Bee Gees - One (Chris' Extended Mix)

The song that cemented the Bee Gee's return from radio wilderness! By now in 1989, all those horrible 1979 "Disco Sucks" people were losing their hair, their physiques and their first wives, and had lost their shirts on the Stock Market's Black Monday.

The 12" Single of "One" was yet another stripped-down rendering of a song - long on solo drums and short on instrument tracks and the lush arrangements that had made the radio and album track a hit. Here's my version of what I believe a long version should have sounded like.

One is the Bee Gees' eighteenth studio album, released in April 1989 (in the United States the release was delayed, coming out in August of the same year). After the European success of their previous album, E.S.P., the Gibb brothers began to work on the One album in early 1988. In March, their brother Andy suddenly died and the Bee Gees took a break until November when they returned to the studio to complete the album.

The style of One was more melancholic than E.S.P., and heavily influenced by the loss of their brother. The first single from the album, "Ordinary Lives", dedicated to Andy, was an example of that.

The album had little impact in the market. Other singles from the album included "One", "Bodyguard", and "Tokyo Nights". Despite the success of the single "One" in the US (where it made the Top 10), the album only peaked at #68 there. In the UK, none of the singles from the album were hits and the album peaked at #29, but sold better in Germany and Switzerland where it made the Top 10.

Barry Gibb commented on the song "One" at the time by saying "This song brought us back to US radio. A leading media paper recently stated regarding this song, 'The Bee Gees are capable of at least one more hit.' I don't believe that, I believe we could have at least two."

The album is considered the most successful of the band's Warner Bros. albums.

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