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"Lonely Days" is a ballad performed by the Bee Gees, written by Barry, Robin & Maurice Gibb, and featured on their album ''2 Years On''. It was their first Top Five hit in the US, peaking at number three in the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 and reaching number one in the ''Cashbox'' and ''Record World'' charts. ==Writing and recording== On Friday, 21 August 1970, the three Gibb brothers announced they would reunite and start recording together, nearly 16 months after Robin quit the group. They said later that they wrote "Lonely Days" and "How Can You Mend a Broken Heart" at their first reunion session, but the exact day when they recorded the song is unknown. However, a tape of stereo mixes received at Atlantic in October bears the tantalizing notation "August 20, 1970" which, if true, means the brothers announced the reunion the day after it happened. According to Robin Gibb in a 2001 ''Billboard'' interview with the Bee Gees, "That was written on Addison Road in Holland Park in London, in the basement of Barry's place". This song was sung by all three together to Maurice's piano and bass and Bill Shepherd's string and horn arrangement, the slow verses contrasting with the pounding chorus. "'Lonely Days' was written in ten minutes. It was that quick. I was at the piano ten minutes". Barry revealed later in 1998, "A manager we had about five years back heard 'Lonely Days' in a restaurant and he said to a friend, 'That's one of my favorite Beatles songs' And he was managing us!.〔 Atlantic Records president Jerry L. Greenberg recalled: "I heard that song (Days' ) and I went crazy. I thought it was going to be an amazing number one record. In those days we had our own recording studio, right down the hall from the main offices. Now the record was pressed and ready to go, but what I did was, I made up about 30 tape copies, just put the song on a tape on a regular plastic reel, and I called up a bunch of my promotions department friends. Greenberg continues: "I said, 'The Bee Gees just came out of the studio and they cut this record, and I don't even have time to press it up yet, but I wanted you guys to hear it, and I'm going to send you, you're the only one I'm sending, this tape, right from the studio'. I mailed it out special delivery and I have to tell you, within a week, thirty radio stations were all over 'Lonely Days', and it busted the record wide open. I was very proud of that. Ahmet () and Jerry () were both talking about it. In those days, you had to come up with some creative ideas, how to promote a record. That record took off!.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lonely Days」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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