Submitted on Tuesday 12th January 2016
Rejected on Friday 15th January 2016
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: irrelevant (see below for details)
Install a memorial to David Bowie in Poet's Corner in Westminster Abbey
The death of David Bowie on January 12th 2016 is significant moment in our culture. The last forty years will be remembered internationally as a golden age of music and lyrics in British history. Yet there is no official recognition of this important era in our national place of commemoration
Since the burial of Geoffrey Chaucer in 1556, Poet's Corner in the South Transept of Westminster Abbey has being the place to commemorate poets. Many, like Shakespeare, Burns and Blake, famed for their lyrics - poetry set to music - as other forms.
Though some of the musical arrangements of David Bowie's work may date, his experimental and evocative lyrics - especially from 1970 to 1977 - have inspired many other writers and artists.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
The decision to grant a memorial in Westminster Abbey rests solely with the Dean of Westminster.
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