‘Beatles to Bowie’ exhibition in London from October 15

An exhibition of more than 100 previously unseen images of stars from Jimi Hendrix to the Beatles are set to go on display in a National Portrait Gallery exhibition celebrating the music and fashion of the Swinging Sixties.

The exhibition titled ‘Beatles to Bowie: The 60s Exposed’ runs from October 15 to January 24 in London. It will also feature pictures of the Rolling Stones, The Kinks, The Who and Cliff Richard.

The display will illustrate how tastes have changed over the decade, with the clean-cut Shadows and Dave Clark Five giving way to the psychedelia of Pink Floyd and the androgynous appeal of David Bowie.

The exhibition will include a photograph of Hendrix during a visit to London in 1967, and a series of pictures of the Beatles shot for the cover of Boyfriend magazine in 1963, both taken by the photographer Fiona Adams.

Cecil Beaton’s portrait of Scott Walker is another image on public display for the first time.

There will also be a rare group shot captioned ‘Million Dollar Poppets’ in which female stars Cilla Black and Lulu pose alongside Marianne Faithfull and Elkie Brooks, amongst others.

“This exhibition will show how, in the 1960s, music changed the world – and how Britain was the central axis of new popular culture,” the Telegraph quoted Sandy Nairne, director of the National Portrait Gallery, as saying.
(ANI)