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Who, in your opinion, is a legend who also has the benefit of being alive?
Any nationality, any walk of life, famous or not, whoever! Include a short reason for their inclusion if you feel it's nessacery.
My nomination is Brian Blessed for being Brian Blessed.
BRIAN'S ALIVE!!!
David Attenborough
My boss. Built a company up from nothing to being reasonably successful whilst actually and genuinely giving a shit about his staff. Known him 20 years and working for him for 12 of those and he’s been far more of a role model/father figure to me than my own dad ever was.
Stephen Fry
Mick Jagger
Paul McCartney
Michael Caine
Carl Cox
LTJ Bukem - invented a whole sub genre of music.
Not Brian Blessed, how anyone can have so much adoration for shouting is being me.
I do agree with Houns. Thunberg another.
David Hockney
Guy Martin
Quentin Blake
Joe Cocker
@cynic-al - a friend who's a mountain guide guided Brian Blessed on Everest. Said that he was ebullient but not overbearing. Also reckoned that for someone who wasn't "naturally" a climber he did pretty well and could mostly look after himself unlike some of the others who needed waiting on hand and foot.
I'll go with David Attenborough as well.
Marcus Rashford
cynic-al
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Not Brian Blessed, how anyone can have so much adoration for shouting is being me.
Yeah cause he's has such a wasteful life... Blessed became the oldest person to climb Mount Everest to 28,500ft without oxygen. He is also the oldest to reach the magnetic North Pole on foot.
Shortly before his 80th birthday, he became a fully qualified cosmonaut, having caught the attention of Nasa. He completed 800 hours of space training at Star City, Moscow.
He works with organisations such as Born Free and has rescued everything from stray cats to wildcats, as documented in his recent book The Panther in my Kitchen.
Sparred with the Dalai Lama and so much more
He has my vote.
Sam Hill.
Not Brian Blessed, how anyone can have so much adoration for shouting is being me.
Exactly my take. BB is quite an amazing guy, but I wouldn't want to be stuck in a lift with him.
You know that thing actors do where they pretend to be different to how they are in real life?
What's the betting BB doesn't shout all the time when he's off-duty?
Plus he was in Flash Gordon, Starwars, Blackadder and Peppa Pig! What a range! 😂
WCA - Legend for egotistic self promotion
Graeme Obree.
I wouldn’t want to be stuck in a lift with him.
I doubt he takes the lift 🙂
George Foreman. If you don't know why, watch
Michael Palin
Stephen Fry
Greta Thunberg
Simon Reeves
Chris Packham
saw his one man show a couple of years ago. The guy is the very definition of joie de vivre. I can see why he would not be appreciated by some of the miserable sods on here 🤣Not Brian Blessed, how anyone can have so much adoration for shouting is being me.
****ing panicked when I saw that other thread this morning!!
Buzz Aldrin
Seconding Michael Palin, Marcus rashford, David Attenborough and Chris packham.
Boris Johnson (edit sorry I thought you said living bellend)
Billy Connolly
Tony Hawk
Reinhold Messner
Lionel Messi
Cristiano Ronaldo
What’s the betting BB doesn’t shout all the time when he’s off-duty?
Especially given the number of times he’s been with others in very remote inhospitable locations, with no one else around...
Cozy Powell.
I thought Mr Powell was brown bread?
The Black prowler of Wishaw
The Black prowler of Wishaw
Leg ends. Not bell ends
Mat Hoffman
Dave Jones, joined Newbury Road club in 1948 and still going strong now age 90 1/2 !!
Barak Obama. I’ve been fortunate enough to be in his presence during a couple of speeches and it’s incredible.
Nick Clegg for the same reasons and because he put country before politics.
Cozy Powell died in 1998!
I got completely giggly when I met Andrew Shandro...
Ian Mackaye
Horace Andy
Tony Hawk
You've spelled Rodney Mullen wrong. It's okay a lot of people do this.
I second Brian Blessed, more to the man than just shouting.
While I've no idea what he is like away from the camera, Sir David Attenborough.
From the world of cycling, perhaps Sir Chris Boardman.
dannybgoode
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My boss. Built a company up from nothing to being reasonably successful whilst actually and genuinely giving a shit about his staff. Known him 20 years and working for him for 12 of those and he’s been far more of a role model/father figure to me than my own dad ever was.
Blake, is that you?
Sir Ranulph Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes
John Williams.
Bob Dylan.
Lenny Kravitz.
More musicians!?
Billy Cogan?
Brian May?
Northwind
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Cozy Powell died in 1998!
Yeah. But Joe Cocker was taken.
Sir Steve Redgrave
I know Hoy beat his gold record, but SSR had to do it over 5 separate Olympics, there's no doubling or tripling up in rowing.