I found a little more information about this. From Tidbits Newspaper of August 12-18, 2010: "The original cover of "The Man Who Sold the World" showing Bowie in a dress, was banned in the US. The cover that replaced it was of a man with a shotgun in front of a building. The building is...the Cane Hill Mental Hospital where Bowie's brother Terry was a patient."
I got this issue of Tidbits from Po' Boys Steakhouse in Casper, Wyoming. Friend, I'm sure you remember going there with me!!
Thanks Lee.
Yes, I remember Po'Boys in Casper. Didn't we stop in Casper twice? Once on the way up and once on the way back?
And, yes, isn't it amazing to think that this particular photo was so shocking at the time that the censorship happened?
Here's an alternative version/ outfit related to the censored cover. And some other related photos.
The whole topic of Cane Hill and Terry came up thoroughly in the threads here about Duncan's movie (with Jake in it)
Source Code. There are very many chilling references to Terry (and I think to Cane Hill too) in that movie. In the BetterMost thread about Source Code, the intensive discussion about Terry starts around here:
http://bettermost.net/forum/index.php/topic,48948.msg608898.html#msg608898'Tis the alternative cover and a photo of Cane Hill (now closed and crumbling):