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Celebrities meeting cool 80s band (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

starship

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'80s band' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I cannot tell whether this works.

'celebrities meeting cool' is the wordplay.
'celebrities' becomes 'stars' (star can mean a famous person).
'meeting' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'cool' becomes 'hip' (hip can mean cool or fashionable).
'stars'+'hip'='STARSHIP'

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(Other definitions for starship that I've seen before include "Sci-fi space vehicle" , "Enterprise perhaps" , "The Enterprise, commanded by Captain Jean-Luc Picard, was one" , "Enterprise, possibly" , "Eg, the USS Enterprise" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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