Pictures of Lily
Posted by Five-Centres on 22 August 2008 - 9:27am.
My thoughts have turned to Brookside's Karen Grant, without doubt my top student pin-up of the mid-Eighties.
She followed Kim Wilde, Blondie and Olivia Newton-John into my heart, and was replaced by Ally Sheedy then Kylie Minogue, and so it went on, until I stopped putting up poster and got a wife.
Sadly, I can't post a Karen picture here, though I did find only one on the net.
So who was in your dreams way back when?
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Karen Grant...
There's a blast from the past...right up there with Tracy Corkhill!
Where to start...I'll see your Ally Sheedy and raise you Molly Ringwald...!
All of Legs & Co, through Debbie Harry, to Lori Singer (Julie in the tv version of Fame), to Belinda Carlisle, to the '83 - '85 incarnation of Madonna, to Tiffany (I had a trailer trash thing...) ending with plain Jane super brain from Neighbours.
However, I still get a "girl band" du jour calendar as a joke Xmas present from my younger brother every year. Over the past 15 years, these have ranged from the Spice Girls, Dannii Minogue, J-Lo and Girls Aloud. None can match the impact Debbie Harry had on me singing Heart of Glass all those years ago!
"joke Xmas present..."
Yeah right...
Honest guv....
I've even asked for a Blondie one. The oh-so-knowing chap in HMV said "He thought they had some 30 years ago"
Now then
Starting back in school.......
Sally Thomsett
Wendy Craig (yes i know...)
Carly Simon (THAT album cover)
Tina Weymouth
Gaye Advert
Tennis poster girl
Debbie Harry
......lengthy gap
........Kylie! Actually Dannii is an attractive girl but is almost wholly artifical judging from photos dating from when she originally appeared.
Wendy Craig!
Actually, my mum & dad told me that I had a huge crush on her when I were a kid during the Butterflies era! Also, apparently, Elizabeth Montgomery from Bewitched...
Debbie Harry was my first real pin-up crush, along with Kate Bush and silent movie star Louise Brooks.
Viv Albertine from The Slits, Gaye Advert and Tina Weymouth too - maybe something Freudian about girls with guitars going on here!
Everyone
...had a crush on Wendy Craig in my experience.
Some of us still have
And Mother Makes Three - phwoar!
when I was a small child...
Ms Graig accidentally nearly ran me over with her car.
Which bit was accidental?
The running over bit, or the 'nearly' bit?
Both
and I spent ages trying to make that unambiguous...
unlike Micheal Parkinson - now he was trying to knock me off my bike, but that's another story.
Wendy Craig
Not me. I never fell for that simpering routine. But Elizabeth Montgomery! Now you're talking!!
Seemed to go
for redheads
Carol Decker
Kate Bush (with a red light behind her)
Tori Amos (dyed)
Cathy Hargreaves
from Grange Hill, in the Tucker era.
Ooh yes
I was obsessed with her too. There was a girl in the year below who looked just like her, but my friend beat me to it.
Disappointingly
I googled her once, as she is now. Complete change, looks NOTHING like I remembered her.
Never mind kb
Just found this.
A bit raunchy for kids tv isn't it?
Blimey
Thank you for rooting that out. What was going through my teenaged head? And the 1970s really were the austere 1950s weren't they? Imagine a 2008 remake of that scene - the skirt lengths, the blouses, the hairstyles, the lyrics, the boys' polite applause...
to quote a song i've oft posted here
"I'd love to have it off with Susannah Hoffs"
Still.
Glynis Barber in Dempsey and Makepeace; well i mean to say, Grrr and so on.
Personally...
...I think Susanna Hoffs looks better now than she did then; as evidenced by the picture on page 72 of this month's Word.
She still owes me a Fiver
True fact.
Scouse
I've just been interviewed by Jimmy Corkhill about the Beatles while watching the ferry cross the Mersey. How scouse is that?
As for heartthrobs - Wendy James all the way.
plus one
for the Wendy!
Two words.
Jenny Agutter.
it all starts with
it all starts with Kylie!
philippa Forrester, ex childrens present, now on radio 4, [natch]
sherilyn fenn
Minnie Driver
Gillian Anderson,
Uh-oh
Gillian looks none too pleased about being placed fourth.
Chronological order, rather
Chronological order, rather than some TOTPs chart.
Believe me, sir, otherwise the redheads would always win out!
Yes, Sherilyn Fenn
....had her poster on my wall in her Twin Peaks days...
Back then:
Ayesha from Lift Off (that dates me).
Also the mermaid (Marina?) from Stingray (yes I know...but i WAS young).
Bit later: Anyone remember Julie Ege and Madeline Smith from Hammer's golden age? I think I would still blush if I met them. You can put me in the Gaye Advert fan club too.
Nowerdays the divine Julie Delpy, who IMHO should definitely be a Word Cover Star. After all, she's released an album an' all.
Madeline Smith!
With the big, er, eyes?
Caroline Munro
From a similar Hammer Horror, Bond Girl background as Madeline Smith.
Now if only she could play guitar...
that's the one
;-)
Jenny Agutter in Walkabout
swoooooooooooooooooon.
that kate mossman's not bad either.
Jenny!
Double swoon. To say nothing of "Daddy, It's my Daddy".
Fairest Kate
How old is "too old" to have a crush on Kate?
Janet Ellis....
In Jigsaw guise - Got a bit mumsy, though still edgy, on Blue Peter.
Where's eddie g?
all this talk of birds and totty. I'll keep a lookout. He'll be along in a minute.
You beat me to it
I was waiting for the stern voice of Eddie to remind us that the two sexes should never look at each other in an admiring way. Much.
Totally gratuitous picture of the Cheeky Girls WTF
You need to wash out your dirty mind
How about a *clean* photo of the lovely Katy Manning. I would not be so rude as to post THAT photo with a Dalek...
Good lord!
A Google image search reveals several versions of 'THAT photo'. I had no idea.
Hell's teeth!
That must have been chilly.
Better Than Billie Piper
The lovely Miss Grant, you beat me to it. So you have the Dalek picture do you?
(Sighs longingly) Phoebe Cates from Gremlins...
... and I have no idea how to post pictures I'm afraid. But she was lovely...(sighs longingly again)
Magpie - two for joy!
Surely I can't have been the only lad to have watched 'Magpie' because of the lovely presenter Susan Stranks. It may have been ITV's streetwise answer to Blue Peter and Pete Brady may have worn wall-to-wall flares (and showed you how to make some yourself with leftover curtain material) but it was the delicious Susan who drew in the punters really.
Oh yes
...that moment when she held up the origami model in front of her tee shirt ......one for the Dads more like.
Gentlemen prefer blonds
Oh no Jenny Hanley did it for me...
Back in the day...
...these floated my boat:
Joanna Lumley,
Farrah Fawcett Majors,
Morgan Fairchild,
Cheri Lunghi,
Heather Locklear.
Christ, I was Rod Stewart!
Never had them up on my wall though. The family would have given me an awful time (I was the youngest!!).
Totty. Crumpet. Bird. Chick. 'Love'.
Gosh, feeling slightly honoured to be invited to participate in this droolsome and testosterone-fuelled googling. So, twanging the straps of my ethical Chilean dungarees ( and twiddling my NHS Granny glasses ) may I say that- after much deliberation- the votes from G Towers go to the husky-voiced temptress that was Fenella Fielding in 'Carry On Screaming'.
Good sport
...Eddie
Nice Guy
...Eddie.
That made me smile that did.
Yes and
....FF is a right babe
(**pushes luck and legs it**)
Lovely ladies...
Kate Bush
Connie Booth
Victoria Principal
Olivia Newton John
Elizabeth Sladen
The Indie girls that did it for me:
Harriet Wheeler from The Sundays
Juliana Hatfield
Julianne Reagan from All About Eve
Double Deckers..
Gillian Bailey who played Billie, Yum yum
The Cuckoo Waltz
I used to tune into this so-so seventies comedy just to see Diane Keene. She was gorgeous! Now she is in 'Doctors' and still having amorous adventures. To quote Morrissey 'Fifteen minutes with you.....'
The Sweeney movie
DK fans were of course wide eyed when she disrobed for her appearance in the 1st Seeney movie.
Fifteen minutes eh?
The 'Heaven and Back' Express.
Or even two minutes
As the Flights say, two minutes in heaven is better than one minute in heaven.
C'mon ladies
We know you had pictures of David Hasselhof...
The ladies respond
OK then. Let's start with
James Hunt
David Soul ("don't give up on us baby" was played to death in our house)
Leif Garrett - although having just seen what he looks like now I can confirm that the years have not been kind to either of us.
I then moved away from 'blonde bombshells' to:
John Taylor (obvious I know but still....)
Dave Gahan.
Is anyone else disturbed by the fact that Jay Raynor now looks like an early 90's Gahan?
Another lady responds
Adam Ant - especially in the video for Stand and Deliver when he looks right into the camera...
Midge Ure - actually, still have a soft spot there, I'm a sucker for a Scottish accent and he seems like a nice guy
Jon Moss from Culture Club - then I found out about the Boy George stuff...
I guess Barry Grant was the ladies' equivalent of Karen Grant in Brookside
There was one and only ever one true . . .
Kate Nelligan in a flimsy shift in a BBC Zolafest.
I'd completely forgotten
She starred in Therese Raquin.
Kate Nelligan
Didn't she leave the country? Wasn't one of you lot stalking her, was it?
Kate Nelligan
Didn't she leave the country? Wasn't one of you lot stalking her, was it?
She's gone?
That probably explains why she has been absent from our screens all these years.
Jane Fonda
in Barbarella - phwoaar !
Still fiddling with my Chilean strides but
hey...lest not we forget Anita Pallenberg in that movie too.
Yes!
Kate Nelligan! She took over from Helen Mirren, who had ousted Luan Peters, who had succeeded Susan Stranks, who had pushed aside Kathy Kirby.
Kate evenually got the push from Sally James, who quickly lost out to Linda Bellingham, whose position was usurped by Clare Grogan until Selina Scott appeared. Then Michaela Strachan came knocking. Then I got married, at which point - as any married man will know - your wife's sister and/or best friend takes over.
Between your Kathy Kirby and Susan Stranks
didn't Diana Rigg muscle her jumpsuited - if non-alliterative - way in, or was she mine all mine after all?
Even then
I knew to avoid women skilled in the martial arts.
For me
It was Hammer type horror seen in double bill Saturday nights on BBC2 during the summer - you got the old b&w followed by the lurid all colour 60s or 70s feature - often featuring fanged up lovelies with heaving bosoms.
Then there was Pan's People, of course, not to mention Hot Gossip in the eighties. Plus 2 names I recall - Susan Penhaligan, who featured in BBC's Dracula and Sally Thomsett (another ex-Railway Children as it happens) who was in Robin's Nest.
These days Dr Alice Roberts (Coast)is very appealing - what a brain.
Alice
Have you noticed how the Coast cameramen are always finding reasons to walk behind her? They never do it with Neil, he of the inappropriate hair.
Old Holborn
I bet she smokes Old Holborn. All the girls I knew with pink hair did, back in the day.
Or even Two Minutes
As the Flights say, two minutes in heaven is better than one minute in heaven.
The real title of this thread should be...
"What Did You Do In The Phwoar, Daddy?"
or I wonder would the Beeb commission a show
where gentlemen of a certain age reminisce, with dewy eyes, about lasses off the telly back in the day.
"Who do you think you Phwoar?"
Misty water-coloured memories...
...of the way we phwoar.
I think we're on a roll.
well quite...
beats the hell out of my original idea for the name of the show "Dirty old men"...
File
on Phwoar
"Oh Dad....
do we have to listen to your old phwoar stories again?"
"Oh Dad....
do we have to listen to your old phwoar stories again?"
All's fair...
...in love and phwoar.
Phwoar! What is is good for? Absolutely everything.
Gorgeous female drummer shock!
I was watching the generally crap parade of gormelss and ugly kids "Indie" bands in the Reading Festival BBC3 TV coverage and caught sight of a rather charming redhead playing drums with Lightspeed Champion!
I have no idea who she is, can't find any photos to post as it's more of a solo project than a real band thing, but she was great (at drumming and singing too!).
Very First
trouser stirings, aged about 10, Billie in Double Deckers and the first 5 minutes of Carry On Camping. And maybe that bit in Butch Cassidy.
In the Wendy Craid mould...
...Lesley Judd.
More from the ladies
Very taken with Richard O'Sullivan as Robin Tripp in Robin's Nest, and Robin Nedwell in his later Doctor days
Fluctuations in the Warp Drive
At one time these 2 did it for me.
The lovely Harriet Wheeler of The Sundays
and the beautiful Béatrice Dalle From Betty Blue
and seen here in Aha's Move To Memphis
Sharron Davis
Have you forgotten her heart-stopping white tops that she wore poolside at the Athens Olympics? The cameramen were always shooting her from the waist up..such toned arms...long fingernails...
They only shot her from the shoulder up in 2008!
A lifetime of dreams.........
First stirrings: Joan Greenwood (Kind Hearts...)
Teenage Passion: Felicity Kendall (I so wanted to be Richard Briars)
Scully, an angel
Kylie (She's 40 now, so it's OK)
Current crush: Mylene Klass/Mariella Frostrup in a TV ad. Inspired!