The thread in which PHers reveal tenuous links to famous people.

[Blib]

Had dinner last night with a friend who's in the same band as a man who played saxophone on a Pink Floyd tour as their regular sax player was having visa issues.

Ha!

[Don1]

I went to school with the brother of Adamski.

[Rostfritt]

CAPP0 said:

I'm friends with a former lead singer of Manfred Mann.

I know someone who might be related to another member.

One of my housemates once served the wife of the prime minister of New Zealand at the local supermarket.

[green911]

I was a passenger in a Renault 5 GT Turbo that almost ran over Eric Clapton in the backstreets of Kensington in the late 1990s. I'm sure that there is something slightly ironic that someone known as Slowhand is quite quick on their feet when the situation demands.

[130R]

I once got a lift in the back of a VW Beetle from a women that was in that "I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing" Coca Cola commercial from the 70s

[FredericRobinson]

My dad taught ex England cricket coach Peter Moores O level chemistry

[dfen5]

A Dragon's Den dragon liked one of my tweets.

[gmaz]

I have the same birthday, nickname and interests (guitars, cars, rocket science) as Gareth Jones (Gaz Top) and he replied to my (our) happy birthday tweet I sent.

If I knew him, I bet he would be my best mate. (weirdo stalker alert)

[Ayahuasca]

The daughter of a friend of mine is a PA to Donald Trump's daughter.

[kuro]

Quite a few over the years.

Went to school with danny greaves son of Jimmy

My dad was a loss assessor specialising in major fire damage. Did work for keith emerson and Bobby Moore who I got to meet.

I've ended up on the same flights as Enoch powel, hot chocolates errol brown and dave hill from slade.

In my youth I occasionally got to hang out with the band bow wow wow (original adam and the ants) and the psycobilly band the meteors.

Stirling moss was a friend of a former employer and brought one of his classic race cars into the factory on a trailer. I made a new cover for it.

[Baz Tench]

Back in the 1970s, my dad was in the motor trade. One day, he brought a piston home. It was out of Richard Burton's Rolls Royce apparently.

I once walked straight through a scene being filmed on one of the platforms at Stafford station. I had no idea, I didn't spot the boom mic, or Steven Mangan, or Patrick what's him name (he was the suave rival boss in 'The Office') as I walked in between 'a bunch of people' . They had to stop filming.

I never did find out what programme it was for.

[DoctorX]

Baz Tench said:

Back in the 1970s, my dad was in the motor trade. One day, he brought a piston home. It was out of Richard Burton's Rolls Royce apparently.

I once walked straight through a scene being filmed on one of the platforms at Stafford station. I had no idea, I didn't spot the boom mic, or Steven Mangan, or Patrick what's him name (he was the suave rival boss in 'The Office') as I walked in between 'a bunch of people' . They had to stop filming.

I never did find out what programme it was for.

Possibly this, filming location in Staffordshire:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1029269/

[Baz Tench]

DoctorX said:

Baz Tench said:

Back in the 1970s, my dad was in the motor trade. One day, he brought a piston home. It was out of Richard Burton's Rolls Royce apparently.

I once walked straight through a scene being filmed on one of the platforms at Stafford station. I had no idea, I didn't spot the boom mic, or Steven Mangan, or Patrick what's him name (he was the suave rival boss in 'The Office') as I walked in between 'a bunch of people' . They had to stop filming.

I never did find out what programme it was for.

Possibly this, filming location in Staffordshire:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1029269/

Ah, cheers for that!

[Higgs boson]

I was given this book for my birthday.



I already had a copy, but my sister got this one signed by the man, chasing Joey Dunlop, on the cover.
His name is Ray McCullough. He WAS Ulster Road Racing in the 70s.
Having already caught and passed Phil Reid, he won the 1971 250 Ulster Grand Prix, a World
Championship round, by beating Jarno Saarinen.
He rode like this ...



As well as writing a personalized birthday greeting on the inside cover, he also signed a photo ...



This man is my hero. I got his autograph in 1975, and, a few years later, shared short circuits / road races with him for a further 5 years.

In all that time I managed to avoid speaking with him (never meet your hero, right?).

I know that I would, most definitely, not be disappointed if I met him. But I don't intend to.

'hope that's tenuous enough.

[boobles]

Joey Dunlop was good friends with my GF's mother.

[grumpy52]

As a family we are friends with James Cordens parents .
My father was in the RAF with his father,Malcolm Corden .

[Higgs boson]

boobles said:

Joey Dunlop was good friends with my GF's mother.

I mean this in a jocular fashion, but I find it hard to believe that Joey was good friends with many.
I sure that he must've been, but, blimey, he did walk to the beat of a different drum.

I've heard many stories of him sitting with people that he knew well, for protracted periods of time, and not uttering a single word.

'could ride a bike, though. **

• ** I know, I'm the master of understatement.

[FN2TypeR]

I was once escorted from a nightclub after calling Annie Mac a "curly haired fool" after she refused a drink I offered her.

Or so I'm told, I'd had a few, what a tit.

[Blown2CV]

FN2TypeR said:

I was once escorted from a nightclub after calling Annie Mac a "curly haired fool" after she refused a drink I offered her.

Or so I'm told, I'd had a few, what a tit.

you've had a few what, refusals from women?

[Type R Tom]

Maybe that needs to be a new topic: "Hitting on famous people"!