Press release
19th August 2014
GRAMMY Museum Director arrives in Liverpool
to prepare for world-first for the city
The GRAMMY Museum in Los Angeles is sending its Executive Director to Liverpool this week.
Robert Santelli is visiting the city to discuss and plan the GRAMMY Museum exhibition with the Beatles
Story.
The British Invasion Exhibition, which is being staged at The Beatles Story Pier Head site, opens in
October and will include never seen before items from the world of music.
The exhibit will feature artefacts, both British and American, taken from the personal collections of
Donovan, Lead Belly, the Hollies, the Beach Boys, Chad & Jeremy, Peter & Gordon, and numerous other
artists.
In addition, the exhibit will feature never-before seen photos of the Rolling Stones from their first U.S. Tour,
a replica of an American music fan's bedroom circa 1964, music interactives, and interviews with everyone
from Ringo Starr and Ozzy Osbourne, to Petula Clark, Eric Burdon, and Graham Nash.
Martin King, Director of the Beatles Story, said: “It is fantastic that Robert has come to Liverpool to discuss
this fantastic exhibition and I am delighted that the GRAMMY museum has chosen the Beatles Story to exhibit
in. It is great to see the amazing artefacts coming together and making final plans for the exhibition in the
Pier Head.
“We are counting down to the opening of the exhibition now which we believe will be a tremendous success
and extremely popular with our visitors I am sure.”
Robert Santelli, Executive Director of the Grammy Museum and the curator of the exhibit said: "The British
Invasion of America dramatically changed the course of music in the 1960s. The impact that British music
had on popular culture and music in the States caused the scene here to explode with new sounds and
ideas. This exhibit explains that impact on America and sheds new light on how it happened, and why."
The GRAMMY Museum exhibition - ‘The British Invasion: How 1960s beat group’s conquered America - will
open on 16th October at The Beatles Story.
It will include several sections: ‘Roots and influences of The GRAMMY Awards’, ‘The 1964 music invasion:
The Mersey sound’, ‘The sound of London and taking America by storm’. There will also be a selection of
interviews with GRAMMY Award-winning artists.
ENDS
Images: to follow
About the Beatles Story:
The award-winning Beatles Story is the world's largest permanent exhibition purely devoted to the lives and times of
The Beatles. Located in the Fab Four’s hometown of Liverpool on the stunning UNESCO World heritage site at the
Albert Dock, the Beatles Story takes visitors on an atmospheric journey through the lives, times, culture and music of
The Beatles.
Please find our ‘Press information and downloads’ section of our website by following the link below:
http://www.beatlesstory.com/press-information-and-downloads
You can purchase tickets here: www.beatlesstory.com
For more information contact Laura Salisbury at Paver Smith on 0151 239 5000 / 5023 or
salisbury@paversmith.co.uk
About Robert Santelli
Robert Santelli was named Executive Director of The GRAMMY Museum in 2006. A noted blues and rock historian,
Santelli is also the author of more than a dozen books on American music, including Greetings from E Street and The
Bob Dylan Scrapbook, both New York Times bestsellers list. Santelli contributed to Rolling Stone, and the New York
Times, among other periodicals. In 1993, Santelli was one of the original curators of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
and Museum, moving to Cleveland in 1995 to become the museum’s first Director of Education and Vice President of
Public Programs. In 2000, he became the CEO of the Experience Music Project in Seattle, the first ever interactive
music museum. Santelli also developed the UK’s first pop music museum, the British Music Experience. Since
opening The GRAMMY Museum, Santelli has created “An Evening With…,” a series that features in-depth interviews
with artists such as Dave Matthews, Brian Wilson, Smokey Robinson, Stevie Nicks, Clive Davis and many more.