I worked as a delivery boy for a central London wine merchant back in about 1970. Used to deliver to the Apple (not that one) HQ in Savile Row where I said hello to Ringo Starr, and he used to have a legendary New Years Eve party at his eff off mansion on The Bishop’s Avenue Hampstead where we supplied all the drinks, and he said hello to me there recognising me as the Savile Row delivery boy. He stared hard at the Led Zeppelin badges I used to wear. My impression was that he was a nice bloke.
Encountered Ricky Gervais on Marlow High Street last September. One of my friends was doing puppy fostering for Guide Dogs and 'Mrs Gervais' came over to make a fuss of the dog. She beckoned Ricky over, they were both extremely friendly and chatty.
Linda McCartney, back in 79, I was an apprentice electrician, she wanders into her (farmhouse) kitchen, makes us a cup of tea, has a chat, wanders off. I wasn't even aware we were working at their gaff. She was down to earth, no airs and graces.
Paul McCartney was often to be found, at the local Jempsons shop, asking people whether they wanted his autograph.
Linda McCartney, back in 79, I was an apprentice electrician, she wanders into her (farmhouse) kitchen, makes us a cup of tea, has a chat, wanders off. I wasn't even aware we were working at their gaff. She was down to earth, no airs and graces.
Paul McCartney was often to be found, at the local Jempsons shop, asking people whether they wanted his autograph.
Linda McCartney, back in 79, I was an apprentice electrician, she wanders into her (farmhouse) kitchen, makes us a cup of tea, has a chat, wanders off. I wasn't even aware we were working at their gaff. She was down to earth, no airs and graces.
Paul McCartney was often to be found, at the local Jempsons shop, asking people whether they wanted his autograph.
Linda McCartney, back in 79, I was an apprentice electrician, she wanders into her (farmhouse) kitchen, makes us a cup of tea, has a chat, wanders off. I wasn't even aware we were working at their gaff. She was down to earth, no airs and graces.
Paul McCartney was often to be found, at the local Jempsons shop, asking people whether they wanted his autograph.
Paul's the talented one in the kitchen, she just stands at the back banging the pans
Sean Lock - scared him shitless in a boozer in Chelsea as i had him pinned to the wall talking bollocks whilst quite drunk Kevin Rowlands - Annoyed him drunk at a Boys Own do. he looked quite wary of me. Tom Baker - told me to fuck off in Soho Alan Mcgee - Thanked him for Noel and Liam Terry Hall - met him on a train to Manchester - he was off to see Utd - it was just before the Specials reformed gigs and he let me sit with him and chew the fat for 10 minutes. Amazing chap he really was Jerry Dammers - met him a the reissued Dance Craze film at the IMAX BFI a year or so ago - he approached me believe or not and said "i know you off the telly" - i reckon he thought i was Bill Bailey (its been mentioned) All of The Inbetweeners lads - of which Joe Thomas was my favourite - James Buckley came across as a bit of a tit - he was probably having a bad day. Greg Davies - only said hello as we were "on set" at the time Jarvis Cocker - we annoyed him and my mate tried to nick his glasses at a Massive Attack gig years ago Sean Pertwee - we shared a few minutes in the smoking bit outside a Specials gig in Brixton - i managed to say to him "Don't mack me off like a two bob" - which actually made him laugh. One of my heroes that most of you wont know - NIK TURNER from Hawkwind - met him and his family in Goa and Rajastan in India in about 93 - spent days with him before i told him i knew who he was - absolute gent and his girls were cuties Spider from Coronation Street - we got him mangled on Mud at a Faith/Boys Own do - poor fella had no idea what was going on.
Linda McCartney, back in 79, I was an apprentice electrician, she wanders into her (farmhouse) kitchen, makes us a cup of tea, has a chat, wanders off. I wasn't even aware we were working at their gaff. She was down to earth, no airs and graces.
Paul McCartney was often to be found, at the local Jempsons shop, asking people whether they wanted his autograph.
They have a gaff near Rye dont they?
Indeed, at Peasmarsh.
I also remember a young Stella McCartney, knocking around in Rye. I once sat opposite her in, I think it was called the Strand Quay cafe, she had a party trick of buying a cup of coffee and hideously curdling it. Just one of those odd facts I've always retained.
Lennox Lewis - Bromley Glades with his family. Aaron Fotheringham - known as Wheelz from Nitro Circus - bumped into him in Las Vegas at a Supercross race. Dara Ó Briain - Said hi to him at Dublin Airport. Eddie Irvine - At Goodwood. Ross Kemp - Bumped into him in Westminster, nice guy. Warwick Davis - Another one bumped into in Westminster. Cheryl Baker - Served her when I was in my teens working in Waitrose.
I knew a bloke who I used to work with who left to join the police. He packed in the police and returned, but he told me he gave a parking ticket to a remonstrating Paul McCartney outside Billy Vees in Lee High Road.
Sean Lock - scared him shitless in a boozer in Chelsea as i had him pinned to the wall talking bollocks whilst quite drunk Kevin Rowlands - Annoyed him drunk at a Boys Own do. he looked quite wary of me. Tom Baker - told me to fuck off in Soho Alan Mcgee - Thanked him for Noel and Liam Terry Hall - met him on a train to Manchester - he was off to see Utd - it was just before the Specials reformed gigs and he let me sit with him and chew the fat for 10 minutes. Amazing chap he really was Jerry Dammers - met him a the reissued Dance Craze film at the IMAX BFI a year or so ago - he approached me believe or not and said "i know you off the telly" - i reckon he thought i was Bill Bailey (its been mentioned) All of The Inbetweeners lads - of which Joe Thomas was my favourite - James Buckley came across as a bit of a tit - he was probably having a bad day. Greg Davies - only said hello as we were "on set" at the time Jarvis Cocker - we annoyed him and my mate tried to nick his glasses at a Massive Attack gig years ago Sean Pertwee - we shared a few minutes in the smoking bit outside a Specials gig in Brixton - i managed to say to him "Don't mack me off like a two bob" - which actually made him laugh. One of my heroes that most of you wont know - NIK TURNER from Hawkwind - met him and his family in Goa and Rajastan in India in about 93 - spent days with him before i told him i knew who he was - absolute gent and his girls were cuties Spider from Coronation Street - we got him mangled on Mud at a Faith/Boys Own do - poor fella had no idea what was going on.
Quite the list that, you've almost met as many famous people as Acworth.
I knew a bloke who I used to work with who left to join the police. He packed in the police and returned, but he told me he gave a parking ticket to a remonstrating Paul McCartney outside Billy Vees in Lee High Road.
I knew a bloke who I used to work with who left to join the police. He packed in the police and returned, but he told me he gave a parking ticket to a remonstrating Paul McCartney outside Billy Vees in Lee High Road.
Linda McCartney, back in 79, I was an apprentice electrician, she wanders into her (farmhouse) kitchen, makes us a cup of tea, has a chat, wanders off. I wasn't even aware we were working at their gaff. She was down to earth, no airs and graces.
Paul McCartney was often to be found, at the local Jempsons shop, asking people whether they wanted his autograph.
Paul's the talented one in the kitchen, she just stands at the back banging the pans
Linda McCartney, back in 79, I was an apprentice electrician, she wanders into her (farmhouse) kitchen, makes us a cup of tea, has a chat, wanders off. I wasn't even aware we were working at their gaff. She was down to earth, no airs and graces.
Paul McCartney was often to be found, at the local Jempsons shop, asking people whether they wanted his autograph.
Apart from some Charlton players like Steve Mackensie and Mark Kinsella who I remember talking to, I said hello to Robert Smith of The Cure in a lift, and the lead singer of Kent backstage on my way to the toilet. I said to him ’bloody brilliant’ and he replied ’thanks.’ Edit: I also had quite a long conversation with the lead singer of Here We Go Magic in the street outside after a gig.
Linda McCartney, back in 79, I was an apprentice electrician, she wanders into her (farmhouse) kitchen, makes us a cup of tea, has a chat, wanders off. I wasn't even aware we were working at their gaff. She was down to earth, no airs and graces.
Paul McCartney was often to be found, at the local Jempsons shop, asking people whether they wanted his autograph.
They have a gaff near Rye dont they?
They have a farm, supposedly he treats his staff to free Glasto tickets.
Kissed a sweaty Michelle Gayle once. Best one and a half seconds of her life. Met countless bands (used to work in a nightclub and one of the jobs was doing the rider for the bands when they played gigs). Most famous probably Green Day (literally a month after Dookie came out - three months later they'd sold about 3 million albums - sound lads, all three of them) Ronnie Corbett (worked in a garden centre as a teen - he used to go in there, and was a proper c**t). Ol Sausage Fingers Prince (King) Charles when I was 4 (he came to Deptford and our whole nursery class got to meet him).
Christina Hendricks Margaret Thatcher Paris Hilton Jacinta Arden Thora Hird Rihana Lada Gaga Florence Nightingale Barbara Cartland Katie Price Lassie Juliet Capulet... ...and many more but a gentlemen never discusses the who and what of his bedroom
so its true about you and Lassie then!
She was not as good a girl as everybody thought !
especially as all 9 Lassies were boys!
They hid that well, good job the dogs had long hair
When i lived in Rye i met Linda Macartney a couple of times and she was very friendly. I managed a leisure centre where Spike Milligan was a member. He was a miserable old so and so but his wife Sheila was lovely.
When i lived in Rye i met Linda Macartney a couple of times and she was very friendly. I managed a leisure centre where Spike Milligan was a member. He was a miserable old so and so but his wife Sheila was lovely.
I'm terrible with lyrics and for a long time i thought the Beatles song was "Ticket to Rye" . Nice to know that a place actually exists by that name and that Paul McCartney lived there no less. For a brief moment it has made me feel less of an idiot than i am.
My dentist used to have his own practice in Wimpole Street, London. When the Beatles moved to London, Paul McCartney lodged with the Asher’s down the road, Paul going out with Jane Asher at the time. While there McCartney and Lennon wrote I Wanna Hold your Hand and McCartney wrote the music for Yesterday. John Taylor Smith is an excellent dentist by the way.
When i lived in Rye i met Linda Macartney a couple of times and she was very friendly. I managed a leisure centre where Spike Milligan was a member. He was a miserable old so and so but his wife Sheila was lovely.
I'm terrible with lyrics and for a long time i thought the Beatles song was "Ticket to Rye" . Nice to know that a place actually exists by that name and that Paul McCartney lived there no less. For a brief moment it has made me feel less of an idiot than i am.
Understandable mistake, Kiwi, but it's actually Ticket to Ryde, which is a small town on the Isle of Wight. You're welcome.
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He stared hard at the Led Zeppelin badges I used to wear.
My impression was that he was a nice bloke.
The large store in Peasmarsh?
Sean Lock - scared him shitless in a boozer in Chelsea as i had him pinned to the wall talking bollocks whilst quite drunk
Kevin Rowlands - Annoyed him drunk at a Boys Own do. he looked quite wary of me.
Tom Baker - told me to fuck off in Soho
Alan Mcgee - Thanked him for Noel and Liam
Terry Hall - met him on a train to Manchester - he was off to see Utd - it was just before the Specials reformed gigs and he let me sit with him and chew the fat for 10 minutes. Amazing chap he really was
Jerry Dammers - met him a the reissued Dance Craze film at the IMAX BFI a year or so ago - he approached me believe or not and said "i know you off the telly" -
All of The Inbetweeners lads - of which Joe Thomas was my favourite - James Buckley came across as a bit of a tit - he was probably having a bad day.
Greg Davies - only said hello as we were "on set" at the time
Jarvis Cocker - we annoyed him and my mate tried to nick his glasses at a Massive Attack gig years ago
Sean Pertwee - we shared a few minutes in the smoking bit outside a Specials gig in Brixton - i managed to say to him "Don't mack me off like a two bob" - which actually made him laugh.
One of my heroes that most of you wont know - NIK TURNER from Hawkwind - met him and his family in Goa and Rajastan in India in about 93 - spent days with him before i told him i knew who he was - absolute gent and his girls were cuties
Spider from Coronation Street - we got him mangled on Mud at a Faith/Boys Own do - poor fella had no idea what was going on.
I also remember a young Stella McCartney, knocking around in Rye. I once sat opposite her in, I think it was called the Strand Quay cafe, she had a party trick of buying a cup of coffee and hideously curdling it. Just one of those odd facts I've always retained.
Aaron Fotheringham - known as Wheelz from Nitro Circus - bumped into him in Las Vegas at a Supercross race.
Dara Ó Briain - Said hi to him at Dublin Airport.
Eddie Irvine - At Goodwood.
Ross Kemp - Bumped into him in Westminster, nice guy.
Warwick Davis - Another one bumped into in Westminster.
Cheryl Baker - Served her when I was in my teens working in Waitrose.
He packed in the police and returned, but he told me he gave a parking ticket to a remonstrating Paul McCartney outside Billy Vees in Lee High Road.
Edit: I also had quite a long conversation with the lead singer of Here We Go Magic in the street outside after a gig.
Met countless bands (used to work in a nightclub and one of the jobs was doing the rider for the bands when they played gigs). Most famous probably Green Day (literally a month after Dookie came out - three months later they'd sold about 3 million albums - sound lads, all three of them)
Ronnie Corbett (worked in a garden centre as a teen - he used to go in there, and was a proper c**t).
Ol Sausage Fingers Prince (King) Charles when I was 4 (he came to Deptford and our whole nursery class got to meet him).
I managed a leisure centre where Spike Milligan was a member. He was a miserable old so and so but his wife Sheila was lovely.