The newest piece of movie star memorabilia being made out there is a handwritten lyric sheet penned by David Bowie, with estimates that the memento may attain as much as £100,000 ($126,000) when it’s offered at public sale.
The BBC experiences that the songsheet consists of lyrics for the tracks Rock ‘n’ Roll Suicide and Suffragette Metropolis, two songs that featured on Bowie’s 1972 album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars.
The sheet consists of 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 analogous sheet for the star’s music Starman beforehand offered on the identical 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 likewise a lyric sheet created by The Doorways’ Jim Morrison.
The starvation for movie star 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 recently offered at a London public sale for £250,000 ($306,000). Jackson wore the jacket to movie a Pepsi advert in 1984, sizzling off the heels of his record-breaking success with the Thriller album. The Pepsi advertisements grew to become infamous for an incident wherein Jackson’s hair caught hearth whereas filming, leaving him with critical burns.
The jacket was one among 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 had been offered at public sale.
