I wanted to be one of the first to see the new photographic exhibition, ‘Beatles To Bowie: The 60s Exposed’, which opened at London’s National Portrait Gallery this week – and I wasn’t disappointed. Even those who think they must have seen every pop photograph taken in the Sixties will find something new here, as [...]
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Sixties Happenings - Remembering John Lennon
24 July, 2009 – 12:38 pm
The Beatles Story Pier Head in Liverpool’s Mersey Ferry Terminal is currently hosting ‘White Feather: The Spirit of Lennon’, a retrospective of John Lennon’s family life away from the overwhelming success of the Beatles, compiled by his first wife Cynthia and son Julian.
The exhibition charts the story of their lives together from John and Cynthia’s [...]
The Mini Car with the Maximum Impact, Part 3
7 July, 2009 – 9:01 am
In the final part of our interview, Jon Pressnell, author of ‘Mini - The Definitive History’ (published by Haynes), talks about the impact the Mini had on the Sixties. (Photographs taken from the book and reproduced by kind permission.)
A number of celebrities owned Minis - manager Brian Epstein gave a Mini-Cooper S to every member [...]
Chris Welch’s Memories, Part 2
19 April, 2009 – 11:39 am
This was October 1964, and ‘Melody Maker’ was pretty much a jazz paper, so they wanted a younger writer to write about pop and R’N’B. On my first day, I went out for a drink with one of the older guys on the paper and he was a bit sourfaced and negative and said, “Oh, [...]