After forming the Bee Gees with his brothers Barry and Robin Gibb, Maurice Gibb rose to fame in the pop industry.

With hits like “How Deep Is Your Love,” “Tragedy,” and “Night Fever,” the trio dominated the charts. Maurice later wrote songs for other performers like Dolly Parton and Barbra Streisand.

But away from the music, Maurice is also known for his marriage to Lulu which ended after just four years.

In 1969, when he was 19 and Lulu was 20, the two met backstage at Top of the Pops.

They fell in love right away, and they were married the same year, only weeks before Lulu’s Eurovision debut.

Lulu remembers Maurice: “I told him to stop talking about me and take me out because I thought he was cute.”

He did exactly that. Although I didn’t think much would come of it, our relationship did, in a way, grow. “Going steady” is a very inaccurate description of what was going on between us.

“Going unsteady might be a better way to describe how we fell in and out of love.”

Although some, notably Maurice’s brother Barry, disapproved of their brief affair, the pair married in Gerrards Cross, a town in Buckinghamshire, England.

Lulu’s Eurovision debut forced them to postpone their honeymoon in Mexico.

Unfortunately, things didn’t work out for the showbiz couple as Maurice was said to have been battling alcoholism at the time.

“We believed we were king and queen of the world and were fabulous,” Lulu stated during an appearance on Piers Morgan’s Life Stories.

“We should have just had a romance instead of getting married in the first place, even though alcohol was a contributing factor.

“I concluded that it had to stop. It hurt him and he didn’t want it to end. I adored and loved him unconditionally, but was I in love with him? Most likely, I was in love with love.

In 1974, they got divorced and parted ways.

In 1977, Lulu married hairdresser-to-the-stars John Frieda for the second time, and the two welcomed a son, Jordan, the same year.