How Alan Aldridge made the 60s swing – in pictures
The graphic artist’s swirling, kaleidoscopic images – made for everyone from the Beatles to Andy Warhol and the Who – perfectly captured those heady days of psychedelia
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The Who’s second album, A Quick One, 1966.Photograph: Max Ackermann
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Poster for Chelsea Girls, 1966, an Andy Warhol movie that used split screen to tell the story of women staying at the Chelsea Hotel.Photograph: Alan Aldridge 1968
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Artwork from the Observer magazine in November 1967: A Good Guru’s Guide to The Beatles’ Sinister Songbook. Read the Observer’s 2008 interviewPhotograph: Alan Aldridge
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Mr Kite based on a Victorian trampoline artist, found on an old poster. Artwork from the Observer magazine in November 1967: A Good Guru’s Guide to The Beatles’ Sinister Songbook.Photograph: Alan Aldridge
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The Beatles Illustrated Lyrics Revolution, 1968, from the V&A exhibition – You Say You Want a Revolution? Records and Rebels 1966-70.Photograph: V&A
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A Hard Day’s Night, from Illustrated Lyrics, 1969.Photograph: Alan Aldridge
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Alan Aldridge at a London design studio in 1970.Photograph: Rolls Press/Popperfoto/Popperfoto/Getty
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The Penguin Book of Comics, by George Perry and Alan Aldridge, 1971.Illustration: Alan Aldridge
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The Great US Disaster, 1971. A poster with caricatures of then-president Richard Nixon and his vice-president Spiro Agnew. A great place for hamburgers, runs the tagline, but who’d want to live there!Illustration: Alan Aldridge
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Harold the Heraki, taken from The Butterfly Ball and The Grasshopper’s Feast, 1973.Photograph: Alan Aldridge
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The Elton John album Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy, released in 1975.Illustration: sjvinyl/Alamy Stock Photo
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Heineken advert from 1977, in which a caterpillar transforms into a butterfly.Photograph: Alan Aldridge
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Artwork for a Fender Stratocaster, a collaboration between Aldridge and Jimi Hendrix in 1970.Photograph: Stephen Brashear/AP Images for Hard Rock International
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Illustration from The Peacock Party, a sequel to The Butterfly Ball, 1979.Photograph: Alan Aldridge
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The artist at his retrospective at the Design Museum. London, in 2008Photograph: Luke Hayes
