Issue 64 by The Purple Flower Gang

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Letter From The Editor ............................ 3 I Love You Like I love NYC ................... 4 Great Moments in Monkee History......... 5 PenPals ...................................................... 12 E-Pals ........................................................ 13 Peter News ................................................ 14 Mike News ................................................ 15 Micky News .............................................. 16 David News .............................................. 17 Peter Tork In His Own Words ................. 18 David Jones In His Own Words .............. 26 Indiana Wants ME.................................... 37 Monkee-opoly........................................... 38 The Proof Is In The Pudding ................... 44 Blast From The Past ................................. 52 Easter Greetings ....................................... 55 Birth Announcements .............................. 56

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From the Editor! our fingers crossed that they are somewhere close to you. As I write our dear British correspondent, Hazel Wilkinson, is visiting the US and attended David shows at Epcot along with other family members. Maybe we will get a report on the shows when she returns home. Next issue will have a report on the LaPorte, Indiana show. The Gang finally got to meet Pat Smith who has graciously contributed to the newsletter almost since the beginning. It was great to see you Pat! Please send us your stories. We would love to know how you keep the mania alive when there are no concerts to attend or conventions Until next time …. Keep Monkeeing around!

Dear Gang, Another busy summer. I know we were all hoping for another reunion tour which doesn’t look good at this point but each of the guys is busy with their own projects. That means 4 times the possibilities. Micky and David have a number of things lined up already. Keep watching their web sites for the most up-to-date listings. Micky and David have also been on TV this month, Micky on the Tony Danza Show and David on Living In TVLand. Hope you caught them. I also quite by accident caught Micky in the audience of American Idol the night they did Queen songs. So Micky, Peter, and David are out there keeping busy. We’ll keep

Cindy

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Monkee Shines The subway’s gonna take you to the blue movies twenty-four hours a day I think I’ll just take my little piece of the action I think I’ll take it today And every Friday night when I get paid I’m gonna see my woman, and I’m gonna get (owh!)

I Love You Like I Love New York City Written By: Tommy Boyce Sung By: David Jones Well I love you like I love New York City. I love you, babe, like I love New York City. With all the good and the bad and the otherwise It all makes it worth it just to be alive in the city. New York City.

I love you like I love New York City. Well, I love you, babe, like I love New York City. With all the good and the bad and the otherwise It all makes it worth it just to be alive in the city. New York City.

Well if I had a chance to go and live in LA with all those laid-back people I think I’ll just stick here in the Bronx and keep it dirty down and simple Don’t need a pool in the front yard one in the backyard Hey baby, what’s the reason? Enough to drive a man to the end of his rope when he don’t know the change of season. I think I’ll just stay right here in the city My woman treats me good, and she’s oh so pretty.

(Whistles) Taxi! Well, I love you like I love New York City. Well, I love you, babe, like I love New York City. With all the good and the bad and the otherwise It all makes it worth it just to be alive in the city. New York City. So if you want to have some fun on Saturday night Come back to Broadway around about midnight And watch the walkers, the talkers, the hustlers and the queens, the boys with the purses trying to get into your jeans

With all the dirt and the sleet and the rain and the snow New York is never stagnant. There’s boxing, baseball, wrestling in the Garden And making sure the dogs are still magic

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Birthdays and other special events

May 2 Johnny Ware 2 Leslie Gore 2 Emmy nominations announced: Best Comedy Series (Producers Bert Schneider & Bob Rafelson); Best Comedy Director (James Frawley, "Royal Flush") 3 Bert Schneider 8 Michael on "American Bandstand" performs "Nevada Fighter" 8 Brendon Cahill 9 Tommy Roe 9 Scottish actor Monte Landis signs for 10 Monkees segments 10 Fats Domino 10 Donovan 12 Peter on "Boy Meets World" (1995) 12 Bill Chadwick 14 Lek Leckenby 19 Davy Hosts "TV's All Time Favorites on CBS (1995) 19 Pete Townsend 20 Susan Cowsill 20 Cher 22 Trina Dolenz 23 Cindy Bryant 5

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24 Bob Dylan 26 Billy Beck 28 The Monkees" hold press conference at the Hard Rock Hotel in NYC to kick off their 20th Anniversary Reunion Tour (1986) 29 Rick Schwinden 31 Samantha Juste

June 1 1 2 3 4 6 7 9 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 17 18 18 20 20 21

Ron Wood Pat Boone Charlie Watts Janet Litterio "The Monkees" show receives two Emmy awards for Best Comedy Series and Best Comedy Director (1967) Gary US Bonds Tom Jones LA radio station 93/KHJ sponsors "The Monkees" concert at the Hollywood Bowl Mary Ann Hart "Headquarters" album released (1967) Michael on "Late Night With David Letterman" (1983) "The Monkees Greatest Hits" released (1969) Harry Nilsson John Franklin "The Monkees" (Micky, David, & Michael) on The Tonight Show in NY with Johnny Carson (1969) Ken Wilkinson "Headquarters" album receives Gold Record (1967) Paul McCartney Michael's Cruisin' video airs on "Don Kirshner's Rock Concert" Brian Wilson DJB&H debuts their act at Six Flags in St. Louis. MO before 12500 people (1975) 6

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Ray Davies "D.W. Washburn" #19 (last Top 20 Hit) (1968) Howard Kaylan "The Monkees" arrive in Paris to begin shooting for show (1967) Hank Cicalo Annabel Jones (1988) First group interview (Micky, Davy, Michael, & Peter) since 1968 at KLOS Radio Station in LA on the "Mark and Brian" Show (1989) Pizza Hut Comercial debuts with Micky, Davy, Peter, and Ringo Starr (1995) "The Monkees" on "The Pat Sajak Show" (1989)

July 1 Ron Masak 1 First concert of the 1987 tour in Tucson, AZ (1987) 1 First concert of the 1989 tour in Winnipeg, Canada (1989) 2 Naom Pitlik 2 Kelly Jean Peters 2 Winton Teel 3 Sarah Jones (1971) 3 Jerry Blavat 4 Peter on "Geraldo" 5 "Pleasant Valley Sunday" released (1967) 5 "That Was Then, This Is Now" enters Billboard Top 100 at #88 with a bullet (1986) 6 "Heart & Soul" video shot in Hollywood 6 Pat Paulsen 7 Press conference in NYC announcing 30 city tour (1967) 7 Ringo Starr 8 Peter on "Late Night with David Letterman" (1982) 8 "Pleasant Valley Sunday" receives Gold Record (1967) 7

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9 Michael Nesmith performs with "The Monkees" at the Universal Amphitheatre in Los Angels. (1989) 10 "The Monkees" received their Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 11:00 a.m. in front of the Vogue Theatre (1989) 11 Peter on "The Stephen Banks Show" (1994) 12 Peter Meyerson 12 Joe Higgins 13 DJB&H tour southeast Asia and Japan (1976) 13 Roger McGuinn 16 "The Monkees" tour Japan for the first time since October 8, 1968 (1989) 18 Brian Auger 18 Dion DiMucci 19 "The Monkees" (as a trio) on the "Johnny Cash Show" on ABC 21 Barry Whitwam 22 The final show in Toyko, Japan (1989) 22 Bobby Sherman 22 Stanley Ralph Ross 24 Ruth Buzzi 25 Emily Dolenz (1983) 26 Mick Jagger 27 MFQ performs "Laura" on "Michael Nesmith in Television Parts" 90-minute special. 29 "Pleasant Valley Sunday" #3 (1967) 30 Phyllis Nesmith 30 Paul Anka 31 Gary Lewis

August 4 5 5 5 7

Davy on "Sally Jesse Raphael" (1993) "Words" #11 (1967) Billie Hayes Nina Totaro Jason Nesmith (1968) 8

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7 Jack Good 8-14 Davy portrays 'Fagin" in "Oliver" at Kansas City's Starlight Theatre (1988) 8 Charlotte Dolenz (1981) 8 Nita Talbot 10 Micky on "Tonight Show" with Jay Leno (1994) 10 Ronnie Spector 11 Michael's "Rio" video airs on 'Don Kirshner's Rock Concert" (1979) 13 Marilyn Schlossberg La Salandra 14 David Crisby 15 Rose Marie 16 "Last Train To Clarksville" released (1966) 16 Julie Newmar 18 "That Was Then, This Is Now" #20 (1986) 19 Hazel Wilkinson 19 Billy J. Kramer 22 Ron Dante 26 Bob Cowsill 27 Peter's first album "Stranger Things Have Happened" released on Beachwood Records (1994) 27 Chip Douglas (1942) 28 The Monkees" attend The Beatles' concert at Dodger Stadium in LA (1966) 28 Barbara Iannoli 29 Michael Jackson 30 John Phillips

Septemeber 1 Press party in Los Angeles held at Screen Gems to kick off a 10-day promotional tour (1966) 1 Micky and Davy on "The Tomorrow Show" with Tom Snyder (1977) 1 Barry Gibb 3 The last show of "The Monkees" US tour at Six Flags in Eurika, Mo. (1989) 9

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3 Georgia Dolenz (1984) 3 Alan Jardine 4 "Monkee Day" in Hollywood. Monkees receive the key to the city from honorary mayor, Johnny Grant (1986) 4 Jessica Jones (1981) 5 John Stewart 6 "Good Clean Fun" b/w "Mommy And Daddy" released (1969) 6 Henry Diltz (1938) 7 20th Anniversary Reunion with Michael Nesmith at the Greek Theater. 8 Hollywood Reporter runs "Madness!! Auditions" ad for "The Monkees" (1965) 8 Irwin Charone 9 Variety runs "Madness!! Ads" for "The Monkees" (1965) 9 ''"The Monkees moves from Saturday morning reruns on CBS to NBC (1972) 9 Stu Phillips 10 Jessica Nesmith (1970) 10 Nurit Wilde 10 Danny Huttion 11 LA radio station 93/KHJ "Boss Radio sponsors "Last Train To Clarksville" promotion (1966) 11 The Monkees' begins its second season on NBC "It's A Nice Place To Visit (1967) 12 "Royal Flush"(1966) 12 "The Monkees" TV Show airs (1966) 13 The Monkees' returnsto television as part of the Saturday morning line-up on CBS (1969) 13 Micky on "Adam-12" on NBC 14 Barry Cowsill 16 Helene Winston 17 Steve Blauner 18 "The Picture Frame" (1967) 18 Frankie Avalon 10

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19 "Monkee See, Monkee Die" (1966) 19 Paul Williams 21 "The Monkees" tour Australia for the first tme since September 28, 1968 (1988) 21 Davy on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" (1995) 22 David Pearl 23 "Circus Biy" premieres on Sunday night on NBC. Mickey (Dolenz) Braddock plays "Corky" (1956) 23 Second and final appearance on the cover of TV Guide (1967) 23 Kathleen Scott 23 David Price 24 Gerry Marsden 25 "Everywhere A Sheik, Sheik" (1967) 26 "Monkee VS Machine" (1966) 26 Michael G. Bush 27 Micky on "Cannon" on CBS (1872) 27 Carl Ballentine 28 Kimmi Wright 29 Tommy Boyce 29 James Frawley 29 Jerry Lee Lewis

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Peter News ation. But Russo got more than he expected from Tork. The former Monkee agreed to show up at the concert and did a couple of impromptu numbers with Dolenz. And the next day, he plugged his guitar in and jammed with the Missing Links on several songs, Monkees and otherwise. Tork performs with an everchanging roster of musicians in a band called Shoe Suede Blues. The band, formed with a friend more than a dozen years ago, emerged as an afterthought following a benefit concert. Tork sings lead, plays guitar and keyboards. "We don't play as many dates as we'd like," he said, saying the band performs between 50 and 80 shows a year. When he's not performing, Tork lives in Connecticut, in a historic house his parents owned when he was a child. He has a studio in the house, but also makes syrup in the winter. "We put out an album, Saved by the Blues, and we're working on another one," Tork said in an interview. He didn't rule out a Monkees reunion down the road, despite a history of animosity among the members. "I don't miss all the Monkees hoopla," he said. "What I miss are the tech crews having guitars ready for you."

Peter will be participating in the WBWC 88.3 FM "40th Anniversary Monkeethon," a live Monkees radio marathon that will also be webcast globally at www.wbwc.com. Check out the details here. Tour Dates Sunday September 3 9PM EST Ocean City Labor Day Music Festival Ocean City Recreation and Parks North Division and the Beach Ocean City, MD 21842 410-250-0125 Price is free On The Beachâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;no seatingâ&#x20AC;&#x201C; bring a beach chair Monday September 4 Greenbelt Labor Day Festival Greenbelt, MD Price: TBA Monkees play along with promotion Friday May 12, 2006 By WILLIAM H. SOKOLIC Courier-Post Staff NORTH WILDWOOD Wouldn't it be great to bring the Monkees to the Wildwoods in honor of the 40th anniversary of the band's debut on television? Give Paul Russo kudos for trying. The owner of Cool Scoops discovered a tribute band known as the Missing Links. Micky Dolenz headlined the concert at the Wildwoods Convention Center as part of Fabulous Fifties Salutes the Sixties weekend last month. And Russo snared Peter Tork to say a few words outside Cool Scoops on the final day of the weekend in appreci-

Reach William H. Sokolic at (609) 823-9159 or wsokolic@courierpostonline.com Published: May 12. 2006 3:10AM

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Mike News to a single mother. As Michael was achieving fame with The Monkees, so his mother, Bette Nesmith, a secretary, hit on the idea for Liquid Paper, the first typing correction fluid. When she died in 1980, Michael inherited the patent and sold it to Gillette for a cool ÂŁ30m. But his accumulated wealth did not blunt his creativity. After recording his best-known solo single Rio, European TV networks requested he supply them with an accompanying film for their pop shows. He and some friends from the film and advertising world got together and made a discovery that was soon to become standard knowledge. "When you put music and images together, they tended to make each other more powerful, and you could do things when they were together that you couldn't do alone," he said. He had stumbled into inventing the pop video. In fact, his Elephant Parts was the first video to win a Grammy. There was, as yet, nowhere in the States for videos to be broadcast. So, as the cable TV era dawned, Nesmith stitched together a series of videos he called Popclips, for the Nickelodeon channel and sold the idea of a 24-hour video channel which soon became MTV. In the meantime, he formed a company which pioneered the selling of home videos of TV shows, and he began producing such movies as Repo Man, Tapeheads and Timerider. He even had time to write a novel, The Long Sandy Hair of Neftoon Zamora. A second novel The American Gene appeared last year. With wealth came philanthropy, and, in his late fifties, he began bringing together American intellectuals from all walks of life to discuss the big issues of the day at brains trusts entitled Councils of Ideas. They were sited

Faces of the week Written by BBC News Profiles Unit's Bob Chaundy MICHAEL NESMITH He was a member of The Monkees, the original boy-band, yet he went on to become a respected musician, a pioneer of the pop video, a film producer and author. Michael Nesmith has just released a new album after a fiveyear break. The Monkees were a phenomenon of the 1960s, brought together artificially in America, as a commercial attempt to cash in on the popularity of the Beatles; critics dubbed The Monkees the Pre-fab Four. They had a long-running TV show of wacky comedy and a host of hit records like Daydream Believer and I'm a Believer. The TV series ran for 58 episodes and the group sold an estimated 65 million albums. Michael Nesmith was the one in the woolly hat, the quiet one, but the one with the most musical talent. He had already written hit songs for Paul Butterfield and Linda Ronstadt. At first, all the Monkees records featured session musicians. Later on in their three-year existence, it was Nesmith who threatened to quit if they weren't allowed to write and record their own material. He famously punched a hole in a wall to make the point. By 1970, Nesmith had bought himself out of the band, and without his creative inspiration, The Monkees soon fell apart. Whereas, some of the other Monkees struggled to maintain even a modicum of success, Nesmith never looked back, at first writing and recording gentle country rock songs. He'd been born in December 1942 in Texas to a young mother of 18. His father abandoned his wife and son when Michael was an infant, leaving him to be brought up as a single child

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internet. "When you get into these big sampler engines and computer-based sequencing, the world opens up to you," he told Wired News this month. His new Rays album is a multi-layered "cinematic journey of sound" incorporating elements of swing, jazz and funk. It's currently only available as a download. Mike Nesmith may no longer be the young generation, but he's still got something to say.

Micky News Did you catch Micky on the Tony Danza Show on May 5th? I missed it! He was on the show to promote his new children/s book, Gakky Two-Feet, which can be preordered along with Micky Dolenz Rock and Roll Trivia on his web site www.mickydolenz.com .

July 28 River Winds Amphitheater 1000 Riverwinds Drive Thorofare, NJ 08086 Free Show at 8 pm. Bring your own Lawn Chairs http://www.riverwinds.org July 29 The Cell Block II 1213 State Street Erie, PA 16501 http://www.thecellblock.com/ ERIE.htm

Tour Dates June 6 96 WHNNâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Palooza 7 The bandshell located at Memorial Park Frankenmuth, MI

August 5 Spa Resort Casino 401 E Amado Road Palm Springs, CA 92262 http://www.sparesortcasino.com

June 16-17 Boomtown Casino New Orleans 4132 Peters Road Harvey, Louisiana 70058

September 23 Super Run 2006 Henderson Events Plaza Henderson, NV http://www.superrun.com/

July 4 Lock 3 Akron, Ohio Visit their site at: http:// destinationdowntownakron.com/ lock3/index.html

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David News Hope everyone caught Living In TVLand With Davy Jones on Wednesday May 3. It was one of the best glimpses into David’s life that I’ve seen and featured daughters Talia and Sarah, as well as grandson Harrison. If you missed it keep watching. The llast time I looked there were many more airing scheduled.

Saturday July 22nd Lowell, MA Monday & Tuesday, August 14th and 15th Mohegan Sun Uncaseville, CT At the Wolf Den Saturday September 16th Crestwood, NY End of Summer Blast

David announced recently that he is going to become an American Citizen in the very near future. Something, he says, he should have done a long time ago. Congratulations David!

Canada

Thursday June 22nd Club Regent Casino Winnipeg

Tour Dates

Saturday June 24th Del Crary Park Petersburg, ON

United States Tuesday June 13th Las Vegas Private event

David’s web site has announced that Renee Favor has left Fire Inside Productions to seek alternative paths.

Thursday June 15th Del Mar Fair San Diego, CA Sunday July 2nd St. Paul, MN Taste of Minnesota Tuesday July 4th Freedom Fest Wheeling, IL

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PETER TORK in his own Words Transcribed By: Bonnie Borgh Cindy Bryant shared this interview with me, and I thought it might be nice to hear from a horse of a different color. Please pardon my interjections. I just had to put my occasional two bits in. Does anyone have any information relative to the place and time of the interview?

Stephen Stills was a friend of mine from Greenwich Village who also was on the west coast who told me about it and said, “Go try out” and I’m like, and he called me back and said, “No, go try out.” , and I went, “Okay…” and the rest is a hysterectomy. [Note: Well, Micky always said it wasn’t brain surgery!] I think that The Monkees as a TV show, uh, were the ‘60’s on television, there were no other, uh, TV shows of it’s type, in fact not since [Note: You can say that again!] particularly in this one respect. The Monkees had no adult grown up adult figures, we were young adults, college-age kids, that you know, on our own, with no authority over us, and that was unique. There was never and not until I guess The Young Ones or something like that, you know, uh was there ever another TV show like that and that was like twenty-five years later, uh and in a sense, that was the, one of the aspects of the ‘60’s that The Monkees embodied as a TV show again, not necessarily the four of us as members of the group but the TV show, the whole phenomenon, the ‘60’s on television as The Beatles had been the ‘60’s in the music and had made that

Uh, I was a folk singer in Greenwich Village just after Dylan left, uh Richie Havens, and uh, Roger McGuinn, Jim McGuinn, and Jose Feliciano, more guys than I can actually think of to name were on the street in those days, and I was doing that for a couple of years and then one day I heard from on high “Get out of town” if it really was a voice from on high, I have no idea, I’m not a very mystical guy, but this is what happened to me, and I said, “Okay...Okay” just let me get a ride to and a place to stay in either LA or San Francisco, and I’m gone, and it turned out to be LA, and I landed in LA in June, end of June in 1965, I think I was auditioning for The Monkees by August or so because of the long drawn out process I was signed in October so that’s basically… 18

Monkee Shines movie and the music overall in general. Now, The Monkees’ music was not terribly representative of the ‘60’s, and it certainly didn’t bring the group down, it was just good bubble gum pop music, but, uh, I think it was the TV show was the way in which it did reflect the ‘60’s. We were a little behind the curve, of course, but television is a behind the curve.

dated her sister for a bit, but you know what happens is, uh, after you meet somebody and get to know them just a little bit, the fame thing just drops away. You get to know them, they become people, and you get to see where Jimi was basically just a purely sweet guy and where he was hidden and tucked away and what made him angry, uh and it was, and now you’re also talking about people who are very sharp. Mama Cass is one of the brightest, was, bless her heart, one of the brightest people I ever met, and it was a joy to be around the wit and the sparkling along, and it was popping along in a wonderful way and that was the real joy of being at that level was to be able to hang with those people as people.

Honestly enough, I don’t think any of us changed particularly. Uh, I mean, we got more comfortable as performers and actors uh we grew into our roles, we became more comfortable as members of the cast and the TV show. We felt more confident to have a say in what the TV show did, but in terms of the personality changes among us, I don’t think any of us has changed very much since, honestly. Moreso, if anything, I mean, I’m way mellower than I was and God knows, but a lot of the stuff I was doing back then I still hold dear and I believe in, and I’m still doing.

Uh, let’s see, who else, there would, you know, you meet, we met all of them, I met Mick Jagger, I did get to hang a little bit with George Harrison, uh played some sitar and guitar and some music, and I even worked for him on a music project that he did called “Wonderwall” where he did the music and I played little bits of banjo and uh we got to meet them and we got to see what these guys were about, and it was, and it’s always enjoyed to get to know these guys, but again, it’s like, get past the fame, and you get who they are as people, and that’s the fun of it.

Well, it was magnificent knowing Jimi. Uh, he was one of sweet guys on the face of the earth, and we talked music. He would drop by the house and jam from time-to-time, uh, Buddy Miles, who later drummed with Jimi was a friend of mine and that kind of a thing was really wonderful. We used to hang over at Mama Cass’ house from time-to-time, I even 19

Monkee Shines that was worth screaming for and diving at. They get right up close to me, like this, and suddenly I’m a human being, and they go, “Oh!” which is fine if there’s only two or three, ‘cause then they go, “Oh my God I’m so excited! How are you and what are you doing?” and then there’s conversation, however, stilted and scared, there’s conversation, but, if there’s a hundred of them, the ones in front are going to go, “Oh!” it’s a human being, but the ones in back still think that it’s the TV show, and they still need to crush forward to get a touch of it, and the kids in front of front get crushed, and that’s when the danger occurs. Otherwise, it’s all perfectly good spirits and nobody is remotely interested in causing anybody any damage, but it got a little scary.

Uh, it varied, depending on where we were. Here in Los Angeles it wasn’t as bad, uh, I mean, we had to be careful where we went. We could get, not exactly mobbed, but uh because they’re much to blasé in LA, but uh, it would be hard to go shopping because you’re pestered for autographs every five minutes every step of the way. (Wasn’t there a song about that?) Uh, when we were on tour, and the kids were screaming, teenagers were waiting for us at every corner, uh, we could not leave the hotel rooms, and in fact that scene in the movie does actually describe fairly accurately one moment, I think it was Cleveland, only we didn’t do it on purpose, we just turned around, and the people who were with us that were supposed to be shepherding us around were gone, and we didn’t know, and we opened our door, and we were on the outside of the street, and these screaming kids are coming running at us, and we did jump into a cop car, and we did make them deliver us around to the tradesman’s entrance so we could get back into the hotel. Where were you guys?

Moving from Greenwich Village to the stages of Monkee stardom...Um, well, you know, it’s such a long ramp. We had to practice, we had to get ready, we had to do our, we knew we had to do an hour-long set. What were we gonna do and how are we gonna structure it and we wound up rehearsing it so that uh, I mean it was uh, the amazing thing was the volume, the scream volume, but the actual business of playing, I think we ramped up slowly enough that it wasn’t a shock. It was, you’re out there, and my God, I’m going to put on my bass, start playing, and ‘one, two,

One of the things about mobs of kids, one of the phenomena, one of the phenomenal things about it, when you’re, I, am at a distance from a scream evil was, when I was at a distance, I was what they saw on TV and 20

Monkee Shines three’, and we “dah dah dah do do” and go and play, and it was a lot of fun. Once in awhile we’d hit the pocket and then I was transported which was all I ever asked from life was transportation, and uh, but I can’t say that I noticed how much different it was to play on stage than it ever was in the Greenwich Village days.

He said, “They’ll do great with this song give it to Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart to do. Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart wrote such and such a song, Carole King wrote such and such a song. Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil wrote such and such a song. Neil Diamond wrote them and uh give them, give Neil Diamond songs to Jeff Barry. Jeff Barry would take them into the studio, uh make the background tracks, fly them to the west coast, and Micky would sing on them. Um, the, so the song selections, the arrangements, now it’s a very different kettle of fish once the four of us were in the studio because the arrangements grew out of what we could and could not do as a band to play. We played sometimes fifty takes of a song while we worked on the arrangements, tried to make it, we’ll no, we should do this, we should turn here, there should be a break, and you should take, I’ll take it there, and all that stuff is mapped out ahead of time in the pro ranks that major producers that Donny hired would go to an arranger, and he’d say, well we’ll do this, and we’ll have this, and the arranger would say, “Yeah”, and then he would write out all of the parts, and he would give them to the guitar players, and the guitar players would read off from the sheet music and go home, and that was the way they made records. In Tin Pan Alley, if you

I would have to say that when we made the third album, we did have all the freedom we wanted. Uh, we also knew that we had a responsibility to make the best pop album we knew how to make. It wasn’t, we weren’t into self indulgence in the sense of well, it will be like playing any key of the music now, none of that, we knew we had to turn out pop tunes. Uh, we did some Carole King tunes. Harry Nilsson came around along about that time, and we did a couple of his songs, uh and we wrote one straight, Chuck Berry style rocker and threw that in there, and Micky wrote a couple of songs. I wrote one. Mike had a couple. Uh Davy eventually wrote although not on the third album, and um, but the idea was make a good album so in a sense we had freedom and in another sense we felt like we were under the gun, and we had to replace Donny Kirshner ourselves as it were, and uh, that was pretty tall boots to fill. Donny actually selected the songs and the producers. That’s about it. 21

Monkee Shines weren’t in the group, the way we made the record was the way you made the record if you were in the group which was you’re in the studio, and you play, and you say, “Let’s not do that,” and you actually carve out the arrangement as you work. I think, uh, you know, I listened to that album. It’s a garage band album, but it’s not that bad, for me, at least.

and he played, he joined us for that album. “Headquarters” was in fact the only album that we actually did make ourselves until ‘97 when we made “Justus” which was much later, but at the time, after “Headquarters”, we went into what I call a mixed mode, that is I was there playing the bass or guitar or keyboards and sometimes Michael was, and we had another drummer, and uh, we had arrangements, halfbaked arrangements, so we, sort of a half situation. I’m actually playing the piano on “Daydream Believer”. I was actually playing piano on “Stepping”, no sorry, uh, come on, um, “Pleasant Valley Sunday.” Mike plays the lick on “Pleasant Valley Sunday”, the guitar lick. So we did go into a kind of mixed mode. Davy was sick of banging the tambourine, and what was the question?

I have to say that I think that the TV, “Daydream Believer’s”, the movie, uh didn’t delve very carefully into the actual mechanics of the break-up of The Monkees. Um, for my money, Michael was very much interested in his own career for reasons of his own which I am not going to begin to guess at, uh, but primarily I think Michael saw the chance for The Monkees to take over their own music as, I don’t understand exactly. It might have been, Michael actually, as it sounded like, did produce two cuts on each of the first two albums himself, uh, and they were tunes of his own, and they weren’t bad, and he did it in the professional way. He went to an arranger and had the parts written out and gave them to the side men and had the studio cats come in and play the song. Um, and then when we did “Headquarters”, he was in there with his guitar and even with his pedal steel guitar which I wish he would have kept up with, I would have loved to have seen that, uh,

Ah, Mike’s relationship. Uh, actually I don’t know what more there is to say. Uh, after the, we had a kind of a labororganizing kind of a thing with the three of us, the three of them, not I, tried to form uh kind of a union activity, and it was the guy that Mike selected that in fact, it was the guy Mike selected who produced “Headquarters” to, it was Chip Douglas, Mike had just got him and said, “Here’s your producer.” and then we said, “Well wait a minute. I wanted Steve Stills.” And he said, “Well who 22

Monkee Shines do you want?” and so next time I turned around and Chip is doing the producing. Um, and they went and did a labor action, and it was Michael who got the guy who, the agent, who stood in for the other three uh, and then I quit The Monkees in ‘68, late ‘68, and they went on without me, the three of them went on without me for I guess another year at the most, and I think Michael was pretty much in charge.

talented, very hard-working, much more hard working than it seems like we did or at least I should say that the precision of their act is much higher level than certainly the precision of ours. On the other hand, in our day, that kind of act would have been laughed off the stage and nowadays, our kind of act would be laughed off the stage if we went up there fresh, I think. I mean, there are bands that, still garage bands that get up there, and some of them make it every so often, but um, as far as the obvious thing goes, you just have to say, it’s obvious. They were auditioned and crafted into a pop phenomenon and, but they’re certainly talented cats, you’re not going, you’re not gonna audition five hundred and take the fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth best people who showed up. You’re going to take the top, you’re going to lop it off at the very top as far as you can so you know that everybody in those acts is, is gifted, and I see it. There’s no doubt about it. Those guys are clearly gifted and, but as far as the rest of it goes, beyond the obvious, I don’t think there’s anything much to be said.

I did not catch a paper airplane in my mouth. That’s uh that’s fanciful. I did, in fact, my personality test, you know the black and white section where Mike and Davy were there, I was very (something). In fact, I think it got me the part because I did it kind of a dummy guy, and I wound up playing the dummy as a result, I think partly as a result of that. Um, yeah, I understand that Davy was already a part of the package. Uh Michael and I, Michael was the only one of us who actually read the ad and walked into the casting call, but I walked into casting call as Stephen told me to go try out for it, and Stephen Stills I mentioned earlier, and but I thought I had it in, and I walked into the cattle call and I didn’t, so I don’t know. I auditioned from scratch, as did Mike.

Uh, let’s see, after I quit The Monkees, uh, I, I hung around, hanging with, pretty much hung with this, pretty much the same old gang (Well, we have been around for “years and years and years and years.”) Uh, and then uh my money ran out be-

Um, well, you know, it’s hard to know. I’ve, what I’ve seen of those acts is that they’re very 23

Monkee Shines cause I had unwisely parked it as it turns out, uh, and I wound up with a bunch of friends in a rooming house actually for a little while uh, and then a romantic affair took me to, uh, took me through Marin County, north of San Francisco, where my ex mate and our baby daughter were living, and uh, I found kind of a home there. The next thing I did was to stay in Marin County, worked in a rock group called “Osceola” and a thirty-five voice rock choir called the “Fairfax Street Choir” and a few solo shows, and I did that for a few years, and then I came back down here. Basically, ever since then, I’ve just been knockin’ around. More recently, I’ve gotten myself in the middle of a great, what I think is a great blues band, called “The Shoe Suede Blues”. We just played here in LA the other night. We will be on the east coast in the spring, and we play the blues and blues rock and some rockabilly and some way ancient stuff and basically, ever since The Monkees, it’s mostly been about the music, trying to just get along playing the music. For people who are not familiar with the blues, you’re not going to be familiar with the people who turn me on with the blues, uh, but if you’ve ever heard of Muddy Waters or Lightnin’ Hopkins or John Lee Hooker, these are the guys that Eric Clapton says are the heroes of all time. Robert Johnson, of course, wrote the fa-

mous some of the great songs that Cream did when Eric Clapton was doing Cream. Uh, so that the daddy of the big brother Johnson in many ways one of the great early recorded, earliest recorded blues singer. Any number of blues performers who were just wonderful and blues singers who did rock, uh, the great R&B, there was a time when R&B and rock and roll were the same thing, and that was a time when music was glorious, honestly, not that I wasn’t paying some close attention to it then as I should have been, but I appreciate it now. Little Richard was the greatest rock singer of all time, and there will never be as good of a rock singer as Little Richard not ever again, but there will never be as good of a guitar player as Jimi Hendrix, ever again. He just, you know, swamped the field, took it over, laid waste to it, and, you know, passed over, and you can’t do any better than that. You can be as good in a different way, but you’ll never be better than Jimi Hendrix, just can’t, ah, and uh, so Jimi was so deeply influenced by the blues and you hear that, and almost all of guitar playing, rock guitar playing, 99% of rock guitar playing is blues, is blues guitar playing, and sometimes it’s tweaked and heightened and, you know, doped up in some kind of way, but it’s all blues, essentially. Ah, the blues, the thing about the blues is that it’s not about 24

Monkee Shines could have been, I could have been,” if you really want to do your art, you’ll do your art. Basically, nobody can tell you whether you want to do your art, you’ll be doing it. Ah, The Beatles were playing, what, eleven hours a night in Hamburg, Germany to, in their early, in their youth, and sleeping, you know, six to a mattress or something in flea ridden hotels (Well, at least they had shelter.) ‘cause that’s, they wanted to play, and uh, similarly, uh, all of the greats have been just, just did it. All they ever did was do it, and all other of the greats have been just, just did it. All they ever did was do it, and all I’ve ever wanted to do was to play, and I’m doing as much as I can, which is, maybe not as much as I should, but if you want to be a musician or an artist of any kind just do the (run/ride).

the blues. Let me repeat this. The blues is not about the blues, not really. The blues is the top, is the nominal subject matter, but the blues is about how we’re all in this together. You sing the blues, and I know somebody else has been through what I’ve been through, and I’m not alone. That’s...my advice for people who are interested in the arts is, “Don’t get a day job.” I repeat, “Don’t get a day job.” Give everything you’ve got to your art. Give it all you’ve got. If you don’t give it everything you’ve got, you’ll never know whether you could have been good enough, and if you do, then you’ll know, and if you take a day job, and it gets in the way of your art, I mean, unless you want to be one of those people who goes through life saying, “Well, I could have been, I

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David Jones Spin Cycle Post November 14, 200_ New York City Radio Show Transcribed by Bonnie Borgh

In His Own Words A big “Thanks” (to you know who you are) for this wonderful interview of David’s we just acquired from perhaps November of 2002.

Judy Garland and Frank...and um...Sammy Davis and um lots of other “celebs”, Buddy Rich became a friend, um, all of these people, um, came to see the show but also um some executives from Columbia Pictures, and they saw me and soon after came to see me at the theatre and offered me a contract, and in 1963 I was signed to Columbia Pictures on a long-term picture deal. For them, then, they had to then find the right vehicle for me. They took me to Hollywood during certain periods of release from the show that I was in. It was on for two years on Broadway...two and a half years, and they took me to Hollywood, and I was in the show, like I was in um “Ben Casey”, I was in “The Farmer’s Daughter”, all those “Bewitched”, all those shows, that you know early shows in the early ‘60’s. I auditioned for “Hogan’s Hereos”. I auditioned for “The Wackiest Ship in the Army”, you know, all of those things, and none of it happened until ‘65 when “The Monkees” idea came along, and they

Yeah, well, I was in England. I was fifteen years old, and I was in a show called ‘Oliver!’ I played ‘The Artful Dodger’, and David Merrick, the big Broadway producer came over to see the show before it opened on Broadway cause they had another company over in America, and for the first time, he could understand what ‘The Artful Dodger’ was saying cause being a Manchester boy, I had to learn how to talk like that so I was talking very slowly like this, and it was the first time he could understand what the Dodger had said. It was a Friday night. Sunday morning, I was on a plane with David Merrick coming to America. I opened on Broadway two weeks later, was nominated for a Tony Award, as ‘The Artful Dodger’. Well, in the audience that night, not only was there 26

Monkee Shines placed me in that as a contract player. So I was already in the mix before the auditions were held, in fact, I was at a lot of the auditions. I was at Mike Nesmith’s audition with my manager at the time who became the executive producer, Ward Sylvester, and so I was quite in tune with what was going on. We actually went to see all kinds of bands like “Arthur Lee and Love”. It’s a band from the ‘60’s, they were kind of Jimi Hendrix-y, and the bass player in the band was good. We thought that he’d be good. They looked at “The Loving Spoonful” as being a band they could use. They used, you know different, Stephen Stills was in consideration. So there was many different artists, and I had to say in the beginning because of my contract playing with Columbia, and here was the project that was waiting for it, it was a couple of years, but I’d finished with ‘Oliver!’ and I was just about to become a Monkee.

they said was, if you put your head in the sand and your bum is sticking up in the air, then we’d know who it was, and that was basically it. We were all different looking, different characters. As we started to film the t.v. show in the beginning, we obviously had to such each other out, like normally you do within a relationship and to me, it was just another cast...another company. Three other people that I was taking part in this production with, but as it went along, obviously, it became more than that because this was, despite being on Broadway and having experienced television in England and some other stuff, this was something different, and you could feel it was. I was also nineteen years old...twenty years old, so I was full of the fun of the faire and so were the other guys. We all had our own private individual times with our friends. When we did get together, it was on a Sunday afternoon where Micky, me, and Peter and a bunch of other people, stand-ins, and people we knew would go out to the Valley in Los Angeles, and we would play softball. It was a softball game, and we’d then go to Micky’s pool and swim, and then, as the years went on, you know, in ‘68, ‘69, there was children involved and you know, families, and all of this kind of stuff. More the three of us than Mike. Mike never really came

The friendships that Micky, Peter, Mike, and I had, they were all individual, different obviously because we were all different characters, and that was the reason why we got our, our jobs as Monkees. They wanted four guys to be, ah, completely different. Mike was from Texas. Micky was from California. Peter was from Connecticut, and I was from England, and they wanted to basically as what 27

Monkee Shines into that scene. He wasn’t a athlete, you know, and he never really got that, we never got that side of Michael, you know, casual side. We worked together as a team. Peter and I hung out a couple of times, but he kind of scared me. Peter kind of scared me in a way because he was into the Hare Krishna, water beds, brown rice. You know, and I thought that meant sort of like, you know, going to India and becoming a Buddist Monk, you know. I didn’t really get, you know, I thought, “Oh, pretty soon I’ll be on the brown rice and the water beds,” you know. Um and I hung out with him a few times, and you know, to the point, where you know, where I was over at his house and, you know, there was, you know, Jim Morrison swimming in the pool with a bottle of Whiskey in his hand and different celebrities and people. Micky Dolenz was busy at that time trying to develop his own career as a director. He’s a fabulous director. Got great ideas, and he knows the camera. He’s been in the business all of his life so he should know the camera. Um, Mike, he was always a little standoffish. I stayed at his house pre Monkees, uh, going on the air, and Micky and I had an apartment together in Benedict Canyon soon after that so we were friends as much as you are at work, and then when you go home, it’s not sort of like, “Okay, I’ll see you later. I’m

gonna go home. I’m gonna get changed.” and all your workmates here, you, sometimes, you know, you spend more time with them than you do with your, you know, your husband and your wife or your kids yet you don’t sort of hang out unless it’s a special occasion, a birthday party, I’m having a Christmas Eve, a New Year’s Eve party, so, we weren’t that close, but we were as professionals. We supported each other and helped each other, and so I guess, you know, it was a bit of each of those worlds. The Davy Jones in The Monkees pretty much was who I was as far as the tone of my voice, the dialogue, and the things you know that I, you know, said. Mike used to turn their dialogue around a little bit to suit me, you know, because I would interpret it differently. The hardest thing for an entertainer to do is to break that mold and all of a sudden become a regular, normal person, and you know, although you want to have that separation it’s very difficult for people to do that. You know, I do believe that Michael Jackson can go into the supermarket as long as he doesn’t show up in his yellow Rolls Royce and moon-walk into the cheese department, you know. If it’s just, you know, trying to be normal. I have something that I am able to base my emotions on, and that 28

Monkee Shines is that I have three sisters, and I have relatives and a family home in England as well as many people that I respect and care about, and the same goes for them with me. Um, so, I try to separate that. It’s kind of interesting when people don’t recognize me. That kind of feels more weird than anything. I don’t go out of my way to have people recognize me; my voice is very, you know, um, you know, very familiar to a lot of people so it’s kind of hard. ‘Oh, I didn’t recognize your face, but I recognize your voice.’ It’s for me, it’s for everybody, it’s the down times. This is the hardest thing for an entertainer. This is why they, we, you know, this is why, you know some of us, you know, some of entertainment, the entertainment world, they have bad reputations. They’re into drugs, they drink too much, you know, they beat their wives, they do this, that, or the other, you know, I mean, it’s only because of the pressure of having to go to be a regular person, and unless you can do that, you know, you’re not going to be successful in the long run. It’s short lived. Most of our careers are like a little fish bowl, you go “Bing!” and all of a sudden you sort of go like everybody and then it’s sort of like that, and if you can sort of keep it like that, highs and lows and realize why it feels that way, then you’re able to you know, sort of apply that to your other side of your life. It’s very difficult. It’s easier

said in theory than it is in the act. You know, when we did the t.v. show, we met lots of celebrities, obviously, you know, there were fans. Paul McCartney, you know, sent a letter saying, “Could you send an autographed picture and a record to my daughter?” You know, who now is, I think works for Schnell or somebody in Paris as a designer. Um, so there was lots of contact with lots of people, and in fact, there was lots of fans, uh, that were celebrities. You know, I’ve met Sylvester Stallone, and says, “Hey Davy, how you’s doing? I’m a big fan of ‘The Monkees’. You know, hey, you know.” So then give me a job then, mate, you know, in your next movie. You know, um, Jack Nicholson, The Beatles, you know, um, Jimi Hendrix. Jimi Hendrix was on our show. He opened the show for about eight to ten shows as a regular kind of guy. You know, he launched, “Foxy Lady” off our show and all of a sudden he became a cult, you know, had a cult following. You know, I think Woodstock or Monterey Pop also helped with that. Um, it was interesting. Micky saw him in a club in New York and asked him, you know, would he come on tour with us. “Oh, yeah, sure.” He didn’t know who The Monkees were. Jack Nicholson was a, um, you know, like doing spaghetti westerns, you know, like Clint East29

Monkee Shines wood when he was doing, small budget. I think he showed up on “Bewitched” and shows like that, Jack Nicholson, in the early days, and then he was friends with Bert Schneider and Bob Rafelson, The Monkees’ producers, so he brought him in when we did the movie called “Head”.

bus the next morning so it kind of gets difficult so I can understand and identify with people that are in the limelight, you know, cause I’ve sort of been a, a recognizable person for many years, and it’s not easy sometimes. When The Monkees finished in the early ‘70’s, late ‘60’s, actually, we finished making the movie “Head” in ‘69, you know, we all had our own individual careers to start thinking about, and I did a couple of t.v. shows, you know, I did Tom Jones variety show, and I did the Tennessee Ernie Ford Thanksgiving `Day Special, but one of the most memorable occasions for me to go out as a solo artist was when I did an appearance on “The Brady Bunch” show when I took “Marsha Marsha Marsha” to the prom. Um, and I understand they mentioned my name in that show about fortynine times, “Davy Jones, Davy Jones, Davy Jones”, and I listened to it the other day, and I thought, “They were right.” (laughing). They kept saying my name, saying my name, you know. So, um, it was that Marsha was supposed to be my, um, president of my fan club, and she, um, she said she’d get me for the school prom or whatever it might be, and she did, cause I’d written her a letter, and I do. I write letters all the time. I get lots of fan mail, and if it’s not a personal thing that I write, and I can’t

The Beatles, I’ve met, yeah. I’ve met all The Beatles. Um, um, I, let me see. Ringo would be somebody that I had seen more often over the years than the other boys. Um, I’ve been to sessions where Paul was there with Linda and George Harrison was a frequent visitor to Micky Dolenz’s house as was Mark Burdon and um Ringo and Harry Nilsson, and lots of other people so you know you really take it in your stride. Obviously, I’m a big fan of the business so anybody that’s had any success at all or has any recognition or has been able to accomplish certain things. I know how hard it is to do this so I have tremendous respect. It’s just a very, a very tough thing to deal with, you know, and it’s a very lonely life, being in the business, you know. You do a concert, we play to thousands of people, and then you go home, to the hotel, and you close the door and on goes the t.v., and you’re eating potato chips, do you know what I mean or if you want to go to the bar or if you want to go out partying, you can, but you got to be on the 30

Monkee Shines write everybody. It’s taken care of when people get, you know, whatever they’re asking for, something signed or if they’ve sent a picture, I do all of that stuff, you know. We do it, but “The Brady Bunch” it’s like unbelievable because, um, um, people that didn’t really see The Monkees. It’s sort of like my daughter some years back, saying, “Hey, Paul McCartney, have you heard this ‘Band on the Run’?” She didn’t know about The Beatles, but she knew about “Band on the Run” and Paul McCartney. So, “The Brady Bunch”, it’s sort of like, it’s something people think that my celebrity came from “The Brady Bunch” with my little blazer on which I still have, by the way, it doesn’t fit so well. I can it on, but it’s kind of getting split underneath the arms every time I try it on for a joke. Um, I did that really, I had a song called “Girl” (sings) “Girl, look what you’ve done to me, me and my whole world…” well, that was a song that I recorded as the theme song to a movie called “Star Spangled Girl” which was “Star Spangled Girl”, yeah, which was a Sandy Duncan movie, and I just went on to advertise and promote the song. I thought it was a great idea, but thinking about, it was the first time that I’d ever done a t.v. show which was like a fantasy show like “Brady Bunch” or “Friends” or whatever it might be where they actually used Davy Jones, the celebrity,

so that was a new plateau of, you know, relating for me as well. All of a sudden, The Monkees just came as a normal thing for me. You know, I’d been on Broadway, and this was just another gig. But after the “Brady Bunch”, it was sort of like, different because all of a sudden I said, “Well, yeah, well, I guess I am a celebrity. I guess Davy Jones from The Monkees, and then I’m on “The Brady Bunch” which is another fantasy show so, and then the movie came along, and they asked me to be in the movie, and I said, “By all means, yeah, it was great fun.” and they sort of spoofed it up a little bit and had these middle aged women um there you know, screaming, “Oh Davy” and the young kids are going, “What am I doing this for?” But it happens all the time now, we go and do concerts and little kids, you know, they’re with their parents, and the parents are, you know, Baby Boomers, and they’re my age, and you know, and younger, most of them, and um, you know, they bring their kids, and so they kids are looking at their Mom getting wobbly knees, you know, saying “Hello” to Davy Jones, thirty-five years later. So, it’s all been an enriching experience, you know, and it didn’t used to be. I’m looking for answers, and I’ve found that through my work and through my traveling, and that’s the fortunate thing about it. I’ve been able to go all over the world. 31

Monkee Shines The Monkees went to about thirty-six countries. The show was shown, you know, dubbed, in Japanese, you know. It was dubbed in Japanese, it was dubbed, we had a hit with “I’m A Believer” in Italian, you know. We had a hit in Mexico with Micky singing Spanish, you know, singing “I’m a Believer” so it was a lot more going on than ever was seen generally in one dimension so we had a heck of career.

you’ve got to be working at it all the time. Um, I’m involved as much as people want me to be, and I love the challenge that acting brings you. I really feel that I’ve overlooked one area of my performing in theatre, and I would like to see in the next couple of years to come back to Broadway, and it has crossed my mind, you know that “Yes” that I was nominated for a Tony Award. Well, I won one, okay, and you can’t get one unless you’re here so we’re talking about different shows right now and things that could happen for me in the year 2003 or there around. You’ve got to do that, you know. Opera singers are booked up five years in advance. Movie stars have got movies, you know, for 2004 and 2005. You know, that’s people putting their trust in you, um but you have to have that desire to do that. I have other things that I do. I’ve been married twice. I have four daughters, all girls. So I try to spend as much time as I can with them. You know, summer, holidays, everybody’s, they’ve got their own lives. I also, I’m very interested in horses, I have been all my life. Before I got into show business, I was an apprentice jockey in England in ‘62. I was there for a short while, and it’s the bug. Once you’re in, you’re in. It’s like the Mafia. I can’t let it go, and I love horses. I ride every day when I’m at my own little place in Pennsylvania or in Carolina. I’ve got horses that are in

Um, as far as my career, as an actor these days, I’m sort of limited to what I’m doing only because of my own sort of desire. Um, I’m not a big, “The Brady Bunch” was in the ‘70’s, you know. I really, if I was acting, I want to be playing a character. I don’t always want to be doing Davy Jones and unless you are fully dedicated to going out and doing that and making sure that you get that and people see you in that light, you know I’ve played ‘Fagin’ in “Oliver!” since playing ‘The Artful Dodger’. I’ve toured and I’ve played at the Muny Theatre in St. Louis, and I’ve played in Kansas City, Starlight Theatre, 12,000 seats for two weeks, sold out, and I’m talking like this my dear, “Come here, Oliver, lovely to see you, my boy,” but you know, they see Davy Jones as this (sings) “I could hide ‘neath the wings” and there’s no getting away from that. There was when I play the characters, and I do the parts, but as I say, 32

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for me. One day I’ll be back in England and win The Grand National so that’s the big one. You know, I’d love someone to get in my shoes one day and just when I get up on the race horse in the morning and my legs are up in my chin and I’m galloping along, and I’m looking about, there’s a couple of guys alongside, and we’re going forty miles an hour, okay, and you sit, and you’re pinned up on top of a horse. It’s a thrilling feeling. It’s an amazing adrenalin rush but you know, three or four or fives horses a morning doing this, the odds of you having some sort of a mistake, this is an animal, and it’s traveling, you know, and it’s just, it’s the fear of the unknown. This is what people have. I love it. I love the unknown. This is what I live for. I want to say to myself, “There’s got to be something more. There’s got to be something more.” As an actor, I hope that I get the challenges to be able to go and do it, whether it be “The Music Man” or whether it be you sort of some well thought of show or part you know, hey, give us a job. So, you know, I enjoy working. I enjoy being tested and this to me, I wish that some people could see me sometimes, you know, doing these kinds of things because it’s total, you know, contradiction to the way people think about you, and I am, you know, you got to be kind of a little bit tough to do this, you know. You’ve got to 33

Monkee Shines have a little edge, and um, I think that’s come from um, from me having been in the business for so long and knowing what it’s about. I’ve never gotten into directing or producing. I kind of put my energy into these animals, the same way as I would into a script that I would write or a production that I would be involved in so to my it’s my salvation. It gives me stability. It gives me a foundation to work off, and I say to myself, “Oh, I’m going out to work. I’m going out to make a t.v. show, I’m going off to this, playing a concert, because when I, and then I’ll be able to spend time with my horses so that’s what we work for is the recreation time, and it’s very difficult to turn off. This is how people have got to find something else. It’s like within a relationship between two people. You’ve got to have that wall there in between the formality, it’s important. You treat people with respect. You got to respect race horses. You’ve got to respect show business because anyone that’s done anything whether it be the bands of today, N Sync, Brittney Spears, Back Street Boys, and all of the rest of those people, it’s not easy doing what they do and having the success and doing it. So I respect that and you know anyone that starts talking down about you know this group or that group or that kind of music, hey, it ain’t easy.

You know if there was any advice I could give to anybody about show business, you know, and any advice anybody can give me, please give me a call, but um, the thing is, my Dad told me, “Nobody does what you do.” So you’re an individual. You’re unique, you know, and so for all of those kids and adults that are going off to auditions and meeting people and being tested all the time, there’s nothing worse than being tested and not being chosen, that’s really hard, you know because you obviously take it personally. It’s something that you, as an actor, you know, even um when they did ‘The Godfather’, you know, Al Pacino and um the other people in there, they had to audition. They had to audition for it, but it’s always a test. It’s always something that you, you know, it’s kind of scary in a way because, wait a minute, you know I know how to act. I’m an actor. I can do anything. Why do I have to test to be able to display my art and show people what I can do. Never give up. You know, there’s obviously, there’s, you know, nobody does what you do. You know, just believe in yourself and focus on what you want to do, and there’s a word that has helped me, and it’s something you’ve got to believe in, and it’s called “empowerment”. You’ve got to take hold of this and say, “I can do it.” I know that eventually somebody else is going to real34

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Indiana Wants Us or Do We Have To Do This All Over Again? (police sirens) Mmm mm-mmmm-mm Mmm mm-mmmm-mm Indiana wants us Lord, we must go back there Indiana wants us Lord, we must go back there We wished for a show to go to If a “Girl” ever needed Monkees, we do No one has as much fun as we do when we see you And you give us stuff to write about, it’s true Out there the band’s a-playin’ We’re crazy; there’s no denyin’ Indiana wants us Lord, we must go back there Indiana wants us Lord, we must go back there We wished for a show to go to It’s cool to see The Gang we once begun And to know we’ll always have the mem’ries of such “Good Clean Fun” We’ll forever see those stars twinkle in your eyes Just once more, we’ll pay the toll You, your songs, fill our “Heart and Soul” Indiana wants us Lord, we must go back there Indiana wants us Lord, we must go there (police sirens) We wished for a show to go to We hope these words bring a smile to your face Thank you, Monkees, for the dreams time will never fade or erase “Hold On Girl” for there is nothing we have to fear Cameras are flashing around here Yeah, Girls, it looks like we must go Indiana wants us Lord, we must go back there Indiana wants us Lord, we must go back there We wished for a show to go to Indiana wants us (This is the Gang! You are surrounded.) Lord, we must go back there (Are we grounded?) Indiana wants us (How has this sounded?) Lord, we must go back there (We are dumbfounded.) Stay Tuned For LaPort, Indiana in the next issue of Monkee Shines)

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By Cindy Bryant

It started innocently enough, as these things usually do, with a simple phone conversation. Bonnie was telling me that there was a Quad Cities version of Monopoly on sale. It featured the Isle of Capri as one of the properties, a place David has played several times. Maybe we should get David a game to remind him we would like for him to come back to the Isle. But my mind, which often works independently of my mouth, had taken off into the ozone. “No…” I said. “We

should make him his OWN game.” We bantered around some ideas and then I was off on a mission…”possessed,” if you will! For close to a month I did little else when not at work or sleeping. I plotted and planned and searched through thousands of photos and did some research on the internet. I nightly shared my ideas via emails with the Road Crew. They responded with giggles and ideas of their own. We laughed so much! How do you adapt Mo37

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nopoly to make a playable game based on the Monkees’, and in this case, David’s career? We began by changing the properties from streets to venues where the guys had played. Houses would become hotels for the fans who come to the shows and hotels became luxury hotels. Each space had an actual photo of the venue on it. Boardwalk and Park Place became Beavertown, PA and Indiantown, FLA with a photo of the Beavertown city limits sign and a photo of the Indiantown Civic center taken from their web site. Of course we used venues we had been to since we had hundreds of photos to choose from. One by one the real Monopoly properties were replaced. They were now:

lington, IA Lockport, IL The Cubby Bear, Chicago IL (actually a place Mike has played) The Vic, Chicago, IL (where Peter and friends (Micky and David) played) Starlight Theater in Kansas City, MO (where David played Fagin in Oliver) Shikellamy High School, Shikellamy, PA Atlantic City, NJ (where David did Grease) Hershey Park, PA Hard Rock Café, Chicago, IL (where a Monkees guitar is on display) Nashville, TN St. Louis, MO Memphis, TN Universal Amphitheater , LA,CA The Greek Theater, LA, CA Harrah’s, Lake Tahoe The Hollywood Walk of Fame Beavertown, PA Indiantown, FL

The Ingersol Theater, Des Moines, IA Prairie Meadows Casino, Altona, IA

What about the railroads? They became an investment in each of the guys careers. Chance became — Take a

Circa 21, Rock Island, IL The Mark Of The Quad Cities Burlington Steamboat Days, Bur38

Monkee Shines chance, baby, take a chance! And the cards were modified to reflect something Monkee and were community chest cards. We replaced the Monopoly money with our own version. Each denomination featured a different Monkee. The Go space featured David and the words, “Here’s the party dude!” Go To Jail featured a pictre of Officer Ken trying to look stern and the jail itself sported a photo of Ken and Hazel with Miss Hannah Borgh behind bars. Bonnie and I could just see Ken looking down from Heaven and rolling his eyes. If anyone understands our insanity it is Ken and it tickled us to include him on the board. Free parking became free tickets to a concert...naturally. Everything was just falling into place. I did a little creative face lift on Mr. Monopoly on the box cover using a 60s photo of David and it looked like Mr. Monopoly’s body and David’s head were made for each other. The name of the Game was doctored to read “Monkee — opoly” and a purple oval under that proclaimed “Davy Jones Edition”. A disclaimer read “From the Demented Minds of The Purple Flower Gang.” One last modification to the lid changed the tag reading ‘family fun” to “We thought this was a family game!” Bonnie carefully measured everything and I set to work putting it all together. Bonnie and Hannah set to work cutting everything out after I printed it all out. I gingerly glued every piece in place

Who are you? Ask the nurse. She’ll tell you but it costs you $20

Kiss Davy on TV and receive severe shock. Pay doctor fee of $50.

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Monkee Shines on the board. Bonnie made a “business” trip down to survey our work and it was decided we needed to cover the board somehow to protect the new pieces. We bought some clear contact paper and working excruciating ly slowly we cut the clear plastic and guided it over the board. We later decided to do the same thing with the box lid too. One last problem. What would we do for playing pieces? The traditional pieces were okay but didn’t fit with our game. We thought of many possibilities but nothing seemed quite right. It was Hannah who finally came up with the solution, explaining to her mom how about some other game pieces she had. With a little experimentation we came up with little photos of each of the guys which stood up independently. Our game was complete. If I say so myself it turned out really good and who knows there may be a Micky, Mike, and Peter edition in the future… In the meantime we tested the game and gave it to David in LaPorte, Indiana on March 31.

Mailed yourself to Davy but didn’t use enough postage. Return to sender. Pay $50.

Take a walk to Beavertown ...visit the Monkee Museum.

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The Greek Theatre Los Angeles, California

Price $300

Walk Of Fame

Harrahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s

Hollywood, California

Lake Tahoe, Nevada

Price $320

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JAIL

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Just visiting!

Ken and Hazel Wilkinson are featured on the Jail spaces (along with Hannah Borgh).

Officer Ken says:

GO TO JAIL!

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Mr. Monopoly gets a face lift!

Win 2nd place in a Micky Dolenz look-alike contest. Collect $10.

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Featuring: Bonnie Borgh Cindy Bryant Janet Litterio And Kimmi Wright as ALBKerrie/ALBDavy2

Bonnie: While some people escape to a tropical island for a relaxing getaway, the PFG road crew (and you know who we are) decided to hang out together in the Quad Cities the last weekend in February. We thought perhaps a little "pep rally" might be in order in anticipation of our first official road trip of 2006 to LaPorte, Indiana on March 31. We sent an invitation and a multiple choice R.S.V.P. card to David along with a SASE for his convenience. Unfortunately, our R.S.V.P. was not returned with any of our possible responses SLASH excuses chosen.

wasn’t returned, the unexpected letter that David wrote and sent to Cindy was no doubt well received by the entire Gang. Cindy: So the postal system between Beavertown and Muscatine DOES work! Bonnie: Cindy arrived late Friday morning (February 24), and I met her at high noon at the (Heartland) Inn because there was no room at the Isle of Capri. If we hadn't known better, we would have thought The Davy Jones was in town! ALBDavy2: Eh, hem……

ALBDavy2: It must be lying somewheh along with those questions you sent me. I’m going to ansuh them! I sweh I am!

Bonnie: I drug Cindy to a dive bar in the Village of East Davenport that serves awesome grilled cheeseburgers. After lunch, we popped into the (local) Isabel Bloom store which

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has generated quite a bit of attention in the past several weeks. Cindy purchased a little something with someone's name written all over it.

school at 3:10 pm. Hannah and I arrived shortly after 4:00 pm. We had the pool completely to ourselves perhaps because there were chunks of ice floating on the surface. Where was the Jacuzzi?

Cindy: Beware of fans bearing giftsâ&#x20AC;Ś.

Cindy: Obviously THE Davy Jones had not been there.

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clined our invitation.

ALBKerrie: It is currently ALBKerrie. I’ve had to go under due to some recent…Gang related issues…if you will…

ALBDavy2: I wanted to suhprise you! Some thanks I get! ALBKerrie: Well, that’s show biz!

Cindy: The rest of us are in the witness protection program.

Bonnie: Craig joined us already in progress about an hour later. Of course, he did not go home so he did not see our note. From the borrowed phone at the Fitness Center, he thought I said we were at the hotel so he made a brief stop there first. After dessert, we returned to the Inn to debut our latest plagiarism.

Bonnie: We agreed to swing by our house first, leave a note for Craig about our whereabouts, and then ventured off to Carlos O'Kelly's for Mexican food. Their spinach and mushroom enchiladas are great! Hannah loves their cheese and chicken crisps. ALBDavy2: In the mean time, I had settled into my room at The Lady Luck, I mean The Isle. Sorry, I’ve frickin’ played it how many times and they go and change the name on me?!

Bonnie: Before Christmas, I saw a new "Quad Cities OnBoard" Monopoly game. One of the corners was "The Isle of Capri", and I thought, "We should send that to David!" I emailed Cindy regarding the purchase and intent, and she said, "Oh no! We'll just make our own!" From there, her creative juices began to flow, and I think "Monkee-opoly" is a work of art!

Cindy: Potayto SLASH Potahto ALBKerrie: It’s been so long since you’ve been there! Who would know? ALBDavy2: I sat in that lobby all evening, OK, waiting for this alleged pahtee that apparently took place.

Cindy: I had so much fun putting this game together! Bonnie: Kimmi and junior team-mate, Hannah, chose the Micky Dolenz token game piece, and we were off!

ALBKerrie: You did not return the R.S.V.P. We couldn’t have made it any simpler for you.

ALBKerrie: Cindy called dibs on Peter so Bonnie was “stuck” with Davy!

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Monkee Shines ALBDavy2: Isn’t she the lucky guhl?! In the meanwhile, I enjoyed the buffet at the Lad…… Isle and read my latest issue from The PFG. Fantastic covah, Ladies! Very good looking indeed!

ALBDavy2: Yes we do…you do…they do? Oh whatevah! ALBKerrie: We quickly scooped Micky’s and Peter’s also, I believe. We didn’t have time to go after Michael’s, but I’m sure we would have won it!

Bonnie: They rolled 7(A), and they landed on "Take a Chance, Baby, Take a Chance!" They were instructed to advance to "Davy Jones' career". In doing so, they passed, "Where's the pahtee, Dude?", collected $200.00, and paid $200.00 to invest in Davy Jones' career.

Bonnie: You're talking properties, right? ALBKerrie: Go Hannah and Kimmi!! I mean Kerrie… Cindy: Do you know who you are? Bonnie: Unfortunately, it was nearing bedtime, so we had to put the game away for the evening. Tomorrow's Gonna Be Another Day! As a matter of fact, Saturday morning, Kimmi and Cindy went shopping.

Cindy: Haven’t we all? Bonnie: Some guys have all the luck! Cindy: Wasn’t that Rod Stewart?

ALBKerrie: Oh what a mornMonkee-opoly champ, Kimmi Wright and her junior partner, Hannah Borgh

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dig? I was at the Isle the entiah time! Stood up and broken hahted! Imagine that, wrong teen idol!

ALBKerrie: We found lots of treasures, lots of laughs, and Mumsy almost died. It was quite eventful!

Cindy: If you had returned your RSVP we could have let you know about the change of venue!

Cindy: Not even close…that would have taken a wooden stake or a silver bullet!

ALBKerrie: I did have a great time! Thank you Mumsy, Bonnie, Craig and Hannah! Sorry I missed you Janet and Tom! (and Davy!) I’ll see you soon, tho!

Bonnie: Meanwhile, back at the ranch…Craig retreated back to work to accomplish approaching deadlines. Hannah re-connected with her toys and recharged her batteries from the draining evening with all of the "boring" talk about you know who. Only Ken would understand. I can hardly wait to read her first grade weekend news report. Cindy and Kimmi arrived at our house about 11:00 am after a Close Encounter of the Easter Bunny Kind. Cindy and Kimmi left for lunch at Lunardi's whilst Hannah and I attended a Booker Bear Pizza Party at the Bettendorf Library from 12:50 to 1:50 pm in recognition of the reading accomplishments of the first grade classes. Hannah and I arrived at the Inn just as Kimmi was departing for home.

Janet: Tom and I were unable to join the Friday festivities. Tom was unable to get Friday off--employers, go figure. However, I have been “gently reminding” him to take off Friday, March 31. I had a previous commitment Friday night to join my former hospital co-workers for a “retirement” party for one of my friends that recently left the hospital. Saturday morning, our David competed in a track meet -oddly enough at Lockport East High School. So many wonderful memories wrapped up in that school We wanted to see him compete in at least one of his events before we left for a little “Monkee Shines.” But we’re anxiously awaiting the chance to see everyone in a few weeks in LaPorte, IN!!!

ALBKerrie: Sadly, I could only do Friday night. At least I made it for one night! ALBDavy2:

Bonnie: Kimmi was barely out of Dodge, when I received a call from Janet. She and Tom

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were crossing from IlliNOISE into Iowa and would be arriving shortly. They got to the Inn about 2:30 pm., and we spent the next few hours previewing the new Monkeeopoly game and day tripping through vintage issues of Monkee Shines. It seems there are others who do the same.

Bonnie: We thought it was then time to hit the road for a little sightseeing adventure. After a brief tour of Bettendorf landmarks, we crossed the I74 Bridge back into IlliNOISE and reached the Quad City International Airport (which is such a big jump from what used to be known as The Moline Airport). Thanks to our quickly assembled sign, as we drove past the Baggage Claim area, we had our first Close Encounter of the Jones Kind (CEOTJK).

ALBDavy2: Ah you referring to me again? Bonnie: I'm A Believer! Janet: Monkeeopoly is OUTSTANDING!!!! It is Cindy and Bonnie’s finest bit of creative genius thus far!!!! I keep saying that when creativity went from west to east, it stopped at The Mississippi River.

Janet: Close Encounter???? Almost only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades!!!

ALBDavy2: I do enjoy an occasional trip back to yestah year. Yestah decade actually…

Cindy: Ok...the mind is unable to discern between the real and vividly imagined ……

Cindy: I enjoy day tripping through our back issues and remembering where all my money and several cars went. Not to mention my youth, my sanity……

Bonnie: Then we returned back to Iowa and briefly visited the Isle of Capri. We found some lovely Isle of Capri postcards in the gift shop. Much to our surprise, we ran into The Davy Jones right before we had to leave.

Janet: Absolutely, ALBDavy2!!! It was interesting to get a little history lesson----reading the first issues of Monkee Shines. Pretty Cool!!!!!! Where was I when you guys were having all that fun with Davy???? Oh yea, that’s right…I wasn’t old enough.

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Janet looks for David at the QC Airport

thoughtful! Cindy: One vid….RSVP!

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Janet: Bombarded???? Certainly not!!! I enjoyed watching vintage TV appearances in which David appeared. I’m so grateful you and Cindy did share your videos-GREAT way to spend a Saturday evening!!!! GREAT food, GREAT company, vintage videos-who could ask for more???? Well…I suppose if we thought long and hard, we could come up with the icing on the cake so to speak.

Bonnie: We dropped off Cindy and Hannah at our house and popped the spinach ricotta lasagna in the oven. Janet and Tom joined me on a quick trip to our local grocery store to pick up some Jones Soda. We happened upon another idea in the Easter aisle as well. We finally got to eat the lasagna and the pistachio salad I had prepared the day before about 7:00 pm. Everyone (with the exception of Hannah) seemed to enjoy the dinner.

Cindy: Well, I can think of one more thing that would have made the evening complete….but why dwell…..

Cindy: Wonderful meal Bonnie! Janet: Jones soda---AKA pop. Should be the logical, official

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time. Lots of love, lots of hugs, lots of laughs, or whatevah… Love David Jones. Bonnie: Cindy, Janet, and Tom were back at the Inn before the stroke of midnight when the magic of our short time together ended. When you wish upon a star, makes no difference where you are, anything your heart desires will come to you. "The proof is in the pudding (SLASH pictures)!"

Bonnie: Yes, but at least he had shelter. Right, Cindy? Cindy: And the Isle doesn’t have ants…er….termites!

Janet: Lest we not forget…”Good things stand the test of time.”

ALBDavy2: Back home once again. It’s lovely weathah. Soon those flowahs you kindly sent me will be blooming for me to enjoy. Sorry the othah fellas couldn’t be there. Maybe next

Cindy: For years and years and years and years…..

David WAS there after all! That’s our story and we’re sticking to it!

Paging David Jones at the Isle of Capri

Monkee Shines A Blast From the Past! British Correspondent, Hazel Wilkinson, sends this article from News Of The World August 11, 1991! Thanks Hazel!

Clarksville have brought him a mansion overlooking Santa Barbara polo ground in California, a house in Pennsylvania and a flat on Australia’s Gold Coast. But their eventual split was a bitter one, following a furious row between Davy and drummer Mickey Dolenz. “Now the Monkees are history as far as I’m concerned,” Davy says. “People have talked about the group touring again to celebrate our 25th anniversary next year but after what’s happened I don’t need it.” he and second wife Anita, 39, have two daughters — Jessica, 10, and baby Annabel.

Pop idol plays jockey who created Howards’ Way for the BBC. News of the World racing correspondent Robin Gray is heard doing the action commentaries. Davy is not seen until later in the 13 part series, but it is being tipped for a follow up run. The role is a far cry from Davy’s years with the Monkees, the group that twice made him a millionaire — first at the height of their TV fame in the Sixties, and through 7 Top 20 hits in 1967 and 1968, then as a result of their reunion tour two years ago. Besides the stud farm, hits like I’m A Believer, which topped charts in January 1967 and Last Train To 52

Monkee Shines His first marriage to American born Linda ended in divorce in 1977 after 10 years.They also had two daughters — Talia,22, and Sarah, 19. The Monkees TV shows, which became a cult, still play to millions around the world, but the four stars don’t get a penny in royalties.

into the Monkees for the second time I had nothing.” But the comeback series of concerts raked in millions. Now Davy is turning his autobiography They Made A Monkee Out Of Me into a film. And he is touring the United States with other Sixties British pop giants including exAnimals legend Eric Burden. But it is a world that Davy’s daughter Jessica finds hard to understand. He reveals: “When she sees me on TV in those early shows, she says, “There’s my other dad!” Maybe she’s right.”

Giants Davy explains:”It was before the days of union agreements. I see myself on TV even now but its like a different person.” Davy, now teetotal after wild years of boozing and smoking pot, admits, “When I went back

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Monkee Shines Another blast from the past from Hazel:

Keeping up with the Joneses is a way of life for a former policeman from #######. For his brother-in-law is Davy Jones, the lead singer with the 60s pop supergroup The Monkees. Davy is still performing at concerts around the world — and last time he took his brother-in-law from ##### with him to act as road manager. Ken Wilkinson, 54, from ##########, is married to Davy’s sister, Hazel, who is also 54. Ken followed Davy all over the world on his tour as a solo performer. He spent a month taking care of the star’s day to day affairs. “I haven’t done it before but I had dealt with security for the Monkees in 1988 for six weeks so I knew a bit about it,” said Ken, a retired policeman. “I basically went as a companion for Davy. I paid for myself to get to America and then share with him on the tour. Davy, who is 44, came

from Manchester originally and has just finished filming a couple of episodes for the BBC series Trainer, in which he plays a jockey. The Monkees are still popular in America,” Said Ken “But there are no plans to get back together. “Davy appeals to everyone — from youngsters to fans from 25 years ago. It’s a hell of a cross section. In Indiana, we were mobbed by over 200 screaming girls and we had to get the police to get us out.” Ken married Hazel long before Davy shot to stardom 25 years ago. Davy’s fame presented us with a lot of problems,” he said. “we used to get girls all around the house. I remember being sent from the police station to my own house to see if a missing girl had appeared there.

Monkee Shines

Congratulations to the Jones famly on the births of Thalia Deborah Barber and Emma Jayne Moore from The Purple Flower Gang!