LOS ANGELES — Some of the most iconic sounds and images from the legendary British rock band Pink Floyd can now be found inside the brand new Vogue Museum in Hollywood for the U.S. premiere of the immersive exhibit, "Pink Floyd: Their Mortal Remains."
Museum Director Diego Gonzalez said it was an easy choice to pick as the museum's first exhibit.
"These guys give a message, you know, they try to fight the power, be free, think for yourself, you know, very more, uh, with a message," Gonzalez said.
Spectrum News 1 spoke to Gonzalez before the exhibit opened and while "Pink Floyd: Their Mortal Remains" was still under construction.
The exhibition is a private collection from the band featuring more than 350 artifacts on display and celebrating the group's place in history through an audiovisual and musical journey with an audio guide connected to different parts of the exhibit.
"You will hear Roger Waters talking to Nick Mason about how they create this art or how do they get inspired. So that's the cool thing about the exhibition that it has this technology to get immersed on information and see the original artifacts while somebody's talking," Gonzalez said.
As you walk through the exhibit, you'll see the iconic album art created by the group's long-time creative director Aubrey "Po" Powell and the late Storm Thorgerson, designs intended to provoke thought.
"The thing about Pink Floyd is all of them are well-educated, intelligent people," Powell said. "And I think all of the concepts that have come through whether it's 'The Wall,' 'Dark Side of the Moon,' 'Wish You Were Here,' they're all well thought through. Roger Waters is very much behind a lot of these ideas, he's a thinking man's band," Powell said.
Po is also the mastermind behind "Pink Floyd: Their Mortal Remains," choosing to use sound, text and images to make people feel like they're with the band.
"I wanted them to tell a narrative. So as you walk through the exhibition, and go chronologically through, you'll see a lot of AV's that you listen to, you see them talking about that period of time, what they were going through, what they were recording," Powell said.
While the exhibit certainly speaks to fans, Gonzalez said it's an experience for everyone to discover Pink Floyd's contribution to art and music.
"From history, music and everything, that you can appreciate, you don't need to be a fan, you just need to see the experience of what they have delivered to the world," Gonzalez said.
It's a special look back at more than five decades of the music that made this group legendary and encapsulates Pink Floyd's place in rock history.
