet with Celine Dion and it sounds heavenly to hear them sing together. I find it incredible the backing musicians can be with them for such a long time such as John Merchant and now even Andy Gibb (Barry's eldest son) plays with them at this concert.
There is a good vibe on this concert, the TV panel in the background is quite effective as it takes you down memory lane showing you their clips from various decades! The trio are all dressed in black, false setto or ordinary singing tone, they are hear in this vibrant concert still going strong after all these years! This 3 people deserve a gold medal for singing these songs so and keeping their fans and new generations of fans! Writings songs for such famous movies like Grease and Saturday Night Fever! They should be so proud of what they have acheived throughout their lifetime. Excellent song choice, great harmonies and good covers chosen!
Only one thing I didn't like is it's too hard to see Olivia Newton-John in the audience when they make a note about "Australian greats" -- they never focus the light on here properly enough, and when the little girl gives Barry the flower boquet, the poor little girl doesn't realize the song "Guilty" is about to start and Barry arrogantly tells her to "shoo!" while sweeping the flowers in front of her! Excuse me!
Oh well, I am not a picky reviewer and like to be as realistic as possible.
One other gripe I have is on the video edition, there was no song list! I find that rotten because I had to find the song list on Internet and then print it out and add a little sheet at the back of the video case! We expect the companies that release music items to tell you what songs are on where and when -- just like a DVD telling you how many scences the movie has!
Apart from these unfortunate disappointments, it's worth watching them! The sound is absolutely perfect! I love the guitarist -- he has such good timing and delivery was brillant.
Brillant music! Talented musicians! Great show! Get it now! They are "veterans," but far from dead!
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- We need this on Region 1 DVD now!
- What TV drama should be
- great little show, why no Region 1 dvd?
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Customer Reviews:
We need this on Region 1 DVD now!.......2007-03-23
I saw this on a PBS station a few years ago. I have been hoping that PBS would show it again but no such luck. It is a shame that it is not available on Region 1 DVD's. It is an extremely good show with interesting people and story.
What TV drama should be.......2006-09-01
The writing on this show was great. Why oh why no DVD available for US viewers?
great little show, why no Region 1 dvd?.......2006-02-05
The story of a single mother from London who persuades her best friend Kenny to pretend to be her husband and accompany her and her two children to Ronansay, a small Scottish island, whose inhabitants advertised for a young family to take over the local B&B and help keep their small school open. This series was shown on PBS stations in the US so it is a great disappointment that it is not (yet?) available on DVD here. Sweet, funny, and sad, and also a realistic portrayal of the stuggles of people on remote islands to prevent a way of life from dying out. Good acting. Paul Kaye is especially fine as Kenny.
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