20.08.2009

Bee Gees golden anniversary grows

Expanded celebration begins with THE ULTIMATE BEE GEES, a double-disc career retrospective. Also available as Deluxe limited-edition with DVD of previously unreleased footage

Available From Reprise November 3

Reprise is pleased to announce that it will expand its celebration of the Bee Gees’ 50th anniversary into 2010. The quality of the two spectacular compilations, originally announced in July to be released on the same day, demands that each be given time alone in the spotlight.

Reprise will now kick off its celebration honouring Barry, Robin, and the late Maurice Gibb on November 3, with THE ULTIMATE BEE GEES. This double-disc career retrospective will be available worldwide at all retail outlets, for a suggested list price of 24.98 USD (deluxe limited-edition w/DVD), 19.98 USD (2-CD), and 19.99 USD (digital).

The tribute will continue four months later, in March 2010, with the release of MYTHOLOGY: THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY COLLECTION. Curated and produced by Barry and Robin Gibb, MYTHOLOGY contains four discs, each spotlighting a different Gibb brother, including one dedicated to Andy, who was not part of the group.

THE ULTIMATE BEE GEES features the group’s many hits and chart-topping singles, performances of a selection of hit songs they wrote for others, and liner notes by Tim Rice. The DVD, available exclusively in the deluxe edition, offers a treasury of unreleased videos, spanning the Bee Gees’ entire career with previously unreleased television appearances, live performances, and promo videos.

Tim Rice’s liner notes accompanying THE ULTIMATE BEE GEES put the group’s extravagant popularity into perspective. “Within this package is a collection of performances and songs that very few practitioners of popular music of the past could match for quality, originality, and emotion. It’s the singing, the harmonies, the arrangements, the sound, the rivalry, the love, the intelligence, the determination, but above all it’s the songs.”

This year marks the golden anniversary of the Bee Gees’ musical beginnings. Since then, the trio has been inducted into both the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Songwriters Hall of Fame, won both the Lifetime Achievement and Legend Awards from the Recording Academy, seven Grammy Awards, BMI Icon Award, and a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 1997 BRIT Awards.

THE ULTIMATE BEE GEES
Track Listing

Disc One
01. “You Should Be Dancing”
02. “Stayin’ Alive”
03. “Jive Talkin’”
04. “Nights On Broadway”
05. “Tragedy”
06. “Night Fever”
07. “More Than A Woman”
08. “Fanny (Be Tender With My Love)”
09. “Spirits Having Flown”
10. “If I Can’t Have You”
11. “Boogie Child”
12. “Love You Inside Out”
13. “You Win Again”
14. “One”
15. “Secret Love”
16. “Alone”
17. “Still Waters (Run Deep)”
18. “This Is Where I Came In”
19. “Spicks And Specks”

Disc Two
01. “How Deep Is Your Love”
02. “To Love Somebody”
03. “Words”
04. “How Can You Mend A Broken Heart”
05. “Too Much Heaven”
06. “Emotion”
07. “Lonely Days”
08. “Run To Me”
09. “Love So Right”
10. “For Whom The Bells Toll”
11. “I’ve Gotta Get A Message To You”
12. “New York Mining Disaster 1941”
13. “Massachusetts”
14. “I Started A Joke”
15. “World”
16. “First Of May”
17. “Holiday”
18. “Don’t Forget To Remember”
Live Medley (from “One Night Only”)
19. “Islands In The Stream”
20.“Heartbreaker”
21.“Guilty”
22. “Immortality (w/ Celine Dion)

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