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The Victoria and Albert Museum hosts "The Pink Floyd
Exhibition: Their Mortal Remains", to mark the 50th anniversary
of the release of the British band's debut album, "The Piper at
the Gates of Dawn".
"It's not just about nostalgia," said Pink Floyd drummer Nick
Mason, who worked with the designers behind some of the band's
most legendary album artwork, Aubrey "Po" Powell and Storm
Thorgerson, to conceive and develop the exhibition.
"Fifty years always seems like a good moment, and the truth of
the matter is that we're not all here forever. We've lost two of
the band over the years," he said, referring to original lead
guitarist and main songwriter Syd Barrett and keyboardist Rick
Wright, "and it's so important...if you want to tell these
stories to do it when people are still around to tell them."
The exhibition is an audio-visual chronicle of Pink Floyd's rise
from the darlings of London's underground music scene in the
late 1960s to global stardom and a career that saw them sell
over 250 million albums.
Visitors enter through an oversized recreation of the van that
carried Pink Floyd to their early gigs, and can view over 350
artifacts ranging from original concert posters to guitars from
the band's career in addition to unreleased footage of the group
at work.
Iconic imagery range from a mock-up of London's Battersea power
station, which featured in the cover art for the band's 1977
"Animals" album, and the wall, complete with a towering head
teacher, that was part of the stage set on their 1980-1981 tour
for "The Wall" album.
(Reporting by Reuters Television writing by Mark Hanrahan;
editing by Mark Heinrich)
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