“There was a time when it wasn’t cool to even be seen with the Bee Gees,” he notes, pointing out how their status as “poster boys for disco” left them stranded when fashion changed.

Mr Lambden's widow Marie said: "It couldn't be in a better place." The late race walker Murray Lambden has joined Art Nouveau designer Archibald Knox and the Bee Gees in being honoured with a blue ...