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HERE IS A GREAT HAND SIGNED ALBUM ENTITLED "SPIRITS HAVING FLOWN"
THE ALBUM HAS BEEN SIGNED BY BARRY GIBB
THE ALBUM IS NICE CONDITION OVERALL WITH VERY LITTLE SURFACE WEAR
ALBUM IS A BIFOLD
SOME CORNER WEAR
VINYL IS NOT INCLUDED
ALBUM HAS BEEN CERTIFIED AUTHENTIC WITH A CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICITY FROM GA-GLOBAL AUTHENTICS
Spirits Having Flown is the fifteenth album released by the Bee Gees.
It was the group's first album after their collaboration on the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack.
The album's first three tracks were released as singles and all reached No. 1 in the US, giving the Bee Gees an unbroken run of six US chart-toppers and tying a record set by The Beatles.
It was the first Bee Gees album to make the UK top 40 in ten years (not counting the soundtrack for Saturday Night Fever), as well as being their first and only UK No. 1 album.
It has sold 20 million copies worldwide.
Spirits Having Flown marked the tail end of the band's most successful era, prior to a severe downturn in the early 1980s when they would endure a near-total radio blackout (particularly in America) that Robin Gibb would refer to as "censorship" and "evil" in interviews.
At the start of 1978, Barry Gibb produced the album Shadow Dancing by Andy Gibb.
By February, Barry wrote the title song for the film Grease performed by Frankie Valli; also in February, another Barry Gibb composition from 1977 "Ain't Nothing Gonna Keep Me From You" was recorded by Teri DeSario.
In the recording phase, Robin and Maurice now mainly played the role of backing and harmony vocalists, and even in that capacity Barry did many of the vocal dubs himself as he went over and over the recorded work.
Robin contributed one lead vocal ("Living Together") which was sung in falsetto with Barry providing alternating lead vocals in his normal register.
This was Robin's least amount of lead vocals on any Bee Gees album with the exception of 1970's Cucumber Castle, for which he was not part of the group at that time.
As with the last four Bee Gees albums, Maurice did not have any lead vocals.
The Bee Gees had been effectively typecast as a disco group after Saturday Night Fever, and in a 1978 interview Barry remarked "People think we're just about disco now. Of course that's not true. If you look at the SNF soundtrack, there's some dance music, but we also have ballads like More Than A Woman." In an attempt to counter this typecasting, the first single from Spirits Having Flown was the ballad "Too Much Heaven".
The horn section from Chicago (James Pankow, Walt Parazaider and Lee Loughnane) made a guest appearance on this album. At the time, they were next door working on the Chicago album Hot Streets.
Thus the Bee Gees would return the favour as they appeared on Chicago's song "Little Miss Lovin'" and their keyboardist Blue Weaver appeared on "No Tell Lover".
The Bee Gees also recorded "Desire" for the album but it was rejected and instead released as a solo single by their brother Andy.
Spirits Having Flown was released in February 1979, with full page ads in Billboard magazine and Rolling Stone, which gave the album a lengthy, but positive review.
It topped the album charts in several countries, including both the US and UK. Its three singles "Tragedy", "Too Much Heaven" and "Love You Inside Out" all topped the charts in the US.
The title track was also released as a single in the UK and a few other countries in December 1979 to promote the Bee Gees Greatest compilation.
The album sold over 20 million copies worldwide as of 1997.
In 2003 the BBC even gave a figure of 30 million worldwide sales.
The RIAA lists the album as having been certified "platinum" (1,000,000 sold), but RSO never had the album re-certified.
Many articles and websites cite the album as having sold as much as 6,000,000 copies in the U.S. alone, but these results are unofficial, which is why the album does not appear on many 'best selling' lists, including Wikipedia's List of best-selling albums.
Spirits Having Flown was voted Best Pop/Rock Album of 1979 at the 1980 American Music Awards ceremony.
Barry Alan Crompton Gibb, CBE (born 1 September 1946) is an English singer, songwriter and record producer who rose to worldwide fame as a co-founder of the group Bee Gees, one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed groups in the history of popular music. With his brothers, Robin and Maurice Gibb, he formed a songwriting partnership beginning in 1966.
Born on the Isle of Man,[7] he was raised in Manchester where he became involved in the skiffle craze, forming his first band, the Rattlesnakes, which evolved into the Bee Gees in 1960 when they moved to Redcliffe, Queensland, Australia.[8] They returned to England where they achieved worldwide fame. He was also known for his high-pitched falsetto singing voice. Gibb shares the record with John Lennon and Paul McCartney for consecutive Billboard Hot 100 number ones as a writer with six. Guinness World Records lists Gibb as the second most successful songwriter in history behind Sir Paul McCartney.[9]
Gibb's career has spanned over fifty years. In 1994, he was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame with his brothers. In 1997, as a member of the Bee Gees, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and received the Brit Award for Outstanding Contribution to Music. Barry is a fellow of the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors.[10]
In 2007, Q magazine ranked him number 38 on its list of "100 Greatest Singers".
THE BEE GEES WERE A POP MUSIC GROUP FORMED IN 1958.
THE GROUP'S LINE-UP CONSISTED OF BROTHERS BARRY, ROBIN AND MAURICE GIBB.
THE TRIO WERE SUCCESSFUL FOR MOST OF THEIR DECADES OF RECORDING MUSIC , BUT THEY HAD TWO DISTINCT PERIODS OF EXCEPTIONAL SUCCESS: AS A POPULAR MUSIC ACT IN THE LATE 1960'S AND EARLY 1970'S AND AS PROMINENT PERFORMERS OF THE DISCO MUSIC ERA IN THE LATE 1970'S.
THE GROUP SANG RECOGNIZABLE THREE PART TIGHT HARMONIES; ROBIN'S CLEAR VIBRATO AND LEAD VOCALS WERE A HALLMARK OF THEIR EARLIER HITS, WHILE BARRY 'S R&B FALSETTO BECAME THEIR SIGNATURE SOUND DURING THE LATE 1970'S AND 1980'S.
THEY WROTE ALL OF THEIR HITS, AS WELL AS WRITING AND PRODUCING SEVERAL MAJOR HITS FOR OTHER ARTISTS INCLUDING BARBRA STREISAND, DIONNE WARWICK AND KENNY ROGERS/DOLLY PARTON
BORN ON THE ISLE OF MAN TO ENGLISH PARENTS THEY LIVED IN MANCHESTER, ENGLAND UNTIL THE LATE 1950'S.
THEY EVENTUALLY MOVED TO QUEENSLAND , AUSTRALIA.
AFTER THEIR FIRST CHART SUCCESS IN AUSTRALIA AS THE BEE GEES WITH "SPICKS AND SPECKS" (THEIR 12TH SINGLE), THEY RETURNED TO THE U.K. IN JANUARY 1967 WHERE PRODUCER ROBERT STIGWOOD BEGAN PROMOTING THEM TO A WORLDWIDE AUDIENCE.
THE BEE GEES HAVE SOLD MORE THAN 220 MILLION RECORDS WORLDWIDE, MAKING THEM ONE OF THE WORLD'S BEST SELLING MUSIC ARTIST OF ALL TIME.
THEY WERE INDUCTED INTO THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME IN 1997
THE BEE GEES' HALL OF FAME CITATION SAYS "ONLY ELVIS PRESLEY , THE BEATLES, MICHAEL JACKSON, GARTH BROOKS AND PAUL MCCARTNEY HAVE OUTSOLD THE BEE GEES"
FOLLOWING MAURICE'S SUDDEN DEATH IN JANUARY 2003, AT THE YOUNG AGE OF 53, BARRY AND ROBIN RETIRED THE GROUP'S NAME AFTER 45 YEARS OF ACTIVITY.
IN 2009 ROBIN ANNOUNCED THAT HE AND BARRY HAD AGREED THAT THE BEE GEES WOULD REFORM AND PERFORM AGAIN.
ROBIN DIED IN MAY 2012 AT THE YOUNG AGE OF 62 , AFTER A PROLONGED STRUGGLE WITH CANCER AND OTHER HEALTH PROBLEMS, LEAVING BARRY AS THE LONE SURVIVING MEMBER OF THE GROUP.
THE BEE GEES ARE MOST CERTAINLY ONE THE GREATEST GROUPS IN THE HISTORY OF ROCK MUSIC AND WILL BE REMEMBERED FOREVER FOR THEIR CONTRIBUTIONS
THIS GROUP HAS GIVEN SO MANY MEMORIES TO THE WORLD THROUGH SO MANY DECADES
WE HAVE GROWN UP WITH THE BEE GEES AND THEY REPRESENT A WONDERFUL PLACE IN OUR HEARTS AND MINDS
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ALBUM IS IN GOOD CONDITION --WITH LITTLE SURFACE WEAR ON THE BACK COVER OR FRONT
VINYL IS INCLUDED HOWEVER WE HAVE NO IDEA AS TO ITS CONDITION
NICE BOLD SIGNATURE FROM BARRY GIBB
GREAT ALBUM FROM THE LEGENDARY GROUP WITH BARRY GIBB BEING AN ESSENTIAL PART FOR THIS ALBUM
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