Lock Of David Bowie’s Hair To Be Auctioned Off

A lock of hair from the English rocker is expected to fetch more than $4,000 when it hits the auction block on Saturday.

Heritage says the lock comes from a former employee at Madame Tussauds Wax Museum in London.

“After she snipped this chunk of Bowie’s hair (so its color could be duplicated for the wax figure’s wig), she kept it for a souvenir as she was a huge Bowie fan”, it continues.

According to Margaret Barrett of Heritage Auctions in Los Angeles (via NME) they, “have sold a lot of celebrity hair in the past, but never any of David Bowie’s”.

In total, five locks were cut from Bowie’s hair, and only one is still in existence, and now up for sale.

A lock of David Bowies hair is up for auction. She kept a tendril for herself, but is seemingly ready to part with it three decades later. She now feels less sentimental about her prized Bowie memento.

Wendy, now 55, recalls taking samples from all over Bowie’s head because he had bleached his locks different shades of blonde. “They both knew I was a Bowie fan and kindly let me take the hair samples when he came for a sitting in 1983”.

Locks of hair are not an uncommon sight at auction houses. “I cherish other things more now”.

However, Farrier is fully aware-and accepts-that some may find the timing of her auction, six months after Bowie’s death, distasteful. “But I wanted to do it now while I’ve got all the evidence [proving its authenticity] and also, because I can now give more money to the Soi Dog Foundation”.