Let me drop some names...
This'll really show my age.

Diana Rigg, in a restaurant in Leeds. I was old enough to know that if she was wearing her Mrs Peel outfit and kicked me in the face, it wouldn't be completely terrible, but young enough not to understand why - 11 or 12 I suppose. I didn't realise it at the time, but she'd just been to her father's funeral, and she still found time to give me her autograph.

Bryan Ferry when he was still a Geordie and went out with my cousin. I thought he was a twat, but changed my mind when he started Roxy Music.

I tried to chat up Selena Scott when she was still at Grampian TV in Aberdeen. I had no idea who she was.

Rolf Harris used to be one of my customers (copying artworks and so on). He is quite eccentric.

Sir David Steel, Alex Salmond, and Ming Campbell are acquaintances, and I knew Charles Kennedy before he was an MP. I don't recall him being particularly fond of a drink, but this was up in N W Scotland where normal rules do not apply. NB I am neither a Lib-Dem nor a Scots Nat.

My ex-wife had a fling with Phil Lynott (Thin Lizzie). His willy was bigger than mine, but I was better in the sack. Apparently.
( MisterPunch did it that way on, Thu 8 Oct 2009, 18:03, Reply)