there used to be a David Greenslade at my work and I was at school with a John McLaughlin and a David Cassidy

ok the last one was more prog

Two of my best friends were Patrick Moore and David Niven.

James Taylor and Tim Buckleigh

Fats Domino.

The above is a lie.

gigs with a pianist called Phil Collins, and another called Charles Parker!

have had some dealings with a Tom Cox whose middle name is Buzz and a Robert Smith (what are the chances?) in my working life.

is my great friend James Mason.

Who went to Morrison's Academy with the real Ewan Macgregor.

I realise I'm at risk of utterly compromising my hitherto anonymous status here, but my brother's name is Chris. Not sure I'd recognise the band if they fell on me, mind.

there was a lad in my class called David Livingstone.

a Lisa Simpson

with Aimie Mann

Sat next to John Lennon in school, and the best of all George Harrison was my granduncle.

None of them sung for me though.

who were the subject of much discussion today is called Martin Kemp. We were trying to work out what song title we could get away with using in an email.

..probably doesn't count. It was the real Angus Young.

Our mate is called howard jones and used to share a desk with an adam adamski, he use get confuesd calls that went "hello this is Howard Jones no not that one you need to speak to adamski".
I also use to work in bizzarely celebtastic office with a John taylor who often met with a terry scott who worked out of a john humphrey's house in woolwich.

of a client that i have ever had to stand there & grin and bear it, whilst he went off on one was called Robbie Williams. Coincidence?

Quantrell Aloysios Ichabod Fotherington-Forbbes-Cholmondeley would go on to be so world renowned.

I personally know a
Nicholas Sebastian Bach
Paul Newman
Richard Thompson (Oh the irony)
Paul Gascoigne (went out with his sister)
and at my school there was a boy called Martin Gaye.
my sister once went to a conference where the guest speaker was
BRIAN MAIDEN (Once mentioned on Danny Baker I seem to remember)

I once met a man at a party called Peter Buck (the man, not the party). No one had ever told him that he had an arpeggio-pluckin' namesake and he'd never heard of the band.

from Lisa Stansfield's sister's boyfriend. No really.

Steven Tyler

He wasn't allowed in the lifts

and if I said this once I said it a hundred times, "You have to speak to Gary Cooper, no not the actor."

A person I actually feel sorry for is a news reporter on Channel 10 Melbourne. He would be aged in his forties and fifteen years ago when he first appeared on TV he had the most normal name in the world. But now whenever he appears you know that someone, somewhere, is giggling. His name is Harry Potter.

John Mills
Peter Green
Kevin Smith
James Brown

I sometimes exchange these sorts of things with my good chum Stalker Bertie, who works in transport (how he enjoyed despatching Joe Elliot on delivery to Sheffield). This week he overheard one side of a telephone coversation with one of their drivers, one Paul Rodgers, who was lost. "Well" quoth the controller "You're not alright now, are ya!"

You should hear the rooom when a phone call comes in for Mike Hunt. No, honestly.

For real.
And he's white.

...to deal with a guy called Peter Hook.

I've not missing anyone and Uncle Tel was always safely esconsed in Hounslow - never, to my knowledge, downtown Beirut

We went to a wedding recently which was officinated by a very nice chap called Father Tony Parsons.
And another friend after she married end up being Olive Doyle, no word of lie.

I shared a balloon ride with a couple, one who was called Jennifer Lopez.

...and there is also a journalist who can be heard on Radio Scotland called Glen Campbell. This never failed to make me giggle when I used to hear his name mentioned on the news.

David Gray. He just called me. He didn't babble on....

James Dean.

Every time he phoned me he would start by saying "Hello, Bridge to Kirk". Never a dull moment etc.
I'm always pleased to hear the end of Gardener's Question Time on Radio 4. "...and the producer was Jo King".

Brian Wilson.

In a record shop, no less

I used to share an office with Dave Gilmour. He was generally called DIG. And wasn't in Pink Flloyd. And neither was the other Dave Gilmour at the company he moved to and who got half of his e-mails.

I am also not the (totally obscure) Christian rock singer from the USA of the same name.

There are also a remarkable number of Richard Head s in the world. Who don't shorten their names.

A few years ago, a new client called Gordon Bennett came for a meeting with a colleague and I.
At the end of the meeting, my colleague said, "Does anyone ever take the mickey out of your name?"
"No, never," came the reply.
My colleague's surname is Crapper, mind you!

where I live is very careful to always be refered to as Jennifer Taylor.

I went to a meeting once with a lawyer called Dave Fenton. "That's funny" quoth I "the singer with the Vapours was called Dave Fenton. Did you know that?" "Yes" he says "I was the singer with the Vapours". Doh!

I know he's not famous but I did used to do a little business with a Finnish man called Ari Pekka. Kept the thrid formers on the team amused.

Opening the bowling for New Zealand

My local Anglican church used to boast two stellar workers: Robert Wyatt and (leading the worship allegedly) Nick Drake.

All this and it's the Church of England. And is there honey still for tea?

You'll find Phil Taylor* and Pat Garrett driving two of its many tills.

*for the benighted Phil, "Filthy Animal" Taylor was the Ace of Spades era sticksman in Motorhead.

I was at school in Belfast with a Steve McQueen