Who were your teen idols?

If it meant getting a dress designed by Stella, I might risk it...

Granny23 I also said I would marry Paul McCartney I was about 11 at the time !!!!!!!!!!!!! I don't want to now

A thought just crossed my mind when I heard that Paul McCartney was getting married again. I had a friend who was potty about him who declared that she would marry him someday. Other friend remarked that she had a 1 in 30 million chance of this happening as every woman in Britain felt the same (I didn't!). Anyway it just occured to me that in fact her chances were actually 1 in 10 million, or 3 in 30 million .......... !?!?

Oh Peter Frampton,one could have naughty thought's about him crimson

...you can disappear for hours into utube, can't you. I've jut dug up Exerpt from a Teenage Opera with Keith West and From the Underworld by The Herd. I'd forgotten how gorgeous Peter Frampton was, but I loved both songs and listened to the radio all the time hoping to hear them.

We went on a school trip to the cinema to see A Tale of Two Cities and all cried at the end when Dirk Bogarde died. I read all of his biographies when I got older as well.Thought PJ Proby was dead..must utube him.

He started out in the music business singing demo songs for Elvis, to see if Elvis liked and wanted to record them. He used to remind me of a highwayman, with his hair tied back with a bow.

I remember seeing PJ Proby at The Tower Grounds in New Brighton in the early sixtie's he had the most amazing voice and was totally underated as a singer,the trouser splitting senario was his downfall at the time as he did not need that tacky sort of publicity to justify his act as he could have gone on to be a lot bigger in the entertainment business with out it.

I was in love with Adam Faith and Dirk Bogarde! Hard to believe now! I think Bogarde turned out to be gay anyway, so he was not available to the mortal woman, and especially not to spotty 14 year old school girls!

Re P.J.Proby, Hold Me, and Somewhere come to mind, can`t remember any more though. He was a bit of alright as I remember.

P.J. Proby - now that's a blast from the past. I remember the name and I'm sure that I liked him, just can't remember what he sang. I seem to remember having some of his songs on my original reel-to-reel tape player which I thought was the greatest thing ever. It was the first time that any of the family had ever heard themselves speak. Wow - how things have progressed in a comparitively short space of time

Sadly, P.J.Proby`s career went downhill after his trousers split on stage, these days the opposite would probably apply!

Has to be the amazing PJ Proby.he still comes to our town yearly and his voice is as good as it ever was!
Also liked the Walker Brothers.

He was a great giggler!

riclorian no one mentioned Frankie because he was hiding behind The Green Door but hey he was the business I saw him in Liverpool at the Empire yrs ago,not my style but what a showman.

No one has mentioned Frankie Vaughn ---- I just adored him , very dark and sultry , oh and definately David Essex . I watch Eastenders just to see him , and I am a great grandmother !!!! I guess we never really grow up !!!

It can't really be classed as a teen crush as it was much more recent, but strange as it may seem, I've always had a crush on Zach Dingle.. never watch Emmerdale but I did years ago, and he was strangely sexy!! oh my goodness I need to take more water with it. I can't believe I just admitted to having a crush on Zach Dingle!!

OOh Ollibee Dirk Bogarde! I loved him, sat through Tale of Two Cities twice - does anyone remember coming in halfway through a film and watching to where you'd come in and then you left - or just watched to the end. I had a poster of Dirk Borgarde [I was 12 years old] that I had set very carefully on card - it was from Girl comic - I measured it and framed it really carefully and put a piece of white card on the bottom to write 'Dirk Bogarde my Favourite Flim[sic] Star.I duly put it on the wall. It was ages before I understood why my family kept looking at it and giggling. In fact my brother mentions it to this day some 55 years later.

I'm with you nanny1, I've always loved the 'pretty boys' and had my bedroom plastered with pinups of Cliff and Fabian.

Mick Jagger, and Michael Caine after watching him in Alfie - still my favourites to this day.

Just thinking, all the idols I had as a teenager, the only one I ever actually wrote to was Huw Thomas, the ITN newscaster in the 60s. I really idolised him, even made up a fantasy life for myself, married to him. Then he dropped out of sight for many years, and a few years ago I started trying to find out what had happened to him. I was put in contact with a man who used to work for ITN, he put me in contact with Huw, who wrote me a very nice letter, with a photo from the 60s, his friend had already sent me pics of him in the present day, and very handsome and didtinguished he still looked! Sadly, I`ve since read of his death.

Never fancied Dirk in the doctor films much, but in Campbell`s Kingdom, he was great, also he pulled out all the stops in Victim.

crimson forgot Keith Relf too, I think it was the hair! Do I vaguely remember Jeff Beck being in the Yardbirds too - just shows how shallow I was as a teenager - only looks counted, blow how good a guitarist they were! I can remember after Tom Jones had been on Top of the Pops that all the school bus windows got really steamed up - at least upstairs where the girls sat! I loved Allan (sp?) Clarke of the Hollies too.

Oh yes, ollibee, I really fancied Dirk in the 'Doctor' films. Something about those eyes! Funnily enough I never lusted after Rock Hudson. I don't know why - can't quite define it.

No-one's mentioned Dirk Bogarde - am I the only one who idolised him? I had his picture on my wall as a teenager, but it was years later, (when I had moved on to Elvis, then the Everleys and John Lennon) that I discovered he was gay. Too bad! Rock Hudson was another one.