The art work was done by Terry Pastor of George Underwood's company called Main Artery . The cover shows the jumpsuit-dressed Bowie on a London backstreet looking like he'd just beamed down from another planet. The film outraged viewers and critics alike when it was first released. An eye blinks on the screen and the first scene is unveiled. The film's protagonist, Mark Lewis, approaches a prostitute, who is standing by a wall in a dimly lit street.
Boxed debris fills the foreground, right-side.
Up ahead, sandwiched between and above the darkened buildings, is the night sky. The K.West sign and the gas-light no longer exist there today. According to Bowie, hundreds of fans have sent him pictures of themselves with their foot on a dustbin under the K.West sign. The gas-light survived the longest but eventually was replaced with curb mounted street lights.