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12. William Hague
Had you attended the Notting Hill Carnival in 1997, amid the costumed revellers and booming systems you might have spotted the Tory party leader in baseball cap, chinos and rolled-up shirt sleeves, jigging about with his missus and a coconut like a supply teacher at a school disco.

11. Diego Maradona
Maradona’s past fondness for the naughty salt is hardly news, but his lost summers in Ibiza in the late 90s and early 00s are less well known. Late trance DJ/producer Mark Spoon, for instance, recalled being backstage with a heap of liveners, some friendly ladies and an Argentine footie legend.

10. Katherine Jenkins
Welsh mezzo-soprano, forces sweetheart and light classical crumpet Katherine Jenkins has confessed to dabbling in Es, coke (three lines a night, apparently), MDMA and hash cakes when she fell in with London clubland’s ever-present “wrong crowd”.

9. Rob Green
England fans, curiously, care less about goalkeeper Rob Green’s passion for electronic music than his abilities, or lack of, against long shots from American strikers. Recently spotted at a south London all-night Ninja Tune rave, he is, along with ZZ Top, the label’s least predictable fan.

8. Michaela Strachan
Strachan may now be best known for saving chimps on ITV2, but 20 years ago she and Pete Waterman fronted late-night clubbing show The Hitman And Her, set in various beery cattle markets. By its ’92 demise, Strachan was facing down more and more pie-eyed E-monsters each week.

7. Bryan Adams
An all-time low point for club culture was when Nick Bracegirdle, aka Chicane, invited yawn-rocker Bryan Adams to sing on his deeply awful trance-Balearic single ‘Don’t Give Up’ in 2000. It went to No.1, and the sight of oatmeal-faced Adams grooving to it on TV became something to avoid.

6. The cast of Rainbow
The cast of kids’ TV show Rainbow couldn’t stay away from clubland. George and Zippy hit the Top 20 in 2002 with a cheesy hard house take on their theme tune, and promoted Eurobop’s rave version in ’93 with a PA at The Fridge. They even starred with Shaun Ryder on late-night TV.

5. Linkin Park
On new album ‘A Thousand Suns’, rap-metallers Linkin Park go electronic. Vocalist Mike Shinoda told US radio, “People who listen to rave music are like, ‘This doesn’t sound like anything I’ve ever heard’.” Meanwhile, actual ravers are liable to say, “Sounds like Depeche Mode crossed with Tiësto.”

4. Samantha Cameron
As the 90s dawned Sam Sheffield, daughter of a landed baronet, had yet to meet rising Tory David Cameron. Instead, the Bristol-based art student was, according to the Evening Standard, “an enthusiastic raver”. She also hung out with Tricky, then a self-confessed weed-dealer.

3. The Labour Party
D:Ream’s hit ‘Things Can Only Get Better’ was written by singer Pete Cunnah after a night at Renaissance. He can’t have known that four years on, in the early hours of May 2 1997 Prescott, Kinnock et al would jive awkwardly to it on live TV like wind-up toys, celebrating Labour victory.

2. James Blunt
The posh, mum-friendly crooner has spent £1.7 million on a villa in Ibiza. For a while he seemed to practically live on the Pacha terrace – his song ‘1973’ is named after the year it opened – and he’s often been spotted in the DJ booth, hands aloft in a very unmilitary fashion.

And the winner is...
1. Michael Caine
Not a lot of people know this, but Michael Caine has long been an electronic music fan. Specialising in Balearica (“I won’t do anything that doesn’t have a very definite beat”), he makes mixtapes for friends, released a compilation called ‘Cained’ in 2007 and last year included Chicane’s ‘No Ordinary Morning’ and Bent’s ‘Swollen’ in his Desert Island Discs for BBC Radio 4. Obviously more Café del Mar than Cocoon, the former “disco fiend” nonetheless brings an unexpected dose of Harry Palmer cool to
the party. Wonder if he’d be up for playing That Mixmag Thing…