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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Laura Snapes

David Bowie’s childhood home to open to public after 1960s restoration

A young David Jones sitting on a windowsill with a cat
David Bowie – then David Jones – with a cat at 4 Plaistow Grove around 1956. Photograph: David Bowie Estate

On the evening of 6 July 1972, thousands of young people across the UK had their lives changed when the sight of David Bowie performing Starman on Top of the Pops was beamed into their living rooms.

Come the end of 2027, Bowie fans will be able to walk the very floorboards where the young David Jones had his own Damascene cultural conversion, when his childhood home in south London, is opened to the public for the first time.

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