Los Angeles (AP)
St. Louis Post Dispatch, March 23, 1988:
Friends Bid Farewell to Singer Andy GibbOlivia Newton-John and the Bee Gees were among 100 mourners to say farewell Monday to singer Andy Gibb, who died of a heart ailment at age 30.
"As we all know, for some years Andy struggled with cocaine," the Reverend Stephen Stewart of St. Paul's United Methodist Church told the mourners at Forest Lawn Memorial Park. "But Andy beat drugs."
The British-born Gibb,whose brothers Barry, Robin and Maurice comprised the Bee Gees, died March 10 in Oxford, England. He died of myocarditis, a rare viral infection of the heart muscle, after he was hospitalized for stomach pains. Doctors found no evidence that drugs or alcohol were involved in his death.
Shortly before his death, Gibb had begun efforts to resume his singing and recording career.
