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Monkee Davy Jones dies
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MONKEE: Davy Jones.
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LATEST: Davy Jones, former lead singer of the 1960s made-for-television pop band The Monkees, has died at a hospital in Florida, according to an official from the local medical examiner's office.
His publicist, Helen Kensick, said Jones died of a heart attack in Indiantown, Florida, but she had no further details.
Jones, born in Manchester, England, became the principal teen idol of the rock quartet featured on the NBC comedy series The Monkees, which was inspired in part by the Beatles film A Hard Day's Night and ran from the fall of 1966 to August of 1968.
Although not allowed to play their own instruments on their early records, Jones and his three cohorts - Micky Dolenz, Michael Nesmith and Peter Tork - had several hits that sold millions of copies, including Last Train to Clarksville and I'm a Believer.
Disparaged by critics as the "Pre-Fab Four" for the manufactured way in which the band came together, the group proved to be adept performers.
The group collaborated early on with some of the major songwriters and session musicians of the day, including Neil Diamond, Carole King, Glen Campbell and Hal Blaine.
Jones got his start as a young actor, at the age of 11, on the British soap opera Coronation Street before landing a role as the Artful Dodger in a West End production of Oliver! He went on to originate that role for the Broadway production and earned a Tony nomination.- Reuters
^Say it ain't so.
Davy Jones has taken the last train to Clarksville.
LAST TRAIN TO CLARKSVILLE - THE MONKEES - YouTube
I loved that guy when I was a kid. Had his posters on the walls of my room. A little bit of my childhood has gone.
Goodbye, Davy Jones.
I always liked the line
''But we're too busy singing to put anybody down ..''
To me the Monkees were a ray of sunshine in a dreary childhood.
RIP Davy Jones.
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Remembering the Music Of Davy Jones and the Monkees
https://teakdoor.com/images/smilies1/You_Rock_Emoticon.gifThe Monkees were the precursors to today's boy bands. They were made for TV but later took artistic control of their own music. These are their best songs.
Davy Jones Of the Monkees Dies At Age 66
Wednesday February 29, 2012
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Davy Jones was the biggest teen hearthrob of all members of the Monkees. Vocally, he is best remembered for his lead on "Daydream Believer." Davy Jones died in his sleep of a massive heart attack this morning, according to his publicist. He was 66. Due to his small stature, standing 5 ft. 3 inches, Davy Jones trained as a jockey as a teenager. However, he was encouraged by his trainer to pursue an acting and singing career. He appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show with the Broadway cast of Oliver! the same night as the Beatles made their legendary first appearance. At the age of 20 Davy Jones was hired to be part of the TV based pop group the Monkees, and his part in pop music history was sealed.
After the Monkees disbanded in 1971, Davy Jones continued to make TV appearances, including a memorable Brady Bunch episode, and perform as a solo artist. He participated in a number of Monkees reunions. Davy Jones is fondly remembered as one of the top teen idols of all time.
MONKEES SINGER DAVY JONES
DEAD AT 66
From Heart Attack
Davy Jones Dead -- Monkees Singer Dies at 66 From Heart Attack | TMZ.com
Blimey! A former customer of mine. I fitted him out an awesome audio system in the UK. He was very pleasant and the most polite guy i met as stars go.
A part of my youth and RIP Davey Jones.
The Monkees - Daydream Believer ( 1967) - YouTube
Part of mine as well LT. Daydream Believer. RIP
Watching the TV series was always fun and enjoyable. Music was right for the times. RIP Davie.
Yeah, the Saturday morning show was great. The Monkees were a manufactured band I suppose, with the yanks wanting a homegrown Beatles at the time, but they did belt out some classic pop 'chunes back in the day.Quote:
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RIP.
At first I thought this was a hoax.
Now I'm a believer.
My favourite Monkey's song...........Great memories. :)
The Monkees - Listen To The Band (from 33 1/3 Revolutions Per Monkee) - YouTube
Yep I m with you lot. Part of your youth....
RIP
only people i knew who liked him were 12 year old girlies.
girlie band.
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He caught the last train to Clarksville.
I remember trying to do the Monkees walk with my friends as a kid. We idolized those guys. I had a crush on Davy and posters of him on my walls.
At first I thought it was as joke when my neighbor told me Davy Jones died.
Then I saw her face.
Now I'm a bereaver.
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oh my god he's ansome an more
all that shit :).
harry its more like this.
my mum just told me Davy Jones had died,,
I thought she was joking,
but then I saw her face,,,, and now I'm a "bereaver".
:spin:
^^hey misskit , ur on Facebook 2 eh..??
sorry 4the repeat but I just had too
Good fun band. Its really foked up when some poor bastard pegs out at 66 years old.
I mean thats fok all bro's.
Then I saw his face... Now I'm a bereaver
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I thought they were a useless bunch, couldn't even play their instruments
never mind, he was a nice guy
Precursors to the Sheena Easton method of music...
The Monkees - the original MTV!
Star Wars artist Ralph McQuarrie dies aged 82
https://teakdoor.com/images/imported/2012/03/421.jpg McQuarrie's conceptual designs for Stormtroopers were shown at the Star Wars: The Magic of the Myth exhibition
Ralph McQuarrie, the artist who helped George Lucas bring Stars Wars to the big screen, has died aged 82.
The conceptual designer created the look of characters including Darth Vader, Chewbacca and R2-D2 and C-3PO.
He also worked on the original Battlestar Galactica TV series and Steven Spielberg films E.T. and Cocoon, for which he won an Oscar.
A tribute on his website said: "We'll miss you Ralph. You will forever be the brightest star in our galaxy."
Born in Gary, Indiana, McQuarrie began his career as a technical illustrator for aeroplane manufacturer Boeing and designing film posters.
He also animated US TV network CBS's coverage of Nasa's Apollo space programme.
In 1975, he was hired by Lucas to design some of the characters and scenes for his "space opera" Star Wars.
As well as designing some of the sets including the desert planet Tatooine, McQuarrie also did the conceptual drawings for many characters.
His rewards included an uncredited role in the sequel The Empire Strikes Back, as General Pharl McQuarrie, and his own action figure.
In a statement, Lucas said: "His genial contribution, in the form of unequalled production paintings, propelled and inspired all of the cast and crew of the original Star Wars trilogy.
"When words could not convey my ideas, I could always point to one of Ralph's fabulous illustrations and say, 'do it like this'."
McQuarrie also designed the alien spaceships in Steven Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind and E.T.
In 1985, he was presented with an Academy Award for Visual Effects for the film Cocoon - about the residents of an old people's home given a new lease of life by visiting aliens.
The statement on his website praised "an especially kind, sensitive, deep, modest, funny and fascinating gentleman.
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Tributes paid to Lord St John of Fawsley
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The former Conservative cabinet minister Lord St John of Fawsley has died at the age of 82.
As Norman St John-Stevas, he served in the government of Edward Heath as minister for education and the arts and was a member of Margaret Thatcher's first cabinet as Leader of the Commons.
He was sacked by Lady Thatcher in 1981, joining the House of Lords in 1987.
Lord St John made a lasting mark on the House of Commons by creating the select committee system.
He opposed aspects of Mrs Thatcher's monetarist economic policies and left as Lady Thatcher culled "wets" who were not seen to be "one of us".
Isn't (or wasn't) his name pronounced Lord SIN-JIN of Fawsley - or something of typically similar weak-chinned pretence?
^
Ahhh...... thanks for that. I remember him now
Ozone pioneer Rowland dies at 84
https://teakdoor.com/images/imported/2012/03/1335.jpg He was known simply as Sherry
The death has been announced of Sherwood Rowland - the US chemistry professor who first suspected that the Earth's protective ozone layer was being depleted by man-made chemicals.
Prof Rowland published a paper on the dangers of the then-popular chlorofluorocarbons - CFCs - in 1974.
His ideas were derided at the time by other scientists and especially the chemical industry.
But 20 years later, Sherwood Rowland won a Nobel Prize for his work.
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LONG-TIME DRUMMER: Michael Hossack
Longtime Doobie Brothers drummer Michael Hossack, whose work is heard on the hits Listen To The Music and China Grove, died of cancer at age 65, his manager said.
Hossack died on Monday at his home in Dubois, Wyoming, manager Bruce Cohn said in a statement
Hossack played with the group from 1971 to 1973 and rejoined in 1987. He stopped performing with the band two years ago while struggling with his health,
"Mike has always been a part of my musical life and the life of the Doobie Brothers," said band co-founder Tom Johnston. "He was an incredible musician."
Hossack, who grew up in New Jersey, played in various drum and bugle corps as a youngster. He said the experience prepared him for playing in a two-drummer group such as the Doobie Brothers.
Cohn quoted him as saying: "'People always ask me of it's hard to play with another drummer. I tell them that after playing along with up to 12 other drummers at once in the drum corps, this is a snap!"
After leaving the Doobie Brothers in 1973, Hossack played with two other bands - Bonaroo and DFK - and was a partner at a Southern California recording studio.
Hossack served in the Navy during the Vietnam War
Wales legend Mervyn Davies dies after losing fight against cancer
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Former Wales captain Mervyn Davies has died following a battle with cancer. He was 65.
Known universally as 'Merv the Swerve' the number eight led Wales to the 1976 Five Nations Grand Slam.
He won a total of 38 caps for Wales and went on two victorious British and Irish Lions tours in 1971 and 1974.
Davies, who died on Thursday, had his rugby career cut short in 1976. He suffered a brain haemorrhage playing for Swansea in a Welsh Cup semi-final.
Davies joined London Welsh in 1968 after moving to the city as a primary school teacher, later joining Swansea. He won his first Wales cap against Scotland just six games after making his debut for the Exiles in 1969, going on to play 38 consecutive times.
He won two Grand Slams with Wales and three Triple Crowns. He went on the Lions tours to New Zealand in 1971 and to South Africa in 1974, playing in eight Tests.
Davies was handed the captaincy of Wales in 1975 and skippered the side to the Five Nations Championship in the same year, and the Grand Slam the following season.
In his 46 international appearances for Wales and the Lions he only ended on the losing side nine times.
He was widely tipped to captain the 1977 Lions squad but his glittering career was ended at just 29 by the brain haemorrhage.
Davies admitted he was lucky that there was life-saving equipment, and doctors, on hand at the Arms Park.
"If it had happened anywhere else," he said. "I would have died.
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"If I'd been playing on some obscure golf course that would have been it."
It took him months to recover from his operation and his retirement took its toll.
"From competing against New Zealand one minute to not being able to beat my one-year-old son at tiddlywinks was a hard battle to come to terms with," he said during the BBC documentary "The Mervyn Davies Story" in 2006.
At 6ft 3in, Davies sometimes appeared ungainly on the field, but that belied his strength in the maul.
He also had an uncanny sense of anticipation, allowing him to get to the breakdown first - and his height made him useful in the line-out.
In a poll of Welsh rugby fans in 2002, Davies was voted both greatest Welsh captain and greatest Welsh number eight.
In 2001 he was inducted into the International Rugby Hall of Fame.
Margaret Whitlam AO, the wife of former Prime Minister Gough Whitlam and a revered Australian public figure, has died aged 92.
Tributes were flowing in today for Mrs Whitlam, who died this morning at St Vincent’s Private Hospital, where she had been getting treatment after a fall at home in Sydney last month.
Read more: Margaret Whitlam dies, aged 92
Old Gough is still going though, aged 95.
Big Jimmy Stynes, Melbourne legend.
'I loved the nature of our friendship. It wasn't demanding. It wasn't complicated. It was strong and loyal and comforting.'
23/4/1966 - 20/3/2012
it is just me ?
after the monkies guy
I have not heard of any of the others
^that's alright, they've probably never heard of you too.
I'd love to do something memorable
but famous ?
no thanks
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Two-time world darts champion Jocky Wilson died on Saturday night, Fife police have confirmed.
Wilson, 62, turned professional in 1979 and rose to fame after he claimed the 1982 and 1989 World Championships.
"Farewell John Thomas (Jocky) Wilson. We had some great times together will never forget you and your toothless grin!" - Bobby George
A Fife police spokesperson told the BBC: "The death is non-suspicious and due to a medical matter."
The Kirkcaldy-native had recently been suffering with the lung disorder chronic pulmonary obstructive disease.
Fife emergency services were called to his home in the town at 2100 GMT but he was deceased at the scene when an ambulance arrived.
Wilson's career saw him challenge Englishman Eric Bristow and John Lowe for the sport's major honours before his retirement in 1995.
His first victory in the World Championship came in 1982 when he beat Lowe 5-3 in the final.
Seven years later, he beat his other great rival Bristow 6-4, in a match where the "Crafty Cockney" had recovered from 5-0 down to find himself at 5-4 and 2-2 in the tenth set.