RIP Davy Jones...

[Revvy]

Looks like he road the last train...

Davy Jones dead, Monkees singer was 66

Davy Jones -- forever young and forever beloved by fans the last 50 years -- has died, according to Reuters. Age: 66. The cause of death was apparently a heart attack.

Jones and his band the Monkees were in a brief moment and time very nearly as popular as the Beatles -- whom they so gently satirized and idolized in that long ago NBC hit. ("The Monkees," by the way, bowed Sept. 13, 1966 -- five days after "Star Trek" launched.)

Critics of course slammed 'em -- a Don Kirshner "Pre-Fab Four" gimmick whose four members couldn't sing or write their own songs or really even act. And of course critics totally missed the point: They certainly could sing (and had music careers before this came along) and in time learned to act pretty well, too. Jones was the impish, irrepressible "cute one" with the flop mop and "Manc" accent (he was from Manchester) that evoked the real Fab Four.

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He was also -- even more than Peter Tork -- the one a generation of pre-teen girls fell deeply and irreversibly in love with (and one Marcia Brady, in particular).

The Monkees didn't survive television -- they WERE a television stunt after all -- but there are few sweeter or more utterly indelible memories of '60s TV than this show, and the wonderful sweet guy who banged away on the tambourine and sang "Daydream Believer" -- his signature all these long years (in the video below, Micky D does the tambourine.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nU615FaODCg

 

[Beer-lord]

I grew up watching The Monkees on TV and though what they did was sometimes laughable, Davey was a good frontman. 66 is way too early to die.

 

[wailingguitar]

I felt like I had been kicked in the stomach when I saw the news. The Monkees deserve a lot more respect than they have ever received. RIP Davy

 

[passedpawn]

I have fond memories of walking down the street late on summer nights with friends, singing the Monkees theme song ( ♫ Hey hey we're the monkees, and we're not messin around ♫ ). After an evening of skinny dipping with the neighborhood girls. Great, great memories.

RIP Davy Jones.

[ argh, my wife just reminded me we were going to Epcot in May and that Davy Jones was going to be performing there]

 

[Bernie Brewer]

Yeah, it's too bad. I have a bunch of Monkees tunes running through my head right now. RIP.

 

[BrewerinBR]

"I thought love was only true in fairy tales, meant for some one else but not me;
disappointment, heartache and broken dreams. Then I saw her face, now I'm a believer ..."

oh yes 66 way to young.

Sad to see an era go.

 

[Bernie Brewer]

"I thought love was only true in fairy tales, meant for some one else but not me;
disappointment, heartache and broken dreams. Then I saw her face, AND SHE'S A RETRIEVER ..."

oh yes 66 way to young.

Sad to see an era go.

Fixed that for ya....

FWIW, I just opened up Itunes, it went straight to Itunes Store, and wouldn't ya know it , the first album listed without even searching, was The Best of The Monkees.......

 

[LabRatBrewer]

I had the pleasure of seeing the Monkees several times, always a great show. Sad to hear the news.

 

[Revvy]

I had the pleasure of seeing the Monkees several times, always a great show. Sad to hear the news.

It was one of those groups that every now and then still toured. I heard they put on a hellova show. But I never went. It was always..."Oh they'll be back next year....."

Guess not any more.

 

[LabRatBrewer]

Davey was scheduled to play locally (SoCal) on March 31st, and , Micky Dolenz is (was?) to play with the Turtles on July 14th.