First David Bowie recording sells for £39.360

The first-known recording by David Bowie has sold at auction in Britain for £39.360, fetching around four times the expected price of £10.000.

The recording was made when he was the 16-year-old singer of a band called the Konrads. Bowie left the Konrads shortly afterwards and did not achieve stardom until six years later.

Promotional sketches by the then largely unknown Bowie, along with photographs and band documents, also sold for £17.130, while an early the Konrads poster from 1963 went for £6.600, Guardian reported.

Other items auctioned on Tuesday included a fully signed album of rock band Led Zeppelin, which sold for £14.000, and handwritten lyrics by Jimi Hendrix from around 1970, which fetched £10.800.