Living Eyes (Bee Gees album)

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Living Eyes
Living Eyes cover
Studio album by the Bee Gees
Released 1981
Genre Pop
Length 46:04
Label RSO, Polydor Japan
Producer The Bee Gees, Albhy Galuten, Karl Richardson
Professional reviews
the Bee Gees chronology
Spirits Having Flown
(1979)		 Living Eyes
(1981)		 E.S.P.
(1987)

Living Eyes is the Bee Gees' fourteenth original album, released in 1981. The Bee Gees completely broke away from disco with the release of this album. In spite of this, the album was virtually ignored in the United States because of the anti-disco backlash. The album sold 750,000 copies worldwide and while it did not enter the Top 40 in either the U.S. or the UK, it reached #6 in Norway and #4 in Spain.

Living Eyes was chosen to be the first ever album to be manufactured on CD for demonstration purposes, as seen on the BBC TV program Tomorrow's World in 1981, and was featured on the inaugural issue of the Compact Disc trade magazine. It was the first Bee Gees album to be released on CD, in early 1983, when CDs first reached the market, though few were manufactured. After RSO Records was absorbed by Polygram Records, Living Eyes was the only Bee Gees album in their catalog not released on CD in the late 1980s. It became very rare until years later when it became available on CD in Japan.

[edit] Track listing

All songs written by Barry Gibb, Robin Gibb and Maurice Gibb, except as indicated.

  1. "Living Eyes" – 4:20
  2. "He's a Liar" – 4:05
  3. "Paradise" – 4:21
  4. "Don't Fall in Love with Me" – 4:57
  5. "Soldiers" – 4:28
  6. "I Still Love You" – 4:27
  7. "Wildflower" – 4:26
  8. "Nothing Could Be Good" (Albhy Galuten, B. Gibb, R. Gibb, M. Gibb) – 4:13
  9. "Cryin' Everyday" – 4:05
  10. "Be Who You Are" (B. Gibb) – 6:42

[edit] Outtakes

  1. "Heart (Stop Beating In Time)" - later recorded by Leo Sayer
  2. "Heat Of The Night"
  3. "Loving You Is Killing Me"
  4. "Hold Her In Your Hand" - later recorded by Maurice Gibb in 1984 for the soundtrack to A Breed Apart

[edit] Personnel

v • d • e
The Bee Gees
Barry Gibb · Robin Gibb · Maurice Gibb
Colin Petersen · Vince Melouney
Studio Albums
1960's
Barry Gibb and the Bee Gee's (1965) · Spicks and Specks (1966) · Bee Gees' 1st (1967) · Horizontal (1968) · Idea (1968) · Odessa (1969)
1970's
Cucumber Castle (1970) · 2 Years On (1970) · Trafalgar (1971)  · To Whom It May Concern (1972) · Life in a Tin Can (1973) · Mr. Natural (1974) · Main Course (1975) · Children of the World (1976) · Spirits Having Flown (1979)
1980's
Living Eyes (1981) · E.S.P. (1987) · One (1989)
1990's
High Civilization (1991) · Size Isn't Everything (1993) · Still Waters (1997)
2000's
Singles (US & UK)
1960's
New York Mining Disaster 1941 (1967) · To Love Somebody (1967) · Holiday (1967) · Massachusetts (1967) · World (1967) · Words (1968) · Jumbo (1968) · I've Gotta Get a Message to You (1968) · I Started a Joke (1968) · First Of May (1969) · Tomorrow, Tomorrow (1969) · Don't Forget to Remember (1969)
1970's
If I Only Had My Mind on Something Else (1970) · I.O.I.O. (1970) · Lonely Days (1970) · How Can You Mend a Broken Heart? (1971) · Don't Wanna Live Inside Myself (1971) · My World (1972) · Run To Me (1972) · Alive (1972) · Saw a New Morning (1973) · Wouldn't I Be Someone (1973) · Mr. Natural (1974) · Throw a Penny (1974) · Charade · Jive Talkin' (1975) · Nights on Broadway (1975) · Fanny (Be Tender with My Love) (1976) · You Should Be Dancing (1976) · Love So Right (1976) · Boogie Child (1977) · Edge of the Universe (Live) (1977) · How Deep is Your Love? (1977) · Stayin' Alive (1977) · Night Fever (1978) · Too Much Heaven (1978) · Tragedy (1979) · Love You Inside Out (1979) · Spirits (Having Flown) (1979)
1980's
He's a Liar (1981) · Living Eyes (1981) · The Woman in You (1983) · Someone Belonging To Someone (1983) · You Win Again (1987) · ESP (1987) · Crazy For Your Love (1988) · Ordinary Lives (1989) · One (1989)
1990's
Bodyguard (1990) · Secret Love (1991) · When He's Gone (1991) · Paying The Price Of Love (1993) · For Whom The Bell Tolls (1993) · How to Fall in Love, Part 1 (1994) · Alone (1997) · I Could Not Love You More (1997) · Still Waters (Run Deep) (1997) · Immortality (1998)
2000's
This Is Where I Came In (2001)
Soundtracks
Melody (1971) · Saturday Night Fever (1977) · Staying Alive (1983)
Live Albums
Compilation Albums
Best of Bee Gees (1969) · Best of Bee Gees, Volume 2 (1973) · Bee Gees Gold (1976) · Bee Gees Greatest (1979) · Their Greatest Hits: The Record (2001) · Number Ones (2004) · Love Songs (2005)
Gibb Productions
Andy Gibb's "Flowing Rivers" (1977), "Shadow Dancing" (1978) & "After Dark" (1980) · Jimmy Ruffin's "Sunrise" (1980) · Barbra Streisand's "Guilty" (1980) · Dionne Warwick's "Heartbreaker" (1982) · Kenny Rogers' "Eyes That See in the Dark" (1983) · Diana Ross' "Eaten Alive" (1985) · Carola's "Runaway" (1986)
See also: Bee Gees discography