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From Eric Idle's Bluesky: "Fifty years since I met the lovely couple on my right. A life changing encounter. Thanks Liv for your love and friendship and not minding when George mortgaged your house and stuck it on a bleedin Python movie!"

“Terry Gilliam (another and inexplicable love at first sight) was with me the night in May 1975 when we attended the first screening of Monty Python and the Holy Grail at the old Directors Guild building on Sunset. I think I knew George was supposed to be coming, and was slightly anxious and even unsure about meeting him, as I had heard what a raving fan he was, but I was blown away when he appeared at the end in the darkened cinema, and hugged me and launched straight into the first of many intense conversations, which began as monologues and then, as I grew confident and emboldened to interrupt and share my thoughts, became long and deep conversations about everything in our universe: life, death, love, the nature of religion; hours of sharing and ‘catching up’ as he called it, as if he too felt he’d known me before, and his apothegms and memories and jives and rants enlivened my life for almost thirty years. We had retired to the projection room to smoke a jay and were finally kicked out of there and went off to A&M Studios […]. We then went on to the Beverly Wilshire Hotel, where I was staying, and talked and talked and talked, oh my God how he could talk. This was the quiet one! He never shut up. Thank God.” - Eric Idle, The Greedy Bastard Diary

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The Young Generation 1972

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Vicki Hodge 1972

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Cosmopolitan January 1972

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Bowie fans waiting for a concert at Fairfield Halls in Croydon, England, June 24th, 1973. Photos by Frazer Ashford

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Barbie Lewis / Penthouse Pet of the Month, July 1974

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Barbara Nielsen 1972

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Anya Taylor-Joy 2020s

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American soul singer Madeline Bell, UK, January 1972. She performs with the pop group Blue Mink

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Adam Magazine January 1972

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Counterculture Art 1969

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Katya Clover

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So we pivot. And we find a way. And we keep going.

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Earl Miller - Helen Lang (Penthouse 1976)

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Clive Arrowsmith - Pirelli Calendar (1991)

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Chiara Samugheo - Sonia Otero (Playmen 1981)