The enormous cache of more than 80,000 items – including handwritten lyrics, instruments, costumes, set designs, letters and album artwork – spanning more than six decades will be held in a special centre being created in east London. TOP 100 ALBUMES — SEMANA 3: del 13.01.2017 al 19.01.2017" (in Spanish). Productores de Música de España . Retrieved 26 January 2017. Based on Official Charts Company data and Music Week analysis , the album has cemented David Bowie’s leadership position for UK vinyl sales in the modern era . The archive material showed “Bowie’s hand in everything – sketching out costume ideas and album covers, song notes, details of collaborations. It gives insight into his imagination and how he saw his ideas through.” Here, Rhino/Warner Music director of digital marketing, Tom Gallacher takes Music Week inside the campaign strategy for the much-anticipated Toy album and the latest box set that digs into one of Bowie’s most creative songwriting eras…

Offiziellecharts.de – David Bowie – Legacy" (in German). GfK Entertainment Charts. Retrieved 13 January 2017. The history of Toy and how it was shelved after being recorded in 2000 is an interesting episode in Bowie’s career. How did its release come about? a b Monroe, Jazz (28 September 2016). "David Bowie Singles Collection Bowie Legacy Announced | Pitchfork". Pitchfork. Archived from the original on 26 September 2019 . Retrieved 29 September 2016. French album certifications – David Bowie – Legacy" (in French). Syndicat National de l'Édition Phonographique . Retrieved 13 December 2022. The impressive sales performance will further establish Bowie’s pre-eminence in the vinyl market, where he leads the decade and century to-date sales chart. As revealed by Music Week’s chart analyst Alan Jones in his latest column , Bowie’s vinyl sales for the 2000s of 582,704 (calculated up until January 6) place him ahead of the only other act to top half a million units on the format – The Beatles (535,596 sales).

The centre will be created at V&A East Storehouse which is under construction in Stratford. It will house the archives of influential individuals and organisations, including Vivien Leigh, the Royal Court theatre and the Glastonbury festival.

Instruments include Brian Eno’s synthesiser from Bowie’s Low and Heroes albums, and a stylophone that was a gift from Marc Bolan in the late 60s and used on Bowie’s Space Oddity recording. The third album appearance in the latest chart is 2016 Bowie compilation Legacy, which jumped 38-19 (3,231 sales), reaching its highest chart position for exactly a year amid the Bowie75 campaign activity. Probably" on most systems this will not sound great BUT if you`ve managed to eke out most if not all the potential out of your vinyl front end,you`ll "probably" be well rewarded with this one on the platter,good everyone & happy listening. Selected items are only available for delivery via the Royal Mail 48® service and other items are available for delivery using this service for a charge.Phono Stage Whest Audio TWO.2 class a dual mono fully balanced phono stage, 50db/47k ohms,HOMC setting) The ChangesNowBowie live session, recorded in 1996 during rehearsals for Bowie’s 50th birthday concert at Madison Square Garden, comes later in the year and was previously broadcast on Radio 1 by Mary Anne Hobbs. Opening in 2025, the David Bowie Centre for the Study of Performing Arts will provide a “new sourcebook for the Bowies of tomorrow”, said Tristram Hunt, the V&A’s director.

Kate Bailey, senior curator at the V&A, said: “We had unprecedented access to Bowie’s archive for the 2013 exhibition, but that only scratched the surface.”Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. " Legacy – David Bowie". AllMusic. Archived from the original on 8 May 2019 . Retrieved 15 April 2021. Album version released on The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars in June 1972. My copy has always been flat well centered & the vinyl noise free,they been in mofi inner sleeves for a few years but came in standard white paper ones,the gatefold is fine with ifno & nice pics of the Great Man. David Bowie was one of the greatest musicians and performers of all time,” he added. “The V&A is thrilled to become custodians of his incredible archive, and to be able to open it up for the public.