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The Who (Keith Moon; Pete Townshend; John Entwistle; Roger Daltrey)

by Colin Jones
Iris print, January 1966
18 3/8 in. x 13 in. (467 mm x 330 mm)
Purchased, 2002
Photographs Collection
NPG x125447

On display in Room 28 on Floor 2 at the National Portrait Gallery

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  • Colin Jones (1936-2021), Photographer and ballet dancer. Artist or producer of 2 portraits.

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Left to right: Keith Moon, (1947-1978) (drums), Pete Townshend (b.1945) (guitar), John Entwistle (1944-2002) (bass), and Roger Daltrey (b.1944) (vocals). The Who, first managed by Kit Lambert and Chris Stamp, were Britain's most successful, guitar-breaking Mod Group. Photographed for the cover of The Observer magazine between their hits My Generation (November 1965) and Substitute (March 1966) at a Manchester airport hotel. Jones, a dancer turned photographer, (once married to Lynn Seymour), best known for his gritty black and white photographs of Northern life, improvised the background in the dreary hotel room, by borrowing the Union jack flag from a nearby airport flag-pole.

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  • Whitaker, Robert, Beatles to Bowie: the 60s exposed, 2009 (accompanying the exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery from 15 October 2009 - 24 January 2010), p. 125

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Current affairs

The English football team wins against West Germany at the World Cup Final in Wembley.
144 people, including 116 children, die in the Aberfan disaster when a colliery waste tip slides down a mountain in Wales.
Ian Brady and Myra Hindley are sentence to life imprisonment for the brutal Moors Murders.

Art and science

Tom Stoppard's first play Rosencrantz and Gildenstern are Dead premiers. This absurdist play uses two minor characters from Hamlet to explore the existential themes of free will versus determinism and the futility of language.
Seamus Heany publishes his first volume of poems, Death of a Naturalist.

International

The Cultural Revolution is launched in China in order to bring Chinese culture and society in line with communist ideals. It was also, however, an attempt by Mao Zedong to regain control of the country after the mistakes of the Great Leap Forward.
Archbishop of Canterbury, Arthur Michael Ramsey meets Pope Paul VI, the first official meeting between the Roman Catholic and Anglican Churches for 400 years.

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