The thread in which PHers reveal tenuous links to famous people.
Discussion
Baldchap said:
I once went to a friend's house that was previously owned by either Leon or Ron Haslam. Can't remember now. Apparently they popped round to grab post occasionally.
I once delivered a package to Ron Haslam. He was out the back souping up his ride-on mower.Lots of bikes around the place - as you would imagine.
pingu393 said:
PeteinSQ said:
My uncle (married to my dad's sister) was the cousin of David Bowie. Both sadly deceased now. My uncle was a great man. Never got to meet David Bowie.
Another fairly obscure one. I once got asked if I'd be in a Shredded Wheat ad by Jack Charlton when I was a kid. I told him I didn't like Shredded Wheat....
He had a house up the dale from where we lived and came to visit my parents a few times much to my amazement.
I was told to "Never Eat Shredded Wheat" Another fairly obscure one. I once got asked if I'd be in a Shredded Wheat ad by Jack Charlton when I was a kid. I told him I didn't like Shredded Wheat....
He had a house up the dale from where we lived and came to visit my parents a few times much to my amazement.
He always looked like such a cheerful guy in Amen Corner. Then he fell off my music radar. Years later, he turns up backing Eric Clapton and presumably highly respected in the industry. He was on the Hootenanny last night and as far as I was concerned beat everything else into a cocked hat.
I mucked about in a band in South Wales in the late sixties while I was at university in Swansea. The two others in the band were from Cardiff, the Whitchurch-Rhiwbina area. They knew some of the Amen Corner from their schooldays. When they ran into them in 1970, after they had been successful with ‘Paradise’ and ‘Bend Me’, TV, touring, etc, they told my mates that the only thing they came out of the experience with would just about buy a car.
Nearly thirty years ago I sat in a Mini Cooper S that now belongs to Christian Horner and was first owned by Ringo Starr.
If John Lennon were still alive, he'd still owe my mate's Dad two bob from when they played cards together backstage in a Coventry theatre when the Beatles were on tour.
If John Lennon were still alive, he'd still owe my mate's Dad two bob from when they played cards together backstage in a Coventry theatre when the Beatles were on tour.
Speaking of Coventry theatres, outside one, Fee Waybill asked me where was staying the following night. He had mistaken me for one of his entourage. I was unable to help him, and he seemed a nice chap.
The following day he fell as a result of his platform shoes, and had to cancel the night's performance.
The following day he fell as a result of his platform shoes, and had to cancel the night's performance.
eldar said:
Speaking of Coventry theatres, outside one, Fee Waybill asked me where was staying the following night. He had mistaken me for one of his entourage. I was unable to help him, and he seemed a nice chap.
The following day he fell as a result of his platform shoes, and had to cancel the night's performance.
Was anyone speaking of Coventry theatres? I missed that.The following day he fell as a result of his platform shoes, and had to cancel the night's performance.
My wife went out with Jerry Dammers. Before I knew her.
Doofus said:
eldar said:
Speaking of Coventry theatres, outside one, Fee Waybill asked me where was staying the following night. He had mistaken me for one of his entourage. I was unable to help him, and he seemed a nice chap.
The following day he fell as a result of his platform shoes, and had to cancel the night's performance.
Was anyone speaking of Coventry theatres? I missed that.The following day he fell as a result of his platform shoes, and had to cancel the night's performance.
My wife went out with Jerry Dammers. Before I knew her.
Tenuous links?
Windsor Davies once held open the door for my wife.
Her father once had tea in Balmoral after retrieving some bodies off a mountain, on the insistence of the Queen Mother….
RammyMP said:
sparkythecat said:
My father in law knew Gordon Banks and used to borrow his lawnmower.
I met Gordon Banks at a caravan park in Wales about 40 years ago, he did a coaching session for the kids. Nice chap as I recall.mikeiow said:
Er….yup, the immediately preceding reply
Tenuous links?
Windsor Davies once held open the door for my wife.
Her father once had tea in Balmoral after retrieving some bodies off a mountain, on the insistence of the Queen Mother….
Did the Queen Mother insist on the tea or the removal of the bodies?Tenuous links?
Windsor Davies once held open the door for my wife.
Her father once had tea in Balmoral after retrieving some bodies off a mountain, on the insistence of the Queen Mother….
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