lived round the corner. He made a fortune.

In the mid-70s when Southampton FC were in their pomp, Lawrie McMenemy lived down the road. On the day Saints won the FA Cup everyone went round and decorated his house with bunting, etc.

Otherwise it was just a load of swingers.

Until very recently I lived opposite Ross Kemp.

that Tony Christie lives in the flats next door.
Maybe no-one did know the way to Amarillo, but I'm told Lichfield offers many similarities....

Naomi Watts, the actress, went to the same school as me, at least for a bit. I have no recollection of her whatsoever, though I'm sure she remembers me fondly.

And, until fairly recently, I lived opposite John Simms, and around the corner from Bernard Butler, some, or possibly all, of Travis, Martin Freeman, Andy Kershaw and Simon Pegg. Can you guess where I lived?

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The Charlatans used to live two doors away from my mom and dad. His cat - Ziggy, trivia fans - adopted them and stayed with them after he moved house. The cat died last week at the ripe old age of 16 - sorry to drop that one on you Jon if you're reading this...

Richard Ayoade (always smoking a fag while on phone outside front door)
and Lembit Opik (seems to drive to work, which is about 10 minutes walk away - shame on him). Haven't seen his cheeky missus for a while

That was my childhood. But I lived next-door-but-one to Laura Davies, who became the world's top female golfer. Her dad was a very nice man but used to tell me off for playing football against the garage doors.

Some years earlier, we also lived near BBC weatherman Burt Ford. Crazy times.

I don't live beside them but one of my friends recently won an Emmy for her costume work on The Tudors, is that any good?

some time ago. I remember as a kid being amazed at this gold disc hanging in her hall, and disgusted that you couldn't play it.

What, the precocious me would ask, is the point in that!

..the first man to really climb Everest (Sea level to summit) lives up the road from me.

McGuinness-Flint and Manfred Mann (possibly the same people) used to drink in the same pub as my Dad.

Until recently, Danny La Rue lived just round the corner.

claims to fame but members of Mud were from my manor, my brother went out with the Status Quo drummers sister & Paula Yates worked with my mate at the local metal factory.

is a Plantagenet, directly descended from Edward 111, and probably has a better claim to the throne than the encumbent bunch.

He's having 250,000 people round for a weekend party in two weeks time, as he does every year, and I hope the weather's nice, as it's a good day out.

My sister-in-law´s cousin is Danny Leiner, who directed an episode of the Sopranos and the seminal, Dude Where´s My Car.

the bloke what played Dennis Tanner in Consternation Street (Philip Lowe?) was our milkman's assistant when he started out as a TV thesp.

Max Clifford used to live round the corner from ours until he upped sticks and moved to somewhere much swankier in the Surrey stockbroker belt. Didn’t know him but he was, by all accounts, a pretty decent neighbour. He lived next door to an old woman who he’d take shopping every week. And he carried on doing so - used to come back in his big Bentley - long after he’d left the area and until she died.
Always had him down as an odious creep but I suppose even odious creeps have their good sides.

as he lived just up the road from my parents' house in North London. He was incredibly nice and incredibly generous... he gave me and my friends a couple of quid. A couple of quid! Top man.

that said she had dated Brian May. She reckons he didnt shag her but wrote a song for her. I think she was smoking the wacky baccy personally. My old mates uncle is Mike Pinder from the Moody Blues and my mum used to do house calls on Denny Laines mum who apparently had his Gold record on the wall (I assume from Band on the Run).
More recently Steve Staunton lived in our village as did Paul Merson for a while but as they both played for Villa they dont count!!!

...garden backs onto mine. No pigs, chicken sheds or methane generators that we can see however.

This is possibly the worst 'discussion' The Word has ever hosted. What an appalling, pathetic group of nonetities you people are referring to. Where's the "I had an American 'hot lunch' from Frank Zappa" or "Desert Orchid popped my cherry in his horse box whilst Red Rum videotaped it from the back".
Dennis Tanner, Roachford, Big Cock Ben !!

school with a guy who:
(a) Went out with Sue Menhenick from Pans People
AND
(b) his Father was Paul Maccas lawyer when he bought his farm near Mull Of Kintyre
Also there is a rather good story about his Dad trying to teach Macca how to play The William Tell Overture, with a spoon, banging on his head and cheeks. True! Will save that for another day.

I work with a Seahorse and a mate's brother was in Shed Seven ...

with Geezer Butlers son. And my daughter went to college with Tony Iommis daughter.
Rock'n'roll enough (sic) for you, biggaboy.
Love the irony, btw.

A girl in my secondary school class married and subsequently divorced Dave Gahan. Wooo, fascinating!