What makes the cicle even smaller is that the Bee Gees, Barry, Maurice and Robin, had all grown up in Brisbane in the late '50s at the same time as I had. We'd been show-biz brats together and had all started performing at local dances and on kids' TV at the same time. Barry and I are the same age and I can remember our first TV show together. We'd have been about eleven or twelve years old.

I had been critical with a heart attack and a concussion just seventy-two hours earlier. All the bravado in the world couldn't change the terrifying fact that I'd been dead for sixty seconds ...