Chris Evans just played one of his old hits and I thought - weird how tiny stars those from 10, 20 years ago were. Compared to the Mega Music stars of the 60s and 70s. Somehow it started to decline in the 80s with Duran and the like. We had the Madonnas and the Princes but even they were manufactured rather than real. As the 90s kicked in we got HUGE stars like Oasis and Blur (who?) and really the Take Thats and others were minute compared to earlier stars. Ditto film stars. Although their era was before music, essentially the 40s and 50s. How fast the world changes.

I think Robbie opened a tobacconists with Jonathan Wilkes in Baddeley Green.

I last saw him at The Queen's Jubilee concert, but some of the family saw him live this year, so he's still around.

Yes I think my point was - how unimportant the so-called stars of yesterday have become. We really don't care much about them. They were never that big and apart from the odd bitchy Mail spread ("look how her tits have drooped") they are of no great interest to media anymore until the inevitable "he shagged me when I was twelve" False Allegation from people who don't want cash, just closure.