Mr. Natural
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Mr. Natural
Mr. Natural is the Bee Gees’ twelfth album (tenth worldwide), released in July 1974. It was the first Bee Gees release to be produced by Arif Mardin, who was partially responsible for launching the group’s later major success with the follow-up album Main Course. The album’s music incorporates more rhythm and blues, soul and funk and hard rock than their previous albums. The album reached No. 178 on the Billboard 200. Mr. Natural was also the first album to feature drummer Dennis Bryon. Although the album contains R&B and soul numbers, Barry said that the album was “whiter” than their next album Main Course (on which he said that they started to turn black on their songs).-Wikipedia
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Rolling Stone
There’s a vigor which has been missing from recent records: The group seems altogether more interested in writing good songs and making strong records. The title track, a natural hit that wasn’t, has a perfectly enthralling chorus, an attribute shared by a substantial number of cuts.
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All Music
Shedding their pop sensibilities here and singing in a freer, more soulful idiom (with a strong Philadelphia soul influence) on songs such as "Throw a Penny," and with a funky beat backing them up on a lot of this record, the group is scarcely recognizable in relation to their previous work.
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