Andy Gibb
Gibb came to international prominence in the late 1970s with six singles that reached the Top 10 in the United States. His success was brief due to drug addiction and depression. He died five days after his 30th birthday while attempting a comeback. He is survived by his sister Lesley, and three brothers, Barry and fraternal twins Robin and Maurice Gibb.
About Andy Gibb in brief
Andrew Roy Gibb was an English singer and songwriter. He was the younger brother of the Bee Gees: Barry, Robin and Maurice Gibb. Gibb came to international prominence in the late 1970s with six singles that reached the Top 10 in the United States. His success was brief due to drug addiction and depression. He died five days after his 30th birthday while attempting a comeback. He is survived by his sister Lesley, and three brothers, Barry and fraternal twins Robin and Maurice Gibb. He also leaves behind a wife and two children. The Gibb family moved to Australia at the age of six months, settling on Cribb Island just north of Brisbane. They later moved to the Isle of Man, where Andy formed his first group, Melody Fayre. He later joined the band Zenta, consisting of Rick Alford, Paddy Lelliot on guitar, Trevor Norton on bass, Glen Greenhalgh on vocals, and Daryl Somers on guitar. He performed on the Sydney City Rollers leg of their Australian leg of the tour in the early 1990s. He had a son, Andy, with his wife, Lesley. He left Australia in 1974 to join his brother Barry in the UK, where he formed the band Barry Gibb and the Gees. He never returned to Australia and died in a car crash in 2009. He leaves behind his wife Lesley and four children, all of whom are still living in Australia.
He has a daughter, Laura, with whom he had two children, and a son-in-law, Peter, who is also a musician. He and Lesley also have two sons, Peter and Peter, and two daughters, Laura and Laura, who are both now living in the U.S. and Peter Gibb has two children with a new wife, Lisa. Andy also has two step-children, Mark and Peter. He wrote and recorded six demos in the 1970s, including one called ‘To a Girl’, which he later performed on his television debut in Australia on The Ernie Sigley Show. In November the same year, he recorded six songs, including ‘Words and Music’, ‘Westfield Mansions’ and ‘Flowing Rivers’ Gibb’s first recording, in August 1973, was a Maurice GibB composition, ‘My Father Was a Rebel’, which Maurice also produced and played on. The group was managed by Andy’s mother, Barbara, and had regular bookings on the small island’s hotel circuit. In June 1974, Gibb formed his group ‘Melody Fayre’, which included Isle of man musicians John Alderson, Stan Hughes and John Stringer on drums. Andy would disappear for periods of time, leaving Alderson and Stringer out of work with no income. He would later perform on television at least once on the show ‘Can’t Stop Dancing’, hosted by Daryl Somers, and later on the TV show ‘The Daryl Somers Band’
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