London’s National Portrait Gallery is celebrating the 50th anniversary since the start of the Sixties with ‘Beatles To Bowie: The 60s Exposed’, an exhibition of 150 photographs of the personalities and groups who made the Sixties swing.

The exhibition, which runs from 15th October 2009 to 24th January 2010 and features over 100 images that have never been exhibited in public before, will include rare portraits of the Beatles, David Bowie, Jimi Hendrix and the Rolling Stones. Featured photographers include Philip Townsend, Gered Mankowitz, Cecil Beaton, Angus McBean, Terry O’Neill, Don McCullin and David Bailey.

The exhibition will be arranged chronologically in ten sections, covering each year of the decade, and will also house 150 items of ephemera, such as record sleeves, magazines and illustrated sheet music.

Twiggy will make an appearance in the form of an Adel Rootstein mannequin in the Pop Meets Fashion section of the exhibition and also in a concurrent Gallery display of portrait photographs, ‘Twiggy: A Life In Photographs’ in Room 33 (19th September 2009 to 24th March 2010).

Admission to ‘Beatles To Bowie’ costs £11 (free for Gallery Supporters). Advance booking is advised and concessions are available. For more information, please visit www.npg.org.uk.

And if you live in Newcastle or Norwich, you’ll be pleased to hear that ‘Beatles To Bowie: The 60s Exposed’ will be displayed at the Laing Art Gallery in Newcastle upon Tyne from 6th February to 18th April 2010 and the Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery from 8th May to 5th September 2010.