His image appears on every single one of his album covers - except the UK release of The Buddha Of Suburbia.

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Of course, the warning would have appeared as an image, rather than text embedded in the site, which should have set alarm bells ringing - except that, as soon as news of the warning came out, the website collapsed under the sheer number of people trying to log onto the site.

BBC: Was the 'gunman warning' a hoax?