Andy Gibb biography

The styles of rock music of Andy Gibb his career started at a dizzying speed, but after three successful albums, the musician weighed down by cocaine dependence, so that he would die at the age of 30 later. The youngest of the Gibb brothers, Andrew Roy was born in Stretford on March 5, and six months later, together with the whole family, was taken out by parents to Australia.

When the Gibbov family returned to England, and then settled on Ibiza, Barry, Robin and Maurice were already large stars, and Andy, having such an example before his eyes, also reached for show business. He threw school early and from the age of 13 he began to master the guitar donated to him by Barry. Regularly chasing the Bee Geees records, Andy himself eventually planned to join the brothers, but he was destined for an autonomous career.

Starting with performances in the clubs of Ibitsa, the young Gibb later gathered his first group "Melody Fayre", which he wanted to promote on the Australian continent before entering the world stage. The idea, however, did not burn out, and only when Andy organized another ensemble, "Zenta", Robert Stigwood drew attention to him. In the opinion of the impresario, who had previously brought to the people of “Bee Geees”, the youngest Gibb turned out to be not only a good musician, but also a talented author of songs, and soon, with the help of Robert, the first Australochit Andy, the sludge “Words and Music” was born.

In M Andy, he married and immediately took the newly -made wife in Miami, where Barry was waiting for him to help record the first full -length. Although the Flowing Rivers sessions took place in the studio where the famous Hotel California was born, and Joe Walsh played a pair of tracks on the guitar, the album had little in common with the creativity of Eagles, as Gibbbe preferred to adhere to the same style that confessed the Bee Geees.

Seeing that he was surrounded by millions of enthusiastic fans, Andy divorced his wife, despite the fact that she was in position. The main thing for him was now not a family, but a career, and already in April, the musician released a “Shadow Dancing” disc, the title track from which, written by all four brothers, confidently headed the “Billboard” table. Unfortunately, during his take -off, Gibb quickly became friends with cocaine, and already on the third album, drug problems made itself felt.

Of the ten songs with "After Dark", he was just a co -author in only two things, and the rest of the material was prepared for him mostly Barry. At the beginning of X Andy, I tried himself in theatrical and television projects, but because of the cocaine addictions that also buried his romance with actress Victoria Principal, he was expelled from everywhere. Finally, with the help of relatives, Gibb passed a serious rehabilitation course, and after a couple of years he repeated the treatment and finally cleared.

Returning to a healthy lifestyle, Andy started the recording of the Cambet-album, but the project remained incomplete. Soon after the start of work on the plate, the musician began to complain about his chest pain, and upon admission to the clinic, he died of a myocarditis viral infection caused by a viral infection. Last Update