http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8oGyGo1q-k

This clip of Bowie appearing on a classic BBC television show in the early ’70s, as well as the host’s wonderfully dated introduction, are presented without comment: “This is the face the public wants. An ex-art student from Brixton whose dad worked for Dr Barnardo’s Homes has turned himself into a bizarre, self-constructed freak.”