Dead Famous Nikola Tesla Print
Dead Famous Nikola Tesla Print
The playlist they never made.
A beautifully designed A3 art print combining history, humour and music. Seven tracks specially chosen for Nikola Tesla, alongside music they actually heard, or could have heard, in their lifetime. Scan the QR code to listen to the curated playlist on Spotify.
- Unframed: A3 (297 x 420 mm) giclée print on smooth matt art paper
- Dead Famous Series No. 013
- Printed to order and delivered in the UK
Framed option
- A3 Prodigi classic wooden frame (20mm face, 22mm depth) with a mount and Perspex glazing
- Frame colours: black or white (painted obeche) or natural (oak-effect laminate)
- Made to order: allow around 3–5 working days for production and tracked delivery
- Free UK delivery
No. 013 · Inventor · 1856–1943
“Alternating Current”
Inventor of the modern electrical age, who slept three hours a night, counted in threes, and fell in love with a pigeon.
Editor's note Presented with this playlist, Mr. Tesla is understood to have approved of the number of tracks — seven being, to his evident disappointment, not divisible by three.
The seven
- 01Thunderstruck — AC/DC (1990)A man who made ten-foot bolts of artificial lightning in a Colorado laboratory. The title alone settles it.
- 02Mr. Blue Sky — Electric Light Orchestra (1977)The relentless optimism of a man who believed electricity would free the world. Even the band's name fits.
- 03Vienna — Billy Joel (1977)"Slow down, you crazy child." Advice for a man who worked 84 hours without stopping and slept barely at all.
- 04Space Oddity — David Bowie (1969)The lonely visionary drifting far ahead of everyone else, transmitting signals no one was ready to receive.
- 05Blackbird — The Beatles (1968)For the white pigeon he loved as a man loves a woman.
- 06Karma Police — Radiohead (1997)For the War of the Currents, and Edison.
- 07Africa — Toto (1982)"I bless the rains." The man counted everything in threes. Somewhere, this pleases him.
Behind the playlist · No. 013
Behind the playlist.
The notes that go with this playlist on Spotify: why these seven, what they actually heard, and the Editor's note.
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