Sandwiched in between two sex films at a cinema in London’s Piccadilly Circus in 1967 was "The Image," the rarely seen first film starring David Bowie.

“Whether David had gone in on his own, I don’t know, but he said he felt really strange sitting there on his own, in this cinema with all these guys in their raincoats,” recalls the film’s director, Michael Armstrong, speaking from his flat in central London, a home adorned with posters from a fifty-year career that began with "The Image."

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