HT3964 screen froze, then closed down. when setting up the grey screen remains on and you hear the laptop kicking over

screen froze, then closed down. when starting up again, screen remains grey and you can hear the laptop 'clicking' away?

A clicking sound can be a disk drive that's bit the dust or on it's way there.
Boot into Lion recovery mode (hold down command and r keys while booting), and use Disk Utility to repair your hard drive. Also repair permissions while you're there.  If the repair hard drive completes without error, then reboot normally.
If that doesn't do it, run the Apple hardware test. Choose the extended test when prompted.
Depending what the Apple hardware test tells you will determine your next step. Hopefully your hard drive is backed up.

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