The David Bowie Centre at V&A East Storehouse is finally open to the public. It will have nine rotating displays featuring 200 items from key moments in the late artist’s life and career.
This museum gives visitors an opportunity to see what other ones keep stored in the basement or some distant warehouse, as well as offering visitors the opportunity to have hands-on, one-on-one time with any of the over 90,000 items in Bowie’s archive, along with other items in the institution’s catalogue.
David Bowie’s eclectic list of favorite songs
When cataloging the David Bowie Collection, curators stumbled across one item that truly piqued their interest, a note entitled ‘Memo for radio show — list of favourite records.’ While there are “some unsurprising picks” says Rolling Stone it also contains “1950s obscurities he likely remembered from childhood,” as well as a “eclectic tunes from multiple eras.”
Here is the list of David Bowie’s 15 favorite songs:
- Ralph Vaughan Williams – ‘Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis’
- Richard Strauss – ‘Four Last Songs’
- Alan Freed and His Rock ’N’ Roll Band – ‘Right Now Right Now’
- Little Richard – ‘True Fine Mama’
- The Hollywood Argyles – ‘Sho Know a Lot About Love’
- Miles Davis – ‘Some Day My Prince Will Come’
- Charles Mingus – ‘Ecclusiastics’
- Jeff Beck – ‘Beck’s Bolero’
- Legendary Stardust Cowboy – ‘I Took a Trip on a Gemini Spaceship’
- The Beatles – ‘Across the Universe’
- Ronnie Spector – ‘Try Some, Buy Some’
- Roxy Music – ‘Mother of Pearl’
- Edgar Froese – ‘Epsilon in Malaysian Pale’
- The Walker Brothers – ‘The Electrician’
- Sonic Youth – ‘Tom Violence’
The David Bowie Centre is located on the East Bank in Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in northeast London. The David Bowie Centre is free to visit but visitors must get a ticket, including V&A Members. New tickets are available every six weeks with the next drop coming on 22 October.
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