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.
