davy jones dies age 66 r.i.p
Posted by: keith waring on 29 February 2012
davy jones of the mokees dies age 66 very sad .
I remember well watching The Monkees on TV in the 60's and although it wasn't very cool at the time they released some really good singles!
Rest In Peace and thanks,
Richard
Very, very sad indeed. The Monkees released some wonderful music.
Sad news.
Saturday nights in the 60's with Thunderbirds and the Monkees were the best.
The first put together boy band that gave people a sense of fun and great tunes by people like Neil Diamond.
Dont lets forget the clothes/fashion,I had a pair of Monkees brown hipster trousers with the double buckal wide belt.
RIP Davy.
Stu.
i was sad to hear this. Like Stu I have wonderful memories of Saturday teatimes with Thunderbirds and the Monkees. I rediscovered them a few years ago and was amazed at how much genuinely good music they produced. Listening to Best of at the moment. Some fantastic tunes there.
RIP Davy. 66 is far too young to die.
My 15 year old daughter* was playing the Monkees Greatest hits at the weekend and we were singing along with them. Can't believe how many memorable songs they made. Davy Jones - Manchester lad, acted in Coronation Street and Z-Cars.
* She came home with an Ipod the other day and has been playing with the Naim app ever since. She's working her way through my NAS drive and has hit upon The Beatles, ELO & David Bowie as well. All her school mates are into One Direction (a popular beat combo ?) so it makes me quite proud of her 
Sad news , I too have fond memories of T-birds and the Monkees show. 66 is a bit early to go(not in a rock sense maybe).
Fun and very enjoyable, some great tunes too.
RIP Davy.
I dont remember the prog?
David was on tv last weekend talking about karryoki,Not the right spelling i know.
He said any chance he got to get up and sing he would.
Reason?
No one could do him better than him.
No more Monkeying around. That is sad. Watched the show as a youngster and like the rest of you, along with Thunderbirds it made Saturday night TV worthwhile.
I wonder if he will be buried at sea?
Sad news.
Saturday nights in the 60's with Thunderbirds and the Monkees were the best.
The first put together boy band that gave people a sense of fun and great tunes by people like Neil Diamond.
Dont lets forget the clothes/fashion,I had a pair of Monkees brown hipster trousers with the double buckal wide belt.
RIP Davy.
Stu.
As a kid at the time they seemed to epitomise what was new (apart from the sexual revolution, which didn't seem reach my part of the UK)
Very sad loss - the Monkees were unique and far more talented than they were given credit for.
The film Head was a gem - not an easy watch and nothing like the TV series, which I loved in my youth, but a psychedelic masterpiece.
They keep being compared with today's boy bands which is just not on - nobody is going to listen to those boy bands in 40 years time (bay city rollers anybody). The Monkees music was timeless.
Davy is complemented on his splendid dancing at the end of the above clip by another great late hero of rock.
Very sad loss - the Monkees were unique and far more talented than they were given credit for.
They keep being compared with today's boy bands which is just not on - nobody is going to listen to those boy bands in 40 years time (bay city rollers anybody). The Monkees music was timeless.
How many of todays "boy bands" do you think will people be listening to in the next 40 years? It it were not for the tv series nobody will be talking about them today! FACT!
> How many of todays "boy bands" do you think will people be listening to in the next 40 years?
None - I can't understand why anybody listens to boy bands now or any of the rubbish Simon Shallow or whatever his name is brings out. I don't really think the term "boy band" applies to Monkees and felt the attempts to compare them with such were no more valid than doing so with the Rolling Stones or the Who.
I'm probably sensitive to it, but the Monkees were far more than any of today's boy bands and were quite special and there is nothing like them today. There were four actors auditioned to join a programme about a band who wanted to be the Beatles and from the show emerged a band that had some great songs written for them and went on the create some great stuff for themselves.
There are great musicians around today, but it rarely gets on the TV which has the X-factor tripe; perhaps quality will return one day to TV, but I think I'll have joined Davy before that happens.
From the BBC News:
"Dave Jones to manage Sheffield Wednesday"
Blimey is it Easter already?
Even Lazarus could be proud of that.
Ok I liked the Monkees way back in 66 (unlike my sister who adored Davy Jones) but aren't we being a tad revisionist here? ...they had excellent pop songs written for them and had (for the most part) the music played by top session players .... they had very little input into the music bar the vocals. By the time they did actually play on on some of their releases their real success was on the wane.
Undoubtably they played their parts as crazy teenagers well enough and as mentioned their singles were way superior to anything released by todays boy bands ..but ...really ...were they any less manufactured than say (gasp) Westlife?
Ok I liked the Monkees way back in 66 (unlike my sister who adored Davy Jones) but aren't we being a tad revisionist here? ...they had excellent pop songs written for them and had (for the most part) the music played by top session players .... they had very little input into the music bar the vocals. By the time they did actually play on on some of their releases their real success was on the wane.
Undoubtably they played their parts as crazy teenagers well enough and as mentioned their singles were way superior to anything released by todays boy bands ..but ...really ...were they any less manufactured than say (gasp) Westlife?
The Monkees were the first, or one of the first, 'manufactured' bands. It's fun to be nostalgic but then again nostalgia is not what it used to be
> were they any less manufactured than say (gasp) Westlife?
Can't imagine Westlife (whoever they are) doing D W Washburn or making a film like Head.
Were they manufactured?
This what the Monkees say on the subject
As great philosopher once said Life Is A Roller Coaster You;ve Just Got To Ride It
Trivia fact.....
Davy Jones appeared on the same Ed Sullivan Show that launched The Beatles in America.
(He was the Artful Dodger in the Broadway production of "Oliver".
Courtesy of Radio 4's Last Word obituary programme)