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Janette Beckman's photos feature in Beyond the Streets at Saatchi Gallery

Janette Beckman's photographs are part of the Beyond the Streets exhibition at Saatchi Gallery, London, which runs from 11 November to 5 May.

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Janette Beckman's photographs feature in the Beyond the Streets exhibition, which explores six decades of graffiti, music, fashion, film and street culture. The exhibition is at Saatchi Gallery, London, from 11 November to 5 May. Janette Beckman: Music, Style, Attitude (1976-1983) will be published by Beyond the Streets in 2027.

Rock Against Racism organised free concerts with multiracial line-ups in the late 1970s. Beckman photographed Misty in Roots playing to a crowd of over 150,000 people at the RAR concert in Brockwell Park. Beckman photographed Pete Townshend and Paul Weller outside the Marquee Club in 1980 for a Melody Maker cover story called 'The Punk and the Godfather'.

Beckman photographed Sade leaning against a New York cop car in New York City in 1983. Madness posed in the 'Madness pose' for their One Step Beyond record cover.

One of Beckman's photographs of Jerry Dammers ran on the cover of Melody Maker; the story was called 'The Pressure of Being Someone Special: On the Road with Jerry Dammers'. The Beat were playing at the Civic Centre in Birmingham when Beckman photographed them. Beckman photographed the 2 Tone band the Selecter with lead singer Pauline Black for Melody Maker.

Beckman was working for the start-up magazine the Face when she photographed fans at the two-day Loch Lomond festival. Skinheads, mods and 2 Tone fans at Loch Lomond were waiting for Bad Manners and the Jam to play. The Specials' Seaside Tour was photographed by Beckman for Melody Maker in Southend in 1980.

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