A MAJOR PHOTOGRAPHIC EXHIBITION 'BEATLES TO BOWIE: THE 60s EXPOSED' OPENED 15.OCTOBER AND RUNS THROUGH 24.JANUARY.2010 AT THE NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY, LONDON, TO HERALD THE 50th ANNIVERSARY OF THE START OF THE 1960s IN 2010. CELEBRATING THE LEADING POP MUSIC PERSONALITIES AND GROUPS WHO HELPED CREATE 'SWINGING LONDON' IN THE 1960s, THE EXHIBITION WILL SHOW HOW THE BEATLES AND RIVALS SUCH AS THE ROLLING STONES AND THE KINKS SET THE MUSICAL AGENDA. BRINGING TOGETHER 150 PHOTOGRAPHS AND 150 ITEMS OF EPHEMERA INCLUDING RECORD SLEEVES, ILLUSTRATED SHEET MUSIC AND MAGAZINES, THE EXHIBITION WILL BE ARRANGED CHRONOLOGICALLY IN TEN SECTIONS COVERING EACH YEAR OF THE DECADE. THE EXHIBITION INCLUDES CLASSIC IMAGES, AS WELL AS OVER 100 PREVIOUSLY UNSEEN OR UN-EXHIBITED ONES, OF GROUPS SUCH AS THE BEATLES, THE ROLLING STONES, THE KINKS, AND THE WHO AND EARLY PORTRAITS OF SINGERS SUCH AS CLIFF RICHARD, BILLY FURY, MARIANNE FAITHFUL AND DAVID BOWIE. 'BEATLES TO BOWIE: THE 60s EXPOSED' WILL ILLUSTRATE 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. THE EXHIBITION WILL ALSO SHOW HOW FEMALE BRITISH SINGERS NOT ONLY CREATED MANY POP CLASSICS BUT SERVED AS IMPORTANT ROLE MODELS, PIONEERING AND PROMOTING BRITISH FASHION DESIGNERS, SUCH AS CILLA BLACK AND LULU BEING DRESSED BY THE 21 YEAR OLD CAROLINE CHARLES AND SANDIE SHAW DEVELOPING HER OWN FASHION LINES. 'BEATLES TO BOWIE: THE 60s EXPOSED' WILL ALSO SHOW HOW, AS THE DECADE PROGRESSED, PURE POP WAS REPLACED BY PROGRESSIVE MUSIC AND PSYCHEDELIA BY GROUPS SUCH AS PINK FLOYD. VISITORS WILL BE ABLE TO SEE HOW JOE MEEK'S 'TELSTAR' OPENED THE EXTRAORDINARY DECADE AND MAN'S FIRST STEPS ON THE MOON LED TO THE FIRST HIT RECORD BY DAVID BOWIE WITH 'SPACE ODDITY', PAVING THE WAY FOR HIS DOMINATION, ALONG WITH MARC BOLAN, OF GLAM ROCK IN THE FOLLOWING DECADE.
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