Confessions of A Bee Gees Fan
Simon Frith, Let It Rock, June 1978
THE OTHER day I read this shocking story in the Sun: it seems that when Andy Gibb set off from Australia to find fame, fortune and a few crumbs from his brothers' American table, he left behind a wife and a baby due. Since then not a word.
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