{"id":11076,"date":"2022-10-27T08:29:12","date_gmt":"2022-10-27T12:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/?p=11076"},"modified":"2022-10-27T08:29:12","modified_gmt":"2022-10-27T12:29:12","slug":"vegetable-man-lyric-sheet-to-be-auctioned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/2022\/10\/vegetable-man-lyric-sheet-to-be-auctioned\/","title":{"rendered":"Vegetable Man lyric sheet to be auctioned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/vegetable-man-lyrics.jpg\"><\/a><strong>Bonhams<\/strong> will auction <strong>Syd Barrett<\/strong>&#8216;s handwritten lyrics to &#8220;Vegetable Man&#8221; next month.<\/p>\n<p>The song was recorded by <strong>Pink Floyd<\/strong> in mid-October 1967 to be included on the band&#8217;s second album &#8220;A Saucerful of Secrets&#8221; (1968). The track was instead shelved for nearly 50 years, when it was finally released as part of the boxset &#8220;The Early Years: 1965\u20131972&#8221; (2016).<\/p>\n<p>According to Bonhams, the lyric sheet &#8220;was acquired by Pink Floyd&#8217;s first manager at the time the song was written and has been in his possession since.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It consists of each verse and the chorus written across 32 lines over two pages of lined paper in blue ballpoint pen with handwritten musical chords. It&#8217;s being sold with a letter concerning its provenance.<\/p>\n<p>Bonhams indicates this will be the first time a complete set of lyrics handwritten by Barrett will be offered at auction. It estimates the item will sell for \u00a330,000 to \u00a340,000, approximately $35,000 to $46,000 in U.S. currency.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright is not included with the sale, with all rights remaining with Barrett&#8217;s estate.<\/p>\n<p>The auction takes place Nov. 16 at 1 p.m. GMT in London. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bonhams.com\/auction\/27389\/lot\/93\/syd-barrett-pink-floyd-a-rare-set-of-handwritten-lyrics-for-vegetable-man-circa-1967\/\">Learn more at the Bonhams website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bonhams will auction Syd Barrett&#8216;s handwritten lyrics to &#8220;Vegetable Man&#8221; next month. The song was recorded by Pink Floyd in mid-October 1967 to be included on the band&#8217;s second album &#8220;A Saucerful of Secrets&#8221; (1968). The track was instead shelved for nearly 50 years, when it was finally released as part of the boxset &#8220;The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,29,13,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-merchandise","category-other","category-personnel","category-syd-barrett"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11076"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11079,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11076\/revisions\/11079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}