David Bowie’s childhood home in south-east London where he wrote one of his best-known songs, Space Oddity, is to open to the public as an “immersive experience”.
The house at 4 Plaistow Grove, Bromley, where Bowie lived from the age of eight to 20, has been acquired by Heritage of London Trust.
The home will be returned to its early 1960s appearance and a never-before-seen archive will help to recreate the interior layout as it was when Bowie lived there.
Geoffrey Marsh, co-curator of the V&A Museum’s David Bowie Is exhibition, said the small house was where he went from an “ordinary suburban schoolboy” to the heights of “international stardom”.
