In being featured in this new collection, The Rolling Stones become only the fourth group to be honoured by Royal Mail with a dedicated stamp issue – the first three being The Beatles in 2007, Pink Floyd in 2016 and Queen in 2020.
Royal Mail has revealed images of 12 stamps being issued as a tribute to rock group, The Rolling Stones. The collaboration was brought together and facilitated by Bravado, Universal Music Group’s brand management and lifestyle division.(licenseglobal)
Eight of the stamps will feature images of performances over the years:
Hyde Park, London, U.K., July 1969
East Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S., August 2019
Rotterdam, Netherlands, August 1995
Tokyo, Japan, March 1995
New York City, U.S., July 1972
Oslo, Norway, May 2014
Knebworth, Hertfordshire, U.K., August 1976
Düsseldorf, Germany, October 2017
A further four stamps, presented in a miniature sheet, feature two shots of the band together and two of their vintage worldwide tour posters. Royal Mail collaborated closely with the band members and their management team on the stamp issue. With this collection, The Rolling Stones become only the fourth music group to feature in a dedicated stamp issue – following The Beatles in 2007, Pink Floyd in 2016 and Queen in 2020.
“Few bands in the history of rock have managed to carve out a career as rich and expansive as that of the Rolling Stones,” says David Gold, director, public affairs and policy, Royal Mail. “They have created some of modern music’s most iconic and inspirational albums, with ground-breaking live performances to match.”
Meantime New York Chase Contemporary announces a new exhibition surveying the visual identity of the Rock & Roll music genre, with a particular focus on theThe Rolling Stones.
Chase will showcasing vintage posters, art, and memorabilia spanning the 1960s through the 2000s, this exhibit is intended to celebrate the history of Rock & Roll while exploring the evolution of design and art as it relates to music. The installation is on view at 231 10th Ave.
The ultra-rare Some Girls Vintage Album Promotional Poster (Donut) (1978) is especially swoon worthy.
Fine art and music converge in Bernie Taupin’s American Burka (2004), a wrapped fabric, twine, wire, barbed wire, lock on mannequin. Best known for his long-term collaboration with Elton John, Taupin attributes his passion for visual art to his mother, Daphne. He started displaying and selling his massive, mixed media, contemporary assemblages, at art fairs and galleries throughout the United States and Canada in 2010.
Beatles enthusiasts will share words of love for a series of 14 colored drawings created for the Fab Four’s first music video in 1966. Pop up your quiver with a surfboard painted and signed by Paul McCartney for a charity auction that benefited Surfers Against Sewage in 2008.
Most items in the show hail from the personal collection of Bernie Chase, owner and founder of Chase Contemporary, said gallery director Isabel Sullivan. Chase, founder of the Symbolic Collection, hosted Ronnie Wood: A Major Retrospective of 50 Years of Rock and Roll, presenting many of the same pieces for sale now, at his former London gallery in 2012.