The Art Institute of Chicago, 111 South Michigan Avenue
London
15 October 2009 - 24 January 2010
Beatles to Bowie explores the leading pop music personalities who helped create ‘Swinging London' in the 1960s.
Bringing together 150 photographs, together with a range of memorabilia, the exhibition evocatively illustrates 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.
Highlighting key pop cultural figures from each year of this remarkable decade, the exhibition includes classic images of groups such as The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Kinks and The Who as well as early portraits of singers such as Cliff Richard, Billy Fury, Marianne Faithful, Jimi Hendrix and David Bowie
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