Royalty battle unearths 'lost' 1967 Bowie tracks. (News).

Three unreleased David Bowie tracks dating from the dawn of his career have been unearthed by the team working for Gus Dudgeon's estate in a royalties battle with the singer.

The master tapes of the recordings, dating from 1967, were discovered while searching the producer's attic following his death in a car accident last year. Before his death, Dudgeon had set in motion a legal claim for what he believed were unpaid royalties he was owed for producing the 1969 Bowie release Space Oddity.

That claim is being pursued by royalty investigator David Morgan on behalf of the Dudgeon estate and he is now preparing to serve a writ within days, after he says negotiations with Bowie's advisors, RZO in New York, have foundered. RZO was unavailable for comment.

But it is the discovery of the unreleased tracks--titled Waiting For My Man and Little Toy Soldier--and an instrumental version of Love You Till Tuesday album track Silly Boy Blue that will excite the music industry and Bowie fans. Morgan says the songs, produced by Dudgeon in the same year that The Laughing Gnome was first released, are the property of the Dudgeon estate. He says, "It is very interesting to hear them, because one vocal is like Lou Reed and the other sounds like ...