 He played on the albums "Bee Gees' 1st", "Horizontal", "Idea", "Odessa", and "Cucumber Castle".He was an equal partner in the group from early in their period in the UK, and the Gibb brothers regarded his playing as essential to their sound.He and fellow band member Vince Melouney, who would play lead guitar and had also moved to the UK, had some trouble when, in the late summer of 1967, they were threatened with deportation because of an error in the way they had secured their visas.