How many people do you recognise from the cover of 'Band on the run'?

sorry, 'Band on the Run'

Can I ask questions about it here or would that spoil it?

Pretty sure I've got 8, can't place the dude kneeling down.

lol Okay he was who I thought. Didn't recognise him. Knew the other 8.

Top two and bottom three.

Waiting for the similar Back to the Egg thread.

Maybe Pato can start it.

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Thanks to my handy 30th anniversary deluxe edition, ALL OF THEM

back to the egg is at least all wings members, this aint

My boss told me there's a bootleg floating around of just linda from a wing's solo performance thats supposed to be hilarious

http://blogfiles.wfmu.org/KF/2006/03/linda_mccartney.mp3

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Which 2 didn't you know Alex? I'm guessing K____ L____ and J___ C_____ but I'm impressed if you knew C______ F____.

All of them apart from the bloke at the top.

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All of them! What, did you think I'd never seen the cover of Band on the Run before?

Paul

All of them. Then again you would have to have been in the UK back in the 70s to recognise the likes of Clement Freud and Kenny Lynch...

If I would just see the image, I'd recognize 0 of them. But since the URL says it's a Wings record, I assume Paul McCartney must be one of them.

Hold on, is the dude on the far right Kid Coconut?

I got 6 out of 9. I don't recognise the guy in front of Clement Freud, or the guy kneeling, or the guy on the far right. Although I think he's a boxer?

Yes he was.

Tell me "guy in front of Clement Freud" was an unintentional lol too please.

Waiting for the similar Back to the Egg thread.

Maybe Pato can start it.

Shove it up your Mull of Kintyre, PAL.

Holy shit, I thought one of them looked like Christopher Lee, but I didn't realize it actually is him! So it's not just musicians who are on the cover?

As they say in Finland, he who thinks like turtle IS turtle!!

Tell me "guy in front of Clement Freud" was an unintentional lol too please.

Completely unintentional. I just checked on Wikipedia and damn am I embarrassed!

(xxpost) There are actually only three musicians on the cover, or only two if you're feeling mean...

Then again, Christopher Lee has sung on many records, and I'm sure he's actually a better singer than McCartney.

http://www.health-care-training-uk.co.uk/images/challenging%20behaviour.jpg

(xpost) I'm pretty sure that even I'm a better singer than Linda McCartney.

I was talking about Paul McCartney, what does Linda have to do with this?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/d4/DJUN.jpg/180px-DJUN.jpghttp://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/d4/DJUN.jpg/180px-DJUN.jpghttp://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Sabian_AA_10_Splash.jpg/250px-Sabian_AA_10_Splash.jpg

WITH A RIGHT, LEFT, RIGHT LEFT YOU'RE TOOTHLESS
THEN YOU SAY GODDAMN THEY CHALLOPS

Goddamn, those Finnish ILMers are at it again, I wonder who they challoped tonight?
[tyre screech]
You, motherf***er!

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Just bought this as a present for someone and, looking at the sleeve, it confirms something that I've always thought: *Michael Parkinson almost ruins it. WTF is he doing? Everyone else is getting totally in character - look at Denny Laine - and he's standing there with a slight smirk on his face, not looking at the camera and, for no apparent reason, pointing. I always thought he was crap and this helps to confirm it. Oh, and on first glance I thought Linda was Freddie Starr!

(*that's the guy on the far left, for those (happily) unfamiliar with him)

maybe he's pointing a gun at whoever is making them -- the band -- go on the run.

There's a making-of documentary on Youtube (not great overall) that gets into the cover shoot. Apparently the photographer ran into some technical trouble, including just not having enough light to actually take the shot without it being a fairly long exposure - maybe a full second or so. Which is actually pretty tough when you're trying to get nine people to stand still while mugging in weird poses. I suspect he had trouble finding one frame where nobody's hands or faces blurred, nobody blinked, etc. Now for all I know the gun-pointing thing was in all the shots and everybody loved it but I can easily imagine it was a trade-off with something else.

IIRC he also had the wrong kind of film for the kind of lights he was using, but thankfully Paul or somebody liked the look of the colors that resulted.

the photographer writes about it on his blog here: https://clivearrowsmith.org/2014/01/13/band-on-the-run-the-great-wrong-film-debacle/