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The so-called "flamingo pose" was a force of habit for Bowie, snapped here by MacCormack on the set of the sci-fi drama The Man Who Fell to Earth.

MacCormack recalls a story relayed in the book in which he and Bowie, along with some other friends, trekked out to Carlsbad Caverns in Carlsbad, New Mexico on a day off from shooting. As they headed back to set, they stopped at a greasy spoon—and quickly stuck out among the crowd.

"It was full of kind of rednecks and whatever, and at one point David had a leather jacket on, and people were kind of staring at us because we were English and odd," he says. "He had this kind of Elvis Presley snarl on his face, like he was quite a tough guy, and I clocked that. And then I looked below and he was actually standing like that, and that's what people were looking at. It didn't matter how tough he was trying to look, that was the giveaway!

"It's just a pose he sometimes did. It's good fun, isn't it?"