I have distant connections to a few people.
These friends of our family were friends with Darren Hayes (before he became famous). They used to go to the video store he worked in and he'd walk with them down the aisles and reccommend all the good stuff. Here comes the really interesting bit - he gave them the demo for "cherry cola"! And they thought it was total crap! Then he told them a record company had accepted it.. and the rest was history!
When I went to Japan, the brother of my host father was a 'famous' musician. He played traditional instruments, and made a CD of this chill-out type music, which they gave me a copy of. It was crap.
Also, according to my mum, we were on a bus with Darrel Summers(sp?) years ago. When Hey Hey it's Saturday was still around. I was totally oblivious to this fact.
And according to my Stepdad's mum, Ned Kelly and his gang went to their farm when she was a little girl. (or was it when her mum was young? I don't remember. She's in her 70s. I don't remember when Ned Kelly was around).
However, she's got mild alzheimers and (in my opinion) is a skitzo, so I'm still unsure of the validity of this story.
My friends cousins are Stephen Curry and his brother (Andrew?) who are Aussie actors (Stephen is more famous... he was in The Dish, The Castle, The Nugget... wow they all start with The... thats really strange!! Anyway he was in them) and I met him once lol