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The new David Bowie exhibition at London's Victoria & Albert museum have become the museum's fastest selling of all time, ahead of the show's opening this weekend (23 March, 2013).
The exhibition opens on Saturday, and there have already been more than 42,000 advance tickets sold. This is more than double the amount sold in advance for previous exhibitions.
The exhibition is called David Bowie Is, and is set to explore Bowie's creative process as a musical innovator and cultural icon over the past fifty years.
"We have sold over 47,000 tickets for the exhibition. It is the most pre-sale tickets that we have ever recorded for an exhibition," said a spokeswoman for the London museum to Sky news.
David Bowie Is will display more than sixty of his stage costumes - including Ziggy Stardust and the Union Jack coat worn on the Earthling cover - as well as personal handwritten set lists and lyrics. Some of Bowie's sketches, musical scores and diary entries will also be shown.
The star is not involved as a curator, but did give the museum "unprecedented access" to choose costumes, photographs and other memorabilia.
42,000 tickets to the exhibition at the V&A are already sold
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