Something's Goin' On is the 32nd studio album by

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, released by Decca on 25 October 2004 in the UK. The album reached #7 in the UK Albums Chart and was certified "Gold" by the BPI.Chart information for Something's Goin' On
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in the United States. Reviews of the album were positive.

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rated this as "Album of the Week as it contained a well-rounded package." Three singles were released from this album, the first being the title song Somethin' Is Goin' On which reached #9 in the

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and stayed for 3 weeks. The second single release was a song written by

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called I Cannot Give You My Love which reached #13 in the UK Singles Chart and stayed for 4 weeks. Barry Gibb also appears as a guest on the album as a guitarist and sings backing vocals in the track, his brother

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also featured as keyboardist on the album. The final single release was What Car which reached #12 in the UK Singles Chart and stayed for 3 weeks. The album has sold over 150,000 copies worldwide.

International release

The album was released as "For Life" on the

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label in 2005 for the European market. It had a revised track-listing including four of the five additional tracks released as

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on the singles. These four tracks were recorded during the same series of recording sessions for the rest of the album.

Track listing

B-Sides

Personnel

- vocals *

- vocals and guitar (on "I Cannot Give You My Love" only) *

- keyboards *Hal Roland - keyboards *

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- guitar * George Perry - bass *

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- drums *Gustav Lescano - harmonica *

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- engineer

Charts

References

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