David Bowie's handwritten lyrics set to promote for £70,000 at public sale

The lined A4 paper has spelling errors, together with the refrain the place he wrote “balls” as an alternative of “bawls”.

Launched in 1973 it reached quantity two within the UK.

Bowie, who died from liver most cancers in January 2016, gave the lyric sheet to Neal Peters, the President of the official David Bowie Fan Membership in New York.

It’s anticipated to spark a bidding battle at Omega Auctions of Newton Le-Willows, Merseyside on February 7.

Public sale supervisor Dan Hampson stated: “The seller determined to promote after seeing the superb value achieved once we offered the Starman lyrics final 12 months for £203,500.

“This shall be of giant curiosity to Bowie followers and we’re excited to see what it would go for.”