This small exhibition is currently taking place just upstairs from ‘Beatles To Bowie’ at London’s National Portrait Gallery and is a review of images of Twiggy to celebrate her 60th birthday.
It starts with the iconic photograph which propelled her to stardom, when, at the age of 16, a magazine editor sent her to have her [...]
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Bluesology
Hear Elton John singing ‘Come Back Baby’, a 1965 single, with Bluesology here:
Bluesology are chiefly remembered today as the first band to feature Elton John - then known as Reg Dwight - who played keyboards with them from the tender age of 14. Originally named the Corvettes, they formed part of the new wave of [...]
Sixties Happenings - Beatles To Bowie
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 [...]
Sugar Pie DeSanto
Watch Suger Pie DeSanto perform ‘Rock Me Baby’ in the UK in 1964:
Born Umpeylia Balinton in Brooklyn, New York, in 1935, Sugar Pie DeSanto was nicknamed ‘Little Miss Sugar Pie’ by bandleader Johnny Otis when she made her first recording with him in 1955. An amazing R’n’B singer, her single ‘I Want To Know’ was [...]