MUSIC-ROLLING STONES Rolling Stones to stage major career exhibit at London gallery

Record ID: 148657

  • Title: MUSIC-ROLLING STONES Rolling Stones to stage major career exhibit at London gallery
  • Date: 2nd July 2015
  • Summary: LONDON, ENGLAND, UNITED KINGDOM (JULY 12, 2012) (REUTERS) ****WARNING CONTAINS FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY*** ROLLING STONES POSE FOR PHOTOS (LEFT TO RIGHT: CHARLIE WATTS, KEITH RICHARDS, RONNIE WOOD AND MICK JAGGER)
  • Embargoed: 17th July 2015 13:00
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  • Story Text: Veteran rockers The Rolling Stones will put on their first major exhibition looking at their more than 50 years in music at a London gallery next year, showcasing some 500 items including original stage designs, guitars and costumes.
    "EXHIBITIONISM" will run from April to September 2016 at the Saatchi Gallery in the British capital, with some of the objects said to be from the band's personal archives and never seen before by the public.
    Among the items on display from the legendary rock group which formed in London in 1962 will be costumes, dressing room paraphernalia, instruments, audio tracks as well as unseen video clips, according to organisers.
    Original poster and album cover artwork as well as personal diaries will also feature.
    A similar kind of exhibition dedicated to British singer David Bowie's career opened in London in 2013 at the Victoria & Albert Museum, drawing huge crowds.
    "We've been thinking about it actually for quite a long time, collecting things, thinking 'We better save this because we want people to see it'," lead singer Mick Jagger said.
    "It is a kind of look at your career. I think it's an interesting time to do it."
    Keith Richards joked that he finds the items interesting because "half of them are stolen."
    "EXHIBITIONISM" is said to have taken three years of planning and will spread over two floors at the gallery.
    In response to the question that the retrospective exhibition signals the breakup of the band, the four-piece were quick to refute any rumours. "I think we're still working and still doing shows and I think we'll continue to do so," said Jagger, while Ronnie Wood added, "This is another insight into an ongoing machine and institution that will never stop rumbling."
    This is not the first retrospective exhibition the band have put on. In 2012 the band marked their 50th anniversary with a photographic exhibition in London's Somerset house.
    Tickets for the upcoming exhibition go on sale on July 10.
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