Spirits Having Flown - THE BEE GEES****

Tragedy/Too Much Heaven/Love You Inside Out/Reaching Out/Spirits Having Flown/Search Find/Stop (Think Again)Living Together/I’m Satisfied/Until

Spirits Having Flown was the last of The Bee Gee’s enormously successful disco era albums. From now on the hits would be much less frequent. This one features no fewer than three US No. 1 hits – Tragedy, Too Much Heaven and Love You Inside Out. (US:1 UK:1)

“The Bee Gees of course had a long heritage before their disco years, and they have talent to burn. They can sing in harmony as well as any of the top groups ever did. And Barry Gibb and that falsetto - my goodness, how did he sustain that for so long?”

“After the success of Saturday Night Fever The Bee Gees wanted to make a studio album thriving upon the same spirit. Tragedy is a groovy disco track sung in their recognizable falsetto voices. Too Much Heaven is a smooth ballad sung in their falsetto voices with vibrato. Dreamy sounds are created by keyboards, synthesizers and vibraphone. Strings, horns and funky bass riffs give it a fuller sound and a dynamic feeling. Love You Inside Out uses a quiet disco beat, smooth harmonies and tight vocals to evoke romance. Their experience in songwriting and their vocal quality sets them apart from other disco acts.”

“While not the strongest Bee Gees release, it still has well written songs and a balance to it. One can only imagine how hard it must of been to follow up the beast that was Saturday Night Fever. Tragedy is still one of my fist pumping favourites and Love You Inside Out is one of the better songs on here.”

“There's nothing groundbreaking about this album; but in essence, it aims to be nothing more than a pop LP and by that criteria, it succeeds completely. The production is impressive and the trio's vocals are always top-notch; a little falsetto-heavy, admittedly, but still a thing of great beauty.”

“A truly superb album, especially on their having to live up to the reputation they built up in the light of Saturday Night Fever. Unashamedly commercial with instantly hummable tunes.”