Prince’s guitar and Bowie’s hair sold
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BIDDERS paid a combined total of over US$150,000 for a lock of David Bowie’s hair and Prince’s iconic “Yellow Cloud” guitar on Saturday at a Beverly Hills auction.
Heritage Auctions, which prompted legal action by offering Whitney Houston’s Emmy Award as part of a separate sale, said the snippet of Bowie’s pale blond hair went for US$18,750.
It came from an ex- employee of the Madame Tussauds Wax Museum in London who was tasked with recreating the music icon’s 1983-era hairdo for his wax figure.
Prince’s instrument of choice during the late 1980s attracted a winning bid of US$137,500, with unconfirmed reports saying it had gone to Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay.
The auctioneer was forced to abandon plans to sell Houston’s Emmy as part of a separate auction of her dresses and other belongings after the US Television Academy argued it owned the rights to the statuette.
US District Judge Percy Anderson issued a temporary restraining order on Friday forbidding the auction house from selling the trophy, won in 1986 for Houston’s performance of “Saving All My Love for You” at the Grammys.
“We fought the good fight, but we respect the court’s decision,” Heritage spokesman Eric Bradley said.
The 48-year-old diva was found drowned in a bathtub at the Beverly Hilton in 2012.
Bowie and Prince died within months earlier this year.
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