Alan Aldridge wasp in a wig. Aldridge also created the artwork for "Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy" by Elton John in 1975. In 1977 he created an advertisement illustration for the Dutch beer brand Heineken. 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, and 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, "The Times Literary Review", 1975. "His Royal Master of
Tripping the Live Fantastic his recent hit album, "Flowers in the Dirt", while also including some unique covers. Interspersed throughout are occasional soundcheck recordings as well. The title is an allusion to the phrase "tripping the light fantastic", meaning to dance or move to musical accompaniment, originally from the poem "L'Allegro" by John Milton. Although he had reversed the Lennon–McCartney credits on "Wings over America" in 1976, McCartney left the credits for his Beatles songs on "Tripping the Live Fantastic" in their original form. The album produced a few singles that contained live B-sides from the world tour. These B-sides were songs that were