LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JAN 8, 2020-TODAY WOULD HAVE BEEN DAVID BOWIE’S 73RD BIRTHDAY. HE WAS BORN DAVID ROBERT JONES, BUT CHANGED HIS NAME IN 1966 TO AVOID CONFUSION WITH DAVY JONES OF THE MONKEES. IN AN INTERVIEW HE SAID THAT THE NAME ‘BOWIE’ COMES FROM THE BOWIE KNIFE, THAT HE WAS LOOKING FOR A WORD THAT STOOD FOR ‘’TRUISM, AND CUTTING THROUGH THE LIES AND ALL THAT.’ BOWIE DIED FOUR YEARS AGO ON JANUARY 10, 2016 IN HIS NEW YORK CITY APARTMENT OF LIVER CANCER, WHICH HE HAD KEPT SECRET. AFTER HIS PASSING, BOWIE’S FAMILY HAD REVEALED HE HAD BEEN DIAGNOSED 18 MONTHS EARLIER. MAY HE REST IN PEACE, HERE’S CLASSIC BOWIE
