![]() ![]() A 50-year marriage is a rare thing among rock aristocracy, but Linda sounds a rather redoubtable figure. “As you’ve seen on the news, is pretty rampant in Miami.”Īs far as one can tell over Zoom, Gibb is in pretty good shape for a man who recently celebrated his 74th birthday and his golden wedding anniversary on the same day: he met his wife Linda, a former Miss Edinburgh, backstage at Top of the Pops in the late 60s. “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 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 120m and 220m 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. F rom underneath a black Stetson hat, Barry Gibb stares out of my laptop screen. ![]()
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