Pink Floyd retrospect opens at London’s Victoria & Albert Museum
London is famous for many cultural immersions. Among them being a vibrant music scene. The British Invasion of the 1960s was the genesis of English rock bands becoming popular in the United States. Led by the Beatles and then the Rolling Stones the rebellious mid-60s coincided with the “Summer of Love” and hippie movement in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury.
Later in the 60s, a new sound emerged out of London’s eclectic underground music scene. Bands King Crimson, Yes, and Pink Floyd were among the first musicians to explore a range of multiple music styles and known as the vanguards of progressive rock.
On May 13, at London’s Victoria & Albert Museum visitors can experience a spectacular and unrivaled audio-visual journey through Pink Floyd’s unique and extraordinary worlds, chronicling the psychedelic rock that featured the use of keyboards and longer compositions, including design, cover art, and elaborate staging of each concert.
As rock aficionados will flock to London for the exhibition, the boutique, five-star Egerton House Hotel in Knightsbridge is offering the ultimate package for Pink Floyd fans. It includes a bottle of Champagne on arrival, two nights' accommodation in a beautifully appointed room or suite, a daily full English breakfast for two, entry to the V&A exhibition, a copy of the glossy V&A Magazine, plus tickets to the London Rock Tour, which takes in a host of London sites connected to the musical icons.
The Pink Floyd retrospective features never-before-seen concert footage as well as more than 350 objects and artifacts, including instruments, handwritten lyrics, posters, architectural drawings and psychedelic prints.
To further enhance your Pink Floyd experience the London Rock Tour covers over six decades London’s rock n roll history and is offered by Evan Evans, a longtime leader in London sightseeing. The Pink Floyd tour will take you deeper inside the band's beginnings, including delving into the studios that the band recorded at, venues where the group performed and the London apartments where they composed their greatest hits, along with the haunts that the band frequented.
This is a rare glimpse into the lives and music of one of the most historic influences in rock music.