The now legendary lip and tongue logo for The Rolling Stones has been sold to the Victoria and Albert Museum in London for $92,000.  The man responsible for this piece of artistic brilliance, John Pasche, was originally paid only $90 for his work, but he went ahead and sold it recently at an auction in the US for $92,000.

Back in 1970 while still a student in art school, artist John Pache tells how he was inspired to design the Stones logo…

“I wanted something anti-authority, but I suppose the mouth idea came from when I met (Mick) Jagger for the first time at the Stones’ offices. I went into this sort of wood-paneled boardroom and there he was. Face to face with him, the first thing you were aware of was the size of his lips and his mouth.”

John goes on to explain that originally, Mick Jagger had wanted to use an image of Hindu goddess Kali as their logo.  That idea was nixed when John realized that even though India was very much in fashion at the time, it might just be a passing fad and out of style soon.

The new logo made its debut with the release of the Stones single Brown Sugar and the album it appeared on, Sticky Fingers.  Ahhhh, I remember that so vividly.   Still going strong today, the red tongue and lips logo is known around the world….take one look and it screams THE ROLLING STONES!!

Source, Photo:  PR Photos

Reported at: 7:47 am | By: Pink Meanie |
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