The V&A museum has been able to acquire David Bowie’s archives. This includes 90,000 items, some drawn from his locked office which contained his innermost thoughts and work in progress.

They’ll be using this to base a major exhibition in the new David Bowie Centre at the V&A East Storehouse in Hackney Wick.

During their cataloguing of the material they found a note he’d written headed “Memo for radio show — list of favourite records” which, well, we don’t need to explain.

So here’s that list. Any surprises?

Ralph Vaughan Williams – ‘Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis’
Richard Strauss – ‘Four Last Songs’
Alan Freed and His Rock ’N’ Roll Band – ‘Right Now Right Now’
Little Richard – ‘True Fine Mama’
The Hollywood Argyles – ‘Sho Know a Lot About Love’
Miles Davis – ‘Some Day My Prince Will Come’
Charles Mingus – ‘Ecclusiastics’
Jeff Beck – ‘Beck’s Bolero’
Legendary Stardust Cowboy – ‘I Took a Trip on a Gemini Spaceship’
The Beatles – ‘Across the Universe’
Ronnie Spector – ‘Try Some, Buy Some’
Roxy Music – ‘Mother of Pearl’
Edgar Froese – ‘Epsilon in Malaysian Pale’
The Walker Brothers – ‘The Electrician’
Sonic Youth – ‘Tom Violence’