The top mistakes in Almost Famous http://www.moviemistakes.com/film45 en Sat, 04 Oct 2008 05:55:01 +0000 240 Toward the end where the guitarist comes to talk to the kid at his house. He turns the chair around to sit in it backwards, but throws the shirt down onto the ground. When he sits down the shirt is back on the chair. 239 It's 1969 and William Miller is looking through a bunch of very awesome vinyl records that his sister has given him, including stuff from Cream, Jimi Hendrix, and Bob Dylan. In the stash is Joni Mitchell's Blue. This is a mistake, since Blue did not come out until 1971. 12123 The airplane that Penny Lane is on has small vertical stabilizers on the wingtips, which were not designed into commercial jets until the early 90's. 241 When Russell and William are walking together to "find something real" the VW bus containing the "real Topeka people" drives by behind them 2 times over their left shoulder before pulling up to them a third time on the right side. 248 Penny Lane picks up William to go see Stillwater at the Riot Club in L.A.  In the very beginning of the scene in her car, a reflection passes up the windshield over William's face as they are driving.  The Reflection is the prism and spectrum from Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon" album.  There are no other reflections in this scene.