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Greatest number of legends per square inch
Posted by David Hepworth on 12 June 2009 - 2:39pm.
Came across this picture packed with great poets the other day. They are (from left) Louis MacNeice, Ted Hughes, T.S. Eliot, W.H Auden and Stephen Spender.
It made me wonder - which informal snap features the most impressive line-up of bona fide legends? I'm not talking about set-up shots like Band Aid or the Stars of MGM. I'm talking about accidental line-ups of people seen "sharing a joke", gripping and grinning at a wedding or falling out of a cab. The greatest number of proper legends wins.
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Solvay conference :I know this doesn't count
as you wanted one where they were having a gasper
but look at the picture at the bottom and see how many people on the list have a scientifc rule or concept named after them! Oh and no it's William Not Billy Bragg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solvay_Conference
3 aces beats...
Hmmm...
Doesn't the "You take the good-looking one. I'll get the drinks." thread cover this sort of thing already or is it too low-brow?
Heppo's getting on PM
he forgets things
6:30 since you ask
Million dollar quartet
Not a bad line up
keep stalling at three
Peter Sellers 50th Birthday Jam
Sellers, Joe Cocker, and Keith Moon also jamming are out of shot
But you still get, Wyman, Wood, Bobby Keyes and Bowie
ahem
Hmmm
Not really an "accidental line-up", is it?
Ahh yes
This is the problem with trying to concentrate on reading the Blog whilst being constantly distracted by work. Still a cool pic though.
And outside the world of Applied Englocentrics
There are only two legends in that picture anyway (Bobby Charlton and Gordon Banks).
bit harsh on bobby moore
the kaiser rated him as did that chap from brazil name escapes me. And the other Charlton lad never has to buy a drink in Ireland ever again...
Isn't that Billy Bragg?
Top row, third from left
Isn't that, in fact, Roger Rhyming-Slang?
Sir Roger
is the only legend in that photo.
Bowie's' Last Supper' - Following Ziggy's Retirement Gig
Aynsley Dunbar, Lou Reed, Mick Jagger, David Bowie, Jeff Beck & Mick Ronson.
Ringo Starr, Lulu, Angie Bowie, David Bowie & Cat Stevens
Not informal but worth a peep
John Lennon, Eric Clapton, Keith Richards (relegated to bass), Mitch Mitchell
Miming too
Allegedly...
What? Miming?
Tell me more. This is one of my favourite rock n roll performances, but I have a sick need to have my illusions shattered.
Do you mean the whole performance was mimed to a pre-recorded track? Or do you mean Keith's bass isn't plugged in and a session musician is playing behind the curtain?
How about this one?
Jimi Hendrix, Cat Stevens, Gary Leeds of the Walker Brothers and Engelbert Humperdink.
Is Engelbert...
...actually wearing a rubber Engelbert mask there?
Quality not Quantity
Elvis in the doorway, Lennon in white trousers
How about this?
Jimmy Greaves, Sean Connery, Yul Brynner, Bobby Moore
I enitrely prepared to believe
this is how Danny and Benny liked to relaxed at home. (plus they've choppped off some of the beverly sisters)!
And this
Clark Gable, Van Heflin, Gary Cooper and James Stewart. Looking good, boys!
Just some old friends arguing about the bill for
the steak and patatas in swedidh hotel.
Brown noser of the day
There's five on the homepage you know, and I don't mean Al Koooper and his friends, though that could be one too I suppose.
Caption Quiz
That one in the Mag a few months back with Brucie and Kenny Lynch. I haven't thought this through,have I ?
these three are historic
as well as legends
At the risk of looking a fool...
....is that Amstrong, Aldrin and Collins or the blokes out of the Fast Show?
right on the first account
just some regular guys drinking beer while their wifes make tuna bake indoors and then they fly to the moon. courtesy of excellent life archive
The Unrecognisable Famous
Is Neil Armstrong the most famous person in the world that no one knows what he looks like?
(or is it Kendo Nagasaki?)
god love Kendo
but I fear his "fame" is fairly local and dwindling by the day, I think a more global hidden famous type is Darth Vader/green cross code man name escapes me?
posed but...
does Malcolm MacDowell count as 3?
I don't know whether this qualifies, but...
Standing from,left to right: Jacques Lacan, Cecile Eluard, Pierre Reverdy, Luoise Leiris, Pablo Picasso, Zanie de Campan, Valentine Hugo, Simone de Beauvoir, Brassaï. Sitting from left to right: Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus, Michel Leiris, Jean Aubier.
A tip of the chapeau
if you recognised all of 'em without a crib sheet.
I've only even *heard* of 9 of 'em!
I hadn't heard of all of them...
but those I had heard of make up a fairly large number!
I googled this as I had a vague memory of seeing this photo and being surprised by how many legendary folk there were in the same room.
Et le chien?
Comment s'appelle-t-il?
C'est Barc Chagall peut-être?
Thomas Hardy (deceased) and friends
I've been trying to find a photo of Thomas Hardy's funeral service. His pall bearers included Rudyard Kipling, George Bernard Shaw, J.M. Barrie, A.E. Houseman, Stanley Baldwin and Ramsay McDonald. And plenty of or A-list slebs, such as Virginia Woolf,were in the congregation.
Unfortunately the big cheesy group photo they took afterwards, when Kipling did "bunny ears" on Baldwin's head and G.B.S. threw gang signs, has been lost to historians. All I could find was this:
So. Not very impressive after all. As you were.
Amazing
I didn't know that. Goes down as one of the great missed photo opps.
"O.K." magazine special feature
Having checked here - http://tinyurl.com/m6euph - I should mention that another of the pall bearers was Jon Galsworthy, Nobel prize-winning author of "The Forsyte Saga". You know you've made it when a Nobel prize winner is amongst the lesser known of your pall bearers.
Virginia Woolf, John Masefield, Walter de la Mare, Arnold Bennett - just some of the names on a glittering guest list!
Are these informal enough?
("Kim Weston takes the lead while Berry Gordy accompanies her on the piano and Marvin Johnson, next to Gordy, claps while Little Stevie Wonder, Smokey Robinson and others provide backup in a Motown session from the mid-1960s.")
Bloody hell, Bowie looks skeletal in that photo...
good thing the Berlin-based healthy living regime was just around the corner...
And can I also say this: Paul Simon, nice moustache mate. Suits ya.
Dame moment.
I can't be sure if this is the actual moment. But I read about the Dame around about this time asking his Pa if it could be arranged for David to have his pic taken with Simon & Garfunkel. His Pa had to gently let him know that he had taken a pic with them just a little while ago! Party on dude....
1965 San Francisco...
Robbie Robertson, Michael McLure, Bob Dylan and Allen Ginsberg, behind City Lights Books, San Francisco.
We have a winner
Clockwise from left: The Queen, Brian Blessed, Lionel Messi, Mark Ellen, Mahatma Gandhi, Joseph Stalin, Marilyn Monroe, Abi Titmuss, Oscar the Grouch.
Ah, the Pepper approach, Fraser...
Nicely done!
My class of 11-12 year olds are studying the 1960's this term. I set them the task of making their own Sgt Pepper type cover, with cut-outs of all their heroes. The list of people they used is, well, weird. Sonic the Hedgehog. Steve Irwin. Katie and Peter. A whole load of mediocre R'n'B acts. And... Jeff Stelling, in his Countdown role.
No more heroes any more. Stelling's our only hope now.
Crowley
was still in there, wasn't he?
he's everywhere, usually
Listen to what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law...
Evil legends
Crowley was there in spirit - they chose Katie and Peter, remember.
The winner is...
http://www.harlem.org/
'Great day in harlem', more legends than you ever thought possible!
Not very informal, is it?
Took some organising I would say.
a little, yes
From my experience of touring, and of project management, the complexity of transporting people and organising departure from point A at time X rises with the square of the number of people involved. 1 person = complexity level 1, 5 people is 25 therefore twenty-five times more difficult, etc. You also have to factor in that musicians (including me) drop half their IQ when they believe that "someone is in charge".
So organising this photo, at a time of day which few of those included will have seen for some years, was on a par with the moon landings.
"I never knew there were two
"I never knew there were two ten o'clocks...."
Fair point
I think I must have skipped the 'informal' bit in your post although pretty much all celeb photos will be at some kind of formal gathering. You are hardly like to bump into a group of genuine legends propping up the bar at your local.
Of course then there's this
Look at the choppers
on Bomber!
Ooh look. There's the
Ooh look. There's the alcoholic, alleged 'wife' beating Andy Kershaw too. Whatever happened to him?
he became a source
(sauce?) of fish puns
You couldn't hake it up...
Always worth a look at old Radio 1 group photos...
...if only to spot Party Boy Peel...
Ooh look. There's Paul
Ooh look. There's Paul Gambaccini dreaming of the day he'll meet Limahl (snigger!).
When will the Simon Bates skeletons come out ?
That Marlon Brando - what a ligger...
Rock Hudson, Cary Grant, Marlon Brando, Gregory Peck.
Charlton Heston, Judy Garland, Eartha Kitt, Marlon Brando.
Bob Hope, Bette Davis, Marlon Brando, Grace Kelly, Edward O'Brien(?)
I once saw...
I was at a Van Morrison gig in Dublin about 15 years ago and during Gloria, Bono came on the stage. For the next song the on stage throng has also been populated by Elvis Costello, Chrissie Hynde, Steve Winwood and Bob Dylan. I think maybe Carole King as well, I now can't remember.
There was a photo in Q at the time, if anyone can source it.
(The internet tells me it was 6th Feb 1993.)
I can't find that particular shot...
...but here's one of Bono, Elvis and some bloke regardless.
Can't be Bono :->
That can't be him without his trademark sunglasses, surely ?
Was this one taken before he got the tattoo on his forehead ?
The Last Waltz ?
Gotta be some photos floating about
Charles Lindbergh & Neil Armstrong
Not as impressive as a photograph of Alcock & Brown meeting Yuri Gagarin would be, but you can't have everything.
Unless that's Amelia Earhart
in the middle
Peter Sellers & Stan Laurel
From the excellent...
Iconic Photos blog comes this shot of the Fifth Solvay International Conference in October 1927: a veritable 'Who's Who' of early 20th century physics, 17 of the 29 attendees had, or went on to win, a Nobel Prize (Curie and Einstein should be easy enough to spot).
Also from the Iconic Photos blog...
...is this pic of the Allahakbarries C.C. cricket team, including P.G. Wodehouse, Arthur Conan Doyle and J.M. Barrie.
Iconic Photos
Boring question amongst the brilliant photos
This is one of my favourite threads ever.
Can anyone suggest why lots of the photos I posted have disappeared? I think it's to do with my Divshare account, which seems to have deleted lots of items.
Has anyone else found this? Is Divshare unstable in some way? Is there an alternative which is superior?
I don't know about Divshare...
...but Pict.com has never let me down.