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David Bowie's Secret Musical on 18th Century London Found
David Bowie's final creative endeavor, an 18th century musical titled 'The Spectator', explored themes of art, satire, crime, and notable figures in early 1700s London, with notes unveiled in 2025.
- Archivists revealed that David Bowie had been working on The Spectator, an 18th Century musical, with notes to be displayed at the David Bowie Centre on September 13.
- Drawn to art and satire in 18th-century London, David Bowie, researcher and artist, copied quotes from The Spectator periodical and studied painters Joshua Reynolds and William Hogarth.
- Among the notes Bowie sketched, pinned to his New York office walls, are plot ideas featuring the Mohocks gang, Honest Jack Sheppard, Jonathan Wild, and vivid scenes like surgeons fighting over corpses after hangings.
- The V&A received a major donation that includes roughly 90,000 items from the David Bowie Estate, the Blavatnik Family Foundation and Warner Music Group, with around 200 items exhibited at the David Bowie Centre and others viewable by appointment.
- Unfinished, the project nevertheless represents one of David Bowie’s lifelong ambitions and curators say it enriches understanding of his legacy, inspiring future generations of musicians, artists and creators.
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Shortly before David Bowie died in 2016, he left fans with the album Blackstar, an artistic farewell and a meditation on human transience. Now, a new exhibition reveals that in the final months of his life, he embarked on another project - writing a musical.
David Bowie Was Working on a Secret Project
He didn't tell even his closest collaborators about it, but David Bowie was working on a new musical before his death in 2016. A notebook and notes pinned to the walls of his office in New York revealed that the singer was working on a musical called The Spectator , set...
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David Bowie's secret musical on 18th century London found
David Bowie was working on an "18th century" themed musical at the time of his death, which will feature in a new London centre dedicated to the seminal British artist, the BBC reported Friday.
Even the closest collaborators were unaware of the plan revealed in the notes.
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