Brixton Pound, A3 print of B£10 “David Bowie” note
Estimate: $1,000-$1,500
The Paddle8 auction website has an incredible auction right now featuring a huge amount of remarkable memorabilia from the greatest musical acts of the 20th century, including David Bowie, the Beatles, the Stones, Bob Dylan, and the Notorious B.I.G., just to name a few.
Unfortunately, the auction, going by the title “Legendary,” ends at 1 p.m. today Eastern time, right around when this post is set to appear live on our website. Presumably DM readers are more interested in viewing the auctions than they are in actually buying the (very expensive) stuff.
David Bowie, “Fashions” Mobile Display
Estimate: $400-$600
Some of the bigger-ticket items include signed items from the Beatles and the Stones, original handwritten lyric sheets from Bob Dylan and David Bowie, original painted canvases by Bob Dylan, rejected cover art for David Bowie’s album Station to Station, and a jacket worn by the Notorious B.I.G. The auction casts a wide net, including items from the Clash, the Cramps, the Grateful Dead, Pink Floyd, Jimi Hendrix,
Motörhead, the Sex Pistols, the Slits, X-Ray Spex, and Led Zeppelin.
As always, the details of the items only increases one’s interest in them. The paintings by Dylan are known as the “Drawn Blank Series,” watercolors and gouaches depicting “hotel room and apartment interiors, land- and cityscapes, views of sidewalk cafes, train tracks, and wandering rivers.” Dylan’s handwritten lyric sheet for “A Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall” actually dates from 2013, with “the 31 lines written out by Bob Dylan in black ink on a page of Holmenkollen Park Hotel Rica, Oslo stationary.” The full-color proof of the Station to Station album art was rejected by Bowie because he “felt that the sky looked artificial.”
Biggie’s jacket “features an embroidered logo reading ‘Flip Squad’ on its front and an applique ‘Funkmaster Flex’ logo on its back,” while the large Decca poster of the Stones was signed by Brian Jones, Keith Richards, Mick Jagger, and Charlie Watts on Monday, October 19, 1964 “at the Locomotive nightclub in Paris during a press event in advance of their concert at the Olympia theatre the following day.”
Excuse me, I have to see my bank representative about a loan…..
Here are some images of the items to be auctioned; click on any image for a larger view.
The Beatles, Autographed “Meet The Beatles” Album
Estimate: $100,000-$150,000
Bob Dylan, Signed Handwritten Lyrics for “A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall”
Estimate: $50,000-$70,000
Notorious B.I.G, Personally Owned and Worn Black Leather Jacket
Estimate $2,000-$3,000
David Bowie, Proof for Withdrawn “Station To Station” Album Cover
Estimate: $1,500-$2,000
Bob Dylan, “Drawn Blank Series”
Estimate: $60,000-$80,000
The Rolling Stones, Large Autographed Poster
Estimate: $60,000-$80,000
David Bowie, Signed Handwritten Lyrics for “The Jean Genie”
Estimate: $50,000-$70,000
via Messy Nessy Chic
Previously on Dangerous Minds:
‘Gabba Gabba once, Gabba Gabba twice’: Joey Ramone’s personal items going up for auction
Burt Reynolds is auctioning off bizarre crap only Burt Reynolds would own