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# Join This Man on His Quest to Discover He's Actually in the Crowd in an Old Magazine Photo

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## Melissa Locker


Oct 21, 2019 5:33 PM UTC

by 

[Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/)


## Melissa Locker


Oct 21, 2019 5:33 PM UTC

A Rolling Stones fan got the ultimate surprise while perusing an old [music](https://time.com/5626958/music-creative-thinking/) magazine—he was in the photos.

A man known online as The Rear Admiral, a writer and sports radio host for _Barstool Sports_, lived out a music lover’s dream and shared the entire story on Twitter. It all started when his wife picked up the May 2008 issue of _Uncut_ magazine because it featured Led Zeppelin on the cover and she knew he likes the band. The issue also happened to feature a review of Martin Scorsese’s 2008 [Rolling Stones](https://time.com/4521489/rolling-stones-album/) film _Shine a Light_. That caught his interest, because he had been at the Beacon Theater when the film was recorded.

So he took a closer look at the photos that accompanied the article and decided they looked awfully familiar. He then pulled out his own photos from the show and realized that the magazine’s photographer had been at the same show. He looked a little closer and realized that he was in the pictures in the magazine, standing right there in the front row watching Mick Jagger and Keith Richards strut their stuff. It was a wild coincidence, especially for a [music](https://time.com/5254381/listening-to-music-health-benefits/) fan, and, as he wrote on Twitter, “Can’t even begin to calculate the odds on this happening.” It was almost as if as the Rolling Stones once sang, “the hands of fate” were involved.

> [](https://twitter.com/RearAdBsBlog/status/1186010626755383299)

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