Living Eyes was chosen to be the first ever album to be manufactured on CD for demonstration purposes, as seen on the BBC TV program Tomorrow's World in 1981, and was featured on the inaugural issue of the Compact Disc trade magazine. It was the first Bee Gees album to be released on CD, in early 1983, when CDs first reached the market, though few were manufactured. After RSO Records was absorbed by Polygram Records, Living Eyes was the only Bee Gees album in their catalog not released on CD in the late 1980s. It became very rare until years later when it became available on CD in Japan.