Tuesday 26th February 2013 by Michael Baggs

Tags: David Bowie

David Bowie has set a ticket sales record at the Victoria and Albert museum in London, after 26,000 tickets were sold for a retrospective collection of his flamboyant stage costumes.

The V&A will display over 60 of Bowie's costumes from 23 March in a new exhibition celebrating his career, and clothes, alongside sketches and storyboard drawn by the 'Ziggy Stardust' icon himself. Pre-sale tickets, sold almost a month in advance of the exhibition's opening have exceeded 26,000 and is set to be the museum's biggest and most popular display ever.

The Victoria & Albert exhibition will run from March until 13 August, 2013.

The news comes on the same day that Bowie premiered the video for his new single, 'The Stars (Are Out Tonight)', the second single to be taken from his new album, The Next Day - his first studio release in ten years. The video stars Hollywood A-lister and iconic indie actress Tilda Swinton as his wife.

Watch Bowie's 'The Stars (Are Coming Out Tonight)' below 

David Bowie's 2013 comeback has proven to be one of the most successful of the year so far, with huge interest in both this, and previous release, 'Where Are We Now'. However, Bowie's producer Tony Visconti revealed the new material was a recent development for the star, as he previously had no interest in recording new music.

"Music didn't interest him until two years ago," Visconti said. "That's when he made the call. He said, 'How would you like to make some demos?' And I was a little shocked, quite honestly; it was just so casual. It was just the next topic in the discussion."

It took just a matter of days, according to Visconti, from that conversation to being in a recording studio in New York's East Village working out the songs.

Bowie had reportedly begun writing at home sometime before getting together with Visconti, and after five days in the studio they had rough tracks recorded.

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