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He was the younger brother of Barry , Robin , and Maurice Gibb , musicians who had formed the Bee Gees during the lates. Gibb came to prominence in the lates through the earlys with eight singles reaching the Top 20 of the US Hot , three of which went to No. In the early s, he co-hosted the American music television series Solid Gold.

Gibb would later have substance use problems and depression. He died on 10 March from complications due to drug abuse, aged His mother was of Irish and English descent, and his father was of Scottish and English descent. At the age of six months, Gibb emigrated with his family to Queensland , Australia.

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The family shared three different homes at Redcliffe, Queensland , north of Brisbane, before settling on Cribb Island , a former suburb of Brisbane in January After moving several times between Brisbane and Sydney , Gibb returned to the United Kingdom in January as his three older brothers began to gain international fame as the Bee Gees.

In his childhood, his mother, Barbara, described Gibb as "A little devil, a little monster. I'd send him off to school, but he'd sneak off to the stable and sleep with his two horses all day. He'd wander back home around lunchtime smelling of horse manure, yet he'd swear he had been at school.