With My Eyes Closed

The piece *With My Eyes Closed* by the Bee Gees, with a duration of 4:19, emerges from the sessions of the album *Still Waters*, released in March 1997 in the United Kingdom and May of the same year in the United States. This work featured the collaboration of several renowned producers, including Russ Titelman, David Foster, Hugh Padgham, and Arif Mardin. The recording of the song involved engineers such as Doug Boehm and Joe Zook, while the mixing was handled by Gerry Brown and Raphael Saadiq, who also participated as a producer.

The context for the creation of *Still Waters* was influenced by a previous event. In 1994, a tour planned to promote the album *Size Isn't Everything* was postponed due to arthritis problems affecting Barry Gibb. Following the cancellation of this tour, the idea for a different project arose: an album of acoustic covers of songs that the Gibb brothers had composed for other artists. This project, which would eventually be called *Love Songs*, also included new material, and laid the groundwork for the sonic exploration that would culminate in *Still Waters*. The Bee Gees, founded in 1958 by brothers Barry, Robin, and Maurice Gibb, had already gone through different stages of success, from their pop peak in the late sixties and early seventies, to their prominent participation in the disco era of the late seventies. Their distinctive sound was characterized by three-part vocal harmonies, Robin's particular vibrato in his early years, and Barry's falsetto which became consolidated in later decades.