A moving letter written by David Bowie’s father and fan mail from Lady Gaga are among 90,000 items at a new London museum offering intimate insights into the man behind the Ziggy Stardust make-up. The David Bowie Centre, which opens on Saturday, features iconic costumes, instruments and stage props used by the Space Oddity singer, who died in 2016, and also elaborate drawings and scribbled notes. A David Bowie mural, showing the singer in his Ziggy Stardust persona, in London in 2020. “As we told you on the phone, Apple Records is not interested in signing David Bowie. Lady Gaga performing a tribute to David Bowie during the 58th Grammy Awards at Staples Center on February 15, 2016 in Los Angeles, California.