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. Following this success, Space Oddity was reissued under RCA records in 1975 and went on to become Bowie's first UK number one. 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. 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.  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. “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. 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. 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. 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. He left the band shortly after the audition, which also failed to get them signed, citing creative differences. 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.
– 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.