At first he didn’t take much notice of the woman with the big smile and blonde hair. The Buzzcocks had just played New York’s Madison Square Garden and guitarist Steve Diggle was drained from the performance.

“As I came off, she came up and said ‘I really enjoyed your show’ and asked me for a cigarette. I said, ‘This is worse than being in Camden.’

“I didn’t know who it was – and then someone told me, ‘That was Meg Ryan’.”

The next night another Hollywood star, Drew…