A handwritten lyric sheet penned by David Bowie for 2 of his “cult favourite” songs might fetch as much as £100,000 when it goes below the hammer subsequent week.
The double-sided lyric sheet contains the late music icon’s drafts, notes and corrections from when he created Rock N Roll Suicide and Suffragette City – which each featured on his 1972 traditional, The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars.
The web page dates to the ultimate recording classes of the album and was given to the unique proprietor by the Life On Mars hitmaker at Trident Studio in Soho, central London, together with pages which haven’t survived.
It can be accompanied by a letter of provenance from the vendor, stating that the web page was created in the course of the album’s closing recording classes.
The aspect of the sheet exhibiting the Suffragette City lyrics features a be aware on the backside left to tell the writer of two extra songs Bowie was contemplating for the album – It Ain’t Easy and Round And Round.
It Ain’t Easy made it on to the 1972 album, whereas Round And Round, a canopy of Chuck Berry’s Around And Around, was chosen as a B-side for the UK subject of Drive In-Saturday, launched a yr later in 1973.
The lyric sheet was bought by the present proprietor within the early Eighties and went on mortgage in 2013 to the V&A Museum for its highly-anticipated David Bowie exhibition – which turned its fastest-ever promoting occasion.
It travelled throughout the globe when the exhibition departed London and journeyed to Toronto, Sao Paolo, Chicago, Paris, Melbourne, Bologna, Tokyo, Barcelona and New York throughout a five-year worldwide tour.
Stellar showcase of music memorabilia on sale
Bowie, who died from liver most cancers on 10 January 2016 aged 69, was topped Britain’s most influential artist of the previous 50 years for his capability to transcend music, movie and style.
His lyric sheet can be amongst a stellar showcase of musical memorabilia on sale on Tuesday by way of Omega Auctions – which beforehand offered a handwritten lyric sheet for Starman, certainly one of his most well-known songs, for greater than £200,000.
Other heaps embrace a e-book beforehand owned by Oasis guitarist, Noel Gallagher, that includes lyrics for fan favourites together with Champagne Supernova, She’s Electric, Rockin’ Chair, Step Out Tonight and Going Nowhere, which is anticipated to fetch between £30,000 and £50,000.
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Gallagher hailed Bowie as “one of the all-time greats”, telling Sky News how the visionary singer impressed him to step out of his consolation zone and “put himself out there”.
A sheet containing The Doors frontman Jim Morrison’s handwritten lyrical musings can be up for public sale with an estimated worth of £10,000 to £50,000.
Handwritten and signed lyrics by Queen drummer Roger Taylor for the band’s tune, Breakthru, are anticipated to fetch as much as £10,000, whereas a pair of trousers owned and worn by late frontman Freddie Mercury might web £6,000.
The public sale additionally contains signed pictures, posters, albums and setlists by a wide range of well-known artists.
Bowie’s lyric sheet has been described as “an incredible artefact” by public sale supervisor, Dan Muscatelli-Hampson.
“There are two real cult favourites in the wonderful David Bowie oeuvre and Suffragette City has been described as one of his very best,” he mentioned.
“It is an incredible artefact to have and to hold and it is sure to excite the many millions of Bowie fans around the world, just as the Starman lyrics did.
“We are excited to see what it’d obtain on the day.”
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