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Dissatisfied with his stage name as Davy (and Davie) Jones, which in the mid-1960s invited confusion with Davy Jones of The Monkees, Bowie re-named himself after the 19th century American frontiersman Jim Bowie and the knife he had popularised.[17] His April 1967 solo single, "The Laughing Gnome", utilising sped-up Chipmunk-style vocals, failed to chart. Released six weeks later, his album debut, David Bowie, an amalgam of pop, psychedelia, and music hall, met the same fate. It would be his last release for two years.[18]
So he's in Davy Jones' locker?
http://www.alsation.com.au/alsation-articles/1995/10/6/no-laughing-matter/On Wanted, Richard Pryor describes breaking down following the death of his two pet monkeys, which died after turning on a gas tap. He recalls the neighbor's savage Alsation hearing him crying in the yard. ``He hopped over the fence and put his head in my lap," Pryor says. ``I felt something pushing my hand. I looked down, and he was saying: `Hey Rich. What's the matter?' `My monkeys is dead.' `They died?' he said. `Life's a bitch isn't it. One day you're here, the next you're gone.
