David Bowie's favourite songs revealed in unearthed note
A list of David Bowie's favourite songs have been revealed in a newly-unearthed note ahead of the opening of the David Bowie Centre at the V+A East Storehouse in London.
David Bowie's favourite songs have been revealed in a newly-unearthed note.
The David Bowie Centre will open at the V+A East Storehouse in Hackney Wick, London, on Saturday (13.09.25) and artefacts that have surfaced as part of the archive include a note that lists the Life on Mars artist's favourite tracks.
It reads: "Memo for radio show – list of favourite records."
The note includes songs such as Jeff Beck's Beck's Bolero, Across The Universe by The Beatles (which Bowie covered on his 1975 album Young Americans) and Roxy Music's Mother of Pearl.
The full list is as follows:
Ralph Vaughn Williams – Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tails
Richard Strauss – Four Last Songs
Alan Freed and His Rock 'N' Roll Band – Right Now Right Now
Little Richard – True Fine Mama
The Hollywood Argyles – She Knows a Lot About Love
Miles Davis – Some Day My Prince Will Come
Charles Mingus – Ecclusiastics
Jeff Beck – Beck's Bolero
Legendary Stardust Cowboy – I Took a Trip on a Gemini Spaceship
The Beatles – Across the Universe
Ronnie Spector – Try Some, Buy Some
Roxy Music – Mother of Pearl
Edgar Froese – Epsilon in Malaysian Pale
The Walker Brothers – The Electrician
Sonic Youth – Tom Violence
Along with 90,000 items relating to Bowie – who passed away from cancer aged 69 in 2016 – the collection will trace the Golden Years artist's "creative processes as a musical innovator, cultural icon, and advocate for self-expression and reinvention" and have been acquired by the V+A through the David Bowie Estate, the Blavatnik Family Foundation and Warner Music Group.
Bowie was also celebrated at the inaugural ZIGGYFEST at Ziggy Green in London last weekend and Woody Woodmansey – the drummer and last surviving original member of the Space Oddity singer's band The Spiders from Mars – explained that he didn't realise how seriously ill Bowie was until his passing.
Speaking exclusively to BANG Showbiz Managing Director Rick Sky at the event, Woody said: "Tony Visconti knew he was ill, but he didn’t know he was that ill.
"I thought he was ill, but nothing serious, I just thought it was a simple problem.
"Tony [Visconti] thought he got through it. When we went to New York we heard ‘Oh David is coming down to sing with us’. But he hadn’t come."
