Spirits Having Flown

Spirits Having Flown
Studio album by
Released5 February 1979[1]
RecordedMarch – November 1978
StudioCriteria Studios, Miami
Genre
Length45:53
Label
Producer
The Bee Gees chronology
Saturday Night Fever
(1977)
Spirits Having Flown
(1979)
Greatest
(1979)
Singles from Spirits Having Flown
  1. "Too Much Heaven"
    Released: November 1978
  2. "Tragedy"
    Released: February 1979
  3. "Love You Inside Out"
    Released: April 1979

Spirits Having Flown is the fifteenth album by the Bee Gees, released in 1979 by RSO Records. It was the group's first album after their collaboration on the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack. The album's first three tracks were released as singles and all reached No. 1 in the US, giving the Bee Gees an unbroken run of six US chart-toppers in a one-year period and equaling a feat shared by Bing Crosby, Elvis Presley, and The Beatles. It was the first Bee Gees album to make the UK top 40 in ten years (not counting the soundtrack for Saturday Night Fever), as well as being their first and only UK No. 1 album. Spirits Having Flown also topped the charts in Australia, Canada, Germany, New Zealand, Sweden and the US. The album has sold more than 20 million copies worldwide.

Spirits Having Flown marked the end of the band's most successful era, prior to a severe downturn in the early 1980s when they were subject to a near-total radio blackout (particularly in America) that Robin Gibb would refer to as "censorship" and "evil" in interviews.

Reprise Records remastered and re-released the album on CD in 2006, although it did not include any additional bonus tracks, demos or outtakes.

  1. ^ "Billboard" (PDF). Worldradiohistory.com. 17 February 1979. Retrieved 22 January 2022.
  2. ^ a b c Rodriguez, Juan (27 December 1979). "Top Hits of 1979". The Montreal Gazette. Retrieved 3 April 2014. ...the perfect fusion of disco, soul and pop.