CNN reports:
The platinum-selling band’s frontman Jake Shears and musician and lyricist Babydaddy were in London to open the exhibition, which is entitled “Nightwork” after their most recent album.
“Somebody asked me the other day, ‘Oh, you know, what was the first Robert Mapplethorpe photograph you ever saw?’ and I was like ‘What was the first Beatles song you ever heard?” said Shears of Mapplethorpe’s influence at Alison Jacques Gallery, where the show is taking place.
Mapplethorpe is synonymous with the artistic scene in downtown New York in the 1970s and 80s. He was close friends with singer-songwriter Patti Smith, whom he shot for portraits and record covers.
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