h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Ant and Dec and Ricky Gervais? Really aiming for the best quality then aren't we. These people aren't 'stars'.

Gervais may get the right to call himself that in another twenty years. The other two geordie goons are celebplebs and should be grateful they get paid for their (very) limited talents.

Morecambe and Wise, now they were stars. Spike Miligan - in fact the whole of the Goons team, certainly Secombe and Sellers. Thora Hird. Eric Sykes.The Two Ronnies. I suppose the Beatles, though I'd prefer Georgie Fame myself. John Lydon and Joe Strummer. Marc Bolan. Michael Caine.

And that's just off the top of my head.

What about Peter Sellers, Dirk Bogarde, Michael Gambon, Sting. How about Helen Mirren, Judi Dench or the glorious Dame Janet Baker. Must go, sinking, have developed a list.

Seelers certainly (I did mention him). Judi Dench I'd have no quarrel with. What about the glorious Maggie Smith?

Peter Cook!

And it has to have Morecambe and Wise and Spike, surely?

David Bowie. And yes, Marc Bolan for the line 'myxomatosis is an animal's disease...' ('Left Hand Luke'?)

Oh and Mark E Smith of course.

Mmm, not sure that Mark E Smith would *want* to be there, would he?

Oh he would...he's been pestering Hello! magazine for a front cover for *years*...

Really? Sure thats not just being ironic?

And surely Bolan should go in for 'I got a Rolls Royce/Cos it's good for my voice' from Children of the Revolutuion?

And the one about the woman coming out of New York City with a frog in her hand of course. Aw how great was he?!

Well...perhaps I made the Hello! thing up...but regardless, Mark E Smith should be forced to have a silver star purely for the title 'Mollusc in Tyrol.'

Just resurfaced, bit like the A1. Who's Mark E Smith? - Anyy relation to E E 'Doc' of that ilk?

He's a Mancunian poet, Jean.

And of course...John Peel obviously merits a whole constellation.

Sorry - I'm just a Novocastrian Philistine, mesel'. Surely John Peel merits a GALAXY? Also, doesn't Chalky Stein deserve a mention?

Ian Dury!

Mark E. Smith is best known as lead singer and songwriter of popular beat combo The Fall, much championed by the late John Peel.

If we want a popular Mancunian poet then surely John Cooper Clarke is yer man?

Now I have heard of him! But are we wandering off the main sequence? Deadly serious about John Peel, though.

So we are all in agreement that those who are golden oldies *no I don't mean by hair colour* are due for stardom but todays celebrities that appear in the limelight are five second wonders who when they mature will be long forgotten

Not necessarily, but it's hard to call someone a 'star' when their career's just starting.

Anyway, I know Bowie got a mention above but we're several posts down now so it's high time he got another one. David Bowie, for just about everything he ever did. And his cheekbones.

Well, everything except Tin Machine and Buddha of Surbubia perhaps...

haveing read this conversation, I FFEEL SO OLD! Several of the names mentioned don't register in my brain K

Am I the only person on the planet that thought Tin Machine weren't bad? 'Under the God' was a cracking tune.

I tried, I really did. But I couldn't get into Tin Machine.