Honours and Awards
A retrospective Alan Aldridge - the Man with the Kaleidoscope Eyes featured at the Design Museum in London from 10 October 2008 to 25 January 2009 was reviewed as "The trip of a lifetime".
"Aldridge was the 'Guv'nor'...........no one comes close to matching his influence on illustration in the 20th Century!....." -Sir John Betjeman - Times Literary Review. 1975
"His Royal Master of Images to Their Majesties The Beatles." John Lennon in 1968.
Nicknamed himself The Man with the Kaleidoscope Eyes after the song by The Beatles.
Was known in the sixties and seventies as the Graphic entertainer.
Over the years Aldridge has won many awards for his work, among which Whitbread Children’s Book Award (1973).
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