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"To Love Somebody" is a song written by Barry and Robin Gibb. Produced by Robert Stigwood, it was the second single released by the Bee Gees from their international debut album, ''Bee Gees 1st'', in 1967.〔[http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc19826/m1/ Show 49 - The British are Coming! The British are Coming!: With an emphasis on Donovan, the Bee Gees, and the Who. [Part 6] : UNT Digital Library]〕 The single reached No.17 in the United States and No.41 in the United Kingdom. The song's B-side was "Close Another Door"〔 The single was reissued in 1980 on RSO Records with "How Can You Mend a Broken Heart" as its flipside.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Bee Gees - To Love Somebody (1980 reissue) )〕 The song ranked at number 94 on ''NME'' magazine's "100 Best Tracks of the Sixties".〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=100 Best Songs of the 1960s )〕 It was a minor hit in the UK and it reached the top 20 in the US. The song has been recorded by many other musicians, including Nina Simone whose version reached No. 5 in the UK in 1969, Michael Bolton whose recording reached No.11 in the US and No.16 in the UK in 1992. ==Origins and lyrics== At the request of Robert Stigwood, the band's manager, Barry and Robin Gibb wrote "To Love Somebody", a soulful ballad in the style of Sam & Dave or The Rascals, for Otis Redding.〔Melinda Bilyeu, Hector Cook, Andrew Môn Hughes (2004). ''The Bee Gees: Tales of the Brothers Gibb'' Omnibus Press, ISBN 978-1-84449-057-8, p. 134.〕 Although Redding came to see Barry at the Plaza in New York one night. Robin claimed that "(Redding ) said he loved our material and would Barry write him a song".〔(【引用サイトリンク】author=David N. Meyer )〕 The Bee Gees recorded "To Love Somebody" at IBC Studios, London in March 1967 and released it as a single in mid-July 1967 in the US. Redding died in an aeroplane crash later that year, before having a chance to record the song. The song was recorded around April 1967 with "Gilbert Green" and "End of My Song" at the IBC Studios in London, England.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Gibb Songs: 1967 )〕 Robin said, "Everyone told us what a great record they thought it was, Other groups all raved about it but for some reason people in Britain just did not seem to like it". Barry said "I think the reason it didn't do well here was because it's a soul number, Americans loved it, but it just wasn't right for this country". Barry Gibb explained in a June 2001 interview with ''Mojo'' magazine: It was for Robert. I say that unabashedly. He asked me to write a song for him, personally. It was written in New York and played to Otis but, personally, it was for Robert. He meant a great deal to me. I don't think it was a homosexual affection but a tremendous admiration for this man's abilities and gifts.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= To Love Somebody - Bee Gees )〕 The simple title refrain of the chorus, "You don't know what it's like, Baby, you don't know what it's like, To love somebody...the way I love you" has the effect of being at once heartbreaking and triumphant, a self-pitying put-down to an unrequited love. "There's... a certain kind of light that never shone on me... You ain't got to be so blind, I'm a man, can't you see what I am?, I live and breathe for you, But what good does that do, If I ain't got you?". 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「To Love Somebody (song)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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