Images 1966–1967

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{{Infobox album

| name = Images 1966–1967

| type = Compilation

| artist = David Bowie

| cover = Images1966-1967.jpg

| alt =

| released = February 1973

| recorded = 1966–67

| studio =

| genre = Music hall, orchestral pop, psychedelic pop, folk rock

| length = 58:55

| label = Deram, London

| producer = Mike Vernon (except where indicated)

| prev_title = The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars

| prev_year = 1972

| next_title = Aladdin Sane

| next_year = 1973

| misc =

}}

{{Album ratings

| rev1 = AllMusic

| rev1Score = {{Rating|3|5}}Unterberger, Richie. [http://www.allmusic.com/album/images-1966-1967-mw0000836689 Review: Images 1966-1967]. Allmusic. Retrieved on 8 June 2013.

| rev2 = The Encyclopedia of Popular Music

| rev2score = {{Rating|2|5}}{{cite book |title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music |publisher=Omnibus Press |edition=5th concise |year=2011 |last=Larkin |first=Colin |author-link=Colin Larkin (writer) }}

| rev3 = The Rolling Stone Album Guide

| rev3score = {{Rating|2|5}}{{cite book|last=Sheffield|first=Rob|editor1-last=Brackett|editor1-first=Nathan|editor1-link=Nathan Brackett|editor2-last=Hoard|editor2-first=Christian|editor2-link=Christian Hoard|chapter=David Bowie|title=The New Rolling Stone Album Guide|title-link=The Rolling Stone Album Guide|publisher=Simon & Schuster|location=New York City|edition=4th|year=2004|isbn=0-7432-0169-8|pages=[https://archive.org/details/newrollingstonea00brac/page/97 97–99]}}

| rev4 = Spin Alternative Record Guide

| rev4score = 2/10{{sfn|Sheffield|1995|p=55}}

}}

Images 1966–1967 is a 1973 compilation album by English singer-songwriter David Bowie. It comprises his 1967 self-titled debut album for Deram Records and various singles and B-sides recorded for Deram between 1966 and 1967.

The arrangements on this compilation are not reminiscent of the glam rock that broke Bowie through to success. They are mostly orchestral with sound effects created in the recording studio. The music was recorded early in Bowie's career when he was still in obscurity, from 1966 to 1967. At the time he was signed to Deram Records, who dropped him in 1968 due to poor sales, before his first hit, "Space Oddity", in 1969. At the time of the music's recording, Bowie was influenced by the London cabaret scene and the song styles created therein, particularly the work of singers such as Anthony Newley.

In the UK, The World of David Bowie had never gone out of print, when Bowie finally had his breakthrough in 1972 with the album Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, and could still be obtained in British record shops at that time. In the US, where none of the Deram material was released since 1967, the original LP and singles were packaged into this double-album set and released in the US on Decca's American branded label, London Records. The release came at about the same time as Bowie's sixth studio album, Aladdin Sane, as Bowie was gaining popularity in the US. American copies of the compilation featured a cartoon cover, depicting characters or situations from each song. The compilation gained Bowie a significant 1973 hit, "The Laughing Gnome".

The album cover was designed by Neon Park, known for his similar artwork for Frank Zappa's Weasels Ripped My Flesh.{{Cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/p/park_neon.htm|title = Neon Park}} In 1975 the album was issued in the U.K. with a new front cover featuring a Young Americans promotional photo and the U.S. cartoon design relegated to the inner gatefold.