I Still Love You (Bee Gees song)

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"I Still Love You"
Single by Bee Gees
from the album Living Eyes
ReleasedNovember 1981
RecordedFebruary — June 1981
Length4:24
Label RSO
Songwriter(s) Barry, Robin & Maurice Gibb
Producer(s) Barry Gibb, Robin Gibb, Maurice Gibb, Albhy Galuten, Karl Richardson
Bee Gees B-sidessingles chronology
"He's a Liar (Instrumental Version)"
(1981)
"I Still Love You"
(1981)
"The Woman In You (Instrumental Version)"
(1983)

"I Still Love You" is a song by the Bee Gees primarily written by Barry, Robin & Maurice Gibb. It was released as a double A side of "Living Eyes" [1] and on the album Living Eyes . Produced by the Gibb brothers with Albhy Galuten and Karl Richardson.

Contents

The song included in the compilations, Bee Gees (1999) Bee Gees Mix and Love Hits (1987). [2]

Background

"I Still Love You" is a song written by Barry, Robin and Maurice Gibb in 1981. Robin Gibb sings lead on this track, he also sings harmony with Maurice doing upper and lower register harmonies on the chorus and the second verse. The song ends with a high fret tone. Chuck Kirkpatrick plays sitar and rhodes organ while Ralph McDonald plays percussion. [3] On its intro it features the orchestra backing and Chuck Kirkpatrick's Rhodes organ.

Music critic Joe Viglione at Allmusic described this song as Robin Gibb in Bee Gees form with lush arrangements and production. [4]

Personnel

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References

  1. "Bee Gees - Living Eyes / I Still Love You". Discogs. Retrieved 6 December 2013.
  2. Bee Gees – Love Hits at Discogs
  3. Joseph Brennan: Gibb Songs 1981
  4. Bee Gees - Living Eyes Album Review at Allmusic