These nearly 3000 items from the BBC Archive have been made freely available for personal, educational, and research use, licensed under the terms of the RemArc licence.
The material is searchable, can be browsed by ‘Theme’ or ‘Decade’, and filtered by media type.
You can download individual items from the collection, or use the search and filtering to produce your own downloadable collections.
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Cavern Club
Cavern Pub, Liverpool - Music venue famous for The Beatles first live gigs in the 1960s. Sculpture of Lennon outside entrance.
61 KB
1960s, music, images
Charlie & Keith
A contact sheet of The Rolling Stones backstage at Top of the Pops in June 1964. L-R: First and second columns: Keith Richards ; third column: Top - Charlie Watts, bottom- Keith Richards ; Fourth column: Charlie Watts.
44 KB
1960s, music, images
Children Singing
Children singing, from 1960s
8 MB
1960s, music, video
Choir
Cliff Adams conducting The Adam Singers, with Jack Emblow accompanying on the accordion for Sing Something Simple.
50 KB
1960s, music, images
Chuck Berry
A contact sheet showing Chuck Berry backstage at Top of the Pops.
44 KB
1960s, music, images
Cliff Albert Hall
Cliff Richard outside the Royal Albert Hall, the venue for the 1968 Eurovision Song Contest where Richard, representing the UK, performed the song Congratulations.
39 KB
1960s, music, images
Cliff Eurovision
Cliff Richard and his three accompanists, singing 'Congratulations', representing the United Kingdom, at the 1968 Eurovision Song Contest, which was held at the Royal Albert Hall in 1968 and broadcast live on BBC
44 KB
1960s, music, images
Cliff Richard
Singer Cliff Richard with The Shadows.
28 KB
1960s, music, images
Cream
The band Cream (l-r) Jack Bruce, Ginger Baker and Eric Clapton.
42 KB
1960s, music, images
Dave Brubeck
The Dave Brubeck Quartet. The group consists of Dave Brubeck on piano, Paul Desmond on alto sax, Eugene Wright on bass and Jow Morello on drums.
26 KB
1960s, music, images
Dave Clark Five
The Dave Clark Five on Top of the Pops
43 KB
1960s, music, images
Dusty Springfield
Dusty Springfield who took part in the 'Top Beat' programme which was televised from the Royal Albert Hall.
23 KB
1960s, music, images
