Kenny Lynch

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© Jurgen Schadeberg / National Portrait Gallery, London

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Kenny Lynch

by Jurgen Schadeberg
silver print, 1966
8 7/8 in. x 13 3/8 in. (226 mm x 340 mm) image size
Purchased, 2012
Photographs Collection
NPG x136285

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  • Kenny Lynch (1938-2019), Singer and actor. Sitter in 2 portraits.

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Lynch is shown on the set of the television music programme Ready Steady Go! on which he appeared on a number of occasions.

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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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