(London) The text of StarmanDavid Bowie’s 1972 hit, handwritten by the artist, sold at auction on Tuesday for the sum of 203,500 pounds ($ 300,000), according to the company Omega Auctions, a specialist in sales related to the world of the music.
Posted at 2:37 p.m.
The song, included in the album Ziggy Stardustphenomenal success of the British singer, evokes “Starman who waits in the sky” and wishes to meet humans.
The text sold on Tuesday, initially priced at 40,000 pounds (about $59,000), is written in blue ink on a small squared A4 sheet. We see the changes made by Bowie as well as spelling mistakes corrected by the singer.
The document was exhibited during a retrospective at the Victoria & Albert Museum dedicated in 2013 to the singer, who died in January 2016 at the age of 69.
The buyer is a private collector whose identity has not been revealed.
The handwritten text was part of a larger sale titled “David Bowie and Glam Rock”, including posters and vinyl records.