Glory years of British rock – Harry Goodwin exhibition
Written by admin on April 11, 2010 – 8:53 pm -A fantastic collection of photographs of some of the biggest stars of the 1960s and ’70s will go on display at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London later this month as part of the “My Generation: The Glory Years of British Rock” exhibition. The exhibition will feature the photographs of Harry Goodwin, who was the resident photographer for the BBC’s Top of the Pops from 1964 to 1973.
Goodwin began his varied career as a photographer in the RAF in 1943. He also worked on the beauty pageant circuit, for Jackie Magazine, and for the British Boxing Board of Control. However, his best known work is that which he did for Top of the Pops.
| Top of the Pops launched New Year’s Day in 1964 and Harry Goodwin was there from the start. Goodwin would follow artists around to take the shots that would be shown on the show as a slideshow when artists couldn’t appear live in the studio.
During his nine years on the show, Goodwin photographed some of the very biggest stars of the era, including the Beatles, Roy Orbison, Jimi Hendrix (see image right), the Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Dusty Springfield, Otis Redding, Marvin Gaye, the Jackson Five, Elton John, Simon and Garfunkel, and many many more. |
 Hendrix at the CIS in Manchester |
The V&A exhibition will feature more than 60 blow-up framed stills from Top of the Pops and a slide show of 200 of Goodwin’s most iconic photographs from that era. The exhibition opens on April 30 and runs to October 24.
A book has been published to accompany the exhibition, My Generation: The Glory Years of British Rock
Tags: Harry Goodwin, My Generation: The Glory Years of British Rock, Rock photographs, Top of the Pops
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