Read more: Watch the Bee Gees first TV appearance as kids in 1960Īndy was born on Main Manchester, and was the youngest of five children of Barbara and Hugh Gibb. He came to international fame in the late 1970s, with six singles that reached the Top 10 in the US. Here are all the big facts about Andy Gibb:Īndy Gibb was an English singer and teen idol, and the youngest brother of Barry, Robin and Maurice Gibb, aka the Bee Gees. However, he struggled with personal issues throughout his life, and passed away at a young age, making us wonder what could have been for the youngest Gibb brother. While his older brothers the Bee Gees found international fame before him, he managed to carve himself a solo career of his own.
In 1985, Gibb attempted to solve his drug problem with a rehabilitation program at the Betty Ford Clinic in California.Andy Gibb was one of the world's biggest singers for a short period in the 1970s. The court papers said his brothers owned the furniture and musical and electronic equipment in his apartment and that he was living rent-free. Last year, Gibb filed a personal bankruptcy petition in Miami claiming he had less than $50,000 and more than $1 million in debts. The brown-eyed, blond-haired singer was a big hit with teenyboppers and the disco set but once said, 'I don't see myself as a teenybopper idol. Title tracks from both albums topped the U.S. The next year, brother Maurice produced Andy's 'Shadow Dancing' album. After signing with Bee Gees manager Stigwood, he recorded his first album, 'Flowing Rivers,' on RSO Records Inc., under brother Barry's supervision. The year also marked Andy Gibb's first international success under his brothers' wing.
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The Bee Gees reached their peak in 1977 with their songs for the score of the movie 'Saturday Night Fever,' a Robert Stigwood production that brought television actor John Travolta to the big screen. While his older brothers Barry, Maurice and Robin were becoming international stars in the mid-1960s with their group, the Bee Gees, Andy was in Australia, where he spent much of his youth, playing in amateur bands. 'I suppose I still love Andy but so much has happened.' It was only a matter of time,' Reeder said. But I always knew one day I'd get a call saying he was dead. 'I think we were the only touch with reality he ever had - he knew that and I knew that. Gibb would have seen Peta, 12, for only the second time but Reeder said Gibb phoned her regularly from America, sometimes talking for as long as five hours at a time. Reeder said Friday from her home in Londonderry, Australia, that Gibb had planned to travel to Sydney in September to see his daughter, Peta. He married Kim Reeder, a former receptionist, in 1976 but they were divorced two years later.
Gibb dropped out of school at 13 and later joined his brothers in Miami. Looking for a fresh start he signed a deal with Island Records two months ago and had moved to Britain to work on a new album. Gibb appeared on Broadway in 'Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat' but missed so many performances that he was replaced. 1 hits, 'I Just Want to be Your Everything' in 1977 and 'Shadow Dancing' in 1978, but was unable to sustain his success.Īfter 1981-82, when he hosted 'Solid Gold,' Gibb's life and career succumbed to bankruptcy and drug abuse, which reportedly caused the end of a love affair with actress Victoria Principal, former star of the 'Dallas' TV series. 'He was a quiet guy, extremely humble, extremely shy and as (talented) as any of his brothers. 'But when the phone rang and I heard that (Gibb had died), that's one of them you just can't figure out,' he said. 'I always expect, at any time, for the phone to ring and there to be bad news,' Walsh, a former member of the Eagles, said in a telephone interview from Memphis, Tenn. Rock guitarist Joe Walsh, who played on the track 'Thicker Than Water' on Gibb's first solo album in 1980, said he was 'shocked' with the announcement of Gibb's death. 'I enjoyed working with him and will miss seeing him,' McCoo said. Marilyn McCoo, who co-hosted the syndicated television show 'Solid Gold' with Gibb in the early 1980s, said in telephone interview from Los Angeles she was 'deeply saddened by (Gibb's) passing.' He said he could not immediately disclose the cause of death.