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DAVID BOWIE IS... We made it down to the V&A a couple of weeks ago for the much-trumpeted David Bowie Is... exhibition. What a great afternoon we had. It took almost three hours to work our way through the rooms. Highlights are the sombre Berlin room and the floor-to-ceiling video wall showing footage of the Philadelphia 74 concert (recorded for the David Live album). Fascinating archive material, though, including handwritten lyric sheets, pages from Bowie's diaries and of course costumes, costumes, costumes. 

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