Originally Posted by right-track

Freddy and the Dreamers (my mates dad was the drummer before they were famous)
The Smiths (Joyce played drums for another of my mates punk band called the hoax, in the seventies)
Simply Red (Hucknell lived just around the corner from me in the town I was born in. My mum used to baby sit for him too. I also got to call him a ginger twat (claim to fame) while he was in the punk band The Frantic Elevators when I was just a cocky kid.)
Stone Roses (I remember Mani when he was a football hooligan)
James (my wife knows the bassist. The bald one)
Man City (who?)

You forgot the Ting Tings. I'll apologies on your behalf.