Trove of Bowie's untapped genius

MUSEUM: 90,000 PIECES OF STAR'S ARCHIVE OPEN TO PUBLIC

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When David Bowie died in 2016, he left a vast musical legacy – and a trove of unrealized projects. Tantalizing details of those abandoned and unfinished ideas are revealed in Bowie's archive, which opens to the public tomorrow.

The 90,000 items acquired from Bowie's estate by London's Victoria and Albert Museum include handwritten notes for a movie in which Major Tom, the fictional astronaut "sitting in a tin can far above the world" in Bowie's song Space Oddity, is sent to "a disgruntled America".

Curator Madeleine Haddon said the unmade film, titled Young Americans, like Bowie's 1975 album of the same name, is "reflective on what it's like to be a Brit in the US and thinking about international politics and their place in the world".

Other might-have-beens include