January 2006 and a previously unknown promotions girl from Essex wins Celebrity Big Brother by a landslide.

This Warholian fantasy proves we're apparently in such desperate need of celebrities to look up to, there just aren't enough to go around.

It's this need for access to our heroes which makes the tribute gig circuit such an intriguing place. In 2000, Glasgow's Gary Mullen appeared on Stars In Their Eyes and went onto draw 864,000 votes - the highest ever for the show.

Six years later, Gary is in the enviable position of having turned his fan worship into a proper business, playing venues the size of which most tribute acts can only dream of.

The songs sound so much like the real thing that, if they played them as background music on Top Gear you'd never know the difference.

Squint a bit and you might not notice anything wrong - pretend Brian May, David Brockett, has even grown his ginger hair out and dyed it into the trademark May/Anita Dobson-style curly mop.

When the real Queen are touring their own weird tribute shows, One Night Of Queen is just as legitimate. We want to see Freddie, and Gary's Freddie is the next best thing.