I had to check the archives for this category. I see I’ve listed a few twice (usually a long time apart), but I haven’t got Andy Gibb there at all. That kinda surprised me, but then, I don’t actually listen to this CD all that often, despite the fact that…
Okay, I’ll confess. I had an almost obsessive crush on Andy Gibb when I was young (13, 14, that age). He was just so damned cute, with the wavy hair and the oh-so-very-hairy chest and the tight-tight satin pants (oh, yeah, I noticed stuff like that when I was that age, and I still do). Despite singing in a falsetto a lot of the time, he was pretty damned male, and that has always appealed to me.
I had, at one point, 147 pictures of Andy Gibb on the walls of my bedroom. Small pictures, posters, in-between sizes, but 147 of them (I know because I counted them once). My walls were practically papered with Andy Gibb and his hairy chest and toothy smile.
I did outgrow that, by the way. I haven’t got even one picture of Andy Gibb any more (of course, he’s been dead since 1988, so that kinda limits the photo opportunities). But I do have this CD. And I’m listening to it. And he just wants to be my everything, and oh, yeah, I would have gone for that…
It did make me sad when he died, by the way. It was like a little stab in the heart. Still makes me sad, actually. A young man full of promise, who had finally started to really get his life on track, and, boom, dead of heart failure at the age of thirty. Not a very happy ending.
Ah, well. Such is life. I still love you, Andy. Love is higher than a mountain, love is thicker than water…
Ah, we got an everlasting love
So tall, so wide, so high
Above the rumble of thunder down below
It’s your love I need,
It’s the only show
And it’s you want an everlasting dream
Can take us anywhere are the tears of yesterday
We killed the pain,
We blew away the memories
Of the tears we cried
And an everlasting love will never die
