| Let There Be Love | |
| Cover: | Let There Be Love (Bee Gees song).jpg |
| Caption: | The Dutch release of the single. |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Bee Gees |
| Album: | Idea |
| B-Side: | "Really and Sincerely" (Netherlands) |
| Released: | September 1968 (album) 1970 (Netherlands) |
| Recorded: | 12 June or 21 June 1968 |
| Studio: | IBC Studios, London |
| Genre: | Baroque pop |
| Length: | 3:28 (mono) 3:32 (stereo) |
| Label: | Polydor (United Kingdom) Atco (United States) |
| Producer: | Robert Stigwood, Bee Gees |
"Let There Be Love" is a dramatic ballad by the Bee Gees, written by Barry, Robin and Maurice Gibb and released as the opening track on their 1968 album Idea. In 1970, it was issued as a single in the Netherlands, peaking at no. 14 in March during a four-week chart run.[1] In 1968, the group performed (lip-synced) the song on a European TV station, and the clip has been played on 192TV in the Netherlands.[2]
"Let There Be Love" features on the 1973 compilation Best of Bee Gees Vol. 2.
Barry Gibb recalls:
"'Let There Be Love'" was written next to St. Paul's Cathedral in a penthouse apartment that we rented when we first arrived in England. That song was written in that penthouse 'round about midnight. Me and my then-girlfriend, who is my wife now, we'd just fallen in love, and it was that type of mood I was in that night."[3]
The 2006 deluxe remaster has a mono mix of an earlier state of the recording, with different lead vocal sung entirely by Barry and some instrumental differences and faded at 3:34.