"We ask that everyone please respect the family’s privacy during this very difficult time. The devastating news of Olivia's death was shared by her husband John Easterling, who told the world in a statement on August 8: "Dame Olivia Newton-John passed away peacefully at her ranch in Southern California this morning, surrounded by family and friends. Olivia Newton-John was first diagnosed with breast cancer in 1992 and the disease returned again in 2017.
Olivia Newton-John and Barry Gibb attend the 2011 G'Day USA Los Angeles black tie gala at The Hollywood Palladium on January 22, 2011. Olivia also duetted with Barry's brother Andy Gibb in 1979, with the pair sitting opposite one other on high chairs for a stunningly heartfelt performance of the delicate Bee Gees song 'Rest Your Love On Me'.Īnd back in 1978, Barry Gibb famously lead brother Robin and Maurice Gibb in a stunning rendition of the Bee Gees' 1978 hit 'Grease' on stage in Las Vegas as Olivia sang along from the audience. Olivia Newton-John: John Travolta leads tributes with emotional post about his Grease co-star.Watch Olivia Newton-John's jaw-dropping final performance before her death.Olivia Newton-John pictured with her husband (left) and Barry Gibb (right) in 2011.īarry Gibb and Olivia Newton-John pictured performing together in 2009.īarry Gibb and Olivia Newton-John gave us some beautiful duets, but their version of 'How Can You Mend A Broken Heart' in 2009 may just beat all the others. Olivia Newton-John, Andy Gibb and Barry Gibb practising backstage in 1981. "When he died, it had nothing to do with drugs at all," his mother, Barbara Gibb, has said, "but the damage had been done through drugs in the first place.Grease star Dame Olivia Newton-John dies aged 73 On March 10, he died of inflammation of the heart, officially as a result of a viral infection. On March 7, 1988, Andy Gibb entered the hospital in Oxford, England, complaining of severe chest and abdominal pains. Gibb declared bankruptcy in 1987, reporting an annual income of less than $8,000. By 1981, he was finished as a viable recording artist, and in the years that followed, his drug use led to his firing from jobs on television's Solid Gold and Broadway's Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and to the end of a high-profile romance with actress Victoria Principal, of Dallas fame. chart domination in 1978, this song replaced the song b. Barry and Robin Gibb wrote the hit in 1970 at Barry's house, after a period of. The song would later be covered by Al Green and feature on the soundtrack of the movie, Notting Hill. Four months earlier, his second release, "(Love Is) Thicker Than Water" had reached the same pinnacle, and six months before that, Gibb had topped the charts with his debut record, "I Just Want To Be Your Everything." His string of three #1 hits with his first three releases is a record that still stands today, and at the time he achieved it, it seemed to herald the arrival of a major new star.īut the rest of the Andy Gibb story is not so sunny: What his drug and alcohol abuse in the late 1970s didn't do to Andy's musical career, changing fashions in the early 1980s did. '(Love Is) Thicker Than Water' is a 1978 song by Andy Gibb.A demonstration of the Gibb brothers U.S. 'How Can You Mend a Broken Heart' was released by the Bee Gees in 1971 as the first single from the group's album, Trafalgar. In the summer of 1978, Andy Gibb was barely 20 years old, and his third single, "Shadow Dancing," was the #1 song on the Billboard pop charts. When the New York Times announced his death, the headline read: "Andy Gibb, 30, Singer in 70's, Dies in Britain." To suggest that the name "Andy Gibb" would require a modifier like "Singer in the 70's" would have been patently absurd just 10 years earlier. With his heart greatly weakened from years of cocaine abuse, Andy Gibb succumbed to an inflammatory heart virus on March 10, 1988. And his star may have risen even higher were it not for the prodigious cocaine habit that derailed his career and contributed to his premature death. With his knee-buckling good looks and his brothers' songwriting talents backing him up, 19-year-old Andy Gibb staged an unprecedented display of youthful pop mastery in the 12 months following his American debut in the spring of 1977.
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