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1. Tilt down of one of David Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust catsuits made by Kansai Yamamoto
2. Photo of Bowie as Ziggy Stardust in concert in 1973 by photographer Mick Rock
3. Contact sheet for album cover for ‘Aladdin Sane’
4. Part of contact sheet next to dressing room shot of Bowie applying makeup
5. Frockcoat by Bowie and Alexander McQueen that Bowie wore for ‘Earthling’ album cover and tour
6. Wings Bowie wore for 1987 The Glass Spider Tour costume
7. Photo of Bowie in the wings by photographer Richard Haughton
8. Low shot of US military jumpsuit Bowie wore for ‘Young Americans’ album promotional photoshoot
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ARCHIVE: Location unknown, October 1972
9. STILL David Bowie
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ARCHIVE: Philadelphia, US – 1 December 1972
10. STILL David Bowie in his Ziggy Stardust period
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ARCHIVE: Location unknown, May 1973
11. STILL David Bowie, poses beside his Rolls Royce in May 1973
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12. Set up shot of Harriet Reed, Curator of Contemporary Performance at V&A, walking up to the costume Bowie wore on Saturday Night Live in 1979
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Harriet Reed, Curator of Contemporary Performance:
“As soon as you get involved with something to do with David Bowie, it’s obviously very exciting. There is a lot of material to look at and to study. The archive is an incredible treasure trove that spans his 50-year career. So for us, what was really exciting in particular was the comprehensiveness. It’s huge, it’s covering his 50-year career, but also the depth of it from, you know, sketches that he’s done, handwritten lyrics, costumes, instruments, even fan art, merchandise, props, set models, everything you could possibly associate with Bowie. He had assembled, he had collected, and he’d been an active archivist as well in his own collection.”
14. First page of script for Bowie’s musical ‘Lazarus’ with annotation by Bowie
15. Close of annotation ++MUTE++
16. Bowie’s personal notes on ‘Lazarus’
17. Close of his handwriting during rehearsal process
18. Bowie’s notes on the musician roster playing on the album ‘Low’
19. Sketch by Bowie for an idea for an album cover
20. Detail of face in sketch
21. Album cover for “New Music: Night and Day” which was the working title for, and subsequently became, the album ‘Low’
22. SOUNDBITE (English) Harriet Reed, Curator of Contemporary Performance:
“It’s a two-year cataloguing project, so every day we’re finding really interesting new stories, new discoveries, things that have never been on display before. But for me, I’m always really interested by the ephemera around Bowie’s process. So, we know how much he was involved in the design and the song writing and the producing and how he loved to be part of the entire journey of an album or a project. But the sort of notes he made, the to-do list, things where he’s making a record of the exhibitions he wants to see, the films he wants to see, books he wants to read, that kind of devouring of culture is really fascinating to know why he was so restlessly creative.”
23. Tilt down of suit made by Freddie Burretti worn in ‘Life on Mars’ video
24. Tilt down of suit Bowie wore for the Serious Moonlight tour. Designed by Peter Hall
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ARCHIVE: New York, US – 1 November 1974
25. STILL David Bowie performs at Radio City Music Hall in New York , Nov. 1, 1974.
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ARCHIVE: New York, US – 25 March 1976
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ARCHIVE: London, UK – 20 September 1977
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ARCHIVE: New York, US – May 1978
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