Living Eyes | ||||
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Studio album by the Bee Gees | ||||
Released | October 1981 | |||
Recorded | February – June 1981 | |||
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Genre | Soft rock, art rock | |||
Length | 46:04 | |||
Label | RSO Polydor Japan | |||
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Singles from Living Eyes | ||||
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Living Eyes is the sixteenth studio album (fourteenth internationally) by the Bee Gees, released in 1981. It was the band's final album on RSO Records, which would be absorbed into Polydor and subsequently discontinued. The album showcased a soft rock sound that contrasted with their disco and R&B material of the mid-to-late 1970s; having become a prominent target of the popular backlash against disco, the Bee Gees were pressured to publicly disassociate from the genre.
While Living Eyes did not sell well in either the UK or the US, it was a top 40 hit in the majority of territories in which it saw wide release. The album earned mixed to negative reviews from critics, and the Gibb brothers themselves have expressed their dislike of it, considering it a rush job influenced by commercial considerations.