Thursday, October 17, 2013

You win again!

1987 was the year Bee Gees released their synth driven pop triumph that became a #1 hit in Britain, Ireland, Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Denmark and Norway as well as making the top 10 in Italy, the Netherlands, Australia and Sweden. This sparkling offering from these veterans was released commercially on vinyl and cassette and a peculiar 1 track CD single was produced as a promotional-only copy in the USA and a 2 track Mini CD was released in Japan. This sounds quite ultra modern for that period and the music itself has a sleek, timeless feel appropriate for that decade. In fact, the musical arrangement did not include live drums of a bass instrument so typical to that era. However, common sense prevented them from dominating the charts in the fruitless nineties as that incantation would simply have been a wasteful abomination. Further reading: http://www.bubblews.com/news/1358128-the-retroscope-17-october

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