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On March 10, 1988, Andy Gibb went to the hospital after reporting having chest pains, where he later died. The doctors ruled that myocarditis, a weakened heart condition, was the cause of death, most likely caused by prolonged cocaine abuse. He died five days after his 30th birthday.
Robin Gibb, one of three brothers who made up the disco group the Bee Gees, died on Sunday, according to a statement on his website.
He died on 10 March 1988, five days after his 30th birthday. [3] Life and career. 1958–1975: Early life and first recordings. Andy Gibb was born on 5 March 1958 at Stretford Memorial Hospital in Stretford, Lancashire. [4] . He was the youngest of five children born to Barbara and Hugh Gibb.
Singer Andy Gibb, who rose to fame in the 1970s in the footsteps of his three older Bee Gees brothers, died today in a hospital near Oxford. He was 30 years old.
A new book reveals the glamorous life and tragic, drug-fueled downfall of the Bee Gees' younger brother, pop star Andy Gibb.
On March 10 1988, Gibb's doctor told him that more tests were needed to find out the cause of his pains. Later that day, he died as a result of myocarditis, an inflammation of the heart muscle caused by a recent viral infection. Andy Gibb is buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles.
Mr. Gibb was the second Bee Gee and third Gibb brother to die. His fraternal twin and fellow Bee Gee, Maurice Gibb, died of complications of a twisted intestine in 2003 at 53.
Gibb's younger brother Andy died of myocarditis in March of 1988. After his twin brother Maurice died of intestinal complications in January of 2003, Gibb retired the Bee Gees name.
The Gibb brothers, members of the band the Bee Gees, also accepted a posthumous degree on behalf of their brother Maurice who died in 2003.
Gibb died Sunday after emergency surgery for an intestinal blockage. He was 53. He had been admitted to Mount Sinai Medical Center four days earlier, and had suffered cardiac arrest before the...