Image copyright Getty Images Image caption The 1963 recording with The Konrads features Bowie performing under his birth name David Jones 
 
 The first known studio recording of David Bowie is set for auction after being found in an old bread basket. 
 
 The 1963 demo tape, rejected by Decca, features a 16-year-old Bowie - then known as David Jones - singing I Never Dreamed with first band The Konrads. 
 
 The tape, expected to fetch £10,000, is being sold by the band's drummer David Hadfield, who uncovered it in his loft. 
 
 Auctioneer Paul Fairweather described the tape as a "significant recording, completely unique". 
 
 Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption A clip of a 1963 recording, thought to be the first, of a teenage David Bowie singing 
 
 He said it offers new insight into Bowie as a "fledgling musician who would go on to super stardom." 
 
 The recording captures Bowie, later known as one of music's great experimentalists, at a time when he remained unsure of his musical direction. 
 
 Bowie was The Konrads' saxophonist but it was decided that he should sing lead vocals for the tape. 
 
 Hadfield said: "David had no inclination to become a singer at this point, his heart and mind were focused on becoming a world class saxophone player. 
 
 Image caption Bowie went on to become one of the most influential solo artists of all-time 
 
 "Our agent, Eric Easton, who also managed the Rolling Stones, asked us to do a demo so he could try and get us an audition at Decca. 
 
 "We had decided that we would do a couple of guitar instrumentals and one original song. 
 
 "Decca initially turned us down, but when they eventually gave us an audition later that year, vocalist Roger Ferris was the lead voice and David sang backing harmonies." 
 
 Bowie left the band shortly after the audition, which did not get the band signed. 
 
 He would eventually return as a solo artist six years later - changing his name in 1966 once The Monkees' Davy Jones achieved stardom. 
 
 Signed to Mercury Records, he released Space Oddity - a stand-out on his self-titled second album - in 1969. 
 
 Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption The many faces of David Bowie 
 
 His global breakthrough came with 1972's The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars. 
 
 Following this success, Space Oddity was reissued under RCA records in 1975 and went on to become Bowie's first UK number one. 
 
 His ever-changing artistic persona would ultimately reshape attitudes to fashion, gender, music and culture. 
 
 The Brixton-born star died of cancer in January 2016, two days after the release on his 69th birthday of his 25th studio album, Blackstar. 
 
 Hatfield's newly released recording is part of a trove of memorabilia, including letters, bills, booking forms, photographs and promotional sketches from Bowie's early career. 
 
 The collection is set to go under the hammer at Omega Auctions, in Newton-le-Willows, in September. 
 
 Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk. ||||| David Bowie’s first known studio recording, which was found in a bread basket three decades after being rejected by a record label, is set to go on sale at auction. 
 
 The 1963 demo tape features a 16-year-old Bowie, then known by his birth name David Jones, with his first band, The Konrads. 
 
 The group were turned down by Decca and the tape of Bowie singing a song called I Never Dreamed was never released. 
 
 Bowie quit the band in the following months and his career took off six years later with the release of Space Oddity. 
 
 The tape, which is expected to fetch £10,000, is part of a trove of memorabilia to be sold by former Konrads’ drummer David Hadfield, who also managed the band. 
 
 He unearthed it, while moving house in the 1990s, in the loft of his garage, in a bread basket that once belonged to his grandfather. 
 
 Bowie was the band’s saxophonist but it was decided that he should sing lead vocals for the tape. 
 
 “David had no inclination to become a singer at this point, his heart and mind were focused on becoming a world class saxophone player,” Mr Hadfield said. 
 
 “Our agent, Eric Easton, who also managed the Rolling Stones, asked us to do a demo so he could try and get us an audition at Decca. 
 
 “So in early 1963 I booked into RG Jones’ small studio in Morden. In preparation for the demo, David and our guitarist Neville Wills wrote two to three songs. 
 
 “We had decided that we would do a couple of guitar instrumentals and one original song. I chose I Never Dreamed as it was the strongest, the other two were a bit weak. 
 
 “I also decided that David was the best person to sing it and give the right interpretation. So this became the very first recording of David [Bowie] singing 55 years ago.” 
 
 Record company Decca rejected the demo tape, but did give the band an audition later that year, when Bowie sang backing vocals. 
 
 He left the band shortly after the audition, which also failed to get them signed, citing creative differences. 
 
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 Letters, bills, booking forms, photographs and promotional sketches from Bowie’s early career will also be up for auction as part of the sale. 
 
 Auctioneer Paul Fairweather described the tape as a: “Significant recording, completely unique and of great historical interest, being the earliest studio recording of a fledgling musician who would go on to super stardom.” 
 
 The collection is set to go under the hammer in September at Omega Auctions, in Newton-le-Willows, Merseyside, in a music memorabilia sale. 
 
 Additional reporting by PA ||||| Bowie, 16, was singing I Never Dreamed on tape, which was turned down by music firm 
 
 Long before Aladdin Sane or Ziggy Stardust, a skinny 16-year-old with ambitions to be a saxophonist agreed to do lead vocals on a demo track, in a small studio in south London. Now the only known recording of the resulting session, with David Bowie singing I Never Dreamed with his first band, The Konrads, has resurfaced in an old bread basket, and is expected to fetch £10,000 at auction. 
 
 The record company evidently failed to recognise the potential of the voice that would become one of the most famous of the 20th century. The Konrads did not win the longed-for audition with Decca, although the record company did give them a trial later that year – and turned them down – soon before Bowie left the band citing artistic differences. 
 
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 The tape was rediscovered by David Hadfield, who was slightly older than the other Konrads, and who was both their drummer and manager. He found it when moving home, stashed in an old bread basket that had belonged to his grandfather along with a host of other material including booking forms, photographs, promotional sketches, letters and bills, in a loft above the garage. 
 
 Hadfield, who went on to make a career in the music industry, recalled that the Konrads’ agent, Eric Easton, who also managed another obscure young band called the Rolling Stones, asked them to make a demo, so he booked a session at RG Jones in Morden. 
 
 Bowie, then David Jones, before he changed his name to avoid confusion with the Monkees’ teen idol Davy Jones, and a few other band members, including Alan Dodds who became a vicar, wrote some songs for the session. 
 
 Hadfield recalled: “We had decided that we would do a couple of guitar instrumentals and one original song. I chose I Never Dreamed as it was the strongest, the other two were a bit weak. I also decided that David 
 
 was the best person to sing it and give the right interpretation. So this became the very first recording of David Jones singing 55 years ago. 
 
 Facebook Twitter Pinterest The first studio recording of David Bowie from 1963, when he was playing with The Konrads. Photograph: Omega Auctions/PA 
 
 “There is no other recording of the demo featuring David as lead in existence. Decca initially turned us down, but when they eventually gave us an audition later that year, vocalist Roger Ferris was the lead voice and David sang backing harmonies.” 
 
 Bowie died of cancer in January 2016, two days after the release on his 69th birthday of his 25th studio album, Blackstar. 
 
 The auction of his personal art collection, which included works by Frank Auerbach and Damien Hirst, raised £33m in a two-day sale at Sotheby’s – more than twice the pre-sale estimate. 
 
 Hadfield’s memorabilia will be sold by Omega Auctions, in Newton-le-Willows on Merseyside, in September. Auctioneer Paul Fairweather called the tape “completely unique and of great historical interest, being the earliest studio recording of a fledgling musician who would go on to super stardom”.
– Misplaced oddity? David Bowie's very first demo track, made when he was just 16, is set to go on the auction block in September and could fetch as much as $13,000. The Guardian and Independent report that the 1963 recording of Bowie—then known by his given name, David Jones—with his first band, The Konrads, was found by the group's former drummer and manager, David Hadfield, in his grandfather's bread basket while he was cleaning out his garage loft in the 1990s. At the time "I Never Dreamed" was recorded to impress record executives at Decca, Bowie was actually the band's saxophonist, though the group decided for this particular song he'd take the lead vocals. "His heart and mind were focused on becoming a world-class saxophone player," Hadfield says, per the Independent. The demo didn't lead to a signing with Decca, and Bowie left the band shortly after an audition with the record company later that year, which also didn't lead to a deal. The tape, which auctioneer Paul Fairweather calls a "significant … completely unique" recording, will be up for auction along with other memorabilia from Hadfield, including letters, photos, and booking papers from Bowie's earliest days as a performer, per the BBC.