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  1. Didley Squat

    Didley Squat Well-Known Member

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    Something you didn’t see very often, Charlie with a guitar in hand…… could actually be a type of sitar

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    I always thought McQueens good friend Bud Ekins did the famous motorcycle jump over the fence
     
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    To be honest, l can't say whether he did or not.......... a number male stars did their own stunts, Burt Reynolds did them in Deliverance. He said later on in years, that his back was never the same.
     
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    A few more from the Great Escape movie….
    The caption listed is all wrong l reckon…

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    Not sure that is Attenborough in the picture….
    McQueen is on the left.
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    On the right is James Coburn, maybe that's Charles Bronson back middle but I dont think so. Definitely no Dickie Attenborough

    Coburn and McQueen were great friends and Ferraristi - I have many books and records on their cars - James Garner also. Must have been great fun making the Great Escape and the Magnificent Seven as most of them were mates
     
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    Screenshot_20250828_103623_Pinterest(1).jpg 1966 Coburn outside his house in LA with his 250 Lusso (L) and his 250 California Spyder (R). The California was subsequently purchased by annoying ginger Chris Evans
     
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    The Doors……

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    Clapton with his Gibson Les Paul and his Gibson Firebird….. his Gibson SG ‘The Fool’ was not included here.
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    ‘The Fool’

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    Keef, playing a Gibson Firebird with a reversed headstock…..

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    Dornier DO-17 “Flying Pencil “

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    Can you name, names?

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    Steve Millar turns 82 this week. Boz Scaggs was a member of his band for a while.
    ( seated at front )

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    Not done too bad for a smoker
    A joker
    And a midnight toker
     
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    That’s cause he Took The Money & Ran.
    Probably on a big Jet Airliner.
     
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    Steve McQueen, William Russell (on tv he was in Sir Lancelot and Dr Who), Tom Adams and James Coburn.

    As @WBA2_QPR3 says, no Richard Attenborough and no Charles Bronson
     
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