David Bowie’s handwritten lyrics to his 1972 track Starman have offered for greater than £200,000 (A$334,958) at public sale, 5 occasions their estimated sale value.
The track featured on his fifth album, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, which propelled the musician to worldwide rock and pop stardom.
The handwritten lyrics, which had been initially estimated to fetch as much as £40,000 (A$66,991) offered for £203,500 (A$340,819), together with purchaser’s premium.
Olivier Varenne, director of acquisitions and alliances and collections on the Museum of Previous and New Artwork (Mona) in Tasmania in Australia, was the successful bidder.
“We acquired carried away and paid an excessive amount of,” Mona’s proprietor and founder, David Walsh, stated on Wednesday.
“It’ll make an look within the expanded library we're at the moment developing, together with many different objects we acquired carried away with and paid an excessive amount of for.”
The lyrics, offered as a part of a David Bowie and glam rock sale on Tuesday, had been beforehand on show as a part of the V&A Museum’s David Bowie Is assortment and had been owned by the identical particular person because the Nineteen Eighties.
The A4 web page options handwritten amendments and edits by Bowie, together with corrected spelling errors and additions.
Paul Fairweather, of Omega Auctions, stated: “We had virtually unprecedented curiosity from around the globe for this historic piece of memorabilia. We had 5 phone strains in operation for the sale in addition to bidders on-line and within the room.
“We’re more than happy with the unimaginable value achieved and are certain the lyrics will probably be rightly prized and treasured by the successful bidder.”
In 2019, the primary demo of Bowie singing Starman, who would “like to come back and meet us however he thinks he’d blow our minds”, offered for £51,000 (A$85,414) after gathering mud in a loft for almost 5 many years.
– with Australian Related Press
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