In June 1974, Gibb formed his first group, Melody Fayre (named after a Bee Gees song), which included Isle of Man musicians John Alderson on guitar, Stan Hughes on bass, and John Stringer on drums. He quit school at the age of 13, and with an acoustic guitar given to him by his older brother Barry, he began playing at tourist clubs around Ibiza, Spain (when his parents moved there), and later on the Isle of Man, his brothers' birthplace, where his parents were living at the time. He used to try to get me to buy him beer when he was underage-he would only have been about 11 or 12. It was unheard of in those days! But he was just a cheeky little lad with a heart of gold. Producer and film director Tom Kennedy described Andy's personality in his childhood:Īndy was always around-he was this cheeky little lad, Hugh and Barbara doted on him, so he would have a limo to go around London with his pals and twenty quid to go to the cinema. He'd wander back home around lunchtime smelling of horse manure, yet he'd swear he had been at school. I'd send him off to school, but he'd sneak off to the stable and sleep with his two horses all day. In his childhood, his mother, Barbara, described Andy as "A little devil, a little monster. After moving several times between Brisbane and Sydney, Andy returned to the United Kingdom in January 1967 as his three older brothers began to gain international fame as the Bee Gees. He had four siblings: his sister, Lesley Evans and three brothers- Barry and fraternal twins Robin and Maurice.Īt the age of six months, Andy Gibb emigrated with his family to Queensland, Australia, settling on Cribb Island just north of Brisbane. His mother was of Irish and English descent, and his father was of Scottish and English descent.
He was the youngest of five children born to Barbara and Hugh Gibb. Life and career 1958–1975: Early life and first recordings Īndrew Roy Gibb was born on 5 March 1958 at Stretford Memorial Hospital in Stretford, Lancashire. 1.4 1987–1988: Attempted comeback and final days.1.3 1981–1986: Decline and live performances.1.1 1958–1975: Early life and first recordings.Barry calls that, “The saddest moment of my life. He would die just 3 days later of myocarditis, an inflammation of the heart muscle caused by his drug use. On March 7th, 1988, Andy was rushed to John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford after experiencing chest pains. “(Andy) just went downhill so fast… he was in a terrible state of depression,” says brother Robin Gibb. He would eventually publicly state that he had beaten an addiction that was costing him $1,000 a day, but then in 1985, he checked into rehab, then again in 19. He would rarely work over those next few years. He was all heart, but he didn’t have enough muscle to carry through.” He went downhill “so fast” according to his brother Andy Gibb, late 1970sįollowing the end of his relationship with Principal, Andy just downward spiraled from there. He was like a little puppy – so ashamed when he did something wrong. He’d come back on Tuesday, and he’d look beat. Broadway producer Zev Buffman said of Andy, “We’d lose him over long weekends. While battling his drug addiction, Andy was generally seen as unreliable by the rest of the music industry.
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