Who were your teen idols?

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.

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

Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman, Stan Kenton...

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.

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

It has to be Elvis, always the king.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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?

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!

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.

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.

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!

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

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

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

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...

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.

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.