Who were your teen idols?

Am I the only one who Like Gerry of the Pacemakers? Oh dear. Also Adam Faith and later David Essex, just for his eyes. When slightly older went to see his musical about Mutiny on the Bounty which closed very quickly because it was rubbish! I wouldn't discribe any of them as crushes though, just a little bit if 'fancy'.

Anyone going to admit to such a thing now?

Those 'Doctor' films, dorset - Dirk Bogarde as the hapless Simon Sparrow. Oh yes, I fantasised about him all right. Don't think I knew gay people existed when I was that age.

When I was 12 years old I had a picture from Girl Magazine of Dirk Bogarde, thought he was so handsome. Imagine my chagrin years later to discover he was gay. I then went on later to John Lennon,Mick Jagger,Freddie Mercury [I know]. I never like the 'good boy' imagine like Cliff Richard and Paul McCartney

Steve Ellis lead singer of (everlasting love) Love Affair..Steve Marriott,,Chip Hawkes from the Tremeloes....they lived in my home town and I saw chip in the bank while on an errand at work ...Andy Fairweather-Low ,Peter Frampton.Marti Pellow....I really find for some reason Gay men really attractive,Andy Bell from Erasure,Marc Almond,jimmi Somerville (why on earth) the young Boy George....

Steve Ellis was my all time favourite crush that lasted years.

It's interesting to observe how many of us now cringe at the very thought of those we had as teenage 'crushes', particularly those of us, including me, who thought Cliff and Paul were to die for. Now I did rather fall for Gregory Peck after seeing To Kill A Mockingbird and I never grew out of that. He was handsome - yes - but he had such an attractive voice and the only American accent I have ever found seductive.

J S Bach, Handel, Sibelius. Gustav Leonhardt. Hans Bruggen. Baloo the bear.

I used to love Round the Horne in the 1950's. I went to London on a school trip when I was 13, and Kenneth Horne lived close to the hostel where we were staying. We sent him a note, and he very kindly asked us to tea and was really kind to a bunch of starry-eyed Lancashire school girls.
My romantic crushes were Alan Ladd (all 5' 4" of him), Jack Palance, Rory Calhoun, James Mason, Leo Genn, and,of course, Richard Burton.
I never fancied Paul McCartney - too baby-faced and now he has that ridiculous hair colouring.

We were strangely unpolitical in the 1950s - I think it was a reaction to the war - but I greatly admired some women MPs - Edith Summerskill did so much good for the working class women of Manchester and fought to make contraceptive advice available to all.

Tutankamun and Nefertiti . Mortimer wheeler and Leonard cottrell, and of course, Kathleen M Kenyon!

It has to be Elvis, always the king.

James Mason in The Seventh Veil. That's probably too far back for most of you!

Crimson, I have a little tale to tell about Peter Noone. In the late sixties I was staying at the Howard Hotel in the Strand. My modest little single room on the top floor did not have an ensuite bathroom so, having nipped down the corridor at midnight to visit the nearest loo, I managed to lock myself out. Thanks to Pop Art, my petticoat/slip? (which was all I was wearing) looked a bit like a mini dress and I thought I'd be OK to go down to reception to ask for somebody to let me back into my room.
Peter Noone, without the Hermits, was just booking in. He took one look at me, skulking about in the shadows, and obviously thought I was a groupie. All I could see were the spots on his face. With a very ungracious sneer, he told me he wasn't interested. With a very relieved giggle, I told him I preferred Paul McCartney.

Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman, Stan Kenton...

Wow this post has been going on since Sept '11

Had to smile at the original post, I had pics of Illya Kuriakin alias David McCullum all over my bedroom.
Makes me cringe slightly now when I see him as the pathologist on NCIS

Remember seeing Tommy Steele in Tommy the Toreador at our local cinema. The Everly Brothers were very respected in the music indutry, I believe. Keith Richards eulogises over them in his autobiography. Didn't they hate each other, which is, perhaps why only one of them turned up. The first of the sibling love/hate relationships, followed by The Kinks and Oasis.

If "idol" as opposed to crush, then Che Guevara.
Actors: Charlton Heston and Paul Schofield.
Music: Cliff and Paul

Why has no one mentioned Tommy Steele. He was the very first British rock 'n roller and my particular favourite, although Billy Fury, (bless him) came a close second. I also liked John Leyton in the Great Escape, and he sang a good hit song too.

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I too loved the Everleys and once went to see them live but only one appeared! Very disappointing!

Gene Pitney was my big crush when in my teens, saw him several times as he toured UK most years. I also loved Scott from the Walker Brothers and David McCallum from the Man from Uncle.

Mick Jagger, Michael Caine, Ray Davies, Dave Berry, all the 60's groups. Loved going to concerts to see The Rolling Stones, Otis Redding, Ike and Tina Turner, The Pretty Things, Kinks, Dire Straits, Sad Cafe, ELO. Loved Radio Luxenbourg and Radio Caroline.

David Essex, although I don't find him attractive now! Also Peter Noone, I saw his show 4 times one Summer in Gt Yarmouth.

Oh, he was smiling. We just got really shy.

Right up to when he died, Richard Todd still had that lovely voice, and he always seemed like a very nice person. We only lived about 27 miles from where he lived, but I never got to stand at the end of his drive!

..get orf my land......he shouted? stalk him, indeed. You should've become a paparazzi, jingly..you'd be rich now!

When we were about eleven my friend and I adored the film actor Richard Todd. He lived in a big house near to where we lived and one day we went on a bike ride to stalk see if we could see him. We waited for ages at the end of his drive and after a while he came striding down towards us with his dog at his heels. We waited just long enough to be sure it was him, and then leapt on our bikes and pedalled off furiously in a total panic!!