David Bowie's first demo track discovered in old bread basket

By Maev Kennedy

 

Bowie, then David Jones, wrote songs for the demo with members of The Konrads, recalls their drummer and manager, David Hadfield. Photograph: CA/Redferns

 

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.

 

Full Story: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/jul/23/david-bowies-first-demo-track-discovered-in-old-bread-basket

I would think it would be worth more than 10k at an auction . 

 

I'm thinking 100k.