Chris “Captain Kirk” Pine used to live on the same road as the Brundell social club in Leeds when he was a exchange student. Alexander Skarsgard also went to Leeds Uni but got kicked out for partying to much. He was a big fan of the Otley run beer crawl!
There was a Vice article once about the Leeds noise rock scene and it made out that Rollins living here about 50 years ago made some impact on the scene happening now. I don’t think it did, tbh
Chrissy Hynde lived in South Queensferry (just along from the old Harry Ramsden’s) for a bit in the 80s. She was in a flat with Jim Kerr, right above Stephen Hendry.
Edwin Starr lived in a country pile outside Tamworth. Good for manor houses around there, I guess.
The iconic Hong Kong actor and pop star Leslie Cheung worked in Southend-on-Sea as a bartender and went to University of Leeds for a bit
Paul Jewell lived in Menston
you wouldn’t expect it cos he was managing Wigan at the time
I’d say David Gilmour in Brighton & Hove just because he’s built a fuckoff custom luxury house right in between a wildly popular ice cream shop and a leisure centre so it’s basically a tourist attraction
It’s taken him years of hassle to get it done too (source: my son is friends with the son of the owner of said ice cream shop)
gerrard butler lived in giffnock, to the south of glasgow
lewis capaldi just bought a new house near to my school run
shania twain lived in the town and my father in law was her butcher
When I was a kid there was a rumour that Gillian Anderson, at the height of her X-Files fame, was living in Walkington, a tiny village in east Yorkshire near where I lived. As improbable as it sounds, it does seem like there’s something to it, though the only online references are preserved in Google Group (?) conversations:
https://groups.google.com/g/alt.tv.x-files/c/JhiD4j4-VFE?pli=1
some of these are before the person became famous, so don’t know why they would be unexpected.
anyway, marvin gaye in ostend might be the most famous example of this and hasn’t been mentioned
Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick have a place in Donegal.
Thurston Moore lives in Stoke Newington
Liv Tyler lived in Sheffield for a while
Stoke Newington is the epicentre of the UK noise scene.
I just assumed he would live in New York
I had no idea what it was for ages, thought it must have been a converted mosque or temple turned into luxury flats or something.
Henry Miller grew up in Williamsburg, which I found out recently and was very surprised by
Jack Kerouac used to live in a house right out next to JFK
I think I read once that Lauryn Hill is a private school kid from New Jersey
