We went to London last weekend and visited the David Bowie exhibition at the V&A (East) Located in Hackney Wick it's essentially a huge warehouse full of cultural and artistic treasures (see above), it felt to me a bit like that last scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark where the Ark of the Covenant is being stored in some vast US government warehouse, I reckon the holy grail is in there somewhere!
Anyway, the Bowie section was quite small, just one room, but a real treasure trove. It featured a lot of outfits and costumes as well as instruments and song lyrics (hand written) both from him as a solo artist and also when he collaborated with others. I particularly liked the little semi-political notes that he used to write to himself, he was quite forward thinking, especially around things like the emergence of digital technology.
All in all a great little exhibition, we spent at least an hour or so reminiscing about the 70s and 80s! Afterwards we met our Son at a pub and had a good old catch up with him, a lovely day.
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