Cringing Cult of Celebrity in Redditch, Worcestershire*

Famous residents and ex-residents.

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• Rik Mayall used to live in Woodrow.
• Man once made love to a pavement. thats right people, thats what put redditch on the MAP!
• apparently the actor Charles Dance was born in redditch. you can sure as hell bet he doesn't brag about THAT one.
• Rickl mayel (sp?) Out of bottom used to live round here. And go to the Abby High.
• Jon Bonham and Brian May(Queen) recorded some of his album here,oh and so did the Wonder Stuff.Rik Mayall,shafali osza(spelling?),Chris Hodgetts(ex Bac to Back British Touring Car Champion & Le Mans(3rd i think)),Dodgy and Many Many More, In Fact we cant half churn um out.
• John Bonham, the guy from Dodgy (who now has something to do with the Ditch).
• Ozzy Osbourne's nephew went to my school (arrowvale redditch) and I saw pics of my m8s mum(ozzys sis) and family, with ozzy...
• Nigel Clarke the lead singer of Dodgy! ("If it's good enough for you, it's good enough for me") He has a daughter called Electra...how cool!
• Ruth Crilly - the model from this model life and off the patrick cox advert with Sophie Dahl
• Ruth Crilly - the model from this model life and the patrick cox campaign with sophie dahl
• ozzy osbourne was brought up in redditch apparently
• Actor, Charles Dance was born in Redditch (October 10, 1946). Made his name with RSC and starred in hollywood movies such as 'The Last Action Hero' and 'The Golden Child'. Most recently in BBC version of 'Nicholas Nickleby'.
• errrrrm steph from big brova
• John Bonham - Led Zep (Used to live in a caravan at the bottom of a garden in Enfield Rd, Hunt End, later lived in Plymouth Rd). John (Nigel!) Taylor - Duran Duran (Went to the Abbey). Nigel Clarke - Dodgy. Malc Treece - Wonderstuff. Then there was Inkberrow....Ruth England - Wish You Were Here presenter was from here. Chris 'Ace' Kefford of The Move lived there for some years too. & the band And Also The Trees were all from Inkberrow. Nobody knows em here but they were bloody enormous in France, Japan etc.
• John Emms comes from redditch apparently and Robert Plant has some tenuous connection with Headless X and that Shefali weathergirl off the BBC married a cameraman from redditch - it was in the Advertiser
• ozzy ozborns mum
• DODGY!
• Jasper Carrot sometimes mentions redditch in his old routines
• My grandad is dating the lead singer of EMF's Granny.Wow-claim to fame!
• the guy from dodgy maybe more then one of them, Rik mayel
• The WonderStuff.....used to live in a squat (110 Clive Road) in late 1988-ish. They demo'd a lot of their second album (Hup) at The Workshop Studio which used to be in the basement of Millsboro House. John Bonham of Led Zeppelin was born and raised in Hunt End. Apparently Rik Mayall lived on Winyates somewhere at one time, certainly the Kevin Turvey programme was filmed in Redditch, in about 1982. Dodgy's Nigel Clark lived in Headless Cross and latterly Lodge park before he became famous. Famous bands who played Redditch; Diamond Head (Lars Ulrich of Metallica's favourite band!) played Redditch College in 1981. Dodgy played Redditch Festival in Arrow Valley Park in 1991. So did crusty dub reactionaries Radical Dance Faction. Deep Purple and The Stranglers both played at Redditch Utd Football Club in the 1970's. Allegedly Elvis Costello played at Tracy's (which used to be on the top floor of the now-demolished Food Hall back in 1977. er....thats it.
• Ozzy Ozbourne's Mom lived ( maybe still does ) on the Woodrow.
• Ruth England off Wish You Were Here went to the Abbey and lived in Inkberrow! She was Ruth Hodgkinson then though. And the old favourites - John Taylor and Kevin Turvey (Rik Mayall). Oh, and Malcolm Boyden from Radio WM. How sad....
• John Bonham, bloke out of Dodgy, Rick Mayall, singer in The Communards (briefly), member of Black Sabbath, one half of Tony Martin (ex-Sabbath singers ex-wife), errr....
• I used to know the guy who used to play the piano in the Queen Vic on Eastenders...
• my mom knew the bloke from def lepord (i think) or some band like that, that lived in headless cross and used to bounce her on his knee. oh err.
• a couple of the wonderstuff, someone from ocean colour scene, singer from dodgy, drummer from led zepplin, sarah from neighbours(foxy), Simon Matthews, Rick Mayall
• Frank Skinner lived in a flat in Redditch during his unhappy ten-month marriage in the late 1980's.
• ermm, didn't Roy Wood come from redditch? you know the guy with the weird hair from wizard (wish it could be christmas everyday geezer) that CITV present I think her name is Andrea Green Rik Mayall eledgely hails from redditch I think black sabbath?
• Apparently a couple of peeps from WonderStuff Lived here, also the Drummer from the original line up of Black Sabbath Lived in Headless Cross (and hence the speculation that they named it after the place cos they liked the sound of it), and also two people from Duran Duran studied at either Abbey High or Arrow Vale.
• Rik Mayall....he kicks ass
• Dj Invisible is the most famous person in Redditch. He likes to stand to attention outside Our Price Records (left hand side) for most of the day, then afterwards he floats off to find children to play with. Dj Invisible knows where you are.
• Rik Mayall
• John Bonham, Led Zep drummer. Singer from Dodgy.
• Sarah from neighbours!!!!!

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Last updated: 2010-11-23