David Bowie changed his name for a pretty fascinating reason. Plus, "David Robert Jones" doesn't exactly have an edge to it.

And Elvis once considered recording a cover version of Bowie’s 1976 hit, Golden Years. He changed his name to avoid the similarity with Davy Jones from The Monkees. Due to the similar-sounding ...

He also worked on some of the first recordings featuring David Bowie, who was known as Davy Jones at the time, and used a teenaged Jimmy Page as a session guitarist for The Kinks. His post-1960s ...