BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.5//EN TZID:Europe/London X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/London BEGIN:VEVENT UID:3357@artinliverpool.com DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20180322T170000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20180322T190000 DTSTAMP:20180321T232334Z URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/exhibition-research-lab-19661976 -sex-beatles/ SUMMARY:John Lennon Art and Design Building: Exhibition Research Lab: 1966| 1976: Sex Beatles DESCRIPTION:1966 | 1976\nSEX BEATLES\nCurated by Colin Fallows &\; Jon Savage\nOpening: 22 March 2018 5 -7pm\nExhibition Research Lab\nLiverpo ol School of Art &\; Design\nLiverpool John Moores University\nJohn Len non Art &\; Design Building\n2 Duckinfield Street\nLiverpool L3 5RD\nT el: +44 (0)151 904 1216\nTwo sixes: ten years apart.\nTwo crucial years f or two of Britain’s most iconic groups.\nIn 1966: The Beatles stop touri ng\, offend America by John Lennon apparently saying that they are more po pular than Jesus\, and crack their image once and for all with the scandal ous Butcher photograph.\nIn 1976: Sex Pistols start touring up and down th e country\, sign to EMI Records and swear live on evening TV in a national furore that defines Punk.\n1966: was the year that The Beatles wanted not to be The Beatles.\n1976: was the year when Sex Pistols inspired a whole generation of new groups to be like them.\n1966: a time still full of hope with a dark undertone.\n1976: a time of dark overtones yet full of hope.\ nThis exhibition looks at these two iconic years through the lens of their most powerful pop groups. We know the differences - Swinging London versu s Decaying London\, LSD versus amphetamines\, colour versus black and whit e\, Love versus Anarchy - and the exhibition asks the question: What are t he similarities?\nFocussing on The Beatles ‘Butcher’ cover\, a notorio us and disturbing image that was used on the cover of the American album  Yesterday and Today and then destroyed after causing a furore - and the p hotographs by PT Madden of a young and hopeful Sex Pistols in April 1976 - the exhibition\, 1966 | 1976 SEX BEATLES builds a bridge between those tw o years.\nThe exhibition shows that the influences of 1976 were already th ere in 1966 - with The Beatles’ wish to create ‘situations’ through the Butcher cover coinciding with the spread of Situationist International ideas through France and into Europe. These in turn provided a direct inf luence on the ideas and images that fuelled the Sex Pistols during 1976 an d thereon.\nThe exhibition contains an array of contextual material from t he Archives of Popular Culture/Counterculture held at Liverpool John Moore s University together with important material from private collections. Mu ch of the material that examines the pop style of 1966 has been barely see n in the intervening decades\, including rare items concerning Op Art\, An dy Warhol and the sixties fashions that would influence Punk - as well as material relating to youth politics such as the Sunset Strip Riots - as te enagers in America and the UK began to realise that consumer power could t ranslate into political power.\nAnd then there is the music. In 1976\, Pun k groups like Sex Pistols\, Buzzcocks and Eater looked back to 1966 with c overs of Substitute (the Who)\, Understanding (Small Faces)\, I Can ’t Control Myself(Troggs)\, and I’m Waiting for My Man (Velvet Under ground). There is also a direct link between the harsh garage punk of 1966 - first collected on Lenny Kaye’s 1972 Nuggets compilation and define d there as ‘Punk’ - and the accelerated\, distorting brevity and harsh attitudes of 1976 Punk.\nThe exhibition features Sex Pistols – April 1 976 by PT Madden – a unique twenty-six piece photographic artwork featu ring the Sex Pistols live on stage on 3 April 1976. Sex Pistols – April 1976: The Art of PT Madden was first curated by Colin Fallows at Wilkins on Gallery\, London\, in April 2016 – where all twenty-six surviving pho tographs were painstakingly produced as a unified artwork for the first ti me\, forty years after their creation.\nThe exhibition also includes two m ajor documentary films produced by Arena\, the BBC’s flagship documentar y strand: 1966 (2016) and Punk and the Pistols (1995) – both directe d by Paul Tickell and written by Jon Savage. The two films will be screene d throughout the exhibition as part of a special ongoing collaboration wit h Anthony Wall\, Arena Series Producer/Editor.\nCurators: Prof. Colin Fall ows and Jon Savage.\nCuratorial Assistant: Libby Lawrie.\nThanks\nPT Madde n\, Anthony Wall\, Paul Tickell\, Prof. Joasia Krysa\, Gabriela Saenger Si lva\,\nProf. John Hyatt\, Prof. Caroline Wilkinson\, Dr. Emma Roberts\, Va lerie Stevenson\, Emily Parsons\, Paula McNulty\, Graham Gildea\, Kevin Mc Cormack\, Martin Gee\, Gary Nall\, Jenny Hunter\, Phil Brewer\, Bee Hughes and Rebecca Smith. 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