Alan Freeman Days | |
Artist: | Robin Gibb |
Album: | Songs from the British Academy Volume 1 |
Released: | May 2008 |
Recorded: | August 2007 Sphere Studios, London |
Genre: | Alternative rock, pop rock |
Length: | 3:39 |
Label: | Academy Recordings |
Producer: | Peter-John Vettese |
"Alan Freeman Days" is a song written by Robin Gibb in 2007 as a tribute to the late Australian-British DJ Alan Freeman and released in May 2008.[1] [2] In 2014, it was included on Gibb's first posthumous album 50 St. Catherine's Drive.
Recorded in August 2007 at Sphere Studios in London.[3] A live performance of the song was released on Robin Gibb - In Concert With the Danish Concert Orchestra.[4]
While it was mainly made available as a download the song was also included on a limited number of promotional CDs, a various artist compilation "V.1 - Songs from the British Academy" from Academy Recordings,[5] [6] of which a handful were raffled off to fans registered to Robin Gibb's forum.[7] There is also a lyric in the song "and my brother Maurice is stayin alive" as his tribute also to his late twin brother Maurice Gibb.