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♪ ♪ well you can tell by the way i use my walk ♪ ♪ you may look the other way ♪ ♪ ah, ah, ah, ah staying alive ♪ >> how did you people get back here. come on, come on. >> get him out of here. >> thank you very much. good evening to all of you. ♪ living for my life ♪ ♪ everything a man could want to do ♪ ♪ i could never see tomorrow ♪ ♪ no one said a word about the sorrow ♪ ♪ how can you stop the rain from falling down ♪ ♪ how can you stop the sun fro...

Would give him a badge. people loved him. he had the best smile ever. >> i remember him teaching me the showbiz smile. he said, you dont -- you move your eyes, and you just go like this. and ill be honest with you, i think maurice was the glue that held it all together. >> oh, im mr. fix-it. some discrepancy of barry and robin or if we want to make a decision about something, what does maurice think. most of the time, im mum. im the peacemaker. >> if they had not been brothers, they would not be...

Ambitious man. >> we loved the beatles. >> ryan epstein, the man who built the beatles into a cult is now as well known as they are. >> i was doing ryans mail most of the time. there was a lesson about a father of these three handsome, cute guys who were very proactive and had success. they came from australia, and they were rising from australia. i showed it to him. brian said, yeah, yeah, its very nice. he said, well, give it to robert. hes australian, and hes good at these kind of things. >> ...

Sound this is good, lets go off to france. why not? it wasnt the honky chateau that elton john had used. >> the chateau sounds absolutely gorgeous, doesnt it? beautiful building. great grounds and gardens, ponds, and fountains. no. its nothing like that. it was a half built castle, to central easing, nothing. and it was a dump. >> we seemed to be in the middle of nowhere. not a happy place to be. >> it was really kind of decrepit. i think it had been used to make porn movies. >> this was not rig...

Groove they got into there was so profound. if that was something that was initiated by me, i cant think of one of the great things ive done in my life. ill take full credit. >> we were getting ready to record the next album, and we get this phone call that arif cant be involved in this album. >> robert chose to take the organization away from atlantic records and go private. atlantic, who were not happy about that said, well, were not using arif anymore. we have to produce it. i said, what abou...

That it could be. i cant say definitely. but id like to see the bee gees again. >> mr. epstein has been unwell now for some months. hes been in the habit of taking tablets to help him sleep at night. he was found in his second floor bedroom just after 2:00 this afternoon by his housekeeper. >> when bryon died and we restructured, robert asked to become a more senior executive for the beatles. and that wasnt acceptable to them. so, he then left the company. and took with him -- so he could start ...

♪ what shall i do ♪ ♪ what shall i do ♪ ♪ what shall i do ♪ ♪ what shall i do ♪ >> at the time, robert was my manager. signed to robert on what i thought was an exclusive deal. i was surprised other acts were coming in. robert, was who so eccentric -- i mean, absolutely bonkers -- he was australian, but he spoke like an english gentleman. and he would wear these really big, flashy ties. and he had a comb over. and it was all just, who is this guy? >> whoever this man was, he real...

>> barry was first, and then -- its half an hour older than i am. were twins. and thats how we basically met. [laughter] >> -- >> oh, thats the thing. >> the reaction? oh, all right. >> okay. >> oh, yeah, sorry. do it again. >> well do it again. >> okay. robert state would, this is for you. ♪ ♪ ♪

Before i reveal myself. ♪ i finally died ♪ ♪ which started the whole world living ♪ >> you know, and thats the voice. thats the voice that reaches your heart. >> we show up at the theater, and paul mccartney was there with jane asher because robert had said, would you come and see the boys? >> when you think that five months before all this was going on, i was in a beatle fan club. and now here i am partying with these guys. we felt like wed arrived. now im living out in a high gate outs...

Disco tracks and everyone will play it for the party and start dancing. these were comparatively easy, but we needed the bee gees to write a few songs. >> phone call came through from robert, said, i want to make these songs. >> it wasnt the idea they would do the sound track. but have you got some songs? >> robert said, im sending you a script. but we decided not to read the script. we werent writing theater music. we were writing our new album and just having fun doing it. >> they already had ...