They made a Monkee out of me. | Davy Jones: Official Site They made a Monkee out of me. Now available as an eBook! They Made a Monkee Out Of Me December 19th, 2014 DAVY JONES ESTATE RE-RELEASES FIRST AUTOBIOGRAPHY FROM THE POPULAR GLOBAL ENTERTAINER NASHVILLE – The Estate of Davy Jones has announced that his first autobiography, They Made a Monkee Out of Me, is now available for the first time as an eBook from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and other online distributors. The first of two autobiographies that Jones wrote – or as he liked to put it “ought to buy-ographies!” – tells his story up to 1987 when the singing and TV sensation, The Monkees, were touring again and performing to sell-out stadiums around the U.S. The book was first published in that year and it is filled with photos from Jones’ personal collection, copies of documents that offer a behind-the-scenes glimpse into the history of the group, family stories, and more. “His stories and personality jump off the pages,” said his eldest daughter, Talia Jones Roston.

“If you ever went to one of Davy’s shows, almost everyone in the audience came away feeling he had performed just for them. The book is the same; it is a heart-on-your-sleeve, Davy Jones experience!” The Estate of David T. Jones has also reprinted the hard copy of the autobiography and it is available from all major distributors as well as the publisher, A Books Mind. Jones, who passed away unexpectedly on February 29th, 2012, left a legion of fans around the world. His career spanned fifty years covering TV television and Broadway – where he earned a Tony nomination as a singer, and is most known for his role in The Monkees. Other exciting news is the newly revamped davyjones.net website and a full range of new merchandise, which will be launched early in 2015. For Further Information Contact: They Made A Monkee Out Of Me by Davy Jones · OverDrive: eBooks, audiobooks and videos for libraries Biography & Autobiography Nonfiction Davy Jones tells the only authorized story of the Monkees – the 60s phenomenon that became an 80s phenomenon!

Davy was a young actor when he was cast in a new television series called The Monkees, which aired for the first time on September 12th, 1966. Within two months, the show had moved into the Top 20 and the Monkees' first single and album had both soared to #1 on the charts. Pop culture, pop music and Davy Jones would never be the same. This lively, entertaining autobiography chronicles Davy's life and career – with funny, nostalgic and revealing memories of the glamorous people and high-rolling deals that lie behind the scenes of show business. The story includes the Monkees' hit reunion and revival in the mid-1980s and an original song written especially for this audio edition. OverDrive MP3 Audiobook 80.4 MB OverDrive Listen 80.4 MB Davy Jones (Author and narrator) Davy Jones is a Grammy winning, English pop singer-songwriter and Tony-and Emmy-nominated actor best known as a member of the 60s pop phenomenon, The Monkees between 1965 and 1971.

Davy Jones: The Life of a Monkee - Rolling Stone Davy Jones: The Life of a Monkee Davy Jones: The Life of a Monkee How a child actor joined the best fake band of all time - and never escaped Davy Jones on the set of 'The Monkees.' Credit: Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images All Stories In September 1965, a small ad appeared in L.A.'s Daily Variety: "MADNESS!! Auditions. Folk & Roll Musician-Singers for acting roles in new TV series. Running parts for 4 insane boys." Longhaired kids showed up by the hundreds at a studio lot just off Sunset Boulevard, ready and willing to sell out – among the aspiring TV stars were Stephen Stills, Harry Nilsson and Van Dyke Parks, all pre-fame. But one tiny, chipmunk-cheeked performer walked right past the other guys, straight into the producers' office. "I was like, 'Wait a minute! Who was that?'" says Peter Tork, who would become the Monkees' bassist.

"I was extremely jealous." More News All Stories As Tork and the rest of the world would soon discover, that was 19-year-old Davy Jones, a seasoned professional who'd already been working on TV and Broadway and London stages for half a decade. In a screen test with producers Bob Rafelson and Bert Schneider, he comes across as sheltered and naive – a precocious kid who couldn't imagine the hall of mirrors he was about to enter: He was auditioning to play a prefab Paul McCartney in the Monkees, a fake band that would soon fill real stadiums and outsell the Beatles themselves. "I'm really a clean-cut kid," Jones chirps in his Manchester accent, standing in the producers' office wearing a newsboy hat and turtleneck. Jones struggles to answer questions from Schneider and Rafelson (they would go on to produce Easy Rider and the Rafelson­directed Five Easy Pieces) – but does better when the producers ask him to dance: He does so on command, breaking into a cheerful little jig. At that moment, Jones – who died of a heart attack at age 66 on February 29th – won what would be the last major role of his life.

In just a year, he'd become one of the biggest pop stars of his time – and lose his chance at what had been a promising acting career. The Monkees' commercial heyday lasted a mere two years, faltering soon after they tried to take control of their own music and TV show. When the bubblegum burst, they were left nearly broke. But Davy Jones would be a Monkee for as long as he lived. Jones was more than willing to play the showbiz game, to sing the songs he was given. He always hit his mark with a smile. Even in the beginning, however, he was more than an empty vessel: Though studio musicians played all the instruments on the Monkees' biggest hits, it was his own yearning, delicate voice that broke hearts by the millions on "Daydream Believer" and "I Wanna Be Free." To the end, he was eager to defend his status as an artist: "Here comes Davy Jones, here comes the emotion, the drama, the real," he said in 2000. "Underneath the tinsel and fabric is real tinsel and fabric." Real or fake, being a Monkee was brutally hard work.

The-Marx-Brothers-meet-the-Beatles-slapstick show filmed for 12 hours a day, and then an exhausted Jones trudged to RCA Studios to sing. For the two years the series aired, he rarely slept more than four hours a night. "It was ridiculous," Jones wrote in his 1987 autobiography, They Made a Monkee Out of Me. "I'd call my manager for a diet pill to get me going – then a beer at noon to give the pill a kick." But he rarely complained. In a group with four distinct personalities, he was the cute one, a hopelessly love-struck naif who literally got stars in his eyes on the TV show. Girls loved his accent, his ear-to-ear smile, his nervous laughter, his Broadway-honed voice. "For me, David was the Monkees," says the group's guitarist, Michael Nesmith. "We were his sidemen. He was the focal point of the romance – the lovely boy, innocent and approachable." Davy became so famous that another David Jones – a struggling singer-songwriter at the Monkees' peak – had to change his last name to Bowie.

Even Davy's dance moves spanned decades – his shimmying later showed up in an incongruous context. "Justin Bieber stole my haircut," Jones said last July. "And Axl Rose stole my dance!" The other Monkees played instruments (onstage, if not in the studio), but Jones got more cheers by merely shaking his tambourine. The Monkees grew to fear teenage mobs, and Jones had it the worst. "A girl stuck herself in a cardboard box and her friends brought her up to Davy's hotel room," recalls Monkees singer-drummer Micky Dolenz. Adds Nesmith, "The girls would spot David, and the chase was on. We would flee in blind panic." Jones was a child star, appearing in Oliver! and Pickwick, both based on books by Charles Dickens – which was almost typecasting: Jones' Manchester childhood was truly Dickensian. His mother suffered from emphysema, and passed away when Davy was 14. All four Jones children slept in a single bedroom, and the bathroom was outside the house. Davy's father, who worked for British Railways, fell into a depression when his wife died. Understandably, Jones dreamed of escape.

At first he imagined himself as a soccer or cricket star, but all the other boys in his grade towered over him. For a time, he used his stature to his advantage, briefly training to be a jockey. But he found more satisfaction in acting – especially when he learned it was a guaranteed way to meet girls. As a teenager, he landed a role on Coronation Street, England's longest-running soap opera, and he later got the part of the Artful Dodger in the original West End production of Oliver! He followed the show to Broadway in 1963, at age 17. After one of his plays arrived in Los Angeles, Jones began getting bit roles on TV shows like Ben Casey. Around that time, producers Rafelson and Schneider – two hip, thirtysomething execs who first worked together on the flop 1965 series The Wackiest Ship in the Army – were starting a show about a fake rock band. "When I was 17, I was in a band in Mexico," says Rafelson. "We had a lot of misadventures, which inspired me to write a pilot about a folk-rock group that had its own misadventures.

Then the Beatles came along and suddenly the studio wanted the show." The Monkees premiered on NBC in September 1966, and the timing couldn't have been better. The Beatles had just abandoned touring forever, the Stones were scary, and young American pop fans were ready for something new to scream about. The show's producers hired Don Kirshner – an old-school publishing exec with Brill Building roots – and gave him absolute authority over the show's songs. He recruited some of the country's best songwriters – including Carole King, Neil Diamond and the team of Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart – to write them. It became almost an industrial process: "There were producers on both coasts," says Hart, "making Monkee records we didn't know about." From the start, Tork and Nesmith wanted the Monkees to be a real band. Jones and Dolenz saw it differently. "We came from theater and TV," Dolenz says. "David approached the Monkees as a role. They gave assignments. We didn't have a lot of experience, but we could tell these were pretty good pop songs.

We were happy to say, 'Absolutely,' just as I'm sure the people of Glee do." In 1967, The Monkees sold more records than the Beatles and the Stones combined – along with untold numbers of lunchboxes, breakfast cereals and dolls. They had released a stream of massive singles, including "Last Train to Clarksville" and "I'm a Believer." They were some of the most famous people in L.A. during the Summer of Love, but Jones found the counterculture baffling. His bandmate Tork was more laid-back – if you visited his house on a typical day in 1967, you might find members of the Byrds and the Mamas and the Papas swimming in the nude. "It was a very different kettle of fish," says Tork. "I was hanging with these people, and Davy didn't join me very much." Jones later said that he feared Tork's world of "water beds, brown rice, Hare Krishna. I didn't want to go to his house.

I thought I'd be in some sort of orgy or drug den." Just months into the Monkees' career, Tork and Nesmith pushed for more control – they asked Kirshner to let them at least play their own instruments on B sides and deep cuts, and to let them have some input on their releases. Kirshner ignored the demands, and put out the band's second album, More of the Monkees, without even telling the group about it. As his bandmates' rebellion intensified, Jones felt caught in the middle. "David continually admonished me to calm down and do what I was told," says Nesmith. "His advice to me was to approach the show like a job, do my best, and shut up, take the money and go home." Nesmith knew the group couldn't win the battle for artistic freedom without a united front – and he slowly persuaded Jones to join the mutiny. "His support made it unanimous," says Tork. "If Davy said, 'Nah, I don't care,' it wouldn't have happened. I owe Davy a lot on that front." The Monkees broke free of Kirshner, and became more popular than ever – for a while.

Ratings remained strong through all of 1967, and they stayed in the Top Five with "Daydream Believer" (written by John Stewart of the Kingston Trio) and "Pleasant Valley Sunday" (courtesy of King and Gerry Goffin). The emboldened Monkees demanded radical changes to their TV program as a third season approached: Their plan was to turn it into a Laugh In-style variety show with celebrity guests. But ratings had dipped by then, and rather than negotiate with teen idols who were demanding control, NBC simply canceled The Monkees in the summer of 1968. When the show stopped, so did the hits. Undaunted, Rafelson moved forward with a movie that would shatter perceptions of the group. Rafelson, Schneider and a friend, the unknown actor Jack Nicholson, went to Ojai, California, with the four Monkees, where they smoked Hawaiian pot while dictating into a tape recorder. Nicholson took the tapes, dropped some acid and wrote a screenplay that would eventually be called Head. The psychedelic, surreal film – one of the most infamous flops of all time – didn't bear the slightest resemblance to the Monkees' show.

In the film, the group sings a vicious parody of its own theme song: "Hey, hey, we are the Monkees/You know we love to please/A manufactured image/With no philosophies." The Monkees had released the original song just two years earlier – the phenomenon had consumed itself with almost uncanny speed. "The Monkees didn't quite understand what the movie was," says Rafelson, who was already moving on to Easy Rider, "and I'm not so sure that Jack and I knew what we were doing." After two years of madness, Jones was exhausted. "I didn't know what I wanted," he wrote in his memoir. "Part of the time I was trying to get everyone united, and the rest of the time I just wanted to go home and sleep for a few years." The group limped along for another year, releasing singles that failed to crack the Top 40. The Monkees quietly disbanded in 1970. Nearly everyone involved with the band profited from the experience – except for the actual Monkees. Jones and his bandmates were flat broke.

They had opted for a percentage of profits instead of a lump sum of cash, not realizing that all expenses – planes, hotels, recording time – were deducted from their share. Jones discovered that his time as a Monkee was more of a tombstone than a steppingstone for his acting career – his most prominent Seventies TV moment was playing himself on The Brady Bunch. He was forced to return to the stage, even reclaiming his old Artful Dodger role in an L.A. production of Oliver! The first glimmerings of Sixties nostalgia soon arrived, and in the mid-Seventies, Jones made some cash on an oldies tour. Newly separated from his wife, no longer a fresh-faced teen idol, a thirtyish Jones embraced the debauchery he had previously shunned: "Women, booze... I went crazy." Jones and his bandmates had been out of the spotlight for nearly a decade when, against all pop-culture odds, Monkee-mania erupted all over again. In 1986, MTV – then hungry for nonmusic­video programming – began regularly airing episodes of the old Monkees TV show.

An entire new generation fell in love with Davy Jones, and the Monkees quickly signed on for a reunion tour, minus an uninterested Nesmith. They wound up packing 20,000-seat venues across America. "The most thrilling thing for me," said Jones, "is when I see in the first row a 30-year-old mom and a six-year-old kid." Opening act "Weird Al" Yankovic was overwhelmed by the fans' youth and enthusiasm: "Teenage girls would come running to my tour bus. I'd open the door and they'd say, 'Al! Al! Do you know where Davy Jones is staying?'" The Monkees kept touring through the Nineties, to smaller but still enthused audiences – and even reunited with Nesmith for an album and a European tour. For Jones, though, a certain bitterness crept in: He was incensed at the Monkees' exclusion from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame – and in 2000, he announced a bizarre plan to open his own "Davy Jones Rock and Roll Museum" that would honor the Monkees, K.C. and the Sunshine Band, and other groups he felt were unappreciated.

"What the hell is [the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame] doing in Cleveland?" he asked. "I don't need any more awards... I'm not going there, anyway, if they put me in." In 2011, The Monkees returned to the stage for an international tour that got some of the best reviews of their career. Over the years, they'd picked up a surprising amount of respect: "People realize how great the songs are," says R.E.M.'s Mike Mills. "It doesn't matter anymore that they didn't write them. It's just not the perceived crime that it was then." On their final tour, the Monkees were more of a real band than ever – digging deep into their catalog, even playing much of the Head soundtrack. Dolenz is grateful the group got one last chance: "Thank goodness we did that," he says. "It was phenomenal, and David had so much to do with putting that together and staging it." Jones spent the early months of 2012 playing club gigs and tending to the horses he kept at a stable near his adopted hometown of Indiantown, Florida.

He was at his stable on the morning of February 29th when, by one account, he complained to the staff of chest pains. He went to rest in his car, and when they went to check on him he was already dead of a heart attack. Just 11 days before he died, Jones performed at B.B. King's Blues Club in New York. It's a cramped basement club in Times Square, but Jones was happy to be there – and he still sounded like Davy Jones. Toward the end, he sang "Daydream Believer," swaying to the beat and soaking in the cheers. "One more time," he said, pacing the stage during the chorus of one of the last songs he'd ever perform. He held his microphone out to the small but joyful crowd, and yelled, "Everyone sing!" They sang, loud and clear, and Jones smiled: They still believed. This story is from the March 29th, 2012 issue of Rolling Stone.

Related Davy | Davy Jones: Official Site View Cart Davy After The Monkees first disbanded in 1971, Davy launched a solo career that included recordings, song writing, live performances, theatre, TV, film & personal appearances. An extremely able horseman who once dreamed of a career as a jockey, Jones earned his amateur riding licence in the late 1970’s, rode his first winner at the age of 50 and kept a stable of horses which he trained. After years of telling stories of his incredible life, Davy penned an autobiography (or “ought-to-buy-ography” as he called it) in 1987, They Made a Monkee Out of Me, as well as two more titles. Davy Jones Davy was always interested in new ideas and started many businesses, from clothing & art stores to a record label and music publishing company. Throughout his life, Jones gave generously to many charities, and worked especially hard to raise funds and awareness for MS. With a career that spanned five decades, Davy Jones will always have a secure place in pop culture history as well as in the hearts of his ever-growing global fan base!

Early life Born December 30, 1945 in Openshaw, Manchester, England as the youngest of four and only son of Harry & Doris Jones, David grew up a happy, energetic child. He showed promise in athletics, acting and music. In late 1959, his Aunt Jessie became his first agent when she answered an ad in the Manchester Evening News calling for “school boys to audition for a radio play”. David got the lead role in There is a Happy Land, at the time the longest part ever written for a teenager in a B.B.C. play. From there, David was cast in TV roles on June Evening, Z-Cars and as Colin Lomax, the grandson of Ena Sharples on the iconic British soap opera, Coronation Street. During this time, Doris Jones passed away after many years of suffering from emphysema. This prompted David to change plans and pursue a career as a jockey instead of acting. His father was put in touch with Newmarket-based trainer Basil Foster after contacting a local paper in Manchester regarding his son.

After a six week trial during the summer of 1960, David quit school and moved to Newmarket at the end of the year to begin his apprenticeship with Basil Foster at Holland House. It was during his time as an apprentice jockey that David’s career and life would change forever. 1960s A talent agent who owned horses trained by Basil Foster took a liking to the charming young stable boy and, learning of his past experience on television & radio, had David come to London to audition for a part in Lionel Bart’s new musical production of Oliver! His Mancunian accent was the only problem, and was encouraged to try again for the part. David perfected his cockney dialect while appearing as Little Michael in a stage production of Peter Pan that starred Jane Asher as Wendy. When the play ended, he returned to London and secured the role of The Artful Dodger. After a successful run in the West End, Oliver! was Broadway bound, including 16 year-old David Jones! Starring alongside veteran actors, Georgia Brown and Clive Revill, David stole the show night after night and eventually earned a Tony nomination.

David, along with his cast mates, appeared on The Ed Sulllivan Show on February 9, 1964, the same night The Beatles were introduced to American audiences. Being young, talented, charismatic, good looking & British made David an even bigger prospect once Beatlemania broke out. When David’s run with Oliver! came to an end in 1965, he was asked by David Merrick to join the cast of his production of Pickwick, alongside the venerable Harry Secombe. It was a temporary role, but played in Los Angeles and San Francisco which was exactly where Jones wanted to be. Once in Hollywood, he signed a contract with Ward Sylvester of Screen Gems (then the TV division of Columbia Pictures), which also included a recording contract on their label, Colpix. 1965 was a year of searching for the right vehicle for Jones. He had guest appearances in Ben Casey, The Farmer’s Daughter, and finally The Monkees project emerged. He had already released a solo album, entitled David Jones, with a single that entered the Hot 100 during the summer of that year.

After meeting with Monkees’ producers Bob Rafelson and Bert Schneider , David was selected as the first choice for their ground-breaking television show about a struggling rock band. Micky Dolenz, Michael Nesmith and Peter Tork were chosen to work well around Jones. They wanted four strong, unique characters to stand on their own, similar to The Beatles. David was introduced on The Monkees as Davy Jones, and it is that name that he is most identified with as an entertainer. The show debuted on September 12, 1966, ran two seasons, was nominated for three Emmy’s and won two. The Monkees and Davy Jones quickly became household names. As a recording act, they outsold The Beatles and The Rolling Stones combined in 1967. Due to the success of their television show and record sales, the four members established themselves as a working band in order to tour. From 1966 to 1971, they toured the world, had three #1 singles (including Davy’s signature lead vocal performance on “Daydream Believer”), four #1 albums, a TV special & cutting-edge motion picture, Head, that has since become a cult classic.

David, on his own and with the band, appeared on television shows such as Top of The Pops, The Hollywood Squares, The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour & The Johnny Cash Show. The end of the group meant a whole new chapter in the life of Davy Jones. 1970s In his personal life, David had married Linda Haines in 1968, and by 1971 they were the parents of two daughters, Talia & Sarah. During the run of The Monkees, Jones had kept his hand in many business ventures. He bought a couple of race horses and had his former trainer, Basil Foster, train them. The Davy Jones Presents record company released a number of singles, and a hip clothing store called “Zilch” was opened in Greenwich Village. Jones also opened a New York City-style enclosed street market for artists & artisans called “The Street” in Los Angeles. David wasted no time returning to the small screen after The Monkees disbanded. He teamed up with musical director Doug Trevor on a one-hour ABC television special entitled Pop Goes Davy Jones.

He also appeared in many popular TV shows during the 1970’s such as Laugh-In, Love, American Style, The New Scooby Doo Movies and Walt Disney’s Wonderful World of Color. His most memorable television appearance during this time was on an episode of The Brady Bunch where he sang his single, “Girl”. Jones signed with Bell Records in 1971 and released one album, entitled Davy Jones, along with several singles including “Girl” (the theme song for the Sandy Duncan film, Star Spangled Girl). Throughout the 1970’s, David released solo singles as well for MGM and Warner Brothers. His love for the theatre was never far from his heart, and in 1973 David travelled back to England for a six-month engagement in the Peter Nicholl’s play, Forget-Me-Not-Lane. Later that year he reprieved his role as The Artful Dodger alongside Ron Moody in a production of Oliver! that opened at the Music Center in Los Angeles. In 1975 David teamed up with Micky Dolenz and The Monkees’ song-writing duo, Tommy Boyce &Bobby Hart to form Dolenz, Jones, Boyce & Hart.

The group performed to enthusiastic audiences all over North America, Japan, Singapore & Thailand. They released an album, a couple of singles, appeared on numerous television shows and starred in their own TV special. In 1976, Dolenz & Jones recorded a Christmas single with Peter Tork, entitled “Christmas Is My Time of Year”, produced by Chip Douglas. After DJB&H parted ways, Micky and David continued performing together, acted in a stage production of Tom Sawyer, and eventually moved to England to star in Harry Nilsson’s play, The Point. At the end of the decade, Jones formed his own band, Toast, and toured the U.S., Ireland & England. He also appeared on a couple of episodes of the British television series, Horse in the House and decided to stay in England. 1980s The 1980’s started with a bang as Jones played sold out concerts in Japan to a whole new generation of Monkee fans. He also met and married his second wife, Anita Pollinger and they had two daughters, Jessica & Annabel.

David finally got his jockey’s license, and on September 19, 1980, rode his first race aboard Speed of Light at Newberry Race Track. He continued to be a regular on the charity sports circuit and was proud to have completed the London Marathon in three hours, forty minutes! There were starring roles in many “pantos” such as Cinderella, Dick Whittington & Puss in Boots, and appearances on television shows such as the popular B.B.C. children’s game show, Puzzle Trail. David’s theatre work included The Boyfriend and the role of Jesus in the West End production of Godspell. At the start of 1986, David & Peter Tork toured Australia in a show called The Sound of The Monkees. Micky Dolenz wasn’t able to join them due to prior commitments, but did agree to a summer tour of the United States. Between the two tours a funny thing happened – the MTV Monkees Marathon! Another wave of Monkeemania took off and the summer tour that was originally set to last 6 weeks turned into a three year affair that travelled around the world.

Davy Jones was once again a hot teen idol and The Monkees were seen on nearly every television show imaginable. They released a new Monkees album, Pool It, along with 4 singles. David was involved in projects outside of The Monkees during this decade, such as writing his autobiography, They Made a Monkee Out of Me, and releasing solo singles in Japan, Britain & Australia. While on tour with The Monkees, David recorded a solo album entitled, Incredible. Although at the time it was overshadowed by the immense success of the Monkees, this album has since been re-released and dubbed one of the great lost albums of the 1980’s. Jones made countless personal appearances in conjunction with the promotion of his book and appeared in two episodes of the hit television show, My Two Dads. The decade ended with The Monkees being awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and David starring in another production of Oliver!, only this time he played the part of Fagin. His children felt it was about time he started acting his age! 1990s David’s calendar remained full during the 1990’s as he was in high demand for television appearances such as on the B.B.C.

show Trainer, ABC Afterschool Special, Florence Henderson’s Country Kitchen, Nashville Now, Herman’s Head, The Single Guy & Sabrina, the Teenage Witch. He landed the role of Vince Fontaine in a stage production of Grease that co-starred Sally Struthers. David also reprised his role on The Brady Bunch in a stage version of the show. He co-wrote the award-winning book, Mutant Monkees Meet the Masters of the Multi-Media Manipulation Machine!, that featured the work of progressive computer graphic artists. In 1994 Jones once again toured with Dolenz for over a year. 1995 was a huge year that saw David & Micky reunite with Peter Tork in an episode of the television show, Boy Meets World, as well as in The Brady Bunch Movie and in a Pizza Hut commercial with Ringo Starr. Michael Nesmith joined his fellow Monkees for a presentation of their platinum and multi-platinum album awards at The Hard Rock Café in Los Angeles. Soon plans for a Monkees 30th reunion were underway.

In the next couple of years, there would be a documentary on the band produced by Disney, a television special produced by Nesmith that spoofed the original show, a new Monkees’ album entitled Justus that was completely written, played, sung & produced by the four members. An exclusive record release concert in Hollywood and subsequent tour of Britain was the first to include all four members since 1968. The North American leg of the tour didn’t include Nesmith, but that didn’t slow down the newest wave of Monkeemania. David continued to record on his own and released a Christmas album, solo album and a four-volume CD compilation of demos, outtakes and other rare material from throughout his career, entitled Just for the Record. In 1998 he joined Peter Noone & Bobby Sherman for The Teen Idols Tour. Jones won the Speedway Children’s Charities Celebrity Classic Golf Tournament in 1999. Even with all these achievements, David always claimed that his proudest moment happened on February 1, 1996. It was on that day, at age 50, that David won his first horse race aboard Digpast, a horse owned by his daughter, Sarah.

The one-mile Ontario Amateur Riders Handicap took place at Lingfield in Surrey. 2000s The new century saw David as busy as ever. He appeared on television shows such as 48 Hours, Hey Arnold, Meet the Royals, Living in TV Land and SpongeBob SquarePants. He had a cameo in Goldberg – P.I., sang the theme song for Sexina and was interviewed for countless television and radio programs as well as printed publications. He updated his autobiography and re-titled it Daydream Believin’. In 2001 David, Micky & Peter reunited for The Monkees’ 35th anniversary tour. The Monkeemania tour continued the following year without Peter. David was also busy recording his own music and released the album, Just Me in 2001. He also released a live album, a millennium mix version of “Daydream Believer”, a string of singles and his final album, a collection of standards, entitled She. The Davy Jones Band had a full roster of shows during this time, including the yearly Flower Power Concert Series during Epcot’s Flower and Garden Festival.

In 2006 he recorded the single “Your Personal Penguin” which has since become a classic kid’s favorite. Written by children’s author & artist, Sandra Boynton, the song was a companion piece for a book of the same title. In 2008, Jones was named the number one teen idol of all time by Yahoo Music. David continued to act in “pantos”, taught motivational seminars, made a vast number of personal appearances and starred in a number of television commercials. He began training horses and had stables in Beavertown, Pennsylvania and Indiantown, Florida. Jones, the self-dubbed Manchester Cowboy, served as the commercial spokesman for Colonial Downs racetrack in Virginia. Personally, David welcomed three grandchildren into his life, Harrison “Harry” & Lauren “Lolo” McFadden and Phoenix Burrows. In 2009 he married again. 2011 marked The Monkees’ 45th anniversary and this brought David, Micky & Peter back together for another tour that boasted the best critical reviews of their career up to that point!

Continued syndication of the show, DVD releases of the episodes and online viewing from sites such as YouTube created yet another new generation of fans. David was a loving father & grandfather who never stopped working, dreaming, and always remained accessible to his fans. He passed away on February 29, 2012 after doing what he loved best – being aboard his favorite riding horse, Zar and surrounded by his beloved herd. Stories of the incredible generosity David Jones showed throughout his life paint a vivid picture of the man beyond the celebrity. The Manchester Cowboy touched many lives, brought immense joy to millions and created a legacy that will live forever – Ride On! TV APPEARANCES Davy Jones - Biography - IMDb Davy Jones Biography Showing all 39 items Jump to: Overview (4) | Mini Bio (1) | Spouse (3) | Trade Mark (2) | Trivia (22) | Personal Quotes (6) | Salary (1) Overview (4) 5' 3" (1.6 m) Mini Bio (1) Davy Jones left home to become a jockey. While he was an apprentice, he was encouraged to go into acting and got a role in a production of "Peter Pan".

From there, he played on Coronation Street (1960) and The Pickwick Papers (1952) before landing the role of "The Artful Dodger" in "Oliver!". This job took him to America's Broadway, where he was discovered by Ward Sylvester and brought to Los Angeles. From there, he was given a role in The Monkees (1966). With this sitcom, he made 58 television episodes, 9 albums, a television special, and a movie before calling it quits in the early 1970s. In the mid-1970s, Davy rejoined fellow Monkee Micky Dolenz and songwriters Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart to make an album and do some touring. Davy had gone on to perform in more plays, including "The Real Live Brady Bunch" and "Oliver!" (again), and had also fulfilled his dream of becoming a jockey. He rejoined The Monkees for touring from 1986-89 and 1996-97. Davy Jones died at age 66 of a heart attack on February 29, 2012.

- IMDb Mini Biography By: Valeree <_mars_@geocities.com> Spouse (3) ( 31 October 1968 - 1975) (divorced) (2 children) Trade Mark (2) Short Stature Trivia (22) His daughters' names are Talia Elizabeth (2 October 1968, with Haines), Sarah Lee (3 July 1971, with Haines), Jessica Lillian (4 September 1981, with Pollinger) and Annabel Charlotte (26 June 1988, with Pollinger). Because of his popularity with The Monkees , another singer named David Jones was forced to change his name to David Bowie . Had appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show (1948) on February 9, 1964 with the cast of "Oliver!" (as the Artful Dodger). This is the same night The Beatles made their legendary debut. Was nominated for Broadway's 1963 Tony Award as Best Supporting or Featured Actor in a Musical for playing the role of the Artful Dodger in "Oliver!".

Celebrated his climb as a performer on his first American visit (touring with "Oliver!") by having steak at every meal for a month, "including breakfast." He had never had it growing up. Was given a videotape copy of his The Ed Sullivan Show (1948) appearance (with The Beatles also on the program) by CBS; Jones treasured it years later. When Jones first visited home after becoming a Monkee, his father refused to let him inside until he got his haircut - twice. Jones' reaction to this was to buy the family a new house, "so now he has to let me in!". Jones was drafted into the United States Army in 1967, he was eventually excused because it was shown that he was his family's only source of financial support (Jones' father suffered from poor health, and was no longer able to work). Opened a pair of boutiques during the 1960s, called "Zilch" (after a Monkees recording) and "The Street", and also his own record label, with band hairstylist David Pearl as his manager and business partner. Each venture folded within a couple years, and Jones sued Pearl for mismanagement of his funds.

Has two grandsons: Harrison Randall Jones McFadden born on July 2, 2002 by daughter Sarah; Phoenix Joseph Burrows born on May 29, 2003 by daughter Jessica. Daughter Sarah Lee Jones was married on August 28, 1998. His popularity with teenage girls led to the casting of lookalike Walter Koenig by the producers of Star Trek (1966), who were looking to attract a younger, more female audience. Enjoyed the novelty of going out on the town with much-taller (even six-foot) women. Ranked #9 in TV Guide's list of "TV's 25 Greatest Teen Idols" (23 January 2005 issue). Shared a birthday with fellow Monkee Michael Nesmith . Had a seasonal home in Beavertown, Pennsylvania, USA. The Monkees were awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Recording at 6675 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California. His brother-in-law, Joseph Pacheco, is also his manager. Longtime friends with David Cassidy . They were planning to go on tour in April 2012 before Davy's death.

An avid equestrian for most of his life, Jones reared horses on his farms in both Pennsylvania and Florida. Autobiography, "They Made a Monkee Out Of Me", released 1987; audio version released the following year. The book was advertised on TV, by Jones himself, for special-order. He was a vegan. Personal Quotes (6) My wife says when I go out to the refrigerator, I do three minutes (entertaining) when the light goes on! [looking back at The Monkees (1966)'s premiere episode, The Monkees: Royal Flush (1966)] I look just like my fourteen-year-old daughter, I can't believe it. Wait 'til she sees this episode. I keep hearing that "any excuse you can give for a Monkees reunion is a good excuse," which doesn't bother me at all - since I couldn't agree more! [explaining what made him decide on transferring from theater to rock & roll] I watched the Beatles from backstage at The Ed Sullivan Show. When I saw the girls going crazy, I said to myself, "This is it.

I want a piece of that." There's one thing I've never forgiven myself for: When the Monkees wrapped in 1970, I should have gotten straight away from Hollywood and back onto the horse-racing circuit; Instead, I waited ten more years. Everyone makes mistakes in life, and that was my own biggest. I have four daughters. All girls. Salary (1) Davy Jones 'They Made A Monkee Out Of Me' Book Commercial - YouTube Davy Jones 'They Made A Monkee Out Of Me' Book Commercial Want to watch this again later? Sign in to add this video to a playlist. Need to report the video? Sign in to report inappropriate content. Rating is available when the video has been rented. This feature is not available right now. Please try again later. Published on Jan 30, 2013 Ouch. An advert for Davy's excellent autobiography, They Made A Monkee Out Of Me. Supplied by MonkeeMan. Want more? Come to Category

Question: The 1987 autobiography ‘They Made a Monkee Out of Me’ is by which member of The Monkees?
Answer: Davy Jones