RAZOR. A SCRIPT TREATMENT BY ANGIE BOWIE. 1975.

n.p.: s.p. (Angie Bowie), 1975

28 x 21.5cm, 9pp vintage xerox pages of typed texts by the diva/actress/wannabe rock star and David Bowie’s wife and advisor in the early days of glam rock. This is a “story treatment” of a proposed play or short film where “Razor” and her “queen” friend go to a night club and things happen. The number of such scripts are unknown and the text feels a little under considered but it is an interesting and clearly rare document. Cigarette burn on one page and slight marks to the red covers from the rivet binding else VG+. The number of such copies is unknown but there cannot be many at all.

To quote from Angie herself: “Razor is a play that i wrote in the early 70s and by 1975 it was collated and I was trying to get a producer to back the show. Stevie (Marriot) asked me to help him go through music and assign songs and generally reorganize so that he could get a publishing deal. We worked on it together for about a week, went into a lovely little country studio and listened and mixed all kinds of wonderful songs he had written. i may have even written some lyrics for a couple of the tunes. While we were going through Stevie’s music we talked about my musical Razor and so i gave him a copy of it to read. Stevie suggested that we get the publishing money for Razor at the same time as we got his deal.”.