| "Too Much Heaven" | ||||
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| Single by Bee Gees | ||||
| from the album Spirits Having Flown | ||||
| B-side | "Rest Your Love on Me" | |||
| Released | 24 October 1978 [1] | |||
| Recorded | July 1978 | |||
| Studio | Criteria (Miami) | |||
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| Length | 4:58 | |||
| Label | RSO | |||
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| "Too Much Heaven" on YouTube | ||||
"Too Much Heaven" is a song by the Bee Gees, which was the band's contribution to the "Music for UNICEF" fund. They performed it at the Music for UNICEF Concert on 9 January 1979. The song later found its way to the group's thirteenth original album, Spirits Having Flown. It hit No. 1 in both the US and Canada. In the United States, the song was the first single out of three from the album to interrupt a song's stay at #1. "Too Much Heaven" knocked "Le Freak" off the top spot for two weeks before "Le Freak" returned to #1 again.[3] "Too Much Heaven" also rose to the top three in the UK. In the US, it would become the fourth of six consecutive No. 1s, equaling the record set by Bing Crosby, Elvis Presley, and the Beatles for the most consecutive No. 1 songs. The six Bee Gee songs are "How Deep Is Your Love", "Stayin' Alive", "Night Fever", "Too Much Heaven", "Tragedy" and "Love You Inside Out". The songs spanned the years of 1977, 1978 and 1979.
Robin Gibb reportedly said on the Bee Gees' interview for Billboard in 2001 that this track was one of his favourite songs of the Bee Gees.[4]
- ^ "Bee Gees singles".
- ^ Molanphy, Chris (28 September 2018). "The Nights on Broadway Edition". Hit Parade | Music History and Music Trivia (Podcast). Slate. Retrieved 12 August 2023.
- ^ "Billboard Top 100 January 20,1979". Billboard. Retrieved 16 March 2020.
- ^ "The Bee Gees: 35 Years of Music". Billboard. 24 March 2001. p. 27. Retrieved 12 February 2015.