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Spirits Having Flown Tour (also known as the Spirits Tour and the North American Tour) was the eighth concert tour by the Bee Gees in support of their fifteenth studio album Spirits Having Flown (1979). The tour began on 28 June 1979 in Fort Worth, Texas reaching a total of 38 cities before coming to a close on 6 October 1979 in Miami, Florida.
The Bee Gees Special is a 90-minute television special featuring The Bee Gees and broadcast by NBC on November 15, 1979. The program featured footage from the Bee Gees' July 10, 1979 concert at Oakland Coliseum Arena in Oakland, California captured by a film crew that accompanied them during their Spirits Having Flown Tour.
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.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 3 January 2025. Music group (1958–2012) "BGs" redirects here. For other uses, see BG (disambiguation) and BGS (disambiguation). Bee Gees The Bee Gees in 1977 (top to bottom): Barry, Robin and Maurice Gibb Background information Also known as BGs (1958–1959) Genres Pop soul disco rock soft rock ...
A recording of the concert was released on an LP on Polydor Records several weeks later, with the performances in a different running order. ABBA — "Chiquitita" [1] Bee Gees — "Too Much Heaven" Andy Gibb— "I Go For You" Andy Gibb and Olivia Newton-John — "Rest Your Love on Me" Olivia Newton-John — "The Key" John Denver — "Rhymes ...
In 1979, Gibb performed along with the Bee Gees, ABBA and Olivia Newton-John (duet with "Rest Your Love on Me") at the Music for UNICEF Concert at the United Nations General Assembly, which was broadcast worldwide. He returned to the studio to begin recording sessions for his final full studio album After Dark. In March 1980, the last of Gibb's ...
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Recorded in October 1979 after the Bee Gees' 1979 Spirits Having Flown Tour, all of the songs were written that same year except "The Love Inside" which was written in 1978 during work on the album Spirits Having Flown. All songs features Gibb's falsetto voice, except "What Kind of Fool" where he used his natural voice.