David Bowie's Favourite Songs Revealed In Previously Unseen Note In V&A Archive

David Bowie's favourite tracks have been revealed in a previously unearthed note for the V&A Archive.

This comes as the David Bowie Centre opens at the V&A East Storehouse in Hackney Wick on September 13. Special exhibitions will also be curated by The Last Dinner Party and Nile Rodgers.

The collection will include 90,000 Bowie related items, tracing the late artists' “creative processes as a musical innovator, cultural icon, and advocate for self-expression and reinvention”. They have also been acquired by the V&A via the David Bowie Estate, Warner Music Group, and the Blavatnik Family Foundation.

It has also been announced that more artefacts have surfaced as part of this archive, which included a note listing Bowie's favourite tracks, reading: “Memo for radio show — list of favourite records”, and includes tracks such as Alan Freed and His Rock ‘N’ Roll Band’s ‘Right Now Right Now’ and Jeff Beck’s ‘Beck’s Bolero". 

Other tracks listed by Bowie also include, ‘Across The Universe’ by The Beatles, which he covered on his 1975 album ‘Young Americans’. Elsewhere, he also listed Little Richard’s ‘Ecclusiastics’, Roxy Music’s ‘Mother of Pearl’, ‘The Electrician’ by The Walker Brothers and ‘Tom Violence’ by Sonic Youth.

See the full list below.

• Ralph Vaughan Williams – ‘Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis’
• 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 – ‘Sho Know 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’

Last month, Josh Homme has compared Ozzy Osbourne's "poetic" death to David Bowie's passing in 2016. More on this from Nova here.