My daughters are both fairly tall and have commented on the apparently generous heights claimed by boys, leading to the concept of 'boy inches' which are no doubt applied elsewhere too.

after an X-Pensive Winos show in 1992, and he is quite small in stature. However he is the only famous person I've met who had an almost tangible presence about him.

In his autobiographical books "Adventures in the Screen Trade" and "Which Lie Did I Tell?" he mentions numerous accounts of meeting actors and being surprised by how short they all seemed to be.

Offhand the only encounter I can recall was his seeing Sylvester Stallone at a hotel swimming pool.

It was the one place Sly would have no chance of putting lifts in his shoes. Goldman made a point of following him barefoot around the deck. He gleefully reported back to us that Sly was at the most five foot seven.

He also said the only star he ever met that was tall was Clint Eastwood, who was well over six feet.

Saw him,of all places,on Brighton seafront. Bodycount (His Metal band) were doing a gig that night. Not a Big guy. He was about 5-7,5-8.Very chatty though,had time for everyone who recognised him. Whereas i once worked with De La Soul who very big gentlemen,so were RUN DMC and both groups were cool and friendly.

that top popster Martin Fry is 7' 8" tall.

Noticed the singer from Keane in WH smiths in Charing Cross recently. Amazed how large the feller is - I'd say he is about about 6'3" and built like the proverbial outhouse. So I didn't say how shit his band is to his face...

Many years ago in the early 90's I was walking through Leicester Square late one evening and found myself walking a few feet behind 2 very big lads chatting animatedly.

I was paying no real attention until I became aware that one of them had a very recognisable speaking voice. Dressed incognito in a square shouldered Crombie coat, plain jeans and a pair of DM boots topped off by a crew cut was a monster of a geezer that was Boy George.

No doubt my happily drunk state has exaggerated my memory but I remember thinking to myself 'Christ, he's fucking enormous!' At least 6'3' and very broad all the way down. Not fat I hasten to add - just a really big lad.

and he's taller than you'd imagine, about 6 foot 2 or so...

... is very tall in the flesh and well built. Over six feet easily. Jimmy Saville is, however, somewhat diminutive. I glimpsed him in Roundhay Park in Leeds a couple of summers back buying an ice cream and wearing only a pair of skimpy shorts. it was a warm day but even so...

Wasn't there something about him recently being on the beach but still wearing his mega platform boots? Global fame but still nursing a fragile ego eh?

I remember meeting Elvis Costelloe and Cait O Riordan in a bar in Cork ( Ireland ) in 87 or 88 and I´d always thought of him as being quite small and slender ( maybe, it was the glasses and the skinny ties ) but he´s a biggish lad. Admittedly, I was only a wee sprig of a lad.

A while back, I went into Andy's Guitar Centre on Denmark Street (sadly now defunct, I believe) and saw Noel auditioning a vintage Fender. It's not a large shop, so he was only a few feet away and he's about the same height as me - 5' 8", and more slight than you would expect.

But what I do particularly remember is that he has a very large head for his frame. As does Mani, who I saw in a nightclub in Manchester a few years ago. Is it something in the water up there?

Hardly definitive, but entertaining: http://www.celebheights.com/

looks a tad on the verically challenged side to me. I cannot verify this having never seen him live but I think he claims to be about 5'10'' which seems optimistic.

Came up to the balcony and stood right next to me at that 2007 gig (with some bint from the crowd pawing him all the time he was singing) and i would have said he was not much smaller that my six foot two..but maybe i am mistaken.
Now when Patti Smith jumped off stage at the RFH in 2005 and also stood next to me (what is it with them, i pay them to perform ON stage, i don't want any super trooper attention!) she was a lot smaller than i thought! I guess her presence is big though.

I have heard that she is 5' 4" at the most - hardly the Harty-bashing, muscular Amazonian of legend. Has anyone had a 'stood next to her at the bus stop and...' type of moment with her?

...is tiny - well under 5' 6" I would vouchsafe.

I came across the Reid brothers a couple of years ago at Summer Sundae festival in Leicester, and was amazed at how tall they were - I had always thought they were short chaps from seeing them on TV.