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“Lonely Days” is a 1970 song by the Bee Gees, featured on their album 2 Years On. The song incorporated the innovative structure and knack for changing tempos exemplified by the second side of The Beatles’ Abbey Road album, released the previous year and a clear influence on this single. “Lonely Days” shifts back and forth between a piano-and-strings-dominated verse reminiscent of “You Never Give Me Your Money” and “Golden Slumbers,“ and an up-tempo stomping chorus that echoes “Carry That Weight;“ perhaps as an acknowledgment of the debt, as the record approaches its fade-out, the lead singer’s voice is filtered to sound like John Lennon’s. The record’s success helped establish the band as expert pop stylists. It was their first Top Five hit in the US,... Read on...