household name

Cranked out by the dozen, the shows turned their stars into household names across the Arab world.

Their three seasons together feature in the Amazon series Coach Prime, which helped thrust Colorado into national prominence in the US while the two players became household names.

This catapulted the Boom writers onto the world stage, transforming them into household names throughout Latin America, “like film or pop stars, sportsmen or politicians.”

Its leading authors, who included Vargas Llosa's Colombian friend and sometime rival Gabriel García Márquez - who pioneered the kaleidoscopic magical realism style of writing - became household names and their works were read around the world.

However, it was 1978's Parallel Lines that made them household names, powered by new wave hits like One Way Or Another and the disco grooves of Heart of Glass.