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Monkees Singer Davy Jones Dies

HouseHobbit, thank you for the sad post.
Being his age (but a Londoner), I enjoyed the Monkees music and daft shows on the tele a lot.
The fact that the love of my life at the time (and still) was called Jean (Lyons) had nothing to do with it! Sadly we never stuck together but that's a whole new story, not worth dragging up here.

A great voice gone missing.

God rest his soul.

Graham Sullivan.

Ex London, now Dereham, Norfolk.
 
I lived in a house with Peter Tork in the early seventies. On Sat mornings we would sometimes watch monkees re-rins together and Peter would tell us the behind the scene stuff. He was a pretty wild guy back then....I really liked some of their tunes...o well, I guess Davey's in Rock in Roll Heaven now!
 
Saddened to hear this. Always like the Monkees, and own their albums. Good music of the era....:kilroy:
 
That is a sad thing. Although I was more of a Stones fan at the time, I had all of the Monkees albums.

That was the first band I played "air-guitar" too. We didn't know at the time that air guitar meant no-guitar so we used tennis rackets. We would set up little neighborhood carnivals at our house and charged the local kids a few cents to come watch us perform lip-sync'd & tennis racket Monkees tunes on our picnic table stage. I was the shortest of the bunch so I got the Davey Jones parts.

Kids were more easily entertained back then. :)

To this day, I still catch my self singing Pleasant Valley Sunday once in a while.
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God's speed Davy.

I like the Monkeys and their short lived TV series. For a band invented by entertainment executives, they broke free and went their own way.


Simpler times back then and their light hearted music and episodes seemed to remain above the whole counter-culture rage of the mid to late 60s.
 
I was a monkey too, I even learned the guitar because of Mike and still play daily
 
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