I’m sure many of you know that David Bowie’s real name was David Robert Jones. You may have also heard that he changed his name in order not to be confused with the Davey Jones in the Monkees. Well The Gullible News can exclusively reveal that they were one and the same man.
As the popularity of the Monkees began to tail off Davey decided he wanted a change in direction. Fearing his squeaky clean image created for the Monkees would hinder his new plans he decided to create a whole new persona, one where he could hide behind a mask and become who he really wanted to be.
So he changed his surname to Bowie and started to release his music. Initially he used an out-of-work actor to stand in for him for the photo-shoots and interviews. Thus giving him time to ease himself away from the popular TV series, that had made him famous.
After the first four albums had been released Davey was aware that to continue with his project he’d have to take over from the actor playing his part. So he had extensive plastic surgery to make him look like the actor and had voice coaching to ensure they sounded the same. Because he had to hide the scars caused by the surgery he cleverly invented Ziggy Stardust and Aladdin Sane so he could hide behind the make-up whilst it all healed.
To make sure nobody could discover his secret he hired a young English actor called Bob Roberts to ‘be’ Davey Jones when required. This caused a few awkward moments during the 1990’s when the original Monkees decided to reform. Lucky for Bowie the stand-in had a voice every bit as bad as Davey did, and so they got away with it.
Today Bowie refuses to discuss his past and will refute any story linking him with the Monkees.
Story by Dennis Birdcamp.
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