Launching this weekend at the V&A Museum in London, “David Bowie Is” examines the glam-rock icon through his own guises. The first such Bowie retrospective, the show examines the crazy, wondrous, carefully crafted universe of the space oddity who fell to earth. Here are a few easily found clips on YouTube from those early years…

Watch David Bowie mime and hug himself in this Bing Crosby special from 1977…

Watch David Bowie bust out some disco moves on the Dinah Shore Show in 1975…

Watch a 17-year-old David Bowie defend his Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Long-Haired Men in 1964…

Watch David Bowie look really uncomfortable — but amazing with glossy orange hair — on the Dick Cavett Show in 1974…

Watch a pre-Ziggy David Bowie, very nearly a one-hit-wonder, in the 1969 video for Space Oddity…