I caught snooker star Ronnie O’Sullivan on the telly the other day – with the sound off, which perhaps helped the illusion – and I couldn’t help but see him as a member of Oasis.
That got me thinking. Benedict Cumberbatch clearly belongs in Sparks and Jonathan Ross in Spandau Ballet.
Any celebs strike you as having gone missing from a band?
Arthur Scargill – Mumford & Sons.
Cameron, Osbourne, Milliband & Clegg – Kraftwerk
Alex Salmond – Gabriel era Genesis.
I can see Tony Blair on keyboards as Genesis premiere “The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway”.
Brilliant idea Madfox! I’m going to give this some thought… I’ll get back to you ❤️
Cheers. I think there must be scores of good’uns.
Lewis Hamilton in JLS. Russell Brand in Kasabian. Emily Maitlis playing bass in Pixies.
Susannah Reid and Louise Minchin on backing vocals for The Human League.
Jeremy Clarkson. Keyboards. Dire Straits
James May. Bass. T’Pau.
Richard Hammond. Guitar/Vocals. Haircut One Hundred.
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Brains from Thunderbirds is in Public Service Broadcasting
Richard Dawkins was in Sky
Her who played Drucilla in Buffy The Vampire Slayer was in The Cramps
Anna Kournikova was in Tatu
Jay from The Inbetweeners is in Supergrass
Theresa May in Ben Dovers An*l *punkfest
(Wishful thinking?)
Oops – I was thinking films.
(Note to self – write 100 times – must reads threads properly)
BBC presenter, Dominic Littlewood in Cockney Rejects
Will Gompertz in Landscape
Sheridan Smith in Toto Cuelo
chris Packham should have been in some 80s soul-pop band – skinny ties, slap bass, sweatbands, the full Tube set-up.
Nick Robinson (BBC) – Buggles
Alan Partridge – Dave Clarke Five.
Evan Davis is very 1979. I can see him jerking about in some kind of angular post-punk band.
Leslie Phillips – Viv Stanshall substitute in Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band
Tom Baker briefly presented the tv show Supersonic
Peter Davison was in Creme Brûlée
Colin Baker produced Sheena Easton’s “Modern Girl”
Sylvester McCoy booked The Sex Pistols for the Biill Grundy Show
Christopher Ecclestone was the first choice singer for Joy Division
David Tennant is in Franz Ferdinand
Matt Smith is the test tube child of Howard Jones and his dancer Jed.
Peter Capaldi was behelmeted caber tosser Jessie Rae
Claudia Winkelman – 60s Eurovision entry
Stuart Pearce – UK Subs
Percy Edwards – The Byrds.
Robbie Savage – 80s Hair Metal band (probably Poison)
Danny Murphy, Jermaine Jenas and Leroy Rosenior – Fun Boy Three
Michael Owen – Gary Barlow’s replacement in a post-tax dodging incarnation of Take That (also to include Ryan Giggs)
Gary Lineker and Mark Lawrenson – Showaddywaddy
Adrian Chiles – Bad Manners
And his erstwhile partner-on-sofa, Christine Bleakley, in The Corrs.
George Alagiah, Huw Edwards, Fiona Bruce and Sophie Raworth – ABBA
(This wouldn’t actually work because they’re forenames do not give a snappy acronym due to abscence of vowels. Base it on surnames however, and they could perform under the name BEAR.
The band consisting of Kirsty Wark, George Alagiah, Sally Nugent and Laura Kuenssberg may be a non-starter though
Sir Trevor MacDonald in The Stylistics
James May in Huey Lewis And The News
Bradley Wiggins in Squire
DavidWalliams could hav been Gary Glitter. And Jimmy Saville. What went wrong?