Frank Zappa fans; your attention please...

ChuckManual

So... I was watching a documentary I'd recorded ages ago (about Rock & Roll guitarists from the 1950's) and a clip featuring Bo Diddley came on, from a 1966 TV music programme called The Big TNT Show, and there was a quick cutaway shot of the audience.

Look who snuck in...

EricTheWeary

Phil Silvers? 

ChuckManual

...and Gail from Coronation Street, yes.

But who else...?

danishbacon

Awesome! 

blobb

Sassafras

It's Tom Wrigglesworth. He's hardly aged a day.

Johnnyseven

Looks like Carl Wilson at the front too.

p90fool

... and Motorhead Sherwood, bottom left. 

Funkfingers

Looks like James Jamerson and Ella Fitzgerald, towards the back. 

merlin

Graeme Garden

DulcetJones

Actually, it's not a stretch that Frank Zappa would be at something like that, he loved a lot of types of music including older blues.  He had Johnny Guitar Watson sit in on a couple of tracks on the "One Size Fits All" album.  Not saying the photo is authentic or not, just sayin' in general.

Philtre

Good find!

Philly_Q

EricTheWeary said:

Phil Silvers? 

I think it's actually a young Josh Brolin disguised as Phil Silvers.

With Charles Hawtrey just to the right of him, in front of James Jamerson.

The whole picture's like a low-rent Sgt Pepper cover.

mbe

Martyn Feldman to the right of Sergeant Bilko 

Funkfingers

Apparently, the Big TNT Show was a cheapskate imitation of The T.A.M.I. Show with numerous featured acts. One of these was the Ike & Tina Turner  review band. FZ definitely attended. It may be interesting to compare and contrast Ike and Frank’s facial hair.

Flanging_Fred

Velma from Scooby Doo...

fandango

Helen Reddy in the back row with her hands in the air?

A young Warren Cuccarullo looking at the back of the police officer (who’s name is Butzis)?

I could go on.....

Funkfingers

Is the woman, half way up the left hand side of the photograph, in the black and grey clothing, actually the Internet Troll Face in drag?

jonnyburgo

Never seen this before! I think the guy at the front in the black shirt may be Ian Underwood

Sassafras

Paul Nuttall claimed to be at that gig. He says that's where he formed his lifelong friendship with Buzz Aldrin.

Litterick

The  Baader-Meinhof Gang, David Byrne, Brian Wilson in drag, the Modern Jazz Quartet, Yo La Tengo and Beattie from the Telecom ads; the conspiracy theorists were right.