Pink Floyd takes center stage in London exhibition

LONDON - The first international exhibition on Pink Floyd opened at the weekend, describing how the British the rock band became a cultural icon after it was formed in the 1960s Western counterculture movement.

"Pink Floyd is one of the biggest bands of the last half century. They came to prominence in the mid-60s when they were in the vanguard of the psychedelic movement, when music was really changing," the exhibition's curator Victoria Broackes told Xinhua on Saturday when the exhibition opened at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.

Pink Floyd, formed by architecture students, chose the name by amalgamating the names of two US blues musicians Pink Anderson and Floyd Counsel.