Wish you were here? Pink Floyd to shine on with Italian exhibition

Members of veteran rock act Pink Floyd have collaborated once more, to create a major exhibition which will see items such as the band’s inflatable pig brought out of retirement and displayed alongside rarely seen items.
By The Newsroom
Published 26th Feb 2014, 00:00 BST

The three surviving musicians –Roger Waters, David Gilmour and Nick Mason – have been involved in planning Their Mortal Remains which will bring together around 300 artefacts from the band’s decades of recordings and concerts.

It is being built in the UK and designers responsible for the group’s artwork and live shows will work on what is described as a “multi-sensory” exhibition.

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As well chronicling the band’s history and development from debut album The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn onwards, it will also include some solo elements.

It will open at an old factory in Milan, Italy, covering 27,000 sq ft (2,500 sq m) in September and there are hopes it will tour.

Waters left the group in the early 1980s but, after years of ill-feeling, he re-joined the line-up for a one-off performance at Live 8 in Hyde Park in 2005. Keyboard player Richard Wright died in 2008.

Among the exhibits will be a huge sculpture of The Wall, which filled the stage during concerts for the album of that name and the pig which first featured on the sleeve of Animals.

Tickets go on sale on Thursday for the exhibition which will be staged at Milan’s La Fabbrica Del Vapore from September 19. Next year will mark the 50th anniversary of the group’s formation.

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