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

I don't think there's a photo of it, but when she won her Spoken Word Grammy, Secret Service shoved off the still-speaking Keb Mo away from the mic in the Grammy pressroom so she could come in and deliver a pithy soundbite zing before heading out into the night.

Ok, not a photo but didn’t expect this. Nor did John judging by his reaction.

I like living in a world where songs by the @mountain_goats go viral. Good job, Internet.

— Lynda Carter 🎃 (@RealLyndaCarter) October 26, 2021

No, not you! The Exorcist lady!

No that’s Wonder Woman! Not Linda Blair.

Linda Blair rides hard for Archers of Loaf, iirc.

And Red Cross.

Or Redd Kross, whatever.

It's Sid James visiting George Lazenby on the set of On Her Majesty’s Secret Service of course. pic.twitter.com/rWxNigiM9o

— Steve O'Brien (@MrsSteveMOBrien) October 30, 2021

reminds me of this still from Hell Drivers (1957), which also featured William Hartnell, Gordon Jackson and David McCallum. what a cast!

https://i.imgur.com/5JrDMG8.jpg

... and not forgetting the actual top billed actors, Stanley Baker, Herbert Lom and Peggy Cummins! Also Jill Ireland's in it too.

yeah, i've mentioned hell drivers before - a doctor who, a james bond, a man from uncle, a professional, the prisoner, a ladykiller, various carry-ons

In a night of nothing but highlights, having Paul McCartney say to me “us bassists have to stick together” as we took the photo, then be so easy to talk to was the memory of a lifetime!! #GoGosRockHall pic.twitter.com/aTdiIJPTyo

— Kathy Valentine (@Kathy_Valentine) October 31, 2021

Let it Belinda

Drive My Carlisle

Long and Wiedlin Road

Schock & Roll Music

Beauty and the... well, you know

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wxdtq1NpGI

She should have answered "We bassists."

Kanye West brings Marilyn Manson, Justin Bieber to Halloween Sunday Service https://t.co/ZHV3d55Cr1 pic.twitter.com/IsepnKtko2

— Stereogum (@stereogum) October 31, 2021

Lock it!

Sorry, wrong thread

Not sure I would have NEVER expected this grouping, but not with tennis rackets.

This is a whole mood: Olivia Newton-John, Helen Reddy, Minnie Riperton, and Linda Ronstadt in 1976 at a Rock n Roll Tennis Festival. pic.twitter.com/3zGNFuksGQ

— Kera Bolonik (@KeraBolonik) November 16, 2021

Rock and Roll Tennis Festival?

I was wondering who won out of those four. It turns out it was doubles match in which Olivia & Helen defeated Minnie & Linda. They should have split up the Australians imo.

Holy shit, there's a wealth:

https://scontent-ort2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.18169-9/61696_148446268687803_1999115315_n.jpg?_nc_cat=110&ccb=1-5&_nc_sid=cdbe9c&_nc_ohc=zmOuikbTi04AX8RduzI&_nc_ht=scontent-ort2-1.xx&oh=b247064857e0e21fc380dcebef2d0c44&oe=61BB4327

(Mickey Dolenz, Olivia, Keith Moon, Mark Volmen of The Turtles).

Alice Cooper would have been there, but he got bad directions and showed up at the wrong tennis club.

I'm sure I've seen that last photo before.... probably in this thread!

I remember this tennis related one

https://www.morrisonhotelgallery.com/images/big/EJ282.jpg

I can't find much about the festival, sort of mysteriously scarce on the internet. Did find this from the L.A. Times, sounds like it was organized by the Eagles. (But it doesn't show up on the Eagles tour itinerary from that year, that I can tell.)

https://i.imgur.com/2zWVBxz.png

Sat here thinking, Helen Reddy is Australian? I thought she was Canadian?

But no, that's Anne Murray.

(That clip is from 9/28/76, a Tuesday, so the festival would have been Oct. 3.)

Ha i thought Keith Moon WAS Alice Cooper in the pic. Those Chuck Taylors are not regulation tennis shoes btw.

sounds like it was organized by the Eagles. (But it doesn't show up on the Eagles tour itinerary from that year, that I can tell.)

I kind of remember this get a very brief mention in the Marc Eliot Eagles bio. Henley had gotten into tennis as a way to exercise his back, and iirc he and Irving Azoff were behind the event using the Eagles' name.

...

DON: Tennis was really blowing up on the international stage in the mid '70s. I enjoyed watching it between shows and during lulls in our recording sessions, but playing it was another thing...there weren't alot of tennis courts up in my corner of Texas. But California is another world, and soon I was on the court and loving it.

GLENN: Hey, I was the TEEN KING, not the TENNIS KING, so obviously I was skeptical about the whole thing. But I rolled out from Coldwater Canyon and hit the club and I became a believer. Those short skirts! All that bouncing! Hey Helen, I'm ready!

DON: Well, yeah.

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/9c/f4/ea/9cf4eaf96ac45dd972f74419d3347a58.jpg

Hey Helen, I'm ready!

lollll

Is that Marc Bolan with Siouxsie Sioux?

Yes.

Something about that camera angle maybe, but Bolan has a Depp vibe (or, rather, the other way round)

I was going to make a joke post about Jack White posing with Jack White.

If you need a picture of George Harrison and Henry Kissinger, then I’ve just the thing for you. pic.twitter.com/DZIFQKwP1f

— Beatles Books Podcast (@BooksBeatles) November 18, 2021

"The meeting was very strange... I told him I was on a promo tour. He asked, "What's the promo? I said, 'Me.' ...

Then he mentioned that he had met another one of the Beatles, but he wasn't sure which one, which was the one with a Japanese wife? 'Oh, it's probably John,' I told him.

He had problems with Immigration. He asked me if I was having problems with Immigration and I replied: 'No, I still live in England.'

(George, in his 1976 meeting with Henry Kissinger. Rolling Stone, December 1976).

"it's probably John"

Clearly allowing for the possibility that Kissinger actually meant to refer to reputed "fifth Beatle" Billy Preston, who was briefly engaged to Kiko Kawashima, current Crown Princess of Japan.

love George's double fairisle combo there

From George to John. Big question is there a photo of Lennon and Reagan together.

John Lennon on Monday Night Football in 1974 💫#JohnLennon #TheBeatles pic.twitter.com/T3mxEhMQdN

— Song A Day / Philosophy Away😊🙏🎶 (@SongsPhilosophy) November 20, 2021

That's excellent.

I didn’t realize the Monday Night Football connection went that far back.

i presume the former engendered the latter to some extent

I thought it was because somebody on the ABC staff had to go to the hospital that night for something thereby getting the scoop.