He changed it from Jones to avoid being confused with the Monkees singer... He took the name Bowie from the knife... You'd have to ask him why... Better than David Swiss Army though...
David Robert Hayward Stenton Jones actually
David Bowie was born David Robert Jones on 8 January 1947.
Because he was becoming famous at the same time as the monkeys and they had a singer called Davey Jones, so David Bowie changed his name from David Jones to make it easier for everyone not to get...
David Jones
he does not have a band