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{{Infobox album
| name       = Cucumber Castle
| type       = studio
| artist     = the [[Bee Gees]]
| cover      = Cucumber_Castle.jpg
| alt        =
| released   = {{Start date|df=yes|1970|4}}
| recorded   = 7 May – 26 September 1969<br>(except "I.O.I.O", 12 June 1968 and 8 October 1969)
| venue      =
| studio     = [[IBC Studios|IBC]] (London)
| genre      = [[Folk rock]], [[country folk]]
| length     = 35:47
| label      = [[Polydor Records|Polydor]] <br /> [[Atco Records|Atco]] (United States, Canada)
| producer   = [[Robert Stigwood]], Bee Gees
| prev_title = [[Odessa (Bee Gees album)|Odessa]]
| prev_year  = 1969
| next_title = [[2 Years On]]
| next_year  = 1970
| misc       = {{Singles
 | name        = Cucumber Castle
 | type        = studio
 | single1     = [[Don't Forget to Remember]]
 | single1date = August 1969
 | single2     = [[If Only I Had My Mind on Something Else]]
 | single2date = March 1970 (United States)
 | single3     = [[I.O.I.O.]]
 | single3date = March 1970
}}
}}
{{Music ratings
| noprose = yes
| rev1 = [[AllMusic]] 
| rev1Score = {{Rating|3.5|5}}<ref>{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r1600}}</ref>
| rev2 = ''[[The Rolling Stone Album Guide]]''
| rev2score = {{Rating|1.5|5}}<ref name="Cross">{{cite book|last=Cross|first=Charles R.|author-link=Charles R. Cross|editor1-last=Brackett|editor1-first=Nathan|editor2-last=Hoard|editor2-first=Christian|title=[[The Rolling Stone Album Guide|The New Rolling Stone Album Guide]]|publisher=[[Simon & Schuster]]|edition=4th|year=2004|isbn=0-7432-0169-8|chapter=The Bee Gees|pages=[https://archive.org/details/newrollingstonea00brac/page/58 58]}}</ref>
}}
'''''Cucumber Castle''''' is the seventh [[studio album]] by the [[Bee Gees]], released in April 1970. It was produced by [[Barry Gibb]], [[Maurice Gibb]], and [[Robert Stigwood]]. It consists of songs from their television special of [[Cucumber Castle (film)|the same name]], which was named after a song on their 1967 album ''[[Bee Gees' 1st]]''. ''Cucumber Castle'' is the only Bee Gees album not to feature any recorded contributions from [[Robin Gibb]], as he had left the group before the album was recorded. (He did receive co-composer credit on one track, which was written before his departure.)

''Cucumber Castle'' was the last Bee Gees album with drummer [[Colin Petersen]], who was fired during the recording of the album.  [[Pentangle (band)|Pentangle]] drummer [[Terry Cox]] played on the remaining tracks.<ref name="ink">{{cite magazine|first=Stephen|last=Vagg|url=https://www.filmink.com.au/the-brief-movie-stardom-of-colin-smiley-petersen/|magazine=Filmink|date=26 November 2024|access-date=26 November 2024|title=The Brief Movie Stardom of Colin (Smiley) Petersen}}</ref>

This album contained the hit single "[[Don't Forget to Remember]]" which hit No. 2 in the UK in August 1969, going virtually head to head with Robin Gibb's solo single "[[Saved by the Bell (song)|Saved by the Bell]]", which had reached number No. 2 the previous month. The album struggled to make an impact and stalled at number 57 in the UK and number 94 in the US. Indeed, it was the last Bee Gees album to chart in the UK until ''[[Spirits Having Flown]]'' in 1979 (though the soundtrack for ''[[Saturday Night Fever (soundtrack)|Saturday Night Fever]]'', which featured six contributions from the group as well as two additional songs that they wrote that other artists performed, topped the UK album chart in 1978).