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

looking confused, murmuring "this is not my beautiful house..."

This photoset might be famous but I've never seen it before. Claudia Cardinale and Frank Zappa.

https://somecamerunning.typepad.com/.a/6a00e5523026f58834017743f40fc4970d-800wi

whoa that's a great one

People older than me probably know this, but there are two Debbie Harry music videos directed by and co-starring H.R. Giger.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOhHmlpg-9k

I didn't know that, so thank you!

He designed the cover for that solo album iirc

yeah, the kebab skewers looked familiar, hadn't seen the videos though. and the second one was none-more-goth in looks, but aor musically

(the second one - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbIfKQTY50I )

Chris Stein talks about how he and Debbie met Giger and they became friends, leading to Giger's work for them, here:

https://sva.edu/features/blondie-co-founder-chris-stein-on-working-with-h-r-giger-and-his-sva-days

https://i.imgur.com/T5WjT20.png

MJ, Seagal, Andy Lau

unexpected, but does not make me happy

https://flic.kr/p/2pM2f29

Stiv Bators and Little Jackie Wright from Benny Hill, onstage at a Dead Boys/Cheetah Chrome double headline in NYC 1980.

https://statesidemadness.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/snl_madness_clarapeller.jpg?w=640

Clara "Where's The Beef?" Pellar and Madness, shortly after appearing on the same episode of SNL in 1984.

https://statesidemadness.com/2020/11/08/madness-on-saturday-night-live-wheres-the-band/

Amy Winehouse and Danny DeVito

Actor Danny DeVito and singer Amy Winehouse attend day 1 of the Coachella Music Festival held at the Empire Polo Field in Indio, California (2007) pic.twitter.com/azp5oaoud7

— Great British Getty Images (@shitbritishpics) April 30, 2024

Keith Moon with Abba

Keith Moon & Abba. pic.twitter.com/IT3Wrlyd5t

— Danny Baker (@prodnose) December 8, 2019

i'd love to see dudley moore and dustin hoffman together

pic.twitter.com/F5bZFfvEUA

— DrPopCulture (@DrPopCultureUSA) May 9, 2024

https://www.instagram.com/p/C6P2aXkOwLk/?igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

Halle Berry and Frank Robinson, 2003:

https://i.postimg.cc/SRH7jWt1/frank.jpg

I guess this shouldn't be all that surprising--Berry had been married to David Justice a few years earlier--but generationally there's a disconnect for me there.

Huey Lewis, various members of Jefferson Starship and the Residents.

https://media.newyorker.com/photos/590978dcebe912338a378106/master/w_2560%2Cc_limit/081013_r17825_p646.jpg

Oops that's Karlheinz Stockhausen, here's Huey Lewis, various members of Jefferson Starship and the Residents.

https://dangerousminds.net/content/uploads/images/hueylewisandtheresidentsfeaturinggraceslickccccccc.jpeg

tbf though, not only are Jefferson Starship and the Residents both San Francisco bands but the Residents appeared in Jefferson Starship video...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqLnVgR7fLw

it's probably already been posted on this thread at some point, but here's the Residents with Conway Twitty

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/-vlFDxyckKc/hqdefault.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEmCOADEOgC8quKqQMa8AEB-AH-BIAC4AOKAgwIABABGGUgWShFMA8=&rs=AOn4CLBdcKDMJ7OJQkJgFrprhC9KQ7hlOQ

https://www.brooklynvegan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/22/Screen-Shot-2020-04-08-at-11.40.40-AM-1052x591.png?t=1715360333

oh, and David Sandborn on the saxophone - I'd forgotten he was there as well