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Stage designer Fisher dies
By Chris Cooke | Published on Thursday 27 June 2013
Stage designer Mark Fisher, known for his groundbreaking work designing stage set-ups for the likes of The Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, U2 and many others, has died aged 66, following a “long and difficult illness”.
In a long career Fisher and his company Stufish were responsible for many stand out stage designs in the music and musical theatre worlds, and he was also Senior Designer on the opening and closing ceremonies at the Beijing Olympics, and advised as an Executive Producer for the big London 2012 events.
Amongst those paying tribute yesterday were the Rolling Stones, who said in a statement: “We are all extremely saddened to hear of the death of our dear friend Mark Fisher. The remarkable sets he designed for us over the last two decades played a major part in the success of all those tours”.
They added: “His passion, dedication and professionalism was infectious. We all loved his dry sense of humour and unflappable demeanour, a quietly soft spoken genius. Mark will be sorely missed – not only by us – but by every single member of ours and any crew he worked with. Our sincere condolences go to his wife and family”.
