The Camillion of Rock, David Bowie, left behind a profound and colorful legacy. To round

out our show tonight, we zoom to London, virtually, to visit the new home for the British

Stars archive that just opened this weekend.

Guitars he strummed, notes with handwritten lyrics, a rejection letter from a recording studio,

all alongside some of David Bowie's iconic outfits, like the ice blue suit Bowie wore in the video for Life on Mars in 1973,

and of course the famous Lightning Bolt jacket from his Ziggy Stardust days.

Madeline Haddon is the lead curator of the David Bowie Center at the VNA East Storehouse.

There are more than 90,000 items in the archive, and of that, 200 are on display.

Woodling down that selection was one of the biggest intellectual and curatorial challenges

of my life, certainly.

There's just such a massive amount to choose from not only in volume of material, but periods

of work, genres, you know, creative personas, even projects that we didn't know that he was working on until we got our hands on the archive. Curator Harriet Reid also helped sift through Bowie's belongings.

Every day we're finding really interesting new stories, new discoveries, things that have been on display before.

But for me, I'm always really interested by a sort of ephemera around Bowie's process.

The sort of notes he made, the to-do

list, things where he's making a record of the exhibitions he wants to see, the films he wants to

see, books he wants to read. That kind of devouring of culture is really fascinating to know

why he was so restlessly creative.

Bowie died in 2016 of liver cancer at the age of 69.

In his lifetime, he was a prolific musician, but also a writer, actor and designer.

Toward the end of his life, Post-it notes left in his New York office show he was working on a musical, set in

18th century London.

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