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Event

Exhibition

Suitable for

All

Starts

Saturday 08 May 2010

Ends

Sunday 05 September 2010

Time

Normal opening times

Cost

Normal museum admission

Situated

Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery

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Beatles to Bowie: the 60s exposed

Saturday 8 May - Sunday 5 September 2010


This major exhibition explores the leading pop music personalities who helped create 'Swinging London' in the 1960s. Over 150 photographs, together with a range of memorabilia, illustrate how the photographic image, music and performance made these popstars the leading icons of their time.

The Beatles by Robert Whitaker, 1964
Robert Whitaker Archive
© Robert Whitaker

Featuring key pop cultural figures the exhibition begins in 1960 with hit groups such as The Shadows and The John Barry Seven. As the decade progressed, early portraits of singers such as Cliff Richard, Adam Faith and Billy Fury were followed by those of bands such as The Kinks and The Who.

Huge cultural and social changes were reflected in the styles and imagery of the pop music scene. The classic rivalry between The Beatles and The Rolling Stones is played out visually by a variety of top photographers such as David Bailey, Gered Mankowitz and Robert Whitaker, who helped create and endorse their changing images.

From pure pop, through psychedelia and the birth of progressive music, Beatles to Bowie explores the dramatic developments of pop music and culture, and their lasting impact that continues to live in the memory today.

Beatles to Bowie: the 60s exposed is curated by the National Portrait Gallery’s Curator of Photographs, Terence Pepper. 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.

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