David Bowie’s handwritten lyrics to ‘Jean Genie’ have fetched £46,000 at public sale.
The late music icon had initially given the lyric sheet for the 1972 hit from his LP ‘Aladdin Sane’ to David Bowie fan membership founder Neal Peters.
The lyrics went beneath the hammer at Omega Auctions in Newton-Le-Willows, Merseyside.
Auctioneer Paul Fairweather mentioned: “We’re nicely happy with the worth achieved for this historic set of lyrics.”
The A4 sheet is signed and dated by the ‘Life on Mars’ hitmaker.
The newest Bowie lyric sale comes after handwritten ‘Starman’ lyrics bought for in extra of £200,000.
The sheet had all of the corrections and edits made by the star himself and went beneath the hammer in Australia breaking the unique estimate of £40,000 to promote for a whopping £203,500 – with the profitable bidder named as Olivier Varenne, director of acquisitions and alliances and collections on the Museum of Previous and New Artwork (Mona) in Tasmania.
The museum’s proprietor and founder David Walsh mentioned of the sale: “We obtained carried away and paid an excessive amount of. It’ll make an look within the expanded library we’re presently developing, together with many different gadgets we obtained carried away with and paid an excessive amount of for.”
Fairweather added: “We had virtually unprecedented curiosity from world wide for this historic piece of memorabilia. We had 5 phone traces in operation for the sale in addition to bidders on-line and within the room.
“We’re very happy with the unbelievable value achieved and are positive the lyrics shall be rightly prized and treasured by the profitable bidder.”
The lyric sheet had been with the identical proprietor for the reason that Nineteen Eighties and had beforehand been displayed on the V and A Museum in London as a part of the establishment’s David Bowie assortment.
‘Starman’ featured on Bowie’s fifth album ‘The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars’, and is credited with serving to propel the singer to worldwide fame.
Bowie died aged 69 on January 10, 2016.
