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Your Next Photo Obsession: Photo #33

Now that we have ID’ed the elusive “Celebrity No. 6”—nice to meet you, Leticia Sarda!—maybe we should look again at this infamous unknown found at the Library of Congress.

According to a blog post from them, back in 2015, the Nation’s Library acquired a very large collection of film- , TV- , and music-related glossies. The collection came from a retiring vendor whose business was titled Unshredded Nostalgia. This monster collection was 30,000 images strong and fills 36 full-size file cabinets at the Library.

Thankfully, the great majority of them arrived to the Library fully (and correctly) identified. But then…. There were some that needed identifying. Of that original 800 or so “unknowns,” there are only about, now, 15 without a name to go with the face.

And this one has been an especially tough nut to crack. It is from a film? It is two musicians? Is it two men? Or two women? Or one of each?

See the photo, and additional info, here: https://blogs.loc.gov/now-see-hear/2021/11/still-they-haunt-me-an-ongoing-photo-mystery/

So far, it’s known that it is NONE of the following:

39 Clocks

Alannah Myles

Alice Bag

Amanda Plummer

Black Crowes

Bob Geldof

Book of Love

Cichlids, The

Cinderella (Tom Keifer)

David Johansen

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Dio

Dogs d’Amore (Tyla P.)

Donovan

Dweezil Zappa

Dwight Twilly Band

Earl Slick

Edn Ozn

Elizabeth Perkins

Enrique Bunbury

Eve Moon

Face to Face

Faster Pussycat

Frances McDormand

Gargoyle Sox

Gilby Clark

Grace Slick

Hangmen

Hanoi Rocks

Haysi Fantasi

Heart

Holly Hunter

Holly Knight

Ian Hunter

Indigo Girls

Izzy Stradlin

Jacobites

Jamie Lee Curtis

Japan

Jared Leto

Jennifer Grey

Joan Jett

John Waite

Jon Brant

Judith Hoag

Julian Lennon

Julian Lennon

Kaki Hunter

Karla Bonoff

Kings of the Sun

LA Guns

Leo Sayer

Linda Fiorentino

Lisa Mordente

Lords of the New Church

Love & Rockets

Main/Manic Street Preachers

Maplethorp (Patti Smith)

Martha and the Muffins

Martha Davis/The Motels

Mary Stuart Masterson

McGarrigle Sisters

Mia Sara

Michael Des Barres

Mick Rock

Mickey Thomas

Ministry

Mission UK

Modern Lovers

Motels

Nick Zedd

Noel Redding/Mitch Mitchell

Pat Benatar

Pat Metheny

Patti Smith

Paul Caplin

Paul Hardcastle

Peaches

Peter Westerberg

Psychedelic Furs

Randyandy

Richard Hell

Robert Hazard

Rosetta Stone

Rough Trade

Scarlet Fantastic

Scarlett & Black

Sean Young

Shakespears Sister

Sigourney Weaver

Sisters of Mercy (“no” according to biographer)

Slits

Slow Children

Soda Stereo

Sparks

Strawberry Switchblade

Suicide

Susannah Melvoin

Suzi Quatro

Sylvain Sylvain

The Adverts

The Little Girls

The Neon Judgement

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The Throbs

Tik and Tok

Times Square (1980 film)

Tom Keifer

Tom Peterson

T-Rex

Under Neath What (Underneath What)

Vivian Campbell

Waitresses

Wayne Hussey

Wendy and Lisa

X

Guessed but so far unconfirmed or denied:

Aldo Nova

April Wine

Balaam and the Angel

Bobby Boltzer

Claire Shearsby

Corey Feldman

Dead or Alive

Fashion

Jimmy Destri

John Frusciante

Lady Wreckless

Neil Schon

Paul Stanley / KISS

Ratt

Specimen

Steve Vai

Stiff

Sue Saad

Syd Barrett

Talk Talk

The Cramps

The Cut

The Damned

Thrill for Kills

Tu

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