By JILL LAWLESS

LONDON (AP) — When David Bowie died in 2016, he left a vast musical legacy – and a trove of unrealized projects.

Tantalizing details of those abandoned and unfinished ideas are revealed in Bowie’s archive , which opens to the public this week.

The 90,000 items acquired from Bowie’s estate by London’s Victoria and Albert Museum include handwritten notes for a movie in which Major Tom, the fictional astronaut “floating in a tin can far above the world” in Bowie’s song “Space Oddity,” is sent to “a disgruntled America.”

Curator Madeleine Haddon said the never-made film — titled “Young Americans,” like Bowie’s 1975 album of the same name — is “reflective on what it’s like to be a Brit in the U.S., and thinking about international politics and their place in the world.

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