Bob Dylan

1 portrait by Douglas Eatwell

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Bob Dylan

by Douglas Eatwell
modern bromide print, 3 May 1966
13 7/8 in. x 10 in. (354 mm x 254 mm) image size
Given by Mirrorpix, 2009
Photographs Collection
NPG x135745

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  • Bob Dylan (1941-), Musician, singer, songwriter and painter. Sitter in 1 portrait, Artist or producer of 1 portrait.

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  • Douglas Eatwell (1928-2000), Photographer. Artist or producer of 1 portrait.

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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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