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==Recording & Release==
Around the same time in 1969, Barry and Maurice planned a series of performances as a gratitude to their fans who had supported the Bee Gees through all the tumult as Barry reveals, "We want to go out on a concert tour of Britain before Christmas with a big orchestra". But on 1 December 1969, Barry announced his departure from the band saying "As from today, I'm solo"<ref name="instruments"/> while Maurice recorded songs for his debut solo album ''[[The Loner (Maurice Gibb album)|The Loner]]''. Barry spent the following months writing new material for his solo album, ''[[The Kid's No Good]]''.<ref>{{cite book|last=Sandoval|first=Andrew|title=The Day-By-Day Story, 1945–1972|year=2012|publisher=Retrofuture Day-By-Day|isbn=978-0-943249-08-7|pages=102–115|author-link=Andrew Sandoval|edition=1st|type=Paperback}}<!--|access-date=20 January 2013--></ref>

By February 1970, Barry started to record songs for the album. He continued it in March, while Maurice continued working with Billy Lawrie. In April 1970, Maurice recorded "Leave Me Here to Linger with the Ladies" for ''Sing a Rude Song''. Also in April, Barry continued to produce songs for P.P. Arnold. The last day on which P.P. Arnold recorded his song, which was produced by Barry was on 10 June 1970.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.columbia.edu/~brennan/beegees/70.html |title=Gibb Songs: 1970 |last=Brennan |first=Joseph |access-date=22 March 2013}}</ref> ''Cucumber Castle'' was released around April 1970.

''Cucumber Castle'' reached No. 9 in Italy behind ''[[Led Zeppelin II]]'' by [[Led Zeppelin]] (#7) and ''[[McCartney (album)|McCartney]]'' by [[Paul McCartney]] (#8), the number one LP at that time was [[The Beatles]]' ''[[Let It Be (album)|Let It Be]]''.<ref name="italian"/>