David Bowie's Beckenham bandstand gets Grade II listed status
A bandstand where David Bowie played soon after the release of his first hit single Space Oddity has been protected with a Grade II listing.
The singer performed from the stand to a small audience in Croydon Road Recreation Ground on 16 August 1969.The 1905 bandstand is in Beckenham, where Bowie lived with Mary Finnigan, his landlady-turned-lover.Image copyrightThe bandstand was the centrepiece of the one-day festival, which Bowie helped to organise, compere and perform at exactly 50 years ago.
The event was designed to raise money for a permanent base for his and Finnigan's Beckenham Arts Lab project, which began life as a folk club in the backroom of the nearby Three Tuns pub.
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