Wish you were here? V&A museum puts Pink Floyd on show
Posted May 09, 2017 7:00 am
LONDON (AP) - The Victoria & Albert Museum's new exhibition is a psychedelic time capsule of a show devoted to the band Pink Floyd, complete with floating pigs, surreal animations and trippy projections.
But it's not the visuals, or the group's experimental music, that identifies the exhibition in London as an ode to a vanished time. It's the economics.
Pink Floyd was given limitless studio time to create sprawling albums that sold in the tens of millions. They staged multimedia shows so technically ambitious that one tour's set took eight days to assemble.
Aubrey "Po" Powell, who helped design the band's most famous album covers, said Tuesday the exhibition is a celebration of a vanished "golden period" when musical renegades could flourish.
The show opens Saturday and runs to Oct. 1.
The inflatable pig above Battersea power station is photographed among art for the Pink Floyd exhibition 'Their Mortal Remains' at the V&A museum in west London, Tuesday, May 9, 2017, an immersive, experimental journey through Pink Floyd's world of over 350 objects and artefacts from the band. The exhibition marks the 50th anniversary of the band's first album, 'The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn' and officially opens to the public on 13 May (Photo by Joel Ryan/Invision/AP)
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A museum worker poses in front of the metal heads from The Pink Floyd's Division Bell album at the band's exhibition, 'Their Mortal Remains' at the V&A museum in west London, Tuesday, May 9, 2017, an immersive, experimental journey through Pink Floyd's world of over 350 objects and artefacts from the band. The exhibition marks the 50th anniversary of the band's first album, 'The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn' and officially opens to the public on 13 May (Photo by Joel Ryan/Invision/AP)
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The inflatable teacher from Roger Water's tour of 'The Wall' is photographed among art for the Pink Floyd exhibition 'Their Mortal Remains' at the V&A museum in west London, Tuesday, May 9, 2017, an immersive, experimental journey through Pink Floyd's world of over 350 objects and artefacts from the band. The exhibition marks the 50th anniversary of the band's first album, 'The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn' and officially opens to the public on 13 May (Photo by Joel Ryan/Invision/AP)
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A man listens to an audio display at the Pink Floyd exhibition 'Their Mortal Remains' at the V&A museum in west London, Tuesday, May 9, 2017, an immersive, experimental journey through Pink Floyd's world of over 350 objects and artefacts from the band. The exhibition marks the 50th anniversary of the band's first album, 'The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn' and officially opens to the public on 13 May (Photo by Joel Ryan/Invision/AP)
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A letter from one of Pink Floyd's original members Syd Barrett to his girlfriend Jenny Spires, is photographed on display at the V&A museum in west London, Tuesday, May 9, 2017, from the Pink Floyd exhibition 'Their Mortal Remains', an immersive, experimental journey through the band's world of over 350 objects and artefacts. The exhibition marks the 50th anniversary of the band's first album, 'The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn' and officially opens to the public on 13 May (Photo by Joel Ryan/Invision/AP)
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A museum worker looks at the cover of Pink Floyd's 1969 album 'Ummagumma', at the V&A museum in west London, Tuesday, May 9, 2017, which shows a band member sitting, with a picture on the wall. The picture shows the same scene with a different band member and the effect continues for all four band members. The Pink Floyd Exhibition 'Their Mortal Remains' , an immersive, experimental journey through Pink Floyd's world of over 350 objects and artefacts from the band. The exhibition marks the 50th anniversary of the band's first album, 'The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn' and officially opens to the public on 13 May (Photo by Joel Ryan/Invision/AP)
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Posters for the famous UFO club from 1967, stand on display with other pieces in the Pink Floyd exhibition 'Their Mortal Remains' at the V&A museum in west London, Tuesday, May 9, 2017, an immersive, experimental journey through Pink Floyd's world of over 350 objects and artefacts from the band. The exhibition marks the 50th anniversary of the band's first album, 'The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn' the cover of which is displayed at centre,, and officially opens to the public on May 13. (Photo by Joel Ryan/Invision/AP)
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