The Rolling Stones’ lifetime exhibition event Unziped was held in Marseille in the south of France. This is the only French stop on the global tour. Until September 5th, hundreds of items from the first record deal, rare musical instruments, notebooks and stage costumes will be exhibited.
“This is a great way to learn about stones,” said French journalist Philip Manouvre, one of the organizers of the decompression exhibition.
At the beginning of the 2,000 square meter space of the Velodrome Stadium in Marseille, the audience is undergoing a life-size reconstruction, which is the first unruly apartment of a mythical group in London.
Welcome to 102 Edith Grove. Dirty dishes are everywhere. Stacks of cigarette butts and spilled beer bottles are standard.
Before the opening, Velodrome event director Martin Dalgenryu said: “Mick Jagger came up with this idea while visiting the Dubuffet exhibition in the reconstruction studio. He called the decorator. I copied the apartment.”
On the turntable in the living room, Howlin’Wolf was spinning, and the shabby carpet displayed the car cover conspicuously. The roots of Afro-American music, the Stone Band, are there.
“Before it became an extraordinary artistic adventure (to celebrate its 60th anniversary in 2022), Stones, like everyone else, was originally a record buyer,” said Philip Manouvel.
Among the 400 items on display, there was the band’s first record contract, which was classified because it was not suitable for them. Along with Keith Richards’ guitar, a dulcimer (a double lute) is housed in a glass box.
This rare instrument was played by Brian Jones, the founding member of Stones, who died in 1969 and was a multi-instrument genius.
Mick Jagger’s Mephisto Feria stage costumes were also on display during the 1969 tour. This is obviously a bad year in the band’s history, and a concert in Altamont (USA) killed the audience.
The decompressed exhibition with zippered visual effects refers to the cover of the Sticky Fingers album released 50 years ago and ends in the form of recreating the legendary Cuban concert.
Marseille was launched in London in 2016. Before heading to New York, Chicago and the Netherlands, Marseille was the only French station to hold a blockbuster exhibition before moving to Toronto.
In 1966, when the band was performing at the small Salle Vallier, an overly excited fan threw a chair at Jagger.
“The next day we were in Lyon. Mick Jagger walked onto the stage wearing big clown glasses and hid his scars,” said a future member of the music and comedy duo Charlow at the time. Bassist Jean Salus said. Lesproblèmes (touring with The Stones in France).
“There were only one or two police officers. One wooden chair broke and one was thrown out. Two years ago, in 1968, it was the age of young people bubbling,” said the man in his seventies at the bicycle track exhibition. . McGrady said his fans. The room that night.
“In the eyebrow story, the Maasai thought,’The stone will hate us.’ But they came back three times (1990, 2003, 2018). They are in the city. I like the rebellious side,” Martin Dalgenryu said.