excellent topic.I have to begin by saying
"I often brush up against myself"!!!
Other notables I have met or seen are legion.
1.I'll start with a famous person if you are interested in maintaining/repairing Motor cars
John Haynes
Who I now see now has an OBE
in the early 70's he and I used to be one of four John's who most weeks played Badminton in Sherborne Dorset.Other than Ed Mullen he is the only millionaire I know
I reckon I know John pretty well and in about 1973 after attending a hill climb race he was sponsoring I was not best pleased to find that he had been trying to pinch my then girl-friend.
I took the opportunity to google and found that his company now run by his son (also John Haynes) is about to publish a repair manual for the Spitfire fighter plane. How wonderful see:-
http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/nwh_gfx_en/ART34969.html
and on his company's site
http://www.haynes.com/
in the site's press releases section I found a link to a very new publication to wit
"To be used only after Sunday 11th June 2006
The Brain Manual
A new book from Haynes for National Men's Health Week
Publication date: 12th June 2006"
http://www.haynes.co.uk/Press/Releas...ss_release.htm
this should interest Brian. a.k.a "iron" and to his chatroom pals "Brain"!!
Now lets see well I have often brushed up against Bru/silverheels (sorry Bru) who herself has been in close contact with many famous people like Rolf Harris. Michael Crawford and Spike (the well known typing error) Milligna
i recently recounted how on 6 April 1964 I literally brushed against Peter Paul and Mary as they flew into London Airport and used the same terminal building door that I was using to get out to my Montreal-bound aircraft.
A few years later at Montreal Meribel Airport en route to my London bound plane in 1989 I was right behind Donald Sutherland in the line to get onto the mobile lounge.
As far as musical personalities go I was once whilst watching Ella Fitzgerald sing at London's the Hammersmith Odeon from the very back of the stalls suddenly aware of the presence of someone very large next to me, and somewhere I have the autograph of Oscar Peterson
I cannot recall now the exact date and exhibition but I was close to Sir "uncle" Clive Sinclair, inventor of my very first (kit-built) computer
The
Sinclair ZX80
Just think a horrendously fast 3.25MHz processor
1000 Byte RAM, no floppy or hard drive but as much software as you could
write yourself and save on a standard audio cassette then play through your television set as the (CRT) monitor.
it was magic.I still have mine one day I am going to fire it up again.
Of course Sir Clive went on to other glorious inventions especially his ill-fated ecological transport solution
The Sinclair C5 electric PC (Personal Car)
John Fowles