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When he was born in England in 1947, his birth name was David Robert Jones. But as he began to establish his career as an entertainer, using the name Davie Jones, he found that his chosen stage name was was very similar to Davy Jones of the Monkees, and could be a potential source of confusion for fans. He decided a new last name was needed and he chose Bowie, after frontiersman Jim Bowie, and the famous Bowie knife.

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