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Sheet music cover for 'Happenings Ten Years Time Ago' by The Yardbirds (Keith Relf; Jim McCarty; Eric Clapton; Chris Dreja; Paul Samwell-Smith)

8 of 9 portraits of Eric Clapton

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published by Leo Feist Inc., after Unknown photographer
halftone reproduction, published 1966
11 7/8 in. x 8 7/8 in. (303 mm x 225 mm) paper size
Given by Terence Pepper, 2014
Reference Collection
NPG D48599

Sittersback to top

Eric Patrick Clapton (1945-), Musician, guitarist, singer, songwriter and member of 'Cream' and 'Yardbirds'. Sitter in 9 portraits.
Chris Dreja (1945-), Musician; member of The Yardbirds. Sitter in 3 portraits. Identify
Jim McCarty (1943-), Musician; member of The Yardbirds. Sitter in 3 portraits. Identify
Keith Relf (1943-1976), Musician; member of The Yardbirds. Sitter in 3 portraits. Identify
Paul Samwell-Smith (1943-), Musician; member of The Yardbirds. Sitter in 2 portraits.

Artistsback to top

Leo Feist Inc. (active 1966), Music publishing company founded by Leo Feist. Artist or producer associated with 1 portrait.
Unknown photographer, Photographer. Artist or producer associated with 6566 portraits.

Portrait setback to top

Terence Pepper gift: sheet music covers, 1960s

Subjects & Themesback to top

Events of 1966back to top

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 Hindly 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 verses 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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