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Which Pop Stars Do You Look Like Then?

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At various times, over the years, I’ve been told I look like Lloyd Cole, The Edge, Topper Headon and (yikes) Howard Jones. Bit of a mixed bag then.

So which Pop Stars have you been likened to?

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  3. I was confused with Joey Ramone at a Clash concert in 1981. I had a long period of looking like Jim Morrison. Now I look like Van Morrison (actually, now mistaken for Robert Winston (not a rock star)).

  9. I had a few Kelly Jones comments when I was younger. It used to annoy me, because I think he’s a bit of a cock.

    Recently a mate declared that I look like (brace yourself, Gary) Keanu Reeves. This was said loudly, in the pub in front of a large crowd. I could have hugged her, the mad, blind lunatic – I have absolutely nothing on that smouldering, ageless man-god. Obviously I’m delighted this thread exists to give me an excuse to share this info.

    I just asked another mate who I look like. “A total bellend”, apparently . It’s hit and miss, this game.

  11. I was teaching a TEFL summer course back in the 90s and everywhere I went the Spanish students would point at me and shout Feel! Feel!

    In their eyes I bore a stunning resemblance to the In the Air Tonight Hitmaker.

    At my dad’s funeral, about 10 years ago, one of my cousins from his side, who I hadn’t seen in years commented in horror: “What’s happened? You’ve morphed into John Peel.”

    • A mate of mine really does look like the ITAT hit maker. He must be fed up with people commenting on it.
      On another note, my family swear I look like the bloke in the tank top, sitting in the office chair, grooving to Yes Sir, I Can Boogie on the chocolate ad. Can’t see it myself and I’m going to stop their pocket money next time they say it. I don’t even own a tank top.

  12. In my long hair parted in the middle and little round glasses phase, John Lennon. (I was once the object of intense interest to a bunch of French schoolgirls on a cross-channel ferry.) Also Peter Sellers occasionally.

  13. James Warren of Stackridge and Korgis fame. Here he is with Marc et Claude on TOTP doing the singy bit of this dance hit. I have been asked for my autograph on at least 4 occasions when mistaken for the great man, who incidentally has a solo album out this month. We’ve met a few times. There is little similarity now in the hair department so I can only assume some people think he wears a wig onstage.

  21. Curt Smith of Tears for Fears. I was mobbed by around 20 American girls at the Eiffel Tower in 1985. They wanted their picture taken with me because they thought I looked like him.

    Reader, I absolutely failed to capitalise.

  22. When I had shoulder-length hair in the 1980s, Feargal Sharkey in his post-Undertones years. I once had to sign a Japanese tourist’s autograph book because he would not accept that I wasn’t him. The Cambridge and Derry accents are quite different, but apparently not if you’re from the far East.

    More recently, Boo Hewerdine. At a gig in Colchester, I had to sign a CD because a punter would not accept that I wasn’t the man he’d just seen onstage. For a start, I’m 6″ shorter than Boo, I don’t have a beard, and I don’t wear glasses (well I do, but only for reading). This was all the more absurd because I was manning the merch table at the time, and Boo was standing behind him, crying with laughter. Mr Punter had very thick lenses in his specs.

  24. Not me but my brother has memorably been chased at a Glasgow railway station by girls convinced he was 60s babe-magnet Manfred Mann. More recently an indian restauranteur was so convinced he was Salman Rushdie that he took his photo for his wall of fame (next to Michael Fabricant)

  26. I’ve been told, more than a few times, that I look like Fergie from the Black Eyed Peas. But she’s got a long way to go before she achieves my buxom lady lumps.

  27. When I was young and fresh faced (and still had all my hair) someone said I looked like top mormon pop bloke Brandon Flowers. More recently, I’ve had Frankie Boyle (as any Scottish man with a beard and glasses must) and Jeffrey Wright.

  28. Do you remember Eoghan Quigg from X Factor about 10 years ago? Of course not, but everyone at the time took great delight in telling me who much we looked alike (apart from him being blonde & me being dark haired!)

    Sad thing is I could see it.

    The sadder thing is that he has grown up & is quite a good looking fella.

    The same cannot be said for me

  29. As you’re asking – in my late teens and early 20s I was regularly compared to a young Elvis, and it was a joy to be alive.
    In recent years I’ve developed an interest in woodworking, flyfishing, and grown a beard. My chum pointed out that I was now the spit of Jack Hargreaves.

  30. Thirty years ago a coworker said I looked just like Anthony Hopkins. All well and good until I realised he’d been on TV the night before in the title role of a TV version of The Hunchback Of Notre Dame.

    Several years later, some folk thought I resembled Jack Black, but only after the release of High Fidelity.

  31. A while back at a gig in Cardiff I was accosted in a friendly manner by a young drunk from the valleys who was convinced that I was Graham Coxon from Blur. It got so annoying that, in the end, I admitted that I was , indeed, the Britpop icon and urged him to keep it quiet. I even signed an autograph for him.

    Curiously enough, something similar happened to my dad on more than one occasion. He bore an uncanny resemblance to Andre Previn and was always being approached by people who wanted to shake his hand or have his signature. He too often gave in and signed.

  33. Not a pop star, but I often get compared to Mr. Bean. Not Rowan Atkinson, just Mr. Bean. I’ve also had the drummer from Joy Division, George Harrison and, thanks to one of those internet things, Jessica Alba.

  34. This might be tempered by a reminder that Keanu Reeves is older than Nigel Farrago

    My children think I look like ” that Irish bloke who was on the floor in the pub that night.”
    He being MacGowan S who was living in the Boogaloo in Highgate.

    Note to self
    Put children on eBay.

  35. Depending on the length of hair and stubble combination, I’ve been likened to Eddie Vedder
    (especially when visiting the States) Jim Morrison and George Michael.
    And Jesus.

  36. The young Bruce Springsteen circa The River.

    More than a few punters at our gig’s did a double take – particularly if I was playing a Tele. And more than a few times during the break at the bar I was asked “You’re not are you?”. “No I’m not, but you can still buy me a drink”. I think this worked once.

  37. In my thinner, curtain-haired and contact lens-wearing 20s, I was twice mistaken for Steven Malkmus out of Pavement, though he has a much thinner nose than me, the bastard.

    In 1991, I was mistaken for Shaun Ryder, though I a) had the curtains, was b) wearing large Wayfarer 2 shades and, crucially, c) I had been up all night and looked and felt like dog dirt.

  39. Nick Thorp. Who? The bass player out of Curiosity Killed The Cat – This was 1986.
    More hopefully (optimistically) Edwyn Collins, though this was also a while ago while my quiff was still in existence.

  41. When The Smiths first appeared on TOTPs, my mate Annette’s mum pointed out that Morrissey looked like me (I had been rocking the tall, gangly, baggy arsed jeans with quiffy flat top look for a year or two).

    Someone once said I look like George Clooney once. But I think they were sadly mistaken. I do have a Nespresso machine though,

  42. Back in the early seventies, George Harrison
    Been mistaken for Mike Rutherford.
    I was once asked ‘How did the gig go?’ When questioned further this person thought I was the member of a group that appeared at street festivals (something like The Fabulous Chipolata Brothers.) Not sure if that was a good thing.
    I was with a friend at John Tams gig in Sheffield he was asked for his John Tams autograph post gig.

  43. I was accosted whilst having a pee in a Rotherham nightclub in 1983 and was told I was Martin Fry,

    “I’m not”,
    “Well you would say that to stop people pestering you”,
    “OK then, I am Martin Fry”,
    “Can I have your autograph?”

    I often wonder if he still treasures that scrap of paper I signed…

    Nowadays I’m sometimes mistaken for a human, but never before noon.

  45. On seeing the cover for Please Please Me, my six year old told me that I looked like George Harrison. I am pretty happy about this as I am currently twice the age he was in 1963.

    Meanwhile Mrs. Paws currently looks like Courtney Barnett, owing to her new Barnet.

  46. In my pre-bearded days, Richard O’Brien*. Kids would exclaim “There’s the man from The Crystal Maze!”

    *i.e. we’re both skinny and shaven-headed. I am, however, considerably taller and fifteen years his junior. So nyer.

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