How Can You Mend a Broken Heart
| "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"
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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 on 28 May 1971, with B-side "Country Woman" (a Maurice Gibb composition). 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.
In the US Atco Records issued both mono and stereo versions of the song on each side as a promo single. "Country Woman" was the B-side here too.
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.