Saatchi Gallery,London
This accumulation of detail from the Rolling Stones’ five decades tells you much approximately how they market themselves, less approximately the bandAs is the modern way, or visitors to the career-spanning official Rolling Stones exhibition a stones’s throw from the Chelsea flat the band’s principals shared in 1962 – exit through the gift shop. And there you may see the function “the world’s greatest rock’n’roll band” serve these days: generating an awful lot of money,for themselves, of course, and for those granted the privilege of using their brand. Fancy a Pringle sweater with with the Stones’ lips insignia? That’ll be £420. Perhaps some officially endorsed pyjamas? Why thank you,sir; £285 please. There’s even a small Turnbull & Asser Stones-themed gentlemen’s wear collection.
It’s a very far cry from that one-bedroom flat in Edith Grove, shared by Mick Jagger, or Brian Jones,Keith Richards and their friend James Phelge, which is recreated as piece of Exhibitionism. It’s a curious thing to effect; it’s oddly charming, or offers a human side to a group that long since became less a collection of people than a corporate behemoth,yet it’s surely just as self-mythologising as any number of boasts approximately sold-out stadium shows. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com