David Bowie fans just learning his real name and reason | Music News

Music icon David Bowie may not have change into one of the most influential musicians of his period had he not modified his name.

Bowie adopted heaps of names all through his decades-long profession, including his well-known Ziggy Stardust and the Thin White Duke, but before he even made it onto the scene, he had to come up with a name that would not confuse him with one other artist.

He was born David Robert Jones, but modified his name when he was 18 to keep away from confusion with one other British musician of the identical name, Davy Jones, who later grew to become the frontman for The Monkees.

“In answer to your questions, my real name is David Jones and I don’t have to tell you why I changed it,” the singer wrote to his first American fan in 1967. “‘Nobody’s going to make a monkey out of you’ said my manager.”

Bowie spent “a decade experimenting with various identities” after growing up as “plain old David Jones, a middle-class boy from London’s suburbs,” Time wrote in 2013.

With the intent to shed his previous name, the Life on Mars singer finally got here up with a new one, impressed by his love for U.S. tradition and the 1960 film The Alamo, writer John Lyons wrote in his e-book, America in the British Imagination: 1945 to the Present.

In 1965, he adopted the name David Bowie in homage to Jim Bowie, the movie’s Texan insurgent performed by Richard Widmark, according to Lyons.

It was a comparatively regular apply at the time to take on a stage name, but Bowie took that custom a step additional: David Bowie wasn’t just a pseudonym.

The name change was the start of his love of creating an ever-changing persona, rock historian John Covach informed Time.

“What started out as a simple name change became a character,” stated the 56-year-old director of the Institute for Popular Music at the University of Rochester in New York. “That part was enormously innovative.”

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According to Classic Bands, the icon took his final name from the Bowie knife or “that big old bear killin’ knife.”

Wherever the name got here from, fans are still being shocked by Bowie’s real name.

They mentioned it on a Reddit board referred to as: “TIL that David Bowie’s birth name is David Robert Jones.”

One particular person wrote: “Did not know this. That’s some cool trivia right there.”

Another identified: “Duncan Jones, director of Moon (2009), Source Code (2011), or Warcraft (2016) is David Bowie’s son. He didn’t have to change his name to avoid nepotism, like Nicolas Kim Coppola did.”

On one other Reddit board, one other fan penned: “Had to as the Davey Jones from the monkees got famous first.”

One joked: “Bowie knife is not pronounced like that. Its pronounced Boowie. So jokes on him.”

A 3rd quipped: “Davy Jones, after the locker,” as a fourth stated: “Just imagine if he had kept Davy Jones and went with a pirate aesthetic.”

Yet one other laughed: “And he chose to let everyone pronounce it wrong forever.”