Your first rock star crush? Post a photo.

[dolo amber]

and



That's just humiliating.

[Aristus]

1. I was absolutely GONE for Pat Benatar.

She was, and still is, smoking hot!

[Bunny]

2. I don't think you could call him a rock star, but my first musical crush

was:

[Guava Jelly]

3. Linda Ronstadt

[speedoo]

5. Ditto

[av8rdave]

4. Natalie

from my hometown

[driver8]

48. You're from Jamestown?? I went to college in Fredonia in the early 80's.

I remember seeing 10,000 Maniacs playing at a Dance Marathon when Natalie was 17 years old.

I wrote a letter to the Maniacs around 1986 and I received a hand written response from Natalie. I still have it somewhere.

[av8rdave]

50. I am in fact from Jamestown, though haven't lived there since I was 12

I have a cousin that went to Fredonia, probably later 80s. I haven't been back for a couple of years, as I no longer have family there, but still think of Jamestown as my hometown.

[Haole Girl]

6. He's not considered a rock star, but...

...I can't tell you how many hours I must have spent studying this photo:

[lizziegrace]

58. Me too!

And John Denver and Dan Fogelberg.

[begin_within]

7. For some reason, this photo had a lot of impact on me...

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

8. Kurt Cobain

[speedoo]

10. That's an amazing picture, haruka.

There's a lot to see in his eyes...

Pain and sadness, but not like he wants any pity... he's just sharing it.

[LaraMN]

94. Ohhhh.. how could you not drool over that man?

He had the most beautiful eyes...
(I had that magazine cover on my wall)

[Zavulon]

9. This will show my age, but...

The one on the left, mind you.

I'll second the calls for Linda Ronstadt, too:

[Arugula Latte]

61. If I'm not mistaken, I think that's a nipple.

(Seinfeld)

[johnnie]

11. Ok

Where is Deborah Hairy..I mean Harry.




And:

[idgiehkt]

41. is that Nancy Wilson? n/t

[johnnie]

42. Yup

Ooo la la..LOL. Back then anyway

[idgiehkt]

43. Fuckin-A! I love you! She's still hot...

Here's "Crazy on You" live with the entire acoustic intro:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ie-2v-4XKo

I still think she is so sexy...I guess Ann was my first real Rock Star crush but I'd take both of them together

[driver8]

49. The album cover for "Little Queen"...Ann and Nancy both looking amazing!!

[idgiehkt]

51. yeah, I loved that gypsy theme.

I saw Nancy on something recently and she really really looks good and can still rock out. Ann is still battling her weight but her voice is in great shape. They really saved my sanity growing up. Roger Fisher was a great guitarist, he has a website and I went and signed his guestbook last year some time. I wish they had been given more credit. Ann was almost as influential as Debbie Harry but I feel like her influence has been overlooked for some reason.

I used to have this huge stack of pictures that my uncle took of them and Fleetwood Mac; he was a photographer and used to go see those two bands all the time. I had a bunch of them backstage after a concert and they both (Ann and Nancy) look completely wasted; my uncle said they were on quaaludes but I don't know how he would know. I don't know what happened to my pics of them, they disappeared, which really upset me because I had tons of Stevie Nicks in just about every different witchy outfit she ever had. I think it was around the time of Dreamboat Annie and Rumors.

[last_texas_dem]

86. Circa _Dreamboat Annie_ and _Little Queen_

I think Ann Wilson is very attractive, and would qualify as a rock-star crush for me if I could time-travel. (I wasn't born at the time the two albums were released!) I didn't find her eighties look (mostly the different hair, clothes, and make-up) very flattering for her and it changed her appearance significantly.

[idgiehkt]

92. they got sold a line of bull in the eighties

they lost just about all their band members and a producer told Ann that her singing style was too strong, and she needed to dial it back, which was bullshit. They took the Jefferson Starship route and listened to the idiot producers and totally sold themselves out. There was room for them to be who they were...but they were too scared I guess. If you watch the video I linked above Ann's singing is just so effortless to be that powerful, I always loved her voice, and for someone to tell her to sing like a pop princess, i.e. someone who by definition can't sing, just pisses me off every time I think about it. Nancy doesn't have a very powerful voice so her singing like that, like she did on 'These Dreams' is fine, but Ann has one of the most powerful voices rock and roll has ever seen, and they completely squashed her and devalued her and that is when the weight gain started not coincidentally.

Everyone looked that way in the eighties. It was kind of a K-mart/redneck take on the eurotrash look the new wave bands had. In truth, only the new wave/alternative bands should have been allowed to dress that way. Everyone else should have just stuck to doing what they were doing before and the whole music business would have been alot better off. I don't know why these producers think that everyone needs to change their style every five minutes. Ann was such a goddess and they just about ruined her.

[XNASA]

12. I saw her again, last night....

[southpaw]

13. Suzi Quatro

Though I knew her first as Leather Tuscadero.

[idgiehkt]

55. loved her

she was quite intriguing to me when I would watch her on Happy Days, though I didn't completely understand why

[cobalt1999]

14. I can't be the only guy who had a crush on Oliva...

[Pendrench]

16. Trust me....you are not alone!

Tim

[Crazy Dave]

15. Stevie Nicks

[speedoo]

18. Christine McVie

The good news is she was smart enough to get out of that whacko Fleetwood Mac scene. The bad news is, I miss her, and Fleetwood Mac is nothing to me now.

[Crazy Dave]

25. She's a beauty and a great talent

Back then it was Stevie, now it would definitely be Christine if I were even lucky enough to have a choice to make like that.

[speedoo]

28. I'm glad to hear you say that.

Christine is very underappreciated and under rated, I am sad to say. She was the most important member of Fleetwood Mac, when she was in the band, IMHO.:hi:

[kwassa]

17. One pill makes you larger

Grace Slick

[Heidi]

21. Oh, YEAH!

She wasn't a crush of mine, but Jefferson Starship (after Grace rejoined) was one of the first rock concerts I ever saw: Tulsa, 1980 or 1981. She must have been in her early 40s then, and what a voice, what a beautiful woman. :thumbsup:

[Lady Effingbroke]

19. hooray for mullets!

:cry:

[KurtNYC]

20. Rocked my world...

[Tikki]

22. Prob Ricky Nelson...

Ricky Nelson


Tikki

[MamaBear]

23. I'm the oldest one here this afternoon, for sure.

[saracat]

27. No way! He was mine too! In grammar school we would

buy bubble gum with Beatle cards and there were four of us who pretended to be married to the Beatles and we would trade the cards for our favorites! I always tried to look like Jane Asher. I just knew when I grew up I would marry Paul! I did get a car ride with him once.Sigh. He is still the best!

[MamaBear]

29. Looks like he's available again.

We would carry around notebooks in which we would write outrageous stories about girl singers (ahem) who would open for you-know-who. We used to have some quarrel over who would "get" Paul, so we started listening to the Beach Boys -- there were five of them -- and the stories got even more bizarre.


Brian Wilson

[Blue_In_AK]

54. You're a baby if Paul is your first rockstar crush. :-)

[ChoralScholar]

77. Debbie Gibson

[TK421]

96. A huge second to that!

:9

[Maccagirl]

64. Join the "oldie" club

Hence my username. I still think I had damned good taste for an eight year old.

[LibDemAlways]

80. I was always bummed that Paul was too old for me,

until he hooked up with Heather. Then it became obvious I was too old for him. Damn.

[kwassa]

24. Not Herb Alpert, but his album cover

[speedoo]

31. It's a classic. Have you seen/heard this one?

[kwassa]

32. uh, nooooooooooo !

[ikojo]

67. I don't think there's a parent in the age range of 50

to 75 who didn't have that album in the 1960s and 1970s...I KNOW my mom had it because I used to call it the green album.

[LibDemAlways]

83. My dad bought that album, and not because of the music!

[NewWaveChick1981]

26. Mmmmm...David Cassidy...

70s David Cassidy, not modern... :P



Second-best crush was Bobby Sherman.... :9

[Der Blaue Engel]

95. Omigod, you're me!

That was exactly what I was going to say! :D

And it's funny that you said "second-best," because that describes my crush to a T. My older sisters got "dibs" on who would have a crush on whom (how does THAT work? well, it made sense at the time), and one of my sisters liked Donny Osmond, while the other liked David Cassidy. I liked David, too, but he was "taken," so I picked Bobby. Lol!

[siouxsiecreamcheese]

30. Mike Patton

When he was in Faith No More

[MissMillie]

33. I actually had two

For the 1st one, I don't have a solo pic of him. He's the one w/ his hands up near his ears.



Then there's....




I never really had a thing for front men....

[XNASA]

34. You had a crush on Bev Bevan?

Carl Wayne, I would understand..... :hi:

[MissMillie]

36. I did

Huge crush on Bev Bevan, and I was a major ELO fan.

[XNASA]

38. I, myself was, and still am, a big fan of "The Move".

And, of course, Bev was the drummer in the Move. That's Jeff Lynne and Roy Wood in the pic with Bev.

[momophile]

35. George. He was a god to me.

[snacker]

45. Same here. n/t

[u4ic]

37. If you excuse Donny Osmond,

it would have been:

[Left Is Write]

39. And I still love him, about 27 years after I first heard him.

[Broken_Hero]

40. Sheena Easton....

[livetohike]

44. Jimi

Edit: better pic

[SOteric]

46. The hottie on the far left.

:loveya:

[Sequoia]

47. Dreamy blue eyes

1st Grade

[Blue_In_AK]

52. Dion DiMucci

when he was with the Belmonts. Yes, I'm old.

(top center)

[dolo amber]

59. That doesn't necessarily make you old

My 16 yr old is currently swooning over him. He's coming to Milwaukee soon; she's freaking out. :D

[Blue_In_AK]

69. Fabulous...

I love it that he's still going strong.

[hotforteacher]

53. Bono

[rug]

56. Although she was never a rock star by any definition.

Not straight either for that matter. Still . . . .

[speedoo]

60. She's one of the very best singer-songwriters.

"At Seventeen" is an incredible song.

[rug]

62. Indeed.

"Society's Child" is as good now as when she wrote it at 15.

[ikojo]

68. I've cried many a time over that song

especially when I was 17.

[Jamastiene]

57. Deborah Harry.

After admitting to my first television crush (aka my young innocent bad taste,) I'm more than happy to brag about my first rock star crush. Deborah Harry came along and saved the day and my life in a way.

Here is a picture of the most beautiful woman in the world. I'm sure any girlfriends I have ever had have either grown tired of hearing about her or gotten used to the fact that my eternal crush of crushes is the great godmother of punk herself; Deborah Harry.

[bigwillq]

63. I never had any crushes on rock stars

I don't like rock music.


My first musical artist crush was LL COOL J.

[tinfoil tiaras]

65. Mike Mills! Hoo Baby!

:9



i love the glasses and the "rocker" look! :D

[ikojo]

66. Disclaimer....I was SEVEN years old....

[graywarrior]

70. I was 14. Sigh.

[u4ic]

81. Did you feel like you were

the only one who liked Ringo?

My sister had a major crush on him, and didn't know anyone else who did...

[graywarrior]

90. Yes, I always liked the odd ones

Still do....

[kwassa]

91. I saw Ringo on the street one day, with his wife

Very surreal.

An industrial area near a small Chinese restaurant where we just had lunch. The door pops open on what looks like a warehouse next store, and out walks Ringo Starr and Barbara Bach, and they stroll on down the street. Nobody else around.

[graywarrior]

93. He's so fucking cool. He was at a Boston Hospital a few years

ago (I think it was Children's-he does an ad for it in this area) because his daughter had a brain tumor and was being treated there. Evidently, her surgery was a huge success and it was reported that Ringo was so ecstatic, he ran around the hospital buying candy out of vending machines and passing it out to the patients there.

I love it that he's the peacemaker between the other Beatles. Wish he'd grow his hair out a little, tho. Hate that shaved look.

[Fuzz]

71. One sweet and one nasty :)

or

[Skittles]

72. Mick Taylor

[Floogeldy]

73. Grace

[RevolutionaryActs]

74. This dude:

:faints:

[ScreamingMeemie]

88. Sigh...not my first ever, but I crushed hard on that man.

:hi:

[koneko]

75. Wowzers, hard to decide

Here was my crush before I hit 10 years old.



And here was my early teens love:



And though it's now more of an adult "appreciation" than a crush, he's still a hottie:

[koneko]

76. ahh the memories

Here was my crush before I hit 10 years old.



And here was my early teens love:



And though it's now more of an adult "appreciation" than a crush, he's still a hottie:

[Redneck Socialist]

78. Lita Ford

Hey, when you're a 16 year old guy, she does great things for you...

"I went to a party last Saturday night
I didn't get laid, I got in a fight uh-huh
It ain't no big thing "

[petronius]

79. I'll definitely second that nomination! (nt)

[idgiehkt]

82. kiss me deadly

or just writhe all over me like in that video...:evilgrin:

[Redneck Socialist]

84. For your viewing pleasure

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGuhUm6HCPY

Warning: It doesn't hold up all that well if you haven't viewed it in a while. :-(

[idgiehkt]

97. thanks for posting that

she was so in shape, I think she was gorgeous.

Actually this is much better than I remember it. They just absolutely did not know what to do with Lita.

[Redneck Socialist]

100. Yes she is gorgeous

but as a small bit of cinematography that video is terrible.

[Jean Louise Finch]

85. Was I really the only grunge-obsessed teenager?

[last_texas_dem]

87. Michelle Branch

She's the first one I can think of; I've had a thing for her since I saw her first music video several years back. Maybe she's more "pop" than "rock" but, either way, she's crush-worthy.

She has some, um, "hotter" pictures out there, but I think this one's really pretty:

[mvd]

99. That's a great choice

I also really like her Wreckers mate, Jessica Harp.

I don't know if Debbie Gibson would be considered rock, but she was my first crush on a music star. Now among the popular artists I like Michelle & Jessica, Andrea Corr, Anna Nalick, the Dixie Chicks, and Nina Gordon, to name some. Singers like Joanna, Cindy Alexander, and Leslie Mills are big crushes, but they aren't stars yet.

I also have things for Amy Lee, Lisa Loeb, and Joan Jett, among others.

[ScreamingMeemie]

89. I can't believe nobody has posted this yet....

The first of many rock star crushes...pictures of him still make me go all woozy. :hi:

[Avalux]

98. Ah geez - I was REALLY young though -

Like 5 or 6. My uncle gave me his old Monkee records and I played them constantly.

[TOhioLiberal]

101. dolo, you want to talk embarrassing?

remember, I was only 13 at the time:


The upper left hand one. I don't remember his name.

[StellaBlue]

102. We're still getting married.

http://galeon.hispavista.com/joeymcintyre/img/809

He just doesn't know it yet.