Love Songs (Bee Gees Album)
''Love Songs'' is the third Bee Gees compilation album in four years, though the first to cover a specific musical style. A proposed album of love songs was in the works around 1995 when the Bee Gees recorded their own versions of "Heartbreaker (Dionne Warwick song), Heartbreaker" and "Emotion (Samantha Sang song), Emotion", but that project was soon shelved and those recordings remained unavailable until the release of ''Their Greatest Hits: The Record'' in 2001. Following the success of the ''Number Ones (Bee Gees album), Number Ones'' compilation in 2004, Universal once again tried to mine the Bee Gees catalog, this time focusing on their ballads. Spanning their entire career, ''Love Songs'' features many of the group's big hits, but also includes some lesser known tracks such as "Secret Love (Bee Gees song), Secret Love" and "For Whom the Bell Tolls (Bee Gees song), For Whom the Bell Tolls", which were both big hits in Europe. Also included is a live version of "Islands in th ...
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Bee Gees
The Bee Gees were a musical group formed in 1958 by brothers Barry, Robin, and Maurice Gibb. The trio were especially successful in popular music in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and later as prominent performers in the disco music era in the mid-to-late 1970s. The group sang recognisable three-part tight harmonies; Robin's clear vibrato lead vocals were a hallmark of their earlier hits, while Barry's R&B falsetto became their signature sound during the mid-to-late 1970s and 1980s. The group wrote all of their own original material, as well as writing and producing several major hits for other artists and have been regarded as one of the most important and influential acts in pop music history. They have been referred to in the media as The Disco Kings, Britain's First Family of Harmony, and The Kings of Dance Music. Born on the Isle of Man to English parents, the Gibb brothers lived in Chorlton, Manchester, England, until the late 1950s. There, in 1955, they formed the ...
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