Living Eyes (Bee Gees album)
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| Studio album by Bee Gees | ||||
| Released | October 1981 | |||
| Recorded | February – June 1981 Criteria Studios, Miami Beach, Florida, United States (strings arrangement) Media Sound, New York City, United States (horns arrangement) |
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| Genre | Rock, pop rock, soft rock | |||
| Length | 46:04 | |||
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RSO Polydor Japan |
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| Producer | Barry Gibb, Robin Gibb, Maurice Gibb, Albhy Galuten, Karl Richardson | |||
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Living Eyes is the Bee Gees' sixteenth original album (fourteenth internationally), released in 1981. The Bee Gees turned away from the disco sound that was prominent on their work in the middle-to-late 1970s with this album. However, the album was not a commercial success, perhaps due to them being so strongly associated with disco. It sold 750,000 copies worldwide, compared to 16 million copies of their previous studio album, Spirits Having Flown, in 1979. While it did not sell well in either the UK or the US, the album itself was a Top 40 hit in the majority of territories in which it saw wide release.
It would be the band's final album on RSO Records. The label would be absorbed into Polydor and subsequently discontinued.
Following the massive success from the Bee Gees production of Barbra Streisand's album Guilty, the Bee Gees regrouped at Middle Ear studios in October 1980 to record their next album. They began work on some of the songs that would go onto Living Eyes. As they had been on all their recordings since 1975, they were backed by Blue Weaver (keyboards, synthesisers, programming), Alan Kendall (lead guitar), and Dennis Bryon (drums, percussion), but the sessions broke down and the three backing musicians went their separate ways. Alan Kendall would return to working with the Bee Gees in 1989, and he remained with them for the rest of their recording and touring career.
Recording began early in 1981 without the Bee Gees band that recorded and toured with the group in the late 70's. Barry felt that he could create the sound he wanted with sessions musicians instead of a band, and the album featured musicians including Don Felder, Jeff Porcaro, Richard Tee, George Terry and Steve Gadd. Also, the Bee Gees stated that they were trying to avoid being pigeonholed as a disco act, which was why the album also featured minimal falsetto vocals (which had become a Bee Gees trademark by that time), with one notable exception being the song "Soldiers."
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