More details have been announced about the permanent rock and pop exhibition that is being planned for The O2 complex's exhibition space, previously occupied by the Tutankhamun exhibition and which is due to host the Body Worlds show this Autumn.
The planned music exhibition was originally dubbed as a UK version of America's Hall Of Fame museum, with rumours that the whole thing might be linked to the now redundant Channel 4 Hall Of Fame annual awards show, but what is now planned to launch in the new year will be called the British Music Experience. That said, it is likely to be similar to the Rock N Roll Hall Of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio, in that it will include a big rock n pop memorabilia collection, including a Noel Gallagher guitar, a Ziggy Stardust constume, the Union Jack outfit Annie Lennox wore at the 1999 Brits and a trumpet the late Humphrey Lyttelton played on VE Day in 1945, plus video interviews with artists as diverse as Cliff Richard, Dizzee Rascal and Acker Bilk, and various interactive displays involving music.
Promoter man Harvey Goldsmith is behind the venture, and he was quoted by the Evening Standard this week as saying it was "amazing" no such show currently exists in Britain given how much "fantastic talent" has come out of the UK music industry over the years. The Experience is due to open at The O2 in March.