So who's your cultural icon?

[MrsCurly]

Has anyone voted in the BBC Greatest Living Icons search?
It's here \link{http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/livingicons/

It's actually really hard to think of just one person!

Blimey, I can't even think of one! Who's on your longlist, MrsCurly?

i've just woke up, but i'm going to go for ralph steadman............easier to pick a dead one tho!

who he?

he's an illustrator........most famous (probably) for his illo's for Hunter S. Thompson's work.

more info here
\link{http://www.ralphsteadman.com\

just been chatting to my dw and can i add Rupert Everett and England's king in exile Morrissey too?

I'm thinking Kate Moss or Mick Jagger. Neither of them could be called high culture but they are both pretty iconic. And influential.

It's hard. Keep thinking of dead people, but they have to be alive.

David Bowie is the one that keeps springing to my mind

That's a good one

kate moss? no way!

in terms of influence then it should probably be paul mccartney, but I think he's a git so am loath to vote for him.

otherwise it should be david attenborough

Vivienne Westwood
Malcolm McLaren

cliff richard

Graham Norton

are we talking culture icons or celebrity icons here???

Joan Bakewell.

Intelligent, played key role in having women on TV taken seriously etc AND had affair with Harold Pinter WITH her dh's knowledge. Ballsy.

Not that I approve of extra-marital shenanigans of course. But it was hardly the milkman.

Lucien Freud.

Oooh! Good one.

Call your Lucien Freud and raise you...

Umm - John Peel?

living icons.

Jeremy Paxman

Sir Les Patterson right up there with Dame Edna.

Piers Morgan

God help us...

John Peel was top of my list too and I went to post his name...

Tinygang, you obviously have more tact/grey memory matter left than me.

Have always LOVED Dame Edna though.

David Attenborough... He is the only reason that I agreed to watch these nature type programmes and now I love them (well some of them)...