The sheet containing two handwritten lyrics by David Bowie could fetch around 100,000 British pounds at auction, the equivalent of around 115,000 euros. The BBC based on the catalog of the auction house where the texts will go under the hammer next week.
This is a sheet with notes and corrections on both sides for Bowie’s songs Rock ‘n’ Roll Suicide and Suffragette City. Both songs appear on the 1972 album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars.
In the description of the item, auction house Omega Auctions states that the paper itself was given by Bowie to the original owner. This happened in the Trident Studio with the aim of preparing the texts that would be printed on the inside of the record sleeve. The page was previously on display for many years in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.
The auction house previously sold a page of Bowie’s handwritten lyrics for his song Starman for £165,000. Bowie died of liver cancer in January 2016 at the age of 69.
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