It's in my top 5 of Bee Gees albums. It was among my earliest acqusitions so that might have coloured my preferences but I genuinly enjoy it.

As a result, the Japanese SHM-CD reissues dropped some bonus tracks that were exclusive to them when originally released and One had "You Win Again" in place of "Wing and a Prayer", as if sticking to the original North American CD release.

It's a damn shame as there are indeed some really golden nuggets hidden away. His blanket statement was, going by memory, that there were reasons behind them not being released to begin with. Any reissues would also stick to their original tracklist.

What it boils down to is Barry is against releasing anything previously unreleased unless he deems it worthy. That was his stance when interviewed by a digital online magazine ca 2010 and he has stuck to his guns ever since.

Usually nothing good whenever she tries to rub whatever grey braincells she has remaining together.

Haven't made up my mind yet.

Probably wouldn't have happened under late Billboard editor-in-chief Timothy White's watchful eyes. That is really sloppy.

Yup. Barry, Robin and Maurice were all born there. Big sister Lesley and younger brother Andrew were born in Manchester though. Their parents moved back there in the summer of 73, Barry followed about a half year later with wife Linda and their newly born son Stephen. Maurice were to follow later.

Oh, he did have a phase or two when he grew one.

He can always join a Bee Gees tribute act.

This was a re-enactment done in 1979 for the tv special. There is no real footage from the actual 1978 recording sessions.

The American would be non-existant. Only imports were sold there. Germany and Japan is pretty much the extent of what we got, not counting the copious amounts of Russian counterfeits. No UK-manufatured CDs either.

I picked up the following Japanese reissues of it until the more recent SHM-CD one where I finally said enough's enough. 😄

Managed to locate a legit 1984 German-pressed Living Eyes CD some years ago. Not one of the coveted redface ones, unfortunately, but it'll do. Prior to that I did pick up the Japanese POCP-2244 import that I came across in a record store ~30 years ago, which was my go to for a decade or so.

The format did launch on October 1982 so it wasn't quite that far off. Admittedly, the price point for the hardware was an obstacle for the great masses at that point in time.

UMG's social media munchkins are likely not born before the turn of this century and not really that familiar with CDs.

Nice find. I've had mine for quite a while now to the point where the plastic holding it sealed started to come unsealed. Still haven't played it though.

The mono single version of "Morning of my Life" is the one featuring the brothers on backing vocals. It's a shame it hasn't had a CD release. Doesn't appear as if the Ofarim catalogue will ever see any archival releases, sadly.

Just saw the video. Great cover. The cheezy-ness of it all made me go: "They have to be Swedes". After googling - Yup, and from the same region of Sweden as me. The video is a nice callback to the Bee Gees video though with the MGM studio lot in ruins vs Swedish castle ruins.

Own the LP, it even had a couple of cd reissues in later years under different names.