Andy Gibb Biography Captures Struggle with Fame, Cocaine Addiction and Death at 30 // Downfall Was As Spectacular as His Rise To the Top’ Says New Book 

Andy Gibb

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Thirty-four years after his death on March 10, 1988 at age 30, a new biography Arrow Through the Heart re-examines the blazing talent and tragic end of Andy Gibb.

"Andy's downfall was as spectacular as his rise to the top," says author Matthew Hild, who interviewed friends and musicians who knew Andy from his earliest days back when he dreamt of becoming a Bee Gee and joining his brothers onstage. 

The biography explores his deep insecurities, struggles with fame and descent into cocaine addiction, which ravaged his health. "Andy was beloved and yet it all went terribly wrong," says Hild. "But the seeds of that were planted long before, when still in his teens, he was thrust onto the world stage."

Andy Gibb Biography Captures Struggle with Fame, Cocaine Addiction and Death at 30 // Downfall Was As Spectacular as His Rise To the Top’ Says New Book 

He launched his solo career playing in bars in Ibiza and Australia as a teen and made a name for himself. By 1976, his eldest brother Barry Gibb, whom he idolized, told him he wanted to work together. And Hild describes how the two brothers reunited at Robert Stigwood's estate to collaborate on some "surefire hits" for his first album. "Andy could only sit and watch in astonishment as Barry wrote "I Just Want to Be Your Everything" on the spot in about 20 minutes," writes Hild.