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When Billy Cowsill comes to entertain at Gramma's on Friday and Saturday March 31 and April 1st to help the Gibsons Marine Pub celebrate its fifth anniversary patrons will be privileged to be entertained by a rare musical talent and for a time to be in the company of an authentic representative of the hey-day of rock and roll.

Cowsill, and three of his brothers first hit it big in their teens in the mid-sixties with an appearance of the Today television show and were giant stars in the late sixties with a platinum hit 'Hair'.

The price of great fame and huge popularity at a young age took a tremendous toll on Cowsill's musical contemporaries and he admits that he himself survived narrowly, the 1970's being largely a drink and drug-induced blur.

He caught hold of his life before he destroyed it and today the talent that made him a superstar is intact but the destructive behavior brought on by stardom is behind him.

This is not the first time Cowsill, a resident now of Vancouver, has come to the Sunshine Coast to entertain at Gramma's. Those who have seen and heard him know that a treat is in store for patrons at Gramma's anniversary party.