E.S.P. (Bee Gees album)

E.S.P.
Studio album by
the Bee Gees
Released21 September 1987[1]
RecordedJanuary – March 1987
Studio
Genre
Length48:25
Label
Producer
The Bee Gees chronology
Staying Alive: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
(1983) 		E.S.P.
(1987) 		One
(1989)
Singles from E.S.P.
  1. "You Win Again"
    Released: 7 September 1987
  2. "E.S.P."
    Released: 30 November 1987
  3. "Crazy for Your Love"
    Released: 8 February 1988
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
Los Angeles Times[3]
Number One[4]
Record Mirror[5]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide[6]

E.S.P. is the seventeenth studio album (fifteenth worldwide) by the Bee Gees released in 1987. It was the band's first studio album in six years, and their first release under their new contract with Warner Bros. It marked the first time in twelve years the band had worked with producer Arif Mardin, and was their first album to be recorded digitally. After the band's popularity had waned following the infamous Disco Demolition Night of 1979, the Gibb brothers had spent much of the early 1980s writing and producing songs for other artists, as well as pursuing solo projects, and E.S.P. was very much a comeback to prominence. The album sold well in Europe, reaching No. 5 in the UK, No. 2 in Norway and Austria, and No. 1 in Germany and Switzerland, though it failed to chart higher than No. 96 in the US.[7] The album's first single, "You Win Again", reached No. 1 in the UK, Ireland, Switzerland, Germany, Austria and Norway.

The album cover photographs show the Gibb brothers at Castlerigg stone circle near Keswick in England's Lake District.

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  2. ^ Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. E.S.P. at AllMusic. Retrieved 7 February 2012.
  3. ^ Grein, Paul (27 September 1987). "BEE GEES ARE BACK". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 16 February 2012.
  4. ^ Estaphanos, Josephine (17 October 1987). "Albums: Bee Gees — E.S.P. (Warners)". Number One. No. 226. London: IPC Magazines Ltd. p. 51. ISSN 0266-5328. Retrieved 18 November 2022 – via Flickr.
  5. ^ Smith, Robin (3 October 1987). "Albums". Record Mirror. p. 22. ISSN 0144-5804.
  6. ^ Cross, Charles R. (2004). "The Bee Gees". In Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian (eds.). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide (4th ed.). Simon & Schuster. pp. 58. ISBN 0-7432-0169-8.
  7. ^ "Bee Gees Chart History". Billboard.com. Retrieved 9 May 2020.