When you say The Rolling Stones, you say rock and roll, Satisfaction and Mick Jagger. But also: characteristic record sleeves, sets and clothing. Because in addition to being a world-famous rock band, the Stones have been an indestructible cultural phenomenon over the past fifty years. The Groninger Museum contains 400 objects that embody the musical and cultural journey of the Stones. From iconic costumes to the group’s studio.
Andreas Blühm, director of the Groninger Museum, is lyrical about bringing in the exhibition. “The Rolling Stones have made art history themselves, through collaboration with other artists. They may well be the Van Goghs of rock music.”
Iconic image of ‘Stones’
The exhibition naturally pays attention to the bright red, protruding tongue. It is perhaps an image as well known as the yellow ‘M’ of McDonald’s or Apple’s opened apple. The logo of the Rolling Stones was invented fifty years ago by John Pasche, when he was approached by a 25-year-old graduate student of graphic design by a certain Mick Jagger.
Correspondent Tim de Wit visited the now 75-year-old Pasche in London. He says that he has become anything but rich from the famous ‘tongue and lips’.
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John Pasche only asked £ 50 for the world famous logo
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Dutch pop photographer Claude Vanheye has also often come close to the Stones. Vanheye has always been deeply impressed by Jagger, the rock band’s undisputed leader and spiritual father. “He really is the boss. He determines the image of the band. Besides the music, he is also the one who comes up with all creative matters. Like a conductor he keeps everything together.”
Unique photo
The most beautiful photo Vanheye took of the Stones? A portrait of, how could it be otherwise: Mick Jagger. The singer came to visit him in the photo studio. “The magic of this photo is that he took the time to come to my studio. I really had the chance to make my mark on this photo. That is of course a difference with live photos, where you have thirty man shoots the same picture. “
The exhibition ‘Unzipped’ has previously been shown in the United States and London. Mick Jagger opens the exhibition online in the Groninger Museum on 20 November.
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