Famous people from Your Neighbourhood/School

[Neeranam]

I got drunk once with the lead singer of the Pogues, my kind of drinker! My friend was the barman at the hotel they were staying in. 

[torturedsole]

5 hours ago, Sujo said:

Had a short chat with michael jackson.

Did he say "this is it. And when i say this is it, it really means this is it."?

[White Christmas13]

I guess the OP was asking about friends from neighbor hood or friends and not who you

met in your life time. I met the Beatles,Rolling Stones, Billy Joel, Elton John, Cliff Richard

Rod Steward and many others. Well the only person I have not met is Steven100

[White Christmas13]

OK I better get my coat ( yes it is really freezing here )

[RuamRudy]

5 hours ago, Neeranam said:

Of course it counts! Far aboots? 

 

 

Eden Place, just round from the Dolphin Chipper. 

Edited May 29, 2020 by RuamRudy

[robert888d]

Edward Heath ex British Prime minister went to my Grammar school.

[Emdog]

I grew up with & was friends with real life terrorist. She was better friend with my sis, as they were 2 years older than me (that matters when you're a kid). My brother may have dated her in High School (he was 3 yrs older than me & bit of a skirt chaser). She was born Julienne Eden Schultz FWIW. She was homecoming queen her senior year, again FWIW

 Married and took hubbies name Julienne Bušić, they were involved in Croation liberation front (parodied by SNL as "Crustacean Front"). In 1976 they put a bomb in Grand Central Station, which killed 2 cops trying to dismantle it. Also hijacked a TWA flight, finally landed in Iceland and her and others being arrested and convicted of air piracy leading to death.

I remember when this was going down and thinking "Julie? Julie? Really? Huh."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julienne_Bušić

[Neeranam]

6 hours ago, RuamRudy said:

Eden Place, just round from the Dolphin Chipper. 

I know it well. One gran stayed in Watson Street and the other on Westburn Road. I was well fed at school! 

[khunjeff]

I went to high school with Michelle Robinson, who became Michelle Obama after marriage. I was also at university with Masako Owada, who is now the Empress of Japan, but I didn't know her.

[DaLa]

15 hours ago, bodga said:

I  Liked  Maggie

I worked in the steel industry for 11 years prior to 1980. Spent 7 years of devoted studying  at night school for my degree equivalent qualification.  I was looking forward to progression up the management ladder over the next 40 years and the rewards and stability that came with it.

 

Maggie destroyed that dream  a year later.

 

Thank you Maggie, saved me from the next 40 years in a filthy, dangerous and to be quite honest , boring environment.

[Hanuman2547]

Marc Wilson, NFL QB with the Oakland Raiders/LA Raiders and also Green Bay Packers and the New England Patriots.  He won two Super Bowls.  Lived in the same town.  I went to school with his younger brother Shea.  Shea was a very good athlete but didn't like being compared to his older brother so didn't really pursue sports that much.  

[cmsally]

11 hours ago, Neeranam said:

I got drunk once with the lead singer of the Pogues, my kind of drinker! My friend was the barman at the hotel they were staying in. 

I'm surprised you remembered! My good friend in Dublin knows him quite well, I don't think he remembers any of the evenings they went out together!

[Grumpy one]

When young, my neighbours lived next to a real a+++hole, so I'm told ????

[Neeranam]

8 minutes ago, cmsally said:

I'm surprised you remembered! My good friend in Dublin knows him quite well, I don't think he remembers any of the evenings they went out together!

i could drink a few myself back then. I forgot most, after he handed me something to smoke. I do remember a guy called Spider bought most the drinks. A nice guy actually and his girlfriend was a top London model! I hear he has new teeth these days ????

[Jane Dough]

22 hours ago, Neeranam said:

Actually, as my school is 750 years old, there are probably a few other famous alumni.

Aha...Harrow.

 

I taught at Harrow International School in Bangkok and we named one of our houses after Byron. Others were Nehru and Churchill for similar reasons. 13 children of Rama V went there too and I have a great painting of them in my condo. I made a trip to the Hill in 2008 and had a memorable day there including booze for lunch! We had many exchange students in Bangkok from Harrow in London including a right nitwit called Cadbury who said daddy was in chocolate. 

 

David Bowie grew up near me and Marc Bolan of T Rex fame was expelled from my school. In my first job in journalism I sat next to Stephen Dillane who I saw in The Crown recently in a memorable scene with John Lithgow. 

 

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[Neeranam]

1 minute ago, Jane Dough said:

Aha...Harrow.

 

I taught at Harrow International School in Bangkok and we named one of our houses after Byron.

Actually, it was Aberdeen grammar School, and I was in the Byron house.

 

Harrow is a relative new school, 450 years.

 

I believe Scotland has the best schools and unis. in the world, the Queen of England sent her sons there and the future king, Wiiliam, went to uni there;)

[jrward42]

Grahame Green and Sir Robin Knox-Johnston went to my school. Before my time though. 

[Jane Dough]

3 minutes ago, Neeranam said:

Actually, it was Aberdeen grammar School, and I was in the Byron house.

 

Harrow is a relative new school, 450 years.

 

I believe Scotland has the best schools and unis. in the world, the Queen of England sent her sons there and the future king, Wiiliam, went to uni there;)

Right you are!

 

I never imagined there was such a thing as education north of Watford. ????

 

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[Neeranam]

6 minutes ago, Jane Dough said:

Aha...Harrow.

 

I taught at Harrow International School in Bangkok and we named one of our houses after Byron. Others were Nehru and Churchill for similar reasons. 13 children of Rama V went there too and I have a great painting of them in my condo. I made a trip to the Hill in 2008 and had a memorable day there including booze for lunch! We had many exchange students in Bangkok from Harrow in London including a right nitwit called Cadbury who said daddy was in chocolate. 

 

David Bowie grew up near me and Marc Bolan of T Rex fame was expelled from my school. In my first job in journalism I sat next to Stephen Dillane who I saw in The Crown recently in a memorable scene with John Lithgow. 

 

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I have a friend who worked there, in admin. Her grandfather or great grandfather was the King of Laos! 

 

Did you ever meet Bowie? He was my idol.

 

[Jane Dough]

4 minutes ago, Neeranam said:

I have a friend who worked there, in admin. Her grandfather or great grandfather was the King of Laos! 

 

Did you ever meet Bowie? He was my idol.

 

My paths never crossed with David Bowie. 

 

One of the original owners of the Harrow International franchise is a woman who is the great great granddaughter of Rama IV. She was instrumental in helping me get Thai residence. 

 

We had many famous alumni there and at Patana. I actually taught Tata Young and many other celebs. Yingluck's son was in my Thai Studies class at Harrow. 

 

Once I asked the kids to give me their phone numbers in case of emergency. One said it was 07 7777 7777.

 

Son of DTAC owners!

 

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[Neeranam]

1 minute ago, Jane Dough said:

One of the original owners of the Harrow International franchise is a woman who is the great great granddaughter of Rama IV. She was instrumental in helping me get Thai residence. 

 

Maybe the same person. I thought of asking for her help in my Citizenship process, as her uncle was the head of police, but didn't. Was she married to a German?

[Neeranam]

3 minutes ago, Jane Dough said:

We had many famous alumni there and at Patana. I actually taught Tata Young and many other celebs. Yingluck's son was in my Thai Studies class at Harrow. 

I taught at St Joseph's Convent when one of Taksin's daughters was there, but she wasn't in the English Program.

[Orton Rd]

28 minutes ago, Neeranam said:

I have a friend who worked there, in admin. Her grandfather or great grandfather was the King of Laos! 

 

Did you ever meet Bowie? He was my idol.

 

David Bowie was just as bad a pedophile (alegedly) in the 70's as Garry Glitter was to become, along with a large group of other abusers John Peel, Michael Jackson, Saville and a host of others still alive in famous bands who better not to mention for legal reasons. It was different back then is not an excuse. Time to stop idolising child abusers.

Edited May 30, 2020 by Orton Rd

[Neeranam]

1 minute ago, Orton Rd said:

David Bowie was just as bad a pedophile in the 70's as Garry Glitter was to become, along with a large group of other abusers John Peel, Michael Jackson, Saville and a host of others still alive in famous bands who better not to mention for legal reasons. It was different back then is not an excuse. Time to stop idolising child abusers.

Nonsense, I don't believe it for a second.

[ratcatcher]

I had the misfortune to take a beating in my first year at Acton County Grammar School, from a thug in the form above me called Roger Daltrey who maintained his reputation with his fists. Pete Townshend and John Entwhistle were more well behaved. You know Who I mean.

[Jonnapat]

For Brits only I guess, Jim Dale was at my school in Northamptonshire. 

Famous for the old Carry On films, pop singer and Shakespearean actor.

Quite a diverse set of credentials. 

[Hank Gunn]

14 hours ago, Neeranam said:

Wow, one of my favourites! I first heard in the film Natural Born Killers. Not as good as Lou Reed but great.

Cool. Forgot to mention too, that not only did I take that class with her but we partnered up to do the final class project together. (Since it was a class in Business/Marketing, we did our project on retail product packaging.)

 

Hung out with her quite a bit at the Summer School sessions actually and got stoned with her a few times (a pretty typical pastime for teenagers in the 70s). ????

[Ireland32]

Tina Turner son Micheal was my Roomate in Boarding School, also a price al Talal from Saudi and Rodney Allen Rippy from old Jack in the Box Commercials , we had a few Thai Hiso  Students but English not great 

[b17]

Back in the late 80's, I taught two of Ne Win's grandsons,  U Aye Ne Win & U Kyaw Ne Win while working at an international school in Singapore. At term break, their mum invited all the teachers for a free trip around Myanmar, but we passed, as one of our friend's dad had been murdered in Yangon's infamous Insein prison. The two boys were later accused of launching a coup against the Burmese regime, and sentenced to death. Happily for them, the sentence was commuted, and now they're both free, or at least I think so. 

[CorpusChristie]

1 hour ago, Jane Dough said:

 

 

Once I asked the kids to give me their phone numbers in case of emergency. One said it was 07 7777 7777.

 

Son of DTAC owners!

 

Rooster

How did you manage to remember his phone number after all this time ?