Who were your teen idols?

Bob Dylan and Len Cohen . Sad but true! I still love their music and Len is an amazing performer still.

Didn"t have any

George Harrison, Rory Gallagher, Paul Rodgers, and Clint Eastwood in the spaghetti westerns,When I was younger Davy Jones, I remember liking Sabu the elephant boy but I didn't realise it was a crush because I was too young!

I agree with Paul McCartney .. god, he got me dripping!

Russ had a wicked

Just realised while doing some quilting (thinking time): Franz, not Hans.

'Sidesaddle'?

I see I am not alone in my adoration of Richard Chamberlain. But alos (I needed to get out more) Russ Conway!!

Robert Fuller, the dark one from Laramie - yum.
Paul Jones from Manfred Mann - why did he never find me?

*Early Teens*:
Dirk Bogarde in Tale of Two Cities
Wayne Fontana
My cousin who played in a band!

Older Teens
Jagger (OMG!!) & Brian Jones
Hendrix

Gary Cooper - those beautiful, soulful eyes. High Noon - great film.

That should have been - Chamberlain [I think]

Oh, and there was Richard Chamberlin? Dishy Doctor Kildare

Teen idols...well, I did go to see The Walker Brothers in Manchester around 1965-ish, and had a huge poster of them on my wall. I still think Scott Walker has a wonderful voice! I was also quite a fan of Donovan.

The only idol I have had for the last 20 years or so has been David Attenborough - I don't care for his 'luvvie' brother Richard.

Dirk Bogarde. Elvis. Mario Lanza and Edmund Purdom. Rock Hudson...wrote a pash letter to him c/o Hollywood. He never did reply. I wonder why? Steve Race. The tenor in the Black and White Minstrals [he was the short one...but he gave me teenage goose-bumps. The Everly Bros. Gene Pitney [but not the song...] The Righteous Bros. Not forgetting a local boy nicknamed Porkie! He didn't give me a second glance until I reached 16. By then, I'd gone off him. Um...back to Pepper the beautiful cat.

OMG I hope not what a waste...but my thread does read that way doesn't it..sorry Marti if your reading hope I am still in with a chance...ooh yes Francis Rossi..glad he not called Frank it wouldn't suit him...Dennis Waterman when he was younger,but think it was the characters he played...

Is Marty Pellow gay, nellie? I think I would have done anything to have 'spent a bit of time' with Francis Rossi.........still would....

I'd forgotten Dirk Bogarde, definitely had a pash on him!

I, and a couple of my classmates in the first year of the grammar school had pictures of P J Proby on the inside of our desklids. My father had obligingly put a big softboard under the wallpaper in my bedroom and I had pictures of P J Proby, the Walker Brothers and Con Cluskey of the Bachelors (that is a bit cringeworthy, I think!) on it .

I always fancied John Lennon. He replaced Pat Boone in my childish affections. Just shows how our tastes change! ( and improve).

Joseph O'Connor - he was Old Joleyn - first time round Forsyth Saga, I went to boarding school and we were taken up to Regent's Park Open Air theatre to see a Shakespeare play - I think Richard II or III (can't remember) but I was mesmerised by a tall, dark, terribly good-looking, young man and when I got back, I wrote my first and only fan letter - amongst other things asking whether he'd ever been in panto - he replied and said he had which surprised me then and I don't know why I asked - I think I wanted him to say 'no' because I thought he was better than that. However, it was many years later that I found out he was gay! But then, so many of the good-looking ones were and still are...so what!

Just read through this lot again and remembered Michael Caine, and Tommy Steele, who I'll add to Dirk Bogarde and Adam Faith.I think I picked Tommy Steele just to be different as the others all loved Elvis. As for Dirk Bogarde, I had no idea he was not available to the mortal woman, and would not have understood anyway.

Currently I rather like both the main characters in 'Rome' Kevin McKidd and Ray Stevenson. Quite like Sean Bean too. Of course these days one tends to think 'oh, he's a bit of alright' whereas back then it was all emotion and wishing wasn't it?

In Austria when i was 20 the local young lasses all loved Oskar Werner. He was in Fahrenheit 451 which is being mentioned nowadays because sadly the writer, Ray Bradbury, just died.

A very early crush was an actor called Kevin Corcaran who was in a lot of Walt Disney films. I think I was too young to realise it was a crush, though. I used to fantasise about being in those films; Swiss Family Robinson being one of them.

I had a lovely picture of "The King" on the wall next to my bed and used to kiss him goodnight every night. One day I came home and found my Dad had stripped the wallpaper ready to re-decorate - and Elvis had gone with the old paper into the bin. I was heartbroken!