Davy Jones, Manchester-born lead singer with 60s band The Monkees, has died aged 65, his publicist has confirmed.
He died in his sleep at his home in Florida. His publicist, Deborah Robicheau, said he had a massive heart attack.
The band, who included musicians Micky Dolenz, Michael Nesmith and Peter Tork, were famous for hits including Daydream Believer and I'm a Believer.
The Monkees were an American pop band, assembled in 1966.
Early on in his showbusiness career Jones appeared as Ena Sharples's grandson in ITV soap Coronation Street.
The band found fame through a successful television series, popular in both the US and the UK.
They were famous for their clean-cut image and were marketed as the American answer to The Beatles.
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Davey Jones gone
Davey Jones gone
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
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Bummer.......... 
Your collective inability to acknowledge this obvious truth makes you all look like fools.
yrs,
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“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
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I had such a crush on him. Loved the episode of The Brady Bunch where he guest starred!
RIP, daydream believer!
RIP, daydream believer!
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Davy was my very first crush, I always thought I'd marry him one day .... I am kicking myself for not going to the last Monkees UK tour I expected to have several more years yet to see them live . Such a shame he's gone so young. RIP Davy xxx
If you can keep your head while those around you are losing theirs, you may have misjudged the situation.
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The Monkey's finest moment.
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
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Have you seen the film: "Brady Bunch - The Movie".bigskygal wrote:I had such a crush on him. Loved the episode of The Brady Bunch where he guest starred!
RIP, daydream believer!
You must!
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Your collective inability to acknowledge this obvious truth makes you all look like fools.
yrs,
rubato
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Sad.
Now I'm a bereaver.
Now I'm a bereaver.
Why is it that when Miley Cyrus gets naked and licks a hammer it's 'art' and 'edgy' but when I do it I'm 'drunk' and 'banned from the hardware store'?
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Hey! Davey Jones is dead...
Sometimes it seems as though one has to cross the line just to figger out where it is
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Sean wrote:Sad.
Now I'm a bereaver.
Cheer up, Sean!
Oh what can this mean?
To a day dream bereaver ...
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He was the greatest tambourine player of all time....
Yes, I know there are those who insist Linda McCartney was better, but they're just wrong. No one had the complete technical and artistic mastery of the potential of the tambourine the way Jones did.
Yes, I know there are those who insist Linda McCartney was better, but they're just wrong. No one had the complete technical and artistic mastery of the potential of the tambourine the way Jones did.
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Ouch! You guys are heartless. 
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
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Obituary: Davy Jones
Davy Jones was the ever-youthful and mop-topped "short one" from The Monkees, who scored chart hits and TV success during the 1960s and beyond.
Only last year, the British-born star was touring the heritage circuit once again as he teamed up with most of his bandmates from the slapstick show.
But away from a screen role which won successive generations of fans, he had a successful stage career and was a talented horseman - a skill which had also seen him briefly working as a jockey before he found fame.
He is best remembered for his vocals on Daydream Believer, a top 10 hit for the teen pop group in 1967.
It was one of many songs The Monkees recorded for their hit TV show, which spawned four US number one albums in a 13-month period from 1966 to 1967.
They were famous for their clean-cut image and were marketed as the American answer to The Beatles, having been created by two US TV producers who hoped to mimic the anarchic comedy of the Fab Four's film A Hard Day's Night.
The stigma of their origins never quite escaped the band, who later wrested control of the careers and recorded a number of critically acclaimed but commercially unsuccessful psychedelic rock albums.
Jones, who was born in Manchester in 1945, famously took a brief role in Coronation Street during the show's early days in the 1960s, while still a teenager.
After a stint training as a jockey in Newmarket, he landed his big acting break thanks to his boyish features and diminutive stature, playing the Artful Dodger in the West End stage musical Oliver!
He went on to land a Tony nomination when he transferred to Broadway in New York with the production.
Davy Jones hit the big time when in America with the cast of the musical Oliver!
Jones and the rest of the cast were guests on The Ed Sullivan Show when The Beatles made their first appearance, with Beatlemania in full swing.
His feted performance upped his profile and led to a US management deal resulting in TV roles and a short-lived solo music career.
The contract also helped to fast-track him through the auditions for The Monkees, as TV executives put together the group in 1966 partly as a response to the popularity of the Fab Four's movie A Hard Day's Night.
The group also featured Micky Dolenz, Peter Tork and Mike Nesmith.
The show - and the accompanying albums - gave rise to a number of classics, including Daydream Believer, Last Train To Clarksville and Pleasant Valley Sunday, written by such luminaries as Neil Diamond, Carole King and Gerry Goffin.
Jones, who had been hired for his good looks and acting skills as much as his musical abilities, was often relegated to the role of tambourine player in the band's TV show.
But he also took lead vocals on some of their more popular songs, including Valleri and A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You.
He can be heard speaking at the beginning of Daydream Believer, asking a studio engineer: "What number is this, Chip?"
The band replies "7-A", a reference to the number of takes Jones had to record before the song was considered complete.
It was a high tally in the early days of the recording industry, and Jones later confessed he had been unhappy, because he was not convinced of the song's potential.
"You can tell from the vocal that I was pissed off," he wrote in the official Monkees' biography 20 years later.
After their TV series ended, their partnership continued with the drifting, psychedelic film Head, partly created by Jack Nicholson.
The Monkees survived as a trio when Tork left in early 1969 and then, following the departure of Nesmith, as a duo. It was Dolenz and Jones who had often taken the lead on their songs.
After The Monkees, Jones continued to record, making solo albums in the 1970s and touring Japan with his new band, Toast, in the 80s.
He also made cameos in TV shows such as The Brady Bunch and Love American Style, and appeared in the stage musical Godspell.
The Monkees reunited several times over the years, most notably in the 1980s when their TV show was repeated on MTV - the TV channel that owed its existence, in part, to Jones's former bandmate Michael Nesmith, thanks to his interest in music videos.
Their last tour, as a three-piece, took place last year.
He also continued to have a love of riding and training horses and achieved the long-held ambition of winning his first race, in 1996 at Lingfield.
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
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I heard the bit about his being on The Ed Sullivan Show the same night as The Beatles famous appearance this morning...that's so perfect it sounds like urban legend, but it was true...
Here's another interesting Davy Jones connection: (click the image to enlarge)
Here's another interesting Davy Jones connection: (click the image to enlarge)
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Drummer Mickey has sent his condolenzes.
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
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Mike Nesmith was unable to comment as the guy who does his voice was unavailable.
Why is it that when Miley Cyrus gets naked and licks a hammer it's 'art' and 'edgy' but when I do it I'm 'drunk' and 'banned from the hardware store'?
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“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
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Michael Nesmith was the only psuedo-Beatle, 'The Monkees' hired, to have any musical talent; and in later years his video-album 'Elephant Parts' was a significant reason for the Monkee revival, outside of japan.
