Monkees Heartthrob Davy Jones Dies
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PAGE A2 n march 1, 2012 n T hE STaTE JOUrNaL n FaKFOr N rT, KENTUcK Y OBITUARIES cmTOm UnI y Monkees heartthrob Davy Jones dies cdRAlEn A Obituary pOlicy by JOHN ROGERS Goffin wrote “Pleasant Associ Ated Press Valley Sunday,” and Neil GOvernment The State Journal pub- Diamond penned “I’m a LOS ANGELES (AP) — Be- Today lishes brief death notices at no Believer.” Musicians who fore there was MTV, before Fiscal Court has a work session at 5 charge. This notice includes played on their records in- p.m. in the Fiscal Court conference “American Idol” made over- name, age, date and place of cluded Billy Preston, who room, followed by a 6 p.m. meeting in death, funeral home, memo- night stars of people you nev- the courtroom at 321 W. Main St. er heard of, there was “The later played with the Bea- rial contributions, visitation, tles, Glen Campbell, Leon spouse name, services and a Monkees,” a band fronted by Or GanizatiOns a diminutive singer named Russell and Ry Cooder. photo. Families who want ad- If the critics didn’t ini- T oday ditional information published Davy Jones who was so boy- ishly good looking that teen- tially like them, the group’s The First Baptist Church Clothes Closet may do so for a charge based members had admirers will be open from 9-11:30 a.m. at 201 on length, $7.50 per column age girls swooned the first St. Clair Street time they ever saw him. among their fellow musi- inch (7 lines of text per inch). cians. Pictures may be submitted That was at the end of the narc Otics summer of 1966, when Jones “The Monkees were with any paid obituary. such a sensation that it was anOnymOus Obituaries are accepted and his three Monkee co- horts, Michael Nesmith, Pe- a thrill for me to have them T h urSdayS only from funeral homes. record some of my early Obituaries also appear on ter Tork and Micky Dolenz, Narcotics Anonymous meets at Me- songs,” Neil Young tweeted morial Baptist Church, 130 Holmes St., www.state-journal.com. arrived on weekly television, portraying a carbon copy of Wednesday. from 7-8 p.m. Frank Zappa even ap- another band called the Bea- fridayS peared on an episode of tles. Narcotics Anonymous meets at St. Each Monday night for the show, disguised as Ne- Paul’s United Methodist Church, 1800 m arian the next two years, people smith for a bit in which he Louisville Road, from 7-8:30 p.m. would tune into NBC to see pretended to interview Ne- Howard the comical trials and tribu- smith, who was disguised O vereaters Services for Marian lations of four young musi- as Zappa. anOnymOus Whitworth Williams How- cians who tooled around in AP Jimi Hendrix opened f ridayS ard, 91, are pending at a tricked-out car called the The Monkees pose with their Emmy award at the 19th Annual for the group during part Harrod Brothers Funeral Primetime Emmy Awards in California in 1967. The group mem- of its 1967 concert tour. He 12:30 p.m., Memorial Baptist Church, Monkeemobile. When they 130 Holmes Street Home. weren’t introducing two or bers are, from left to right, Mike Nesmith, Davy Jones, Peter Tork left early, however, in part because fans kept chant- She died Tuesday. three new songs per show, and Micky Dolenz. Jones died Wednesday in Florida. He was 66. ALC OHOlics they would be busy rescu- Jones rose to fame in 1965 when he joined The Monkees, a Brit- ing Jones’ name during his sets. anOnymOus ing damsels in distress or be- ish popular rock group formed for a television show. ing chased by bumbling out- Eventually, even the T h u rSdayS critics would come around, laws in a comical display of said Rich Podolsky, author of cisco, playing their last live Frankfort Group, 300 Strathmore k y. woman to slapstick that has sometimes with Rolling Stone’s rock Drive, open discussion/non-smoking a biography of Don Kirshner, set for a paying audience. encyclopedia acknowledg- at 11:30 a.m.; Chips Group, Bridge been compared to the work who was “The Monkees” TV The same month, the Mon- be sentenced of the Marx Brothers. ing that the Monkees made Street, closed discussion at noon; show’s musical director. kees released their first al- “some exceptionally good Chips Group, Bridge Street, Big Book Although all four mem- Born in Manchester, Eng- bum, introducing the group meeting at 6:30 p.m.; Frankfort for taking boy bers handled the lead vocals pop records.” land, on Dec. 30, 1945, Jones to the world. The show would Group, 300 Strathmore Drive, open during their music videos, it After the TV show end- discussion at 8 p.m.; Chips Group, from womb had been a child star in his debut the following month. was Jones, the onetime child ed, Jones continued to tour Bridge Street, 12 X 12 meeting at 8 native country, appearing on It was a shrewd case of BOWLING GREEN, Ky. star of the British musical with the group for a time, p.m. television and stage, includ- cross-platform promotion. (AP) — A southern Ken- stage, who quickly became sometimes playing the ing a heralded role as “The As David Bianculli noted in f ridayS tucky woman who plead- the group’s heartthrob. With drums at concerts when Artful Dodger” in a London his “Dictionary of Teleliter- Frankfort Group, 300 Strathmore ed guilty but mentally ill his boyish good looks and en- Dolenz came up front to Drive, open discussion at 11:30 a.m.; production of the play “Oli- acy,” ‘’The show’s self-con- to cutting a baby boy from dearing British accent aug- sing. Chips Group, Bridge Street, open ver.” tained music videos, clear his mother’s womb then mented by a strong, Broad- “He was one of the fun- discussion/non smoking at 6:30 p.m.; When the show came to forerunners of MTV, pro- leaving the woman to die is way-trained singing voice, it niest men and most tal- Frankfort Group, 300 Strathmore pelled the group’s first sev- Drive, open speaker meeting at 8 p.m.; scheduled for sentencing was a role he would play for Broadway, he earned a Tony ented I have ever known,” today in Bowling Green. nomination at age 16 for the en singles to enviable posi- Chips Group, Bridge Street, Open dis- the rest of his life. Tork said in an interview cussion at 8 p.m. Kathy Coy of Morgan- Jones died Wednesday of a role, a success that brought tions of the pop charts: three Wednesday night. town agreed to a sentence him to the attention of Co- number ones, two number Upstairs at Completely Kentucky, 237 heart attack near his home in Although the group W. Broadway St., from 5:15-6:15 p.m. of life in prison last month Indiantown, Fla., just months lumbia Pictures/Screen twos, two number threes.” would eventually break up when she admitted to the after he, Tork and Dolenz had Gems Television, which cre- The Monkees would soon over creative differences, it ALn -a On attack of Jamie Stice. ated “The Monkees.” come under fire from music would reunite periodical- completed a tour marking T h urSdayS The Monkees’ 45th anniver- Hundreds of musician- critics, however, when it was ly over the years for brief actors turned out for the au- learned that session musi- tours, usually without Ne- First United Methodist Church, 207 sary. He was 66. Washington St. at noon. The Monkees had been ditions, but the young men cians — and not the group’s smith. who became the Monkees members — had played the created to cash in on the In 1987, Jones, Tork, and rec Overy GrOups Beatles’ popularity, and al- had no idea what ultimately instruments on their re- Dolenz reformed to record though they never came awaited them. cordings. They were derid- the album, “Pool It,” and in T h u rSdayS close to achieving the critical “They had an ad in the ed as the “Prefab Four,” an 1996 all four of the Mon- “Celebrate Recovery,” 6 p.m., Forks of newspaper,” Jones recalled insulting comparison to the kees got back together for Elkhorn Baptist Church (old building), stature of their counterparts, 495 Duckers Road. they did carve out a perma- on NBC’s “Today Show” Beatles’ nickname, the “Fab the album “Justus” and a last year, “and then we all Four.” 7 p.m., Capital Church of the nent niche in music as what TV movie “Hey, Hey, It’s Nazarene, 1490 Louisville Road. Rolling Stone’s Encyclope- showed up.” In reality, Jones could play The Monkees!” The film, “Where you and your pet matter.” dia of Rock ‘n’ Roll has called When they put him to- the drums and guitar. Al- directed by Nesmith, fea- Animal clinic opens “the first and perhaps the gether with Tork, Dolenz and though Dolenz, the group’s tured them once again Saturday, March 3rd best of the ‘60s and ‘70s pre- Nesmith, the chemistry was drummer on the show, on- tooling around in the Mon- Cornerstone Animal Care fabricated pop groups.” obvious. ly learned to play that in- keemobile. THE STATE invites the public to its grand Their songs were melod- “That’s it,” he recalled ev- strument after he joined the “David’s spirit and opening Saturday from 8 ic, catchy, and many have eryone around him saying: Monkees, he also could play soul live well in my heart, JOURnAl a.m.