Old Jagger-Lennon recording auctioned

LONDON -- A 1974 recording of a song by Mick Jagger and John Lennon that was never released sold at auction for $2,230 Thursday.

The unlabeled acetate -- a record made directly from a master tape -- had been found buried at the bottom of a box of records when Tom Fisher, 34, bought it four years ago for just $32. Fisher runs the Rat Records store in south London.

An unidentified online bidder purchased the recording at the Rock Legends auction on Thursday night.

"The song has been available as a bootleg for 20 years," Jagger said on his Web site Thursday. "I have no reason to think the acetate ... has any more value than the other bootleg versions."

The track, a cover of the blues song "Too Many Cooks," was recorded in 1974 with Jagger, the Rolling Stones' lead singer, on vocals; Lennon, the former Beatle, on guitar; and Ringo Starr, the Beatles' drummer. But it was never released.

The master copies are believed to have been lost.