Bit random. Got on a ferry this morning and found myself sitting next to Bruce Foxton from The Jam.

Had to say hello etc. What a nice fella. Spent several minutes talking music. Love it when you meet your heros and they are nice in real life.
Must say in real life he looked even better. Proper cool bloke.

"It feels much better than it ever did, much more sensitive." John Wayne Bobbit

Great story

"It feels much better than it ever did, much more sensitive." John Wayne Bobbit

I think there is a phrase, "Don't meet your heroes, as you'll only be disappointed".

Jim Cannon, Wright and Brighty, AJ, Mel Blythe were all superb.

Sir Derek Jacobi was very nice, as was Nigel Mansell, Rick Wakeman and Roger Hodgson in the late 1990's..

Meeting celebrities at their peak, can be problematic.
I met band members from Megadeth in the early 1990's and thought Dave Mustaine was particularly c-untish.

In later years, when their popularity in fading, I think you'll find your heroes a lot more sociable, and with a lot better stories to tell.

Edited by Forest Hillbilly (31 Mar 2019 4.11pm)

I disengage, I turn the page.

In the early 80’s I was in a pub in Sydney, turned round and saw I was standing next to Alex Higgins. Later that night I was talking to another English bloke and mentioned it to him as it seemed newsworthy.
He said, “Reg Varney came in a few years ago”.
Reg Varney? This was Alex Higgins.
He shrugged “Yeah. He’s over there smoking dope with the boys”.

When I was a kid, Billy Gilbert was pulling into the car park in his Jag and me and a mate jumped in front of his car to make him stop. He did, wound his window down and waved to us to come round to him as he leaned out. All excited we trotted round to talk to him, but all he did was growl at us “why don’t you two fcuk off”
Now my mate was gutted that one of our heroes had treated us like this, but I was actually really proud that my hero seemed to be as aggressive in real life as he was on the pitch,,,,and to be honest, we were bloody stupid and probably deserved it.

It’s a story I’ve told a million times, my hero Billy Gilbert told me to fcuk off and it was the best day of my life

I've told this before on here, but it fits the subject.
A while after our Play Off Final v West Ham, I was working at a wedding reception for an ex-Lincoln City player and, as I sat drumming bad dinner music, I spotted Danny Butterfield. He was mates with the groom. At our break I had a chat with him-half thinking he'd be bored or off-hand. I told him he'd been part of one of my greatest ever Palace moments he was friendly and said: "Yeah-that was a great night!" presumably thinking of the party after the victory.
As a young supporter I said hello to Bobby Tambling and Mel Blythe both were not particularly keen at being said hello to by a twelve year old fan. Mark Bright wrote a lovely letter to my daughter after she contacted him for a school project.