Bowie’s first recording to be sold at auction

David Bowie’s first known studio recording, which was rejected by a record company and later found in a bread basket, will be sold at auction.

The 1963 demo tape features a 16-year-old Bowie, then David Jones, in his first band, The Konrads.

The group were turned down by Decca and the tape of Bowie singing I Never Dreamed was never released.

Bowie quit the band within months. His career took off six years later with Space Oddity.

The tape, which could fetch up to £10,000, is among memorabilia to be sold by former Konrads drummer David Hadfield, who also managed the band.

He found it in a bread basket that belonged to his grandfather, in the loft of his garage while moving house in the 1990s.