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David Bowie An Autographed Five-Sided Handwritten Letter With Stage Sketches Relating To David's 'Art Lab' Project,circa 1969, written in turquoise ink on lined exercise paper in David Bowie's hand, sent C/O Tony Visconti, 108 Lexham Grds, London W8 discussing his lack of permanent address and the change in John Peel's programme times, The moving of your programme is drag and a shame. I suppose everyone is telling you that, but I would also like to add my condolences.. He moves on to outline in depth his plans for an artists lab, ...is well underway now...The folk-Lab is the most successful project so far. Most of the people that we've had there (Gasworks, Keith Xmas...two girls whose names i forget) think it the best in the South of England. He elaborates on the planning permission, that the enterprise is a registered charity and that there are architects employed, then adds hand drawn diagrams of the building layout with stage, café, dressings rooms, a theatre, music lab and printing rooms, on page 4 Bowie writes, Meanwhile we are building an inflatable onto a pantechnicon (G.P.O.Lorry), with diagrams of how this would look, Bowie signs off, I have also sent you copy of my single which I hope you will like, will contact you soon, Bowie 7in x 9in (18cm x 23cm)FootnotesJohn Peel was a early advocate of David Bowie and would support him as much as possible by inviting him for sessions in the mid-late 1960's before he became a big name. In an interview John did for 'Bowie At The Beeb' he refers to the letter in this lot. He says :'...he asks me for money to support the Beckenham Arts Lab, and these are full of drawings of what he wanted to do with the buildings and so on. I didn't send him any money, although i used to send money to lots of people, but not to him.'