A bandstand where a young David Bowie organised a free musical festival has been Grade-II listed.
The singer set up the Growth Summer Festival in Beckenham, south London, near where he was living in 1969 after scoring his first hit with Space Oddity — and even performed a short set in front of a small audience at the landmark.
Duncan Wilson, chief executive of Historic England, said of the bandstand: “It is a rare survival from a historic iron foundry in its own right, but its significance as a site that inspired David Bowie shows us how powerful our historic places can be and how important it is that we protect them.”
The bandstand has stood in the Croydon Road Recreation Ground since 1905.
