David Hadfield was combing through old boxes in the storage space of his Surrey, England home about 20 years ago when a bread basket from his father’s long-ago days as a bread delivery man caught his eye. Inside was a series of dusty tapes from Hadfield’s time as a rock drummer in the early 1960s. One of them was labelled “The Konrads,” a group he formed in 1961 with a charismatic, blonde-haired 15-year-old saxophone player named David Jones. He fed the tape into an old tape machine and, amidst a...
- 7/25/2018
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
The earliest known studio recording of David Bowie as a lead vocalist is expected to sell for at least $13,000 when it goes up for auction later this year. The tape, featuring a 16-year-old Bowie — then still going by his born name, David Jones — as lead singer of his early group The Konrads, is part of a collection of memorabilia being sold by being sold by former band drummer David Hadfield. He found the tape in a “bread bin,” according to the BBC, during a move in the 1990s and kept its existence quiet until the auction listing was posted today.
The recording — listen to a brief clip below — is a typical beat song of the era, with Bowie’s voice almost comically high. He was the band’s saxophonist at the time.
“Our agent, Eric Easton, who also managed The Rolling Stones, asked us to do a demo so he...
The recording — listen to a brief clip below — is a typical beat song of the era, with Bowie’s voice almost comically high. He was the band’s saxophonist at the time.
“Our agent, Eric Easton, who also managed The Rolling Stones, asked us to do a demo so he...
- 7/23/2018
- by Jem Aswad
- Variety Film + TV
David Bowie‘s earliest studio recording as a singer, long-lost but unearthed by a former band mate, will head to auction in September.
The late icon recorded “I Never Dreamed” as a 16-year-old with his band the Konrads in 1963; the track, co-written by the then-David Jones, was part of a demo tape the band sent to talent scouts.
“We had decided that we would do a couple of guitar instrumentals and one original song,” Konrads drummer David Hadfield said in a statement for Omega Auctions. “I chose ‘I Never Dreamed’ as it was the strongest,...
The late icon recorded “I Never Dreamed” as a 16-year-old with his band the Konrads in 1963; the track, co-written by the then-David Jones, was part of a demo tape the band sent to talent scouts.
“We had decided that we would do a couple of guitar instrumentals and one original song,” Konrads drummer David Hadfield said in a statement for Omega Auctions. “I chose ‘I Never Dreamed’ as it was the strongest,...
- 7/23/2018
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
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