How Can You Mend a Broken Heart

"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.

"How Can You Mend a Broken Heart"
Single by Bee Gees
from the album Trafalgar
B-side"Country Woman"
Released28 May 1971
Recorded28 January 1971
StudioIBC Studios, London
Genre
Length3:57
LabelPolydor
Atco (United States, Canada)
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
  • Robert Stigwood
  • Bee Gees
Bee Gees singles chronology
"Lonely Days"
(1970)
"How Can You Mend a Broken Heart"
(1971)
"Don't Wanna Live Inside Myself"
(1971)
Audio sample
"How Can You Mend a Broken Heart"
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Music video
"How Can You Mend A Broken Heart (Live in Las Vegas, 1997 - One Night Only)" on YouTube

In the US Atco Records issued both mono and stereo versions of the song on each side as a promo single. 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.

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