About 1970.. there was work going on at the bottom of our street. I got a few days there on a tunnelling project. So it was technically (almost) in our street, that I met Alvin Lee's Dad... who was a site engineer.
Just around the corner, lived two brothers.. who were schoolmates of mine. One is sadly deceased, but they both formed a band in the early 1960s, along with another class mate called Richard (Rik) Kenton..who played with Roxy Music for a while. Meanwhile, the surviving brother played with various bands including a stint with the bloody awful Paper Lace..and the manufactured band 'Highly Likely', who toured the hit theme song from 'Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads.' He's still doing session work etc.
More recently, I have an almost neighbour (well about a mile away) who is a fine musician in the Irish tradition. He is well acquainted with Mary Black and her family, including Shay who I've met and sister Francis, who I haven't. I think I've recounted before, the tale John told me of when he was in a Dublin pub with Mary, Shay and others. He was sitting next to an American girl in the company and asked her if she 'played at all'. She replied that she sang a little. Much to John's embarrassment.. she turned out to be Linda Ronstadt.
Again.. not on my street, but around the corner.. my English teacher in school was a Booker Prize winning novelist.. Stanley Middleton.. who was also a fine church organist.
And of course during the latter years of my employment as a Career Adviser.. I worked in offices in the former 'Beecham Building' in St Helens, where I daily passed the bust of Sir Thomas Beecham, noted conductor and son of the Beecham Pills family.
FWIW, my office was directly under the clock tower on the top floor, with a great cast iron support pillar for the tower, somewhat dictating exactly where I could have my desk.
Small world...