| "How Can You Mend a Broken Heart" | ||||
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| Single by Bee Gees | ||||
| from the album Trafalgar | ||||
| B-side | "Country Woman" | |||
| Released | 28 May 1971 | |||
| Recorded | 28 January 1971 | |||
| Studio | IBC Studios, London | |||
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| Length | 3:57 | |||
| Label | Polydor Atco (United States, Canada) | |||
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| "How Can You Mend A Broken Heart (Live in Las Vegas, 1997 - One Night Only)" on YouTube | ||||
"How Can You Mend a Broken Heart" is a song released by the Bee Gees in 1971. It was written by Barry and Robin Gibb and was the first single on the group's 1971 album Trafalgar. It was their first US No. 1 single and also reached No. 1 in Cashbox magazine for two weeks.[4]
In the US Atco Records issued both mono and stereo versions of the song on each side as a promo single.[5] The B-side was a Maurice Gibb composition "Country Woman".
The song appears in the 2013 film American Hustle and on its soundtrack. It also provided the title to director Frank Marshall's 2020 documentary film The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart.[6]
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
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...co-producing the song with Robert Stigwood, the Bee Gees shot for soulful, buttery folk-rock...
- ^ Stanley, Bob (13 September 2013). "Beyond the Blue Horizon: Country and Western". Yeah Yeah Yeah: The Story of Modern Pop. Faber & Faber. p. 401. ISBN 978-0-571-28198-5.
- ^ "Cashbox Top Singles - 1971". Cashbox Archives. Retrieved 26 January 2015.
- ^ "The Bee Gees - How Can You Mend a Broken Heart". 45cat.com. Retrieved 26 January 2015.
- ^ Samson Amore (29 October 2020). "Bee Gees Documentary 'How Can You Mend a Broken Heart' Coming to HBO Max". thewrap.com. Retrieved 17 March 2021.