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

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

Don't think this Alice has been posted yet...

If you didn’t want to see Paul Lynde taking a drag off of Alice Cooper’s lung dart while Elton John smells a flower, well, you’re following the wrong guy. pic.twitter.com/c6IOxGzLcB

— Super 70s Sports (@Super70sSports) September 11, 2022

https://dangerousminds.net/content/uploads/images/03roymarcstan3.jpg

Roy Wood, Marc Bolan, and Stan Lee

From
https://dangerousminds.net/comments/that_time_marc_bolan_interviewed_stan_lee_nuff_said

With Jordan Peele of NOPE. pic.twitter.com/HZQlBXk5tk

— HIDEO_KOJIMA (@HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN) September 15, 2022

Not unexpected but happy:

Duras et Godard

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/1645434.jpg

I would watch a feature length documentary just about Richard Pryor, Burt Reynolds, and Larry Holmes hanging out that night. pic.twitter.com/lRM49LmRDO

— Super 70s Sports (@Super70sSports) September 17, 2022

https://scontent-lax3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/309871383_5217999434989612_3414991955066931879_n.jpg?_nc_cat=104&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=730e14&_nc_ohc=EEvHkCF1FPQAX8dKO8Z&_nc_oc=AQmRRl2NKNYvSlsi-guB7Q-j8yMSD-B-wwpDANCipCU0gaRE2_355tKI3syrxJYcDVITneM3FGtxIBVmDqxoMGGj&_nc_ht=scontent-lax3-1.xx&oh=00_AT_aFZhwlawXvkRfloQs931qCCLA8q0cBBYFK_4nWobhlQ&oe=633E8382

Salvador Dalí and Brian Eno, Paris, 1973

https://www.rareirishstuff.com/_fileUpload/Image/29468310.jpg

Debbie Harry & Rory Gallagher

Now that is a good one.

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2022/oct/05/sid-vicious-sex-pistols-paul-dacre-bob-gruens-best-photograph

xp - I've thought this before but even more after that pic, but Disney should just start using Marc Maron to be the stand-in for the Stan Lee cameos in the MCU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ei8oA0OxMo

Tommy Stinson, Moby, Fred Armisen, Tony Kanal - "I Wanna Be Your Dog"

https://fullinbloom.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/jerryserena-e1664740941209.jpg

Venus & Serena Williams and the current lineup of Alice In Chains

And Gavin Rossdale, I think

My morning brain scramble: Carol Channing, Poly Styrene, and Jackie Collins at the Savoy Hotel for the 1979 Women of the Year luncheon. pic.twitter.com/4wRIHF0Bes

— Nate Lippens (@NateLippens) October 16, 2022