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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Sixties Happenings - Beatles To Bowie
7 September, 2009 – 9:16 am
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 [...]
David Bowie and the Lower Third
19 June, 2009 – 11:33 am
Listen to David Bowie and the Lower Third performing ‘Can’t Help Thinking About Me’ here:
Now an international star, David Bowie appeared at the Marquee in the early days of his career. Originally working under his real name of David (or Davy) Jones, in the early Sixties, he performed with a number of bands, including, in [...]
Chris Welch’s Memories, Part 3
24 April, 2009 – 3:08 pm
I joined ‘Melody Maker’ in 1964, but before that I used to go to the old Marquee when it was in Oxford Street, which had a bit of a plush jazz vibe, to see people like Johnny Dankworth and Cleo Laine. Then the club moved round the corner into Wardour Street and it became much [...]