River Phoenix. :)

Ah the memorieeeeeeees! At age 10 I was a die-hard George Michael fan and would secretly play my "Faith" tape in my room (lest my mother get wind of the fact that I was listening to a grown man sing "I Want Your Sex").

One day my best friend and I managed to sneak off to the mall together (she was allowed to go without an adult, but I wasn't), and I purchased a GIGANTIC, bigger than life-size poster of George smoldering, lying on his side, propped up on an elbow, sans shirt (but open leather jacket), gold chains, scruff, and sunglasses. Oh how I loved it! Needless to say, mom wasn't pleased:-)

This totally gives away my age...but...Donny Osmond. He and his brothers looked so groovy in their white jumpsuits with the macrame belts.

I think I must be an odd one out - I never decorated with pictures of teen idols, I decorated with pictures cut out of art magazines. I had a bunk bed at our cottage that I decorated almost entirely with Degas paintings.

I did go through a brief anime phase in 9th grade where I had Fushigi Yuugi posters for my room, but even then, it was never plastered like this.

John Taylor from Duran Duran. loved him.

catmama, back off. John Taylor is mine!

Matt Dillon of course! ~Tracy

I always wallpapered my locker door with a variety of shirtless men (thanks to Cosmo, CosmoGirl, and various teen magazines), but I painstakingly created collages of Leonardo DiCaprio. Romeo and Juliet? Titanic? I still swoon.

Cat Stevens. *sigh*

Leonardo DiCaprio...le sigh.

where did you get that picture of me?

Matchbox Twenty. I still love them. =) I had two posters: one that I bought at a concert and framed, and another extra large poster I ordered online. It took up almost the entire wall!

In high school? Nothing - I'd outgrown that sort of thing by then. But in grade school it was Donny Osmond then David Cassidy. But I never plastered my walls - only a couple of pictures on a bulletin board.

NKOTB, I hate to admit. Joey McIntyre mostly.

I plaster3d my walls with pictures from Vogue and also Jon Bon Jovi

Kirk Cameron

Strangely, this is something I never did...

Jean Claude van Damme, but it was hard for me to find posters of him.

I did this in grade school, too, not high school, but as the first post states - RIVER PHOENIX!!!!

From 1997-2002. My walls were covered in pictures of the Backstreet Boys, Andrew Keegan and various actors from WB television shows.

Somewhere around sophomore year (early 2003) my focus shifted to dead celebrities (River Phoenix), musicians (Coldplay, Bjork, Nelly Furtado, Gorillaz), models, stuff from Teen People magazine, photographs taken by Steven Meisel and the most obscure looking images I could find. I think at one point I even had one of my Mom's old liscene plates on the wall.

Oh and Orlando Bloom. I had a rabid fascination with him as well.

Eew why is this featured.

Jonathan Taylor Thomas. Man I had such a thing for JTT back in the day.

matchbox 20 and third eye blind. :)

I used to collect those hypercool Airwalk ads from the early to mid-90s as well as editorial pages from magazines (I remember specifically pictures of a young Chloe Sevigny, Bjork, Gwen Stefani, and a Betsey Johnson spread from Harper's Bazaar with Johnson's daughter Lulu)! Oh, and my Nirvana poster.

I miss the 90s.

Andrew Keegan! I had forgotten about him. Also, Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Devon Sawa, Rider Strong, Jonathan Brandis. I loved those Teen Beat generic, airbrushed photos. There's something oddly comforting and reminiscent about photo collages.

Two posters total of Bruce Lee (Enter The Dragon and Fists of Fury). Geez, I suppose I've revealed my age too :)

Smashing Pumpkins / Billy Corgan

Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Brad Renfro (anyone else love Tom and Huck?) and of course Leo DiCaprio.

Luckily I have since moved on to better decor ;)

In the late 90s, early 00s, British music mags Select and Q used to publish posters of bands and I had my walls plastered with Blur, Pulp, Suede, Radiohead, Primal Scream, Manic Street Preachers, Catatonia and the like (but never Oasis: hate them).

Johnny Depp. I would even mat the extra hot pictures to give them a little oomph.

I've just never been a "fan" type person so I never did this either.

I had pictures of horses and big cats, not kitties, leopards, lions and those kind. I used the Beatles white album portraits to cover the panels on a cabinet. I did like to stare at Paul's stubble sometimes.

Jason Priestley.

Duran Duran. The focal point was a real size poster that I had got form a magazine Bravo. I took everything down at 16, and started decorating my room.

John Taylor from Duran Duran!!! *sigh*

Never decorated with magazine stuff. I've always leaned towards clean and simple. But, that photo is hilarious--I love the girl's proud and happy smile.

My sister put up pictures of The Beatles, The Monkees, and other bands, but I never was into this. Why didn't you post the other picture from the article of the 50-ish woman in the same kind of setting. I found it really icky!

Duran Duran, Rick Springfield & Rob Lowe

I second the New Kids on the Block...although I loved Donnie :) I also had an entire wall dedicated to the Absolut Vodka magazine ads...I was obsessed!

NKOTB!! I had the bedspread, door posters and pretty much every single Teen Bop and other teen magazine cut-outs. SIGH.

Hmm... Duran Duran, Michael Jackson, The Beatles, and a larger-than-life B&W of James Dean.

The Beatles, Joe Nameth, Robert Redford, Paul Newman, James Taylor....

Yeah, also never did this. But then, my mom always made sure that my room was decorated equally as well as the rest of the house, and when your room is gorgeous... why mess it up with magazine pictures? Even when I redecorated my own room in high school, I didn't do this, though. Just not my thing.

Maybe I was modest, but I just had a single poster of Keanu Reeves on my closet door. Boy, he is one handsome fellow...I think that poster was up from 7th grade to Senior year.

@first5times

same here!
well, i'm a guy so i had pictures of the entire band cause they were my favorite. all that's left now is a framed ticket stub of their final show at the metro.

I had a life-size poster of Jack Nicholson as "The Joker," tons of Garfield, John Lennon, and Mark Messier from the NY Rangers.

Marky Mark in his Calvin Kleins! Among lots and lots of others... Lots of athletes, and one huge poster of Troy Aikman dressed up like a sheriff for some reason. And old movie stars, like Cary Grant and Steve McQueen. My friends mostly didn't know who the guys on my wall were...

This is actually funny timing, because I am moving and I just came across a big bag of stuff that my mom took off my walls when I moved out.

There is no more accurate question to determine how old someone is.

As for me, INXS, U2, R.E.M., a Princess Bride poster, and (shh!) the Sting READ poster that my best friend stole out of her school library for me. Junior high involved The Monkees and River Phoenix.

High school? Depeche Mode, Morrissey, and The Cure. Sixth grade? Luke Perry.

Andre Agassi, with hair. And Luke Perry.

I never had people plastered on my walls in high school (save for one picture of Jonathan Rhys Meyers XD). Instead, I had cut and tear-outs of advertisements and fashion photoshoots I liked, and some of my drawings. They COVERED (literally) the wall behind my desk.

Never did it, either. I honestly don't remember what was on the wall in my teenage room -- mostly book shelves, I think. Since I was an art student, maybe my own stuff was pinned up, but I don't really think so.

A random black light poster.

All of my friends had the Backstreet Boys and the like, but my walls were adorned with the Beatles and Fleetwood Mac. I also lined the top border of the walls with that series of Absolut vodka ads during the mid to late 90s that featured variations on the bottle (one was a lava lamp, one was glow in the dark, etc)

I'm with @Spak in the odd-duck-out category. I never really decorated my walls with teen idols, though my sister recently removed her Lord of the Rings calender pages from her teenage bedroom. I've always been a fan of impressions - not necessarily Impressionists with a capital I, but those vaguely reminiscent shadows, and had some framed art on the wall.

My closet doors, however, were covered with magazine clippings - pretty room designs I loved, a photo shoot pic of LeeLee Sobieski in a gorgeously flowing dress on the shores of Lake Calhoun in my native Minnesota, and a whole panel was devoted to hilarious tampon ads.

I'm almost too embarrassed to write this! --- Corey Haim, NKOTB, Johnny Depp, and the hair bands (Poison, Def Leppard, and Bon Jovi) were on my walls from 6th through 8th grade.

Shudder. Blush.

At least they were gone by high school.

Sting. Sigh

I wasn't allowed to hang anything on my walls, but I had one life-size poster of JAMES DEAN on the back of my door. Wish I still had it.

OMG! Grammar school was Michael Jackson, Scott Baio and Ricky Schroeder, then moved on in high school to Depeche Mode and The Smiths :)

LOL, oh I remember those days! Let's see, Nick Carter of the Backstreet Boys, Leo DiCaprio, NSync and James Dean. My friend had a thing for Jonathan Brandis.

I had an Afghan Whigs poster and a little round portrait of Elvis. :)

I had a huge crush on Jonathan Taylor Thomas when I was in middle school. My room looked nothing like the one pictured above, but there were a few Teen Beat posters on my walls. And I don't know whether this detail makes my schoolgirl crush more or less pathetic, but I mostly liked him because he sounded so smart. Yeah, I was a giant nerd. (Was? Who am I kidding, I still am. My "celebrity crushes" include, in order of descending weirdness - I think, at least - Oscar Wilde, Lon Chaney, Sr., Carl Sagan, and Neil deGrasse Tyson. In my defense, though, Neil deGrasse Tyson was declared the "sexiest astrophysicist alive" in 2000. So there.)

Lupinelle, I had the R.E.M. "READ" poster from the library - although I found a way to mail-order it so I didn't have to steal. It's not in this picture - http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2716/4375339827_01a0939726_o.jpg - but approximately 50 million of my other R.E.M. and Pearl Jam pictures can be seen. (All laminated, of course.)

for sure some NKOTB....oh, jordan! and of course a little Mark Walhberg...Marky Mark in the funky bunch. How could you ever forget Marky Mark in those Calvin Klein ads?

First, it was JTT and Devin Sawa. Then it was Chris Cornell of Soundgarden, and Trent Reznor of NIN and whatever other rock band I was into at the time, mostly all torn from the pages of Hit Parader. There may have been a few extreme sports types up there too, as I was really into skaters, snowboarders, and bmxers.

Wow, you can really tell about how old everyone is from this...

I posted pictures of fashion editorials, especially any featuring Iman, because I wanted to be her. But it was never wall-to-wall like the above.

NSYNC. Oh man. I had a HUGE poster of JC on the back of my door that I would make out with. Nice....

Everything in my room was decorated with nsync. I took down my wall clock and the individual blades of my fan and decoupaged them with little magazine cut outs of the guy's faces.

I had the ceiling, the doors, and all 4 walls covered in Hanson posters. MMMBop! I started in 8th grade and kept them there through High School. I am still a fan, but I don't think my husband wouldn't appreciate this type of decor in the master bedroom. :)

Nirvana, Hole, Billy Corgan...ahhhh the 90's :)

Rob Lowe, Matt Dillon & Rover Phoenix

@Spak: High five for Fushigi Yuugi!!!

When I was 15-16 I covered my closet door with David Boreanaz, which transitioned into punk-rock and political posters from 16-19 (The Misfits/Bad Religion/Rancid/noFX/AFI etc..), which transitioned into a hugh (actual) canvas of photos of friends and experiences... that's still up at 24.

The most I have kicking around right now is a picture of myself and a friend with Eddie Izzard on my bulletin board.

leonardo dicaprio, johnny depp, and some cheesy pictures from rolling stone of green day hanging out by some railroad tracks. this was all c. 1996.

my (older) sister had a framed photo of michael j. fox in a velvet frame on her nightstand.

Bruce Lee and Rammstein. Now its just mainly Audrey Kawasaki and James Jean.

I _never_ did this and frankly I think it's creepy as hell.

Mine was covered like the one above but with Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Soundgarden and The Doors.

Midway through high school my mom let me paint it dark grey, get black carpet and put up black lights with a few choice posters of the fore mentioned bands.

Over a decade later my walls still have Pearl Jam on them:
http://www.rearrangeddesign.com/2010/03/finishing-up-living-room.html

I must be the oldest one on here. I had Paul McCartney plastered all over the inside of my bedroom door. PLUS a gum wrapper chain exactly his height.

Not sure why anymore. That sweet little boy face now has jowls

Another vote for John Taylor from Duran Duran. My favorite was a big close-up circa 1983 / "Rio". He was wearing a white suit and his nose was slightly peeling from a sunburn. Be still my heart...I still giggle when I see pictures of him.

My 10x-larger-than-life posters of Joy Division and Morrissey (I think he was laying down, shirtless with a flower - how else, right?). I think I bought them on St Marks Place for $5 when you still had to get off the block before sunset.

This post is cracking me up. NKOTB?!? Wow.

BTW - I'm totally letting my kids do this when they're older.

JTT! Jonathan Taylor Thomas. He was born just three years before me, and I covered my walls with his photos, ripped from the pages of Tiger Beat, Teen Beat, etc... I loved him in Tom & Huck (I was so jealous of Rachael Leigh Cook), Home Improvement, and Man of the House.

Ah, nostalgia. Good times. Thanks, AT. :)

Morgan Freeman

How times change.

I was NOT allowed to put anything on my bedroom walls.

I allowed my daughter to put up posters with poster putty or tack pins.

My grandkids have plastered EVERY square inch of their bedrooms with posters, memorabilia and stuff I wouldn't allow in my house under ANY circumstances. My daughter and her husband have posters in their living room!

almost exclusively eddie vedder and kurt cobain, with a little michael stipe thrown in to keep it interesting. :)

Duran Duran and Kirk Cameron (on my ceiling, above my bed - creepy!). I also loved Kate Moss and had a mean collage of her back in the Calvin Klein/Marky Mark days . . .

I shared a room with my sister and the only place where we basically were allowed to hang posters up was around the bed area (bunk beds). When a little kiddo, I think I had some nature posters like whales or whatever, then later some with Michael Jackson, NKOTB, and other big names; wasn't really too particular and changed every so often. In the end it was a really short phase.

What amuses me more is the fact that my geek husband currently has a couple of Linux and open-source themed posters on his walls. They are a decoration suicide waiting to happen and - thank goodness - won't move with him...

my best friend and i as roommates in college had "the wall"- on it we put any photo we liked from cool ads to famous people to "how to tie a bow tie instructions". we LOVED the wall and it made an awesome conversation piece. we still talk about our wall with fond memories and realize we've been friends for almost 10 years! here's to you Aleesh! "clink"!

oh gee. in elementary school it was NKOTB, kirk cameron and the coreys. then starting in 7th grade, i went through a retro phase and plastered vintage marilyn monroe all over the place. in high school, grew out of the poster thing but my crush was devoted to christian bale after he was in little women. and it still is :)

I had my walls covered with photos taken on trips with friends, events from school and then a few random posters thrown in (Dawson's Creek, Titantic, etc). I shared a room my entire life until my senior year of high school - so when I finally got a chance to decorate my own space, there wasn't an inch of wall space left. :)
Now I lean WAY more minimalist but still plan to let any future children decorate their walls anyway they'd like.

My walls were dark green and covered with huge black and white campaign posters: Pierre Elliott Trudeau, 1968 Canadian Federal Elections. I admired him totally. I met him, too, actually, and will always remember it. :-)

as a kid i.e. before teendom it was Fred Savage and Donnie from NKOTB. I also really loved Corey Haim and every storyline in school I wrote involved a Corey character haha. Even though he was older than me. Teendom took me a whole other way with Kurt Cobain and my first girl crush Drew Barrymore, as well as Claire Danes and Jared Leto.

Ralph Macchio : )

The New Kids, Jared Leto, & Leo Dicaprio...

omg...jonathan taylor thomas' face covered my walls as early as 5th grade. i loved him, in the only way a 10 year old who didn't know him could. and then there was andrew keegan...(what ever happened to him?)...leonardo dicaprio...hanson. but none had my heart like jtt!

oh, and someone above said that they think it's creepy as hell...yup. it is. but it's somehow acceptable for hormonal pubescent girls? if someone does this after age 18-now THAT'S creepy!

Leonardo DiCaprio.

I was never into this, but I did have an Impeach Nixon poster.

Had a big ol' poster of Chris Jericho in his Y2J incarnation. My parents mocked it unceasingly, and I'm not sure I even kept it on the wall, I seem to remember rolling it back up all the time and taking it away from people.

Also all kinds of fantasy/sci-fi posters, because, well, nerd.

@JaneLane - Was it Morgan Freeman in his Easy Reader phase or his Red Redding phase? Either way = H.O.T.

Oh man, for me it was Menudo (Pre-Ricky Martin thank God. I'm Puerto Rican and back then it was like, of course you like Menudo LOL!) and Shawn Cassidy. Lots of Shawn Cassidy. I thought he was sooooo dreamy!

Had posters everywhere in my room except the ceiling only because my mom put her foot down.

John Taylor. Duran Duran. John Taylor, John Taylor, John Taylor.

8 x 10 glossies of the Beatles (well, John and George) that came with the White Album. Then later, a black and white poster of John at the piano--that one came with Imagine.

At one point I had a velvet poster of Jim Morrison--orange flames and all.

wow, at least this proves how diverse (age-wise) readers here are...for me i had a few nysync/bsb/leonardo dicaprio posters up but I would say 90% were ads and editorial pages from vogue, harpers bazaar, elle and travel magazines....

recently when I moved, I found the folder of the posters i took off and its amazing to look back at my tastes.

Sean Cassidy.

anything My Chemical Romance i had to have i think i still have a folder full of pics some where lost in a closet but no longer on my walls n i only took them down recently even tho im now in college haha high school was when i was really obsessed with them

The cast of Newsies. Yeah, I said it.

No shame here.
New Kids on The Block. All four walls, ceiling, bed spread the whole works. It's now limited to one corner of my shelf in my closet.

Johnny Depp, Duran Duran, River Phoenix and of course posters of horses :P

Jumping in for John Taylor from D2. And it was done just like the photo above. Ah, good times.

Donny Osmond, Bobby Sherman, and David Cassidy.

Blink 182

A few years later, a collage of David Bowie.

We (my group of friends) didn't go for this sort of thing. I do remember my best friend rescuing a Beethoven poster that her baby brother had ripped, by cutting out the edges around his hair and then super-imposing it on another large image. That was about as wild as it got for us kids.

My father, though, had been in the music business back then and would bring home extra posters from the venues where he'd do his performances. So we had posters of The Who, Jimi Hendrix, Jefferson Airplane, B.B. King, Led Zeppelin, and others on the walls in the kitchen and living room. The extra posters we'd either cut up or turn over to paint on. If only we knew then what we know now: the posters us kids scrapped are now worth thousands of dollars.

I feel like maybe I'm the only one here, but that kind of obsession seems...well unbalanced. Worrisome even. Sure I had, George Michael, The Cure, Tony Hawk, Gone With the Wind and the Eiffel Tower. And the pre-requisite fashion tearouts. [I even framed some of mine, did the matting myself] But I had these posters more or less all at the same time. At most, I had 2 Cure posters. If my kid starts plastering her/his room with one singular subject, including notebooks, t-shirts etc. I'm going to be concerned. Am I wrong. Is this overboard obsession purely natural teen/tween angst?
-anna
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Backstreet Boys....Going to see them in concert for the 5th time on Thursday! haha YESSS!! :D

Grade School = NKOTB, mostly Joey Joe

Jr. High School (confined mostly to collages my best friend and I made for one another on construction paper, ha!) = Leonardo DiCaprio, Simon Rex, Devon Sawa, Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Oasis, Smashing Pumpkins, etc.

High School = Excerpts from classic literature and wedding dresses (YEEEEESH!)

Antonio Banderas was my biggest crush in jr. high and high school, and I had lots of pics of him.

I totally thought I was too cool for posters in jr. high but snuck a Romeo and Juliet poster (with Leo Dicaprio center stage) up there and blamed it on my dorky obsession with Shakespeare... Really I thought Leo was just dreamy.

It started with NKOTB and ended with Nirvana and The Cure.

Dear god, how long were you in high school????

Oh my, yep JTT was the first to grace my walls, ( Tom & Huck was the ultimate, Brad Renfro and JTT in the same movie! Come on!) Lol! Then Taylor Hanson came along an JTT got thrown in the trash and Taylor was the one who held my heart for a looong time! Imagine how our hearts broke for those glossy images!

Naughty Christian Slater and soulful Barrett Oliver in my locker, Ralph Macchio and Kenneth Branagh from "Henry V" on my wall at home. I've always been a proud nerd. ; )

Although, when I was little, my mother bought me a giant John Travolta "Saturday Night Fever" poster "because you liked him so much". Yeah, sure, Ma. ; )

@allisonharris YES YES YES, Tom and Huck ruled!

I was way into the Backstreet Boys...I had as many posters as I could get away with, because I wasn't allowed to totally "wallpaper" the room.

Amber, I forgot about JTT! I totally had him and Devon Sawa (sp?) up in my room too!

I didn't hang anything in my room because I thought it was vaguely embarrassing, but in elementary school I was desperately jealous of a friend who had a huge Michael J. Fox on the ceiling over her bunk bed.

Al Pacino from Scarface, Steffi Graf, Cory Everson, random dancers and gymnasts, fine art prints, and my own 'art.'

Oh god...Leo. From the floorboards, to the back of the door, to the ceiling, posters, magazine cutouts, books, videos, everything. Insanity. Titanic and Romeo and Juliet took over my life for a couple of years there.

John Taylor from Duran Duran. I can see I am far from the only one!

All my friends plastered their rooms with Duran Duran, but I never did this at all. Though, I was really into my funky Memphis Italian furniture poster.

In junior high I had posters of the Backstreet Boys and athletes like Derek Jeter, Paul Kariya, and Mia Hamm. In high school I switched over to a few massive black and white posters of classic rock bands, the crowning jewel of which was a 6' tall poster of Pete Townshend doing the windmill on his sweet Les Paul.

Nowadays my guilty pleasure posters are framed Star Wars art prints by Ralph McQuarrie.

Wasn't allowed to put anything on the walls, but was required to cover my books with something during high school. I had them covered with book covers that featured David Boreanaz from Buffy the Vampire Slayer. My SO finds it odd that while I was crazed for both Buffy and Angel I passionately dislike Twilight.

Anyone who was in Bop and Big Bopper, or whatever those things were called.

During the middle school years it was Leo DiCaprio (oh Romeo) and Trent Reznor...pretty extreme opposites, huh? I'd lay on my floor for hours, just listening to music and fantasizing about my future with them...

Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix posters.
...and I still have a few working brain cells left!

i went through an anime phase so my cabinet doors were decorated with posters of Sailormoon, Ranma, Card Captor Sakura ang Rayearth.

I loved Orlando Bloom too but I confined my obsession to buying magazines with him on the cover.

OMG gotta love Tom and Huck. I also loved those few minutes of Casper when he wasn't a ghost but Devon Sawa was the real boy... I was jealous of Christina Ricci for that kiss.

I just had Titanic posters on my walls. I think I had three.

In grade school it was Donny Osmond, Andy Gibb, Sean Cassidy, Leif Garrett.

7th grade was Matt Dillon, and I still love him.

My sister met him last year. I hate her so much.

George Michael and almost 20 years later, that hasn't changed. Well, nothing of him is on my walls, but I still enjoy him and his music.

My mother would never let me do this, although I wanted to. I was left with a 2'x3' bulletin board to cover with photos. The "movie star" collage only lasted about a year and a half in junior high. After that it was all art and photography.