It might seem strange to write the phrase “a nobody” in the same sentence as Elvis Presley. But really, in rock ’n’ roll icon terms these days you're nobody until you have had a major multimedia museum exhibition in London. Like most good ideas, David Bowie had it first: that stunning V&A retrospective from 2013 reinventing what could be done. The Rolling Stones followed him (though don’t say that to Mick Jagger) with the excellent Exhibitionism at the Saatchi in 2016.
And now, into 11,000 square feet in London Bridge – a space that used to be the Southwark Playhouse – comes the man without whom the above two acts and so many others would never have existed.
