Cringing Cult of Celebrity in Sheffield, South Yorkshire*

Famous residents and ex-residents.

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• sean bean, ainsley harriot once lived here, peter stringfelow, michael palin, Joe Cocker, Jarvis Cocker, Roy Hattersley, Charlie Sheen
• wheres alex turner these days? jus kiddin, i have no idea
• Pedant alert (corrections to the above); Saxon are from Barnsley (God help them), Roisin Murphy is from Dublin (have you heard the accent), Tony Christie is from Conisbrough (which is classed as Doncaster). we have many a claim to fame in Sheffield; the only city in the UK with a national park in it's boundary (The Peak District), home of Association Football (rules written at the Adelphi Hotel and Sheffield FC - the world's oldest club), the greenest city in Europe (more parks & wood per hectare), the birthplace of Bessemer steel process.....etc, but we can't claim the above mentioned I'm afraid (although quite relieved in the case of Saxon!)
• pulp def lepard bring me the horizon ( i guess) and sum top bmxers like joe cox n newrick n them lot
• Brendon Ingle (prince naseems boxing coach) lives round near me somewhere.... Prince naseem himself lives somewhere in sheffield Chris waddle (famous to most for his england penalty miss, famous to me for being a great sheffield wednesday player)
• Robin Hood Robin Hood!!!! No he is not from nottingham because it is Robin of Loxley God Damn It!!!!
• Okay- so this one's kind of boring... some dude named Kreb's (think biology, sport studies... ATP etc- told you it was dull!) Annnd I know this has been said already, but big up Sean Bean!! (He's a friends cousin!)
• The church on the moon! Long live the Protectors. John Swain... say no more. Oh yeah, there was one more thing... THE PIES!
• james toseland from the world superbikes.....very fit
• Lindsay dracass who sang for eurovision for england, she sang no dream impossible and she is the daughter of my nan's friend. Jade who is 16 who was on pop idol in the final 50. chris turner dave allen.
• RAMASES (aka Michael Raphael aka Barrington Frost), the most underground cult figure of all time!. He was born in sheffield and moved to felixtowe in the 1970s. In 1970, there was a group named Hotlegs (a pre-10CC) who had a song in the british charts called "Neanderthal Man", they STOLE this song from Ramases and his wife. Ramases sadly took his own life in the early 1990s. There should be a plaque in the city centre in rememberance of this most colourful character. He was formerley a PT instructor and Central-Heating salesman of some repute. Ask your parents, uncles etc. He deserves to be remembered!
• Duznt Prince Nazeem liv sumwhr round here?
• abc..pulp..marti caine..dave berry..joe cocker..etc etc
• The Eighties Heavy Metal bands Samson and Saxon were both from Sheffield. Martin Fry of cheesy-pop ABC went to university and formed the band here.
• Rick allen from deaf leppard
• Sean Bean Roy Hattersley! Def Leppard Neil Warnock
• Sean Bean (LOTRs)
• James McNerny-The Protectors they rocked!
• Cabaret Voltaire - the innovative electronic group from the late 1970s.
• Jarvis Cocker(Pulp), Moloko, Roisin Murphy, Joe Cocker.
• Joe+Jarvis Cocker ,(pulp), ABC, David (1 man + his dog) Blunket, stainless steel ,baby bird, that guy from the bill (no, not him, the other one), erm, that's 'bout it. oh yeah. + me.
• Sharon Duce (Actress)
• Prince Naseem lives in dore and his gym is at the bottom of Carterknowle road it's interesting watching him work out.
• Lesley Glaister (modern Gothic author bod - "criticcally acclaimed") The home of Bassetts (i.e. liquorice allsorts Bassetts) and one of the former loves of Charles Dickens (buried in the General Cemetery)
• That guy with a beard from Big Break goes to this resturaunt call Bordels or something and he drinks pims.
• Jarvis Cocker
• god, loads. sean bean, jarvis cocker, def lepard, moloko woman (i think)
• Tony Christie - who else?
• Here are some less famous, but equally significant Sheffielders, all of whom still live in the beautiful city: Frank White - The best blues guitarist you'll ever see playing live in a pub Keith Siddall - Inventor of the 'Titanic Chuck'. Used worldwide in heavy engineering Jennifer Bush - A leading light in Theatre make-up, Wig husbandry and Stage costume design Other famous ex-Sheffielders include Patrick McGoohan (from TV cult "The Prisoner"), Ecclesfield's own Donald Pleasance (Bond's Blofeld) and Dr Barnes-Wallace, inventor of the bouncing bomb. Notorious Victorian serial killer Charlie Peace, was also resident here
• The Human league, of course!
• Michael Palin, Jarvis Cocker, Sean Bean, Peter Stringfellow.
• Eddie Izzard is another Alumni of the University.
• Dave Berry, of "the crying game" fame, still resident nearby (Dronfield...!!!) and now selling antiques!-at an emporium off Boadfield rd. (yet somehow less unpleasant than a 'real' antique dealer, so maybe he's actually with the secret service)
• I used to live four doors down from "Screamin'" Steve Clarke, the (now dead) guitarist from Def Leppard. Sad, huh?
• Famous celebrities now include Matthew Newton, the blokes out of Autechre and LFO.
• Kid Creole now hangs around at Dinnington, an ex pit village east of Sheffield. He sees a girl on Victoria Street, where my old mate Dave lives with his wife and two kids. Honest.
• Don't forget that Sheffield is the home to many famous names from Emlyn Hughes to Steve Hichliffe, plus many footballers live there whilst playing for either the Blades or the Owls.
• Don't forget - from the fabulous '60's Joe Cocker, still great & singing as well as ever in the 90's. The Fortunes, "You've Got Your Troubles I've Got Mine" They used to be regulars at St. Christopher's Church Hall Dances on Saturday nights. Dave Berry, the original singer of "The Crying Game." Jimmy Crawford, is he still singing?
• Bruce Dickinson - the lead singer of Iron Maiden - Cringe!
• Catch Price Nas driving up and down Eccelshall road - only in the summer.
• How could we leave out Jarvis Cocker (and the other band members) of Pulp? His songs about the (ex) Kelvin Flats, Wincobank and very small houses with woodchip on the wall will forever keep Sheffield on the map, albeit for the worst possible reasons. Ditto Human League and Babybird.
• Jarvis Cocker lead singer of PULP! Russel Senior is from Sheffield too. And so are The Longpigs.

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Last updated: 2009-09-27