Posthumous Recognition
Green became well-known as one of London's eccentrics, and enjoyed his local fame. The Sunday Times interviewed him in 1985 for its "A Life in the Day" feature, and his "less passion, less protein" slogan was used by the London fashion house Red or Dead.
When he died in 1993 at the age of 78, The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian and The Times all published obituaries. His letters, diaries, pamphlets and placards were given to the Museum of London, and other artefacts went to the Gunnersbury Park Museum. His printing press was featured in Cornelia Parker's 1995 exhibition, "The Maybe," at the Serpentine Gallery, alongside Robert Maxwell's shoelaces, one of Winston Churchill's cigars, and Tilda Swinton in a glass box. In 2006 he was given an entry in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
Over a decade after his death he was still remembered by writers and bloggers, fondly for the most part, though not invariably so: artist Alun Rowlands' documentary fiction, 3 Communiqués (2007), portrayed him as trawling the streets of London, "campaigning for the suppression of desire." Musician Martin Gordon included a tribute to Stanley Green on his 2013 album 'Include Me Out' on Radiant Future Records.
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Items belonging to Green, Museum of London, 2012.
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