Those artists were revolutionaries whose music remade the culture.
There is, of course, the God-like strata of pop music, the rarefied upper echelon of Olympus: the Beatles, the Stones, the Beach Boys, Dylan. How deep was their greatness? Even if you love them (as I do), that’s not such an easy question to answer. 12, on HBO, is a gratifying, conventional, heartfelt documentary that tells the story of one of the great pop groups, but part of the film’s excitement is how thoroughly it explores the question of where, exactly, the Bee Gees fit into the pop firmament. “ The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart,” which premieres Saturday, Dec. United by a silky timbre that was in their DNA, those voices, crooning and soaring, often into the higher register, fused as gorgeously as the colors of a rainbow. And those voices! To say that the Gibb brothers blended together with seamless perfection wouldn’t do the sound they created justice. and raised (mostly) in Australia, they had different versions of the same overbite (though Barry had the handsome-jock version, Robin looked like a gopher, and Maurice was the cute everyman). The Bee Gees, of course, were brothers (there were three of them), a fact that in itself isn’t remarkable, though like the Beatles they rhymed in ways that were at once visual, temperamental, and sonic. For all their iconic differences, they had variations on the same thick billowy dark hair, gleaming lemon-shaped smile, and Liverpool singsong and mocking twinkle. One of the things that made the Beatles, when they first arrived, seem magical was the uncanny way the look and sound of all four of them matched up.
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