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Bluebear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-10-05 11:03 PM
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Andy Gibb died March 10, 1988


March 5, 1958 - March 10, 1988

Remembering Andy for us 1970's types.
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Avalux Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-10-05 11:06 PM
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1. I used to think he was so HOT
As a young prepubescent teen, he made me swoon. :evilgrin:
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salin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-10-05 11:11 PM
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7. Me, too...
what a sad end. Can't remember - did he die of an eating disorder (ala Karen Carpenter) or suicide? Can't remember but tie the two issues together, for some odd reason, in his case. Perhaps a suicide - but Karen dies aroumd the same time due to eating disorder so I some how mix the two stories up in my memory?
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njdemocrat106 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-10-05 11:13 PM
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8. I think he died of a heroin overdose
He was into heavy drugs and drinking. 30 is TOO young.
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salin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-10-05 11:17 PM
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12. sounds right
jogs the memory... living so hard so fast and so quickly gone. So sad.
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Bluebear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-10-05 11:22 PM
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14. It was myocarditis....
'an inflammation of the heart muscle caused by a viral infection).
Later on the Gibb family heard that Andy had been suffering from heart problems already for a while before he died but he never told anyone about it.'

http://www.brothersgibb.org/andybiography.html

but who knows how drugs may have weakened his heart.
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njdemocrat106 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-10-05 11:24 PM
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16. Still sad
Now I've got "An Everlasting Love" going through my head.
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Enraged_Ape Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-10-05 11:25 PM
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17. He had some sort of chronic inflammation of the heart...
from years of heavy-duty cocaine use. The heart ailment is what killed him. Supposedly, he'd been off the coke for a while--which was probably facilitated by his bankruptcy.
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Kadie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-10-05 11:14 PM
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10. drug and alcohol abuse
if I remember correctly, and something about an enlarged heart.

Very sad.
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Blue_In_AK Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-10-05 11:25 PM
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18. Me too, and I was in my 30s n/t
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Swede Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-10-05 11:07 PM
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2. Fuck that long ago!
RIP Andy.
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NightTrain Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-10-05 11:08 PM
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3. I remember it well.
He was only 30. Now that I'm just 10 days away from turning 39, it seems so young. :cry:
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Bluebear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-10-05 11:09 PM
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4. He'd only be 47 now!
Such a shame.
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Arugula Latte Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-10-05 11:24 PM
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15. I just turned 39, too.
Well, we've got one more year of "youth" left. Sigh.
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solinvictus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-10-05 11:09 PM
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5. Damn, that was a long time ago, but it doesn't seem like it.
I remember the report on his death said that he'd had a cocaine problem and was living in a condo gratis because they wanted him as a celebrity spokesperson.
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Gloria Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-10-05 11:15 PM
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11. Did he have a heart problem, too?
Just trying to remember.....

He dated Victoria Principal, if I'm not mistaken.
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Enraged_Ape Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-10-05 11:11 PM
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6. Damn. Was that 17 years ago?
My sister, a huge fan, was just devastated. I was pretty bummed myself, mostly because he was so young and he seemed like a fairly nice guy.
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NightTrain Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-10-05 11:13 PM
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9. I heard that Gibb had become despondent after Victoria Principal...
...broke up with him. Speculation was that, cliched though it may sound, Andy Gibb had died of a broken heart.

And before you pooh-pooh that theory, ask yourself this: How can you mend a broken heart?
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Enraged_Ape Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-10-05 11:22 PM
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13. Yeah, at first people were talking suicide
From a cocaine overdose, perhaps. Someone even told me they heard he killed himself by drinking Drano. I don't know where they got that.

Turns out it was just a bum ticker from years of heavy use of blow. Poor guy. He actually had some talent.
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AntiCoup2K4 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-11-05 03:05 AM
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19. The drinking Drano part was merely a tragic accident.
How do you think he and his brothers got their damn voices so excrutiatingly high?

Never liked his music, but a tragedy (no pun intended) that he died so young.
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maveric Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-11-05 03:10 AM
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20. I saw him in "Pirates of Penzance" in LA, 1981.
At the Dorothea Chandler Pavilion. Pam Dawber and Joane Worley were also in it.
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Floogeldy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-11-05 03:11 AM
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21. I didn't even know he was sick!
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