MISSING BEE GEE found living in Brisbane!

This boy from the bush joined one of the biggest bands in the world

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It's been 56 years, but for Colin Petersen it still seems like yesterday that he landed the gig of a lifetime as a drummer with the Bee Gees at age 21, after he attended the Humpybong State School in Brisbane with the Gibb brothers.

In a bizarre twist of fate, it was Colin's breakout role as a lovable scallywag in the now iconic Aussie movie Smiley that prompted British-born Maurice Gibb to ask his parents to move to Australia, which they did in 1958 - it was the first of Colin's many connections with the Gibb family.

Colin, now 77, was just nine when he hit the big time with Smiley, which became a worldwide hit. "It was 1955, my mother Edna had seen a story in a Queensland newspaper about acclaimed British director Anthony Kimmins looking for a knockabout Aussie boy with a nice smile to star in a movie.

"Mum was almost psychic. She got excited and could 'see' me in the role. So, I got me into my Sunday best, Brylcreemed my hair, and off to the Brisbane audition we go," recalls Kingaroy-born Colin, who took tap dancing lessons at four and was playing in jazz bands as a school kid.

"There were hundreds of boys hoping to land the role of Smiley Greevins. I was rejected as I wasn't the right look.

"So I went home, changed out of my suit and went to play marbles with my friends under my grandmother's house."