Single:
How Can You Mend a Broken Heart entered the Australian singles chart* on 12 July 1971 and peaked at #3. It was #30 on the Top 100 of 1971.
Album:
The song is on Trafalgar which entered the Australian albums chart* on 21 January 1972 and peaked at #8.
Songwriters:
Barry Gibb, Robin Gibb
Producers:
Robert Stigwood, Bee Gees
Record label of Australian release:
Spin
*Kent Music Report / Australian Chart Book. See About.
Songfacts:
Barry and Robin Gibb of the Bee Gees wrote How Can You Mend a Broken Heart in the style of Andy Williams, who was a popular recording artist and television presenter at the time. It became the first #1 US hit for the group, topping the chart for four weeks. Later in 1971, Andy Williams identified it as a song in his wheelhouse and recorded his own version for his covers album You’ve Got a Friend.
Read more: www.songfacts.com/facts/bee-gees/how-can-you-mend-a-broken-heart
Wikipedia:
Barry and Robin Gibb wrote the song in August 1970 with Lonely Days when the Gibb brothers had reconvened following a period of break-up and alienation. “Robin came to my place,” says Barry, “and that afternoon we wrote How Can You Mend a Broken Heart and that obviously was a link to us coming back together. We called Maurice, finished the song, went to the studio and once again, with only Broken Heart as a basic structure, we went in to the studio with that and an idea for Lonely Days, and those two songs were recorded that night”.
Read more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_Can_You_Mend_a_Broken_Heart
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