We had the same birthmarks," Barry Gibb (left) said of his little brother Andy Gibb (right). What doesn’t kill you toughens you, but you just don’t expect a 30-year-old to die, regardless of their habits."īarry Gibb recalled Andy's zest for life and childlike exuberance: “He was a boy,” he said. Robin added: “In 15 years, my mother lost Andy, then she lost dad and then Maurice. Even after drinking water he didn’t look right."
I used to play tennis with him and I’d noticed that by the second or third set he would become very red in the face. "He had this heart condition which we didn’t know about. “We knew that Andy was in bad shape – he had some bad substance habits – but we never thought we would lose him," Barry continued. THE BEE GEES How Can You Mend A Broken Heart Trailer The Bee Gees announced Andy Gibb (pictured) would be officially joining their group as the fourth Bee Gee in 1988, but the youngest Gibb died just months later. It was a rainy night and I was stood there with an umbrella and I said, ‘Andy, if you keep up what you’re doing, you will not see 47.’ I don’t know why I said 47 and not a rounded figure. He said: “That conversation still haunts me. Robin Gibb revealed that he warned Andy Gibb that his lifestyle would kill him just three days before the youngest Gibb collapsed and died. Barry Gibb reveals how his iconic falsetto voice came to him ‘in a dream’.'Devastated' Barry Gibb breaks silence on Olivia Newton-John's death: 'She was my sister'.
But of course we’d give up all that success to have Andy and Maurice back," said Barry. “We’ve had as much tragedy as we’ve had success.
In an interview with The Mirror in 2009, six years after the death of the third Bee Gee Maurice Gibb, Robin and Barry Gibb recalled the days leading up to little brother's Andy's death and how they had tried to help him kick his addiction.
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