By JILL LAWLESS

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

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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

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