Berlin (AFP) – David Bowie’s richly creative years in gritty 1970s Berlin where he made his iconic “Heroes” album are explored in a new exhibition expanding on last year’s hit London show.
Handwritten lyrics with words crossed out for the title track about a couple meeting at the Berlin Wall, a letter he wrote to Marlene Dietrich, and the painting he did that helped him kick a drug habit — are among some 60 additional items in the Berlin show that reveal the seminal period Bowie spent in the divided German capital.
The multi-media exhibit, to be officially opened Monday by Germany’s foreign minister, is hosted by the Martin Gropius Bau museum which, appropriately, stood next to the former East-West Berlin border until
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