Barbara knew her youngest was desperately depressed and all the family knew he was drinking too much so she’d flown from Miami to be with him. With the hits having dried up in the early 80s, he’d marked his 30th birthday on March 5th 1988 with just his Mum Barbara in a cottage on brother Robin’s estate in Thame, England. This was a guy whose first three singles all went to US #1, who had the biggest hit of an entire year in the States (1978’s Shadow Dancing), who sold 20 million records in just three years and who was once deemed pretty enough to have a doll made in his image.īut 10 years after his Shadow Dancing peak, Andy was gone. I’m sure there are lessons for us all when you look at the picture of a young man, born into a loving family, who had looks, fame and money and still felt so dreadfully inferior. All of this coincides with the announcement of a new 15-track best-of album to be released by Capitol Records on April 13. Thank you for reading and enjoy the music.Īndy Gibb’s was a tragic life, as well as tragically short. Five years on and the the goal is still very much the same. Given that this month also marks what would’ve been Andy’s 60th birthday, I wanted to post an updated version of an article I wrote in 2013 that I hoped would encourage people to re-examine his life and career.
It’s 30 years since one of the biggest teen idols of them all, Andy Gibb, passed away.
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