Bee Gees – Spirits Having Flown (1979)

01. Tragedy    [0:05:05.68]
02. Too Much Heaven    [0:04:58.35]
03. Love You Inside Out    [0:04:13.07]
04. Reaching Out    [0:04:07.45]
05. Spirits (Having Flown)    [0:05:22.08]
06. Search, Find    [0:04:16.22]
07. Stop (Think Again)    [0:06:41.23]
08. Living Together    [0:04:24.00]
09. I'm Satisfied    [0:03:58.47]				play
10. Until    [0:02:28.45]						play

Personnel
    Barry Gibb - Guitar, Vocals
    Robin Gibb - Vocals
    Maurice Gibb - Bass, Vocals
    Blue Weaver - Synthesizer, Piano, Keyboards, Vibraphone, Arp
    Alan Kendall - Bass, Guitar
    Dennis Bryon - Drums
    Neal Bonsanti - Horns
    Gary Brown - Saxophone
    Harold Cowart - Bass
    Kenneth Faulk - Horns
    Albhy Galuten - Synthesizer, Bass, Conductor
    Peter Graves - Horns
    Joe Lala - Percussion, Conga
    Lee Loughnane - Horns
    Herbie Mann - Flute
    James Pankow - Horns
    Walter Parazaider - Horns
    Bill Purse - Horns
    Whit Sidener - Horns
    George Terry - Guitar
    Stanley Webb - Horns
    Daniel Ben Zubulon - Percussion, Conga

Spirits Having Flown is the Bee Gees' fifteenth original album, released in 1979. 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 which all went to no.1 in the US. It was also 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 30 million copies worldwide. The Bee Gees spent much of 1978 on Spirits Having Flown, the most time they had ever spent on one album. Barry said that he felt it had to live up to the sensational success of Saturday Night Fever. This only heightened any tendencies the Bee Gees had toward perfectionism, Barry in particular. No doubt each song has many, many recording dates, as they carefully recorded and re-recorded each nuance, but none of the actual dates are known. There was a break from about the second week of May to the last week of July.

Co-producer Albhy Galuten recalls Spirits Having Flown as being created primarily by Barry Gibb, Karl Richardson and himself putting in long days and nights at Criteria Studios. Blue Weaver recalls others being involved. Both agree that Robin Gibb was active behind the scenes in songwriting and offering feedback to the recording process, but Maurice Gibb contributes probably the least he did on any Bee Gees album. Not only was his alcoholism sapping his creativity, but he was having back pains finally diagnosed in 1980 as caused by a bad disk. 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.

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.

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