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

https://twitter.com/Super70sSports/status/1237083490392440833/photo/1

When Officer Big Mac left McDonald’s to join Thin Lizzy, I think we all felt it was the right move. pic.twitter.com/a9Lwup3E8P

— Super 70s Sports (@Super70sSports) March 9, 2020

A couple more pix from the night the one in the thread OP was taken:

River Phoenix with Kate Pierson, KD Lang, Chrissie Hynde, Lene Lovich, Liza Minelli and Fred Schneider at a PETA 'Tame Yourself' party at the Hard Rock Cafe in New York City on February 28, 1991 pic.twitter.com/ZRy6pRbxvB

— The River Phoenix Gallery (@phoenixsgallery) February 16, 2020

Romeo and Mr McCheese
They seemed to hit it off

Eatin' burgers on his own-ee-o

hope he was able to try the Shamrock Shake

The burgers back in town

Orange Drink will flow and Special Sauce will spill

Lol

You get Kenny Lofton on, Warren G regulates him into scoring position with a base hit, and then you’ve got a couple of ducks on the pond for Clooney. pic.twitter.com/aNJidwWf1A

— Super 70s Sports (@Super70sSports) June 16, 2022

What the hell did I just witness? If you watch nothing else today, make it this. Just fucking trust me. pic.twitter.com/jhV8WpbHgK

— Super 70s Sports (@Super70sSports) June 29, 2022

Patti LaBelle, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Peewee Herman, and Rowdy Roddy Piper.

Epidemiologists still blame Jimmy Carter for holding a Night Fever superspreader event at the White House in 1977. pic.twitter.com/CIx1OPmVzH

— Super 70s Sports (@Super70sSports) July 3, 2022

Lol

Just realizing that Jimmy Carter has outlived two of the three Bee Gees (and Barry outta watch his back).

One of the weirdest things about that Patti Labelle clip is that Pee Wee Herman is the only one who can dance at all.

https://ronnierocket.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/marx.jpg

Grouch Marx and Diana Ross

O.

Pee Wee Herman is the only one who can dance at all.

You'd also look pretty awkward busting a move, if you were 7' 3".

Jimmy Carter is a goldmine. Here he is with Diana Ross singing "happy birthday" on the occasion of his 54th birthday:
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/3b/81/b3/3b81b3a63c739690e50eca300df81b7e.jpg

Which leads me to Jimmy Carter's inaugural ball, from a year earlier, which has Bette Davis, Shirley MacLaine, and some other people:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CY4j1uw7YUk

Also in attendance were John Lennon, Yoko Ono, and Mohammed Ali! But they didn't perform. What an odd line-up.

I was still a tiny baby when Carter was president so I have no idea what he was like, or how he was received. I learn from the internet that he was into rock and roll music:
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/12/29/us/gallery/jimmy-carter-rock-and-roll-president-cnn-films/index.html

The article contains pictures of Jimmy Carter with (a) Crosby, Stills, and Nash (b) Greg Allman (c) Bob Dylan (d) Luciano Pavarotti (e) Johnny Cash (f) Dolly Parton (g) Willie Nelson (h) Emmylou Harris (g) Dizzy Gillespie (h) Charles Mingus (i) James Brown nb some of those people are not rock and roll musicians.

And yet baby boomers hate him. Whatever you think about him, he had the funk:
https://dynaimage.cdn.cnn.com/cnn/w_1600/https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.cnn.com%2Fcnnnext%2Fdam%2Fassets%2F201209143616-06-jimmy-carter-rock-and-roll-president-cnn-films.jpg

The article contains pictures of Jimmy Carter with (a) Crosby, Stills, and Nash (b) Greg Allman (c) Bob Dylan (d) Luciano Pavarotti (e) Johnny Cash (f) Dolly Parton (g) Willie Nelson (h) Emmylou Harris (g) Dizzy Gillespie (h) Charles Mingus (i) James Brown nb some of those people are not rock and roll musicians.

They left out the best one -- Carter with Cecil Taylor:

http://www.fainebooks.com/uploads/4/5/7/3/45736131/editor/nlc-06229-13.jpg

Awesome!

All of those photos let me to the official Twitter account of the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library, which is presumably carefully curated to make him look good, but he does come across as an awkward but well-meaning man:
https://twitter.com/CarterLibrary/media

I learn that his daughter Amy's pet Siamese cat was called Misty Malarky Ying Yang. That would probably not be acceptable nowadays, partially because of the name and partially because Americans hate cats.

Big late 1970s energy:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FUU5ESZXEAApvyh?format=jpg&name=900x900

There's a photo of him shaking hands with George Lucas! He saw Star Wars three times at the White House. I learn his brother was a drunk who had beer named after him. This is Rosalyn Carter dressed as a monarch butterfly:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FSJ1-TxXEAAHsYn?format=jpg&name=medium

Will those image links work? Or is Twitter too weird?

Ashley P., I was fully there for Carter circa 1975. He was, and is, a solid human. P

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-3TabrzA70

Happy Birthday, Captain Trips! Here I am with Jerry Garcia, backstage @remhq in 1989. Jerry was born 80 years ago today, but he seemed apart from time - he just was. And is still, I imagine, somewhere only a dimension away. Bless you, Mr G ♥️🎸♌️ pic.twitter.com/uLbyrVcLgH

— Robyn Hitchcock (@RobynHitchcock) August 1, 2022

Added value being that it happened backstage at an REM show. Too bad Jerry didn't join them for some sweet noodling on "Harborcoat" or something.

holy shit jerry is a year younger than me in that photo and looks 70

Jerry was the American Keith Richards

Don’t you ever fucking tell me the United States doesn’t produce the best bowlers. pic.twitter.com/QKOco3bXeG

— Super 70s Sports (@Super70sSports) August 3, 2022

Little Steven, PeeWee, and Weird Al

Added value being that it happened backstage at an REM show. Too bad Jerry didn't join them for some sweet noodling on "Harborcoat" or something.

Hitchcock's FB post with that pic had a bit more text. Love what Garcia said to him:

I met Jerry and his junior accomplice Bob Weir only once, in Oakland Colosseum. One of his daughters had drawn my work to his attention, and he appeared to have enjoyed the set that The Egyptians and I played that night. “Yeah, man, I could walk all over your music…” was his comment.

I guess he meant that he would enjoy soloing over Hitchcock's compositions?

Yeah, man

Didn’t they open for the dead a few times, presumably after that?

Charles-Marie Widor, Ferruccio Busoni, Isidor Philipp

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/44/Charles-Marie_Widor%2C_Ferruccio_Busoni%2C_Isidor_Philipp.jpg

I'm listening to Busoni's piano concerto and there's a bit that sounds very much like the Toccata from Widor's 5th organ symphony, so I googled "busoni widor" - - I got a picture of them together at the Restaurant Foyot, Place de l'Odéon, Paris, ca. 1910 - -

Fascinating, I'm sure, to all that frequent this thread - -

Natty dressers, one and all.

Fur collar bros

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OUa-BL-c8oA/VMLYnbjheKI/AAAAAAAAOvc/ukvWHKaA-ng/s1600/tangerine_dream_salvador_dali.jpg

Dali, Tangerine Dream. they used to play his garden parties apparently

With bust of Dali scuplted by Edgar Froese.

"holy shit jerry is a year younger than me in that photo and looks 70"

It's off-topic, but this is John Thaw in the first episode of The Sweeney, pointing a gun at Brian Blessed:
https://www.anorakzone.com/sweeney/ringer.jpg

That's an example of "famous people together that you would have expected to be together" because Brian Blessed was in everything.

But how old was John Thaw in that episode? How old?

33! People aged faster back then.

He'd have actually been 32.

Picard was 48 in the first series of st:tng

Natty dressers, one and all.

Here's Busoni glowering defiantly from the shadows in another really big coat.

https://www.rodoni.ch/busoni/zurigo/immagini/busoni1.jpg

Busoni and Sibelius

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-6SUvuZ5XEIs/WdjtsyFMa4I/AAAAAAAAIDU/UdzvEScBgkwGYX5R-1kDw4mMbhX-QPVYQCK4BGAYYCw/s1600/sibelius%2Band%2Bbusoni.jpg

could probably do with one of those coats this winter

33! People aged faster back then.

iirc Thaw was a catastrophic alcoholic, which won't have helped matters

I learn that he was 44 when he started playing Inspector Morse:
https://archivetvmusings.files.wordpress.com/2016/01/jericho-03.jpg

That's actually younger than me. As you point out he was a raging alcoholic with depressive tendencies. He died age 60 in 2002, outliving his dad by only five years:
https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/morse-more-sad-more-angry-than-you-ever-knew-20041111-gdk382.html

And hey, an actual on-topic picture, from the late 1960s:
https://preview.redd.it/x3eo8ykfa1q81.jpg?width=640&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=12043fb95fcbf3e2a54bb11e595262e6fe64b33b

Apparently Redcap took over the slot vacated by The Avengers, thus the photoshoot. Whichever casting person unearthed Diana Rigg deserved a raise:
https://preview.redd.it/hzwc2xkfa1q81.jpg?width=600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=de2b688ae3a03c842d3383a26f27fbf9973a715f

Troy Kennedy Martin wrote 7 of the 26 episodes

(xp) He's 24 in that photo. Some people are just older looking than their years, plus he was prematurely grey, which didn't help.

John Denver looks surprisingly imposing with the beard. My advice is to intentionally walk him and pitch to Alice Cooper. pic.twitter.com/pAW4D8rtTV

— Super 70s Sports (@Super70sSports) August 23, 2022