The newest piece of superstar memorabilia being made accessible is a handwritten lyric sheet penned by David Bowie, with estimates that the memento might attain as much as £100,000 ($126,000) when it’s offered at public sale.
The BBC reviews that the songsheet contains lyrics for the tracks Rock ‘n’ Roll Suicide and Suffragette City, two songs that featured on Bowie’s 1972 album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars.
The sheet contains Bowie’s corrections, drafts and notes, and is reported to have been given to the unique proprietor by Bowie. It was beforehand a part of the exhibition devoted to the musician that was launched at London’s V&A Museum and toured the world between 2013 and 2018.
An identical sheet for the star’s track Starman beforehand offered on the similar public sale home for £165,000. This newest songsheet will go on sale on Tuesday at Omega Auctions.
The public sale sale features a lyric e book as soon as owned by Oasis’ Noel Gallagher, and in addition a lyric sheet created by The Doors’ Jim Morrison.
The starvation for superstar souvenirs has seen costs rise at public sale homes. The leather-based jacket worn by Michael Jackson to movie a Pepsi advert almost 40 years in the past lately offered at a London public sale for £250,000 ($306,000). Jackson wore the jacket to movie a Pepsi advert in 1984, scorching off the heels of his record-breaking success with the Thriller album. The Pepsi adverts grew to become infamous for an incident by which Jackson’s hair caught hearth whereas filming, leaving him with critical burns.
The jacket was considered one of greater than 20 objects, together with a jacket initially worn by George Michael and a hairpiece belonging to Amy Winehouse, plus objects linked to Bowie, Oasis and The Beatles, that have been offered at public sale.
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