Linda never allowed me to go in that direction. I could bring drugs into the house, but they would end up down the toilet. “As you’ve seen on the news, is pretty rampant in Miami.” “We’ve been trying to self-isolate and do everything we’re supposed to do,” he says. There are clearly worse places in the world to be holed up during a pandemic. His late brother Robin used to own a house a couple of doors down – Tony Blair caused rather a fuss by holidaying there when he was the UK prime minister – and, as he puts it, “multiple Gibbs” live nearby: five children, seven grandchildren. He lives in a waterfront mansion in an exclusive country club, which is clearly a long way from the penury the Gibb family experienced in Australia – of which more later – but that’s what comes of selling between 120 million and 220 million records, depending on whose estimate you believe. He liked Miami, he says, because it reminded him of Australia, where his parents emigrated when he was 11. Gibb never really left, although he still has a home in England. They relocated en masse, moving into the house Clapton immortalised in the title of his album 461 Ocean Boulevard. He is in Miami, where he has lived since 1974, when the Bee Gees' career was in the doldrums and Eric Clapton suggested a change of scenery might do them good. From underneath a black Stetson hat, Barry Gibb stares out of my laptop screen.
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