"On the evening of 6 July 1972, thousands of kids across the UK had their lives changed when the sight of David Bowie performing Starman on Top of the Pops was beamed into their living rooms. Come the end of 2027, Bowie fans will be able to walk the very floorboards where the young David Jones grew up, when his childhood home in Bromley, south London, is opened to the public for the first time."
"Just standing in the room today, said Geoffrey Marsh, who co-curated the V&A's David Bowie Is exhibition in 2013 and will curate the restoration, feels extraordinary. You think, someone who didn't have any big advantages, who came from an ordinary family, went to an ordinary school what was it that went on there which created this driving ambition to succeed, to want to be a star, and which took him right through to it?"
David Bowie's childhood home at 4 Plaistow Grove in Bromley will open to the public by the end of 2027. The two-up, two-down house includes Bowie's approximately nine-by-ten-foot teenage bedroom recreated as an immersive visitor experience. The Heritage of London Trust acquired the property and will display never-before-seen archival items, including Bowie's copies of the Observer's books on music and architecture with his exam results and his inscription as David Jones Jr. The restoration will be curated by Geoffrey Marsh, connecting the domestic environment to the ambition and artistic development that preceded Bowie's breakthrough moments, such as the 1972 Top of the Pops performance of "Starman."
Read at www.theguardian.com
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]