‘Pink Floyd Exhibition: Their Mortal Remains’ Consisting Of Over 400 Artifacts Reaches Hollywood

The group remains truly in vogue, and in Hollywood's former Vogue Theatre, in an installation of 'The Pink Floyd Exhibition: Their Mortal Remains'

Pink Floyd fans now have the opportunity to control the heart of Hollywood Boulevard. After a successful run in Europe, a touring version devoted to the 55-year-old history of the band has arrived in the USA.

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The band is still very much in fashion, as evidenced by the installation of "The Pink Floyd Exhibition: their Mortal Remains" at Hollywood's Vogue Theatre. It includes more than 400 artifacts from the late 1960s, including handbills for Syd Barrett's first London psychedelic club show, to the days when pigs on wing, and other sinister inflatables that were inflated for museum-style, meditative gawking.

Aubrey Powell, the co-curator, said that he knew "just about everything" about Pink Floyd. He offered to give Variety a tour of the exhibition on the day of its opening. He wasn't being obtuse: Powell co-designed the famous album covers for 'The Dark Side of the Moon’ and 'Animals'. Powell also was a Barrett roommate in the 1960s and witnessed it all fall. He said that the joy of it was discovering pieces in archives belonging to different people that I hadn't seen before.

Aubrey Powell said, "He walked to a room that was devoted to imagery of 'The Wall. Below the menacing inflatable figure of a teacher was an instrument used to torture students. It dates back even further than the 1960s. "That's Roger Waters' original cane that beat Syd Barrett and Syd Barrett in school, Storm Thorgerson was my partner, which inspired Roger to write Teacher! Leave those kids alone'.

The drummer Nick Mason was the most involved of the three survivors and receives an official "exhibition consultant credit". Powell, who goes under the name 'Po,' says that Nick, out of all Pink Floyd's, kept his own archive and didn't throw anything away. "I mean, even his 1968 shirts,"

"His archive was phenomenal, and that helped." Variety.com reports that Waters and David Gilmour also provided significant access to Mason's archives, although theirs weren't as museum-ready.

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