Photos taken of famous people together that you would never have expected to be together but make you happy all the same.

Listen, there are other pictures of Monet out there, but I ain't the one going to Hell in a bucket.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EysnZj5UcAEBdnO?format=jpg&name=small

Is that Teri Garr?

Olivia Newton John

From the same event, with organizer/host Arthur Ashe on the left:

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQgxsmcUMELenTLKbtrDYG4UYRavDEnPf60GQ&s

Minnie Riperton and Linda Ronstadt also took part in this charity event.

But but but....did Alice Cooper?

I assume they broke the record for most metric tons of drugs consumed in a single tennis tournament.

8-Ball Boys

Harry Nilsson pulled a muscle so couldn't make it?

it's Alice we always want to see, but quietly this thread has also made me aware of what a ubiquitous California schmoozer Mickey Dolenz was in the 70s.

He certainly was. He and Moon are on the inner sleeve of one of those boozy mid-70s Nilsson albums, Alice probably is as well.

^^All charter members of The Hollywood Vampires.

https://www.nme.com/features/inside-john-lennon-keith-moon-and-alice-coopers-legendary-hollywood-drinking-club-756923?amp

I don't think Vollman was?

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-MkGyV4zw1Dw/VHkoUVzTs-I/AAAAAAAAMbI/hauRKYtfxEs/s1600/74_MurrayLennonNillsonMickey2.jpg

"...and that b***h Anne Murray too!"

XP Talking about Dolenz & Moon. Flo & Eddie were probably auxiliary members (Kaylan appears in other shots from where that one w/Murray was taken).

Ringo was around a lot too. Mickey Dolenz must have been secretly pouring those Brandy Alexanders into plant pots because he seems to be the only one not to emerge from that scene a complete physical and mental wreck.

Ha, both Flo & Eddie were cropped out of the pic I posted: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/9d/b5/f1/9db5f1e11dd7f0b0cf0986f580caae3b.png

The Nilsson bio implied that Dolenz was no slouch on that front.

xp

(xp) lol

Flo & Eddie = Turtles/Zappa/Incredivoices singers Howard Kaylan & Mark Volman

(For the Tuomas's out there)

Flo and Eddie bringing their typical ominous solemnity to that picture, they had to be suppressed.

That's Volman on the right in the first two pictures.

Huh - the more you know!

so hard to square the evil terribleness of Flo & Eddie's zappa contributions to the fact that they're on Hungry Heart and Love My Way and all those T Rex singles

(plus their awful sexist shit lyrics obviously)

Never mind that, the Turtles themselves were awesome.

https://flashbak.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Richard-Attenborough-SDP-support-1983-PA-4473484-1024x682.jpg

Simon Cadell, Robert Powell, Steve Race, Shirley Williams, Barry Cryer, Denis Quilley, Sir Richard Attenborough and Bamber Gascoigne outside the SDP's headquarters in 1983

Wot no Polly Toynbee?

My grandpa with Prince Philip:
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51111436357_58829316b8_c.jpg

(he's in the middle, with the glasses)

Liberace hosts a party for Eric Morecambe in Vegas.
I don't think this picture could be any more 1970's pic.twitter.com/xDZIjh807L

— OfficialDrMikeJohnson (@meddlingmike) April 22, 2021

Is the guy on the left a pre-Thorson lookalike/companion?

I recognize ... Liberace.

Xpost Not sure, but wondering if that’s Bill Cotton, head of BBC light entertainment at the time, third from the left.

Morecambe is the balding dude with glasses, pp. super-famous half of a TV comedy double act. Here’s the first of their eleven Ed Sullivan appearances, halfway into a 42-year career.

Not famous in America therefore not famous on ILX.

The Ed Sullivan Show official youtube channel was still posting them (now in color) as recently as September. (The comments are mostly spittle-flecked rage at the American audience for merely laughing, not audibly urinating uncontrollably.)

They weren't all that good till Eddie Braben started writing for them tbh.

https://scontent-ort2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.6435-9/176140831_10223831297784052_6910233207144370176_n.jpg?_nc_cat=105&ccb=1-3&_nc_sid=730e14&_nc_ohc=VNcYsedDEb0AX_3_Kp_&_nc_ht=scontent-ort2-1.xx&oh=f865efda470a671ebdfe54077183f550&oe=60A6F87E

The fellow on the right is called Porter Wagoner, and was part of a singing duo with Dolly Parton - the picture was taken the last time they sang together, at the third annual Grand Masters Fiddling Contest on June 16, 1974, which the McCartneys were present at.

Which is all very neat, but maybe a bit short of 'would never have expected to be together'

The photo doesn't even show up here if you don't have facebook.

It's a picture of Paul McCartney and Dolly Parton and Porter Wagoner. Just picture it.

I mean, all of these pictures have clearly been taken at places or events where the participants were "present" at, right? Anyway, I would definitely expect Porter Wagoner to be with Dolly Parton, but I would not have expected either of them in a picture with Paul McCartney.

I wouldn't be so sure that people know what Porter Wagoner looks like tbh. And what is Linda, chopped liver?!!?

Slightly different, non-facebook photo from that same day

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/58/f5/5c/58f55c05031fcb0ae5202dd4fb9a7bab.jpg

Feel like I need to know who the guy in the background is.

The photo doesn't even show up here if you don't have facebook.

― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic)

Facebook's revenge!

Linda McCartney actually won the fiddle contest in a legendary upset

linda's fiddling has always been so underrated

I hear she once defeated the devil in a fiddling contest