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Guilty (Barbra Streisand album)

Guilty
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Studio album by Barbra Streisand
Released September 23, 1980
Recorded February — March 1980
Studio Middle Ear Inc. in Miami Beach & Sound Labs Studio in Hollywood, Los Angeles
Genre
Length 41:41
Label Columbia
Producer Gibb-Galuten-Richardson
Barbra Streisand chronology
Wet
(1979)
Guilty
(1980)
Memories
(1981)
Singles from Guilty
  1. "Woman in Love / Run Wild"
    Released: August 16, 1980
  2. "Guilty / Life Story"
    Released: October 1980
  3. "What Kind of Fool / The Love Inside"
    Released: January 1981
  4. "Promises / Make It Like A Memory"
    Released: May 1981
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
AllMusic 4.5/5 stars
Robert Christgau C+
Rolling Stone (Favorable)
The Rolling Stone Album Guide 5/5 stars
The Guilty Demos
Demo album by Barry Gibb
Released 10 October 2006
Recorded October 1979
Criteria Studios, Miami
Length 44:39
Producer Barry Gibb
Barry Gibb chronology
The Eaten Alive Demos
(2006)
The Guilty Demos
(2006)
The Eyes That See in the Dark Demos
(2006)

Guilty is the twenty-second studio album by American singer Barbra Streisand released on September 23, 1980 by Columbia Records. It was produced by Barry Gibb of the Bee Gees and his group's regular production team of Albhy Galuten and Karl Richardson.

After the success of the Bee Gees in the late 1970s, there was some time to write songs for other artists and Streisand, one of those artists, asked Gibb to write an album for her. It became her best-selling album to date internationally, with sales between 15–20 million copies worldwide as well as spawning several hit singles. According to the liner notes of Barbra's retrospective box set: Just for the Record, the album also received a record certification in Austria, Brazil, Denmark, Israel, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain. Sweden, Switzerland, and Russia.

The lead single "Woman in Love" became one of the most successful songs of Streisand's music career and spent a total of three weeks at number one in the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Two other singles were released, which also peaked within the top ten on Billboard Hot 100: the title track, a duet between Streisand and Gibb, won the Grammy Award for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal in 1981, released as a second single for the album, and became an instant hit, peaking at number three, and "What Kind of Fool", another duet with Gibb, reached number ten for three weeks. The fourth single, "Promises", a more disco-oriented track released in May 1981, reached as high as number 48 in both the U.S. and Canada. It was a much bigger Adult Contemporary hit in both nations, reaching number eight and number five, respectively. This song was also released on Streisand's first commercially released 12" single as a solo artist following her 1979 duet with Donna Summer, "No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)", and two promotional singles released for "Shake Me, Wake Me (When It's Over)" in 1975, and "The Main Event/Fight" in 1979.


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