Whats your "claim to fame" ?

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Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2007 8:35 am

back in 1972 I walked the street in Kensington High and met a guy who asked me if I have little bit spare time to spend with him so we went to his house and entered the big livingroom.

There was a big black piano and we smoked something and the guy started playing the piano and sang songs for about an hour or so only for me and for himself.

After he finished he asked me how I did like the tunes and we drank some tea.

It was a very peaceful afternoon in London.

The guy was Neil Young and the songs he played weren�t published yet

Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2007 11:41 am

You are so lucky that it wasn't Jonathon King

Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2007 1:36 pm

I had a very close liason with Robert Plant in the 1970's (yeah I know!...me and 100's of others.....***wicked grin***

Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2007 2:46 pm

^^^ Whole lotta love?

Howled the Black Dog:

Quote:

Hey, hey, mama, said the way you move
Gonna make you sweat, gonna make you groove.......

Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2007 3:02 pm

Let's see... Lots of people have more pictures/video of me than my family and I do. Laughing

And.. I saw the Village People in concert (for free) a few years ago. Razz

Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2007 3:31 pm

Oh, I just remembered...I met former Boxing champion Chris Eubank when he was doing a tour of schools talking about the dangers of drugs.

One of my friends stupidly called him Frank Bruno to his face. He wasnt amused.

Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 3:04 am

Met & chatted to

The Everlies
Tommy Steele
Gene Vincent
Eddie Cochrane
The Big Bopper
Georgie Flame, had a meal, still got one of his drumsticks.
David Whitfield
The Kinks

Loads of other rock/pop stars now forgotten.
Members of the rival gang to the Krays. Scary.
Derek Acorah 3 times
Embarassed

Saw Buddy Holly on his one & only UK tour.

Giving away info here timewise. Still, what the heck.

419Eater is my life Joined: 26 Apr 2006 Posts: 476

Fascinating reading, this topic is.

I am related to Frank Wilson, a (now deceased) stage and television actor here in Australia. He is (was) my Great Uncle.

Also I have met my hero, Keith Payne VC on several occasions. Technically not a celebrity, but in military circles here in Aus, pretty famous

Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 5:46 am

I can't reveal my clame to fame without letting everyone know who I am - but rest assured, it is probably the best so far. Very Happy

Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 5:47 am

I can count from 1 - 10 in six languages!

Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 6:03 am

I've been rather successful in the music business. Have been in a few successful bands, have toured many countries, and am currently in a band that is considered revolutionary and legendary. I get recognized on the street sometimes, and asked for autographs, much to the dismay of my wife and to the shock of my family.

I also used to do paleontology work for Jack Horner and helped discover a new dinosaur. He later went on to oversee the Jurassic Park movies.

I have a black belt in Tae Kwon Do and lost my virginity at 10.

Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 7:39 am

I lost my virginity at five... Nice guy... I heard he joined a band and learned martial arts.... or something. Laughing

I never told my wife about that so keep it schtum.

Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 9:33 am

I can break wind simultaneously at both ends Laughing

Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 12:54 pm

leccy wrote:

SamSpudz wrote:

i bought something in a nightclub off Shaun Ryder when he was living in Cork...

Did he make you one of his special recipe smoothies.. which contain about 3/4 of a bottle of blue label Laughing

I seen Bez last year in some night club.. he was at some party and someone ended up stealing his trainers Laughing

LOL!!! We met Bez at Glastonbury 2005 - we were trading and we all wore fancy dress. My other half (male) was in a ballgown, tiara, and diamante necklace, and wellies for the mud! Bez staggered across the intervening 50 yards, pushing through people, to hug my SO and tell him that he looked 'gorgeous' and that he, Bez, 'loves blond birds!!!'... you have to imagine the Bez accent there...

Some years ago, when Prince Andrew and Fergie were engaged, they visited York. The father of my then Fiance was the Dean of York Minster, and lunch for the Royal party was held in a huge marquee in the Deanery garden. Pre-lunch drinks were in the drawing room, with just 10 of us, the bishop +wife, the dean +wife, Andy and Fergie, lord and lady sombody or other, and me +boyfriend!!! It was a really good laugh, and not at all stuffy!
We had all been checking up the right way to address them, and whether to curtsey or shake hands and all that crap, and when the moment came, I was 'presented', and I just stood there with my arms rigid by my side and said 'hello'. Confused

Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 2:58 am

I forgot, I forgot

Tommy Steele & Don McLean (American Pie bow_down

) played squash at the opening of our new sports centre (well it was new then) How could I forget meeting him Rolling Eyes

Not quite a Newb Joined: 14 Jul 2005 Posts: 41

Weasel wrote:

Lots of people have more pictures/video of me than my family and I do. Laughing

I gave a Prancing Pony to Paris Hilton? Shocked

I've been waiting days for somebody to say something about your post, but finally gave in. Embarassed

Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 5:26 am

Claim to fame, courtesy of battery;

Quote:

<--- I stole these from Joe Tam (Counterfiets!)

Theft? Burgulary? Robbery? Posession of stolen proprety? Counterfeiting? Home invasion? Computer hacking? Admittedly so? Hmmmm. Looks like a cut and dried case for the prosecution. Wink

Quote:

I can't reveal my clame to fame without letting everyone know who I am - but rest assured, it is probably the best so far.

Oh do tell, do tell, anonomously. It can't be thieving pink pony avatars can it Battery? I promise to keep your secret! Wink

(I'm being silly, don't hurt me, OK?) Did you steal my car battery charger too?

419Eater is my life Joined: 26 Jan 2007 Posts: 356

Several years back, the highschool I went to was in the (U.S.) national news, and I was one of the people walking by in the background while they were interviewing someone. I'm really famous now for that. Wink

We were in the news because a (mildly psychotic) local scholarship organization threw a huge hissy fit about the school being a stronghold of evil degenerate liberals because
1) the logging classes suffered budget cuts just like art, sports, science, and all those other unimportant things did
2) there were no rules against students having piercings (including ear piercings) or dyed hair

Mind, this was only a couple years ago, not an era in which it might have possibly made some sense in the cultural context.

Scary little hick towns are fun.

Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 11:17 am

Dear mods.

Joetam sent me a pm saying how sorry he is about all the drunken postings and how he wishes he could turn back time. He didn't mean for any of it to happen and is really really really sorry.

He also added on a side note that he politely requests that lotta personally re-remove the pink ponys from his sig line as he now completely recognises my claim to them.

-edit. He also begged me to ask leccy to change his title from baiting guru to something more suitable. I'll go ahead and pm the old caber tosser now.

Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 2:02 pm

Funny, I have no PM's sent to you battery. I do enjoy your imaginary claims that you profess however, even there were no side notes. I feel badgered. Title change? Hallucinations proceed insanity. Wink

Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 2:18 pm

Something else of vauge interest, I met Kriss Akabusi (he laughs more than anyone I've seen or heard of) and Roger Black when they came to my school, but that seems to have happened to everyone of about-my-age

Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 2:28 pm

the outside of the highschool in Mean Girls was my high school, I bought William Hung's CD (It made me famous!)

Not quite a Newb Joined: 23 Oct 2006 Posts: 63

I guess I have a few others...

Once I was at an outdoor concert, and someone came up and said hi to me. I said hi back, not knowing who it was. Turns out it was the lead signer for my favorite band at the time.

I've been to every one of the lower 48 states (Colorado is my favorite)

I have a collection of approx 1000 roadmaps

Birthday is Sept. 11

Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 4:54 pm

I've met a lot of the members of my favourite band, but the band itsn't famous so I don't know if it counts. Although the bassist played for Bruce Dickinson (and Ricky Gervais, incidentally) and one of the drummers played with Rachel Stamp, so I suppose there's something

Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 4:59 pm

No claim to fame here. But one of my best friend spent an evening and a night at the home of Fish (the former leadsinger of Marillion) with his family, cooked dinner for him and got drunk together with him Wink

Being a huge Fish fan, that was about the night of his life Wink

I really envy him, since I love Fish�s music too Very Happy

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