Unreleased Gary Barlow recordings made years before he joined British boyband Take That have sold at auction for $1,280 (£800).
Film producer Richard Driscoll purchased two cassette tapes, containing a total of 32 tracks, for $3,040 (£1,900) in 1996 after a family friend, who was gifted the recordings by a teenage Barlow, put them up for sale.
Driscoll put the tapes back under the hammer at an auction house in Leeds on Tuesday (03Apr12) and the lot, which included Barlow's autograph, generated "a tremendous amount of interest".
The bidding peaked at $1,280 and was sold to an unidentified buyer over the phone.
The recordings date back to 1986 and include original material as well as covers of tunes by Simon and Garfunkel and Chris De Burgh.