16.03.10
Beatles to Bowie: the 60s exposed
The Beatles by Robert Whitaker, 1964 Robert Whitaker Archive © Robert Whitaker
Rare portraits of The Beatles, David Bowie, Jimi Hendrix and The Rolling Stones will be on show at Norwich Castle in a major exhibition organised by the National Portrait Gallery.
Beatles to Bowie: the 60s exposed heralds the fiftieth anniversary of the start of the 1960s. Celebrating the leading pop music personalities and groups who helped create “Swinging London”, the exhibition shows how The Beatles and rivals like The Rolling Stones and The Kinks set the musical agenda.
150 photographs and memorabilia including record sleeves, illustrated sheet music and magazines, are on display arranged in ten chronological sections covering each year of the decade.
There are classic images as well as over 100 previously unseen or un-exhibited: The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Kinks and The Who plus early portraits of singers such as Cliff Richard, Billy Fury, Marianne Faithfull, Jimi Hendrix and David Bowie. Beatles to Bowie reveals how image, music, fashion and performance combined to make these musicians the leading icons of their time and London the world’s most important cultural capital.
A fully illustrated book by Terence Pepper and Jon Savage accompanies the exhibition, featuring over 300 images.
Exhibition organised by the National Portrait Gallery. Norfolk Museums & Archaeology Service gratefully acknowledges the generous support of East Anglia Art Fund in association with Aquaterra Energy Ltd.
www.museums.norfolk.gov.uk
Norwich Castle
Shirehall
Market Avenue,
Norwich NR1 3JQ
01603 493625/495897
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