Bowie’s changes on show at V&A retrospective

Published on 05/09/2012 00:00

DAVID Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust jumpsuit and his handwritten lyrics are set to be the highlights of a V&A show dedicated to the singer “who helped change the world”.

More than 300 objects have been selected for what is being billed as the first museum Bowie retrospective.

The show, David Bowie Is, opens next spring and will feature Bowie’s own instruments, sketches, musical scores, diary entries and album artwork.

Handwritten lyrics and set lists, 60 stage costumes, photography, film, music videos, set designs and storyboards which have not been shown before will go on display at the V&A, which plans to hold an academic symposium on the singer.

Bowie has given the V&A (Victoria and Albert Museum) access to his archive of 60,000 objects in New York – a first for a museum. The show has been curated by the V&A.