# Davy Jones passes away **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 29, 2012, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/davy-jones-passes-away/614367 "2012-02-29T18:02:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![OtisCampbellWasRight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/d78d45/32.png) [@OtisCampbellWasRight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtisCampbellWasRight)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2012, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/davy-jones-passes-away/614367/41 "2012-02-29T19:57:09Z")
> [@cmkeller](#): > > RIP. > > Shame his death wasn’t drowning at sea, though. I believe there’s a locker all set for him… ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2012, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/davy-jones-passes-away/614367/42 "2012-02-29T19:58:19Z")
> [@Greg\_Charles](#): > > I was all set to correct you to Jack Wild (also dead … at 53!), but you meant on the stage, right? In the movie, it was Jack Wild, but Davy Jones played the role on stage for a time. According to Wikipedia, which I’ve just been perusing, Jones died of a heart attack. And it was sometime in the morning. ---
**Author:** ![Dallas\_Jones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dallas_jones/32/3277_2.png) [@Dallas\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dallas_Jones)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2012, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/davy-jones-passes-away/614367/43 "2012-02-29T19:59:07Z")
Without Davy Jones there would be no David Bowie. Just another guy named David or Davy, Jones. > [@](#): > > Dissatisfied with his stage name as Davy (and Davie) Jones, which in the mid-1960s invited confusion with Davy Jones of The Monkees, Bowie re-named himself after the 19th century American frontiersman Jim Bowie and the knife he had popularised.[17 > **[David Bowie](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Bowie)** > > David Robert Jones (8 January 1947 – 10 January 2016), known as David Bowie,\[a\] was an English singer, songwriter and actor. Regarded as among the most influential musicians of the 20th century, Bowie received particular acclaim for his work in the 1970s. His career was marked by reinvention and visual presentation, and his music and stagecraft have had a great impact on popular music. > Bowie studied art, music and design before embarking on a professional music career in 1963. He released a... No relation ---
**Author:** ![Batsinma\_Belfry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea5d25/32.png) [@Batsinma\_Belfry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Batsinma_Belfry)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2012, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/davy-jones-passes-away/614367/44 "2012-02-29T20:00:30Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > Yeah, I’m another “but he was my first crush.” Damn I feel old. Mine too. ---
**Author:** ![Bumbershoot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bumbershoot/32/3428_2.png) [@Bumbershoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbershoot)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2012, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/davy-jones-passes-away/614367/45 "2012-02-29T20:02:04Z")
Sad news. I remember watching _The Monkees_ in the 60s. I think _The Monkees Greatest Hits_ was the first album I ever bought. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2012, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/davy-jones-passes-away/614367/46 "2012-02-29T20:02:13Z")
Doubly sad, because I LOVED their music. I still love it. I hear The Monkees on oldies radio, and I am transported right back to my childhood, my brothers and I watching The Monkees every week (hey, that was all we had back then!). Good times! All in the past now, but fondly remembered - RIP, Davy. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2012, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/davy-jones-passes-away/614367/47 "2012-02-29T20:15:02Z")
> [@Acsenray](#): > > Didn’t they have a tour planned for last year, which was suddenly cancelled without explanation? No, they played 43 dates in England, the U.S. and Canada from May to July 2011. They announced ten additional U.S. shows that were canceled due to “internal group issues and conflicts.” ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2012, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/davy-jones-passes-away/614367/48 "2012-02-29T20:40:03Z")
And yet Keith Richards still lives. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2012, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/davy-jones-passes-away/614367/49 "2012-02-29T20:57:27Z")
I normally do not feel much when a celebrity passes away, but I confess to feeling a twinge of sadness (and a little bit old…) ---
**Author:** ![Death\_of\_Rats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a6a055/32.png) [@Death\_of\_Rats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Death_of_Rats)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2012, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/davy-jones-passes-away/614367/50 "2012-02-29T21:01:37Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > And yet Keith Richards still lives. Is there conclusive proof that he is still alive and not just a corpse animated by the residual drugs in his system? ---
**Author:** ![randwill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a3d4f5/32.png) [@randwill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/randwill)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2012, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/davy-jones-passes-away/614367/51 "2012-02-29T21:14:48Z")
In the picture of him on this page: [http://music.msn.com/music/article.aspx?news=707905](http://music.msn.com/music/article.aspx?news=707905) is that a Hitler mustache under his nose? I guess it looks better than what you get if you Google Images “Davy Jones”: [https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&hl=en&source=hp&biw=998&bih=540&q=davy+jones&gbv=2&oq=davy+jones&aq=f&aqi=g-z1g9&aql=&gs\_sm=12&gs\_upl=2683l5249l0l6865l10l10l0l5l5l0l228l844l0.3.2l5l0](https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&hl=en&source=hp&biw=998&bih=540&q=davy+jones&gbv=2&oq=davy+jones&aq=f&aqi=g-z1g9&aql=&gs_sm=12&gs_upl=2683l5249l0l6865l10l10l0l5l5l0l228l844l0.3.2l5l0) ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2012, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/davy-jones-passes-away/614367/52 "2012-02-29T21:48:10Z")
> [@randwill](#): > > I guess it looks better than what you get if you Google Images “Davy Jones”: > > [davy jones - Google Search](https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&hl=en&source=hp&biw=998&bih=540&q=davy+jones&gbv=2&oq=davy+jones&aq=f&aqi=g-z1g9&aql=&gs_sm=12&gs_upl=2683l5249l0l6865l10l10l0l5l5l0l228l844l0.3.2l5l0) The cute Monkee! RIP, Mr. Jones. [Valleri](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJw0qpqIONQ) has gone into heavy rotation. ---
**Author:** ![Dangerosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Dangerosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dangerosa)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2012, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/davy-jones-passes-away/614367/53 "2012-02-29T21:52:55Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > And yet Keith Richards still lives. I hope Keith Richards is being studied for Science. I think for women of a certain age, Davy Jones was THE first crush. And it was repeated through several “women of a certain age” through the magic of syndication. ---
**Author:** ![Ms\_Boods](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5e9695/32.png) [@Ms\_Boods](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ms_Boods)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2012, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/davy-jones-passes-away/614367/54 "2012-02-29T21:54:05Z")
I was still quite little, but I do have vivid memories of watching _The Monkees_ on television back in the '60s (Mike was my favorite, and still is, admittedly.) I have had Monkees songs and records in almost daily rotation among my music for years (no one ever asks me for a ride twice); I almost didn’t include the lecture in class this term that covers the group, but I can’t not lecture on them, now. ---
**Author:** ![Mrs\_Ducky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrs_ducky/32/6227_2.png) [@Mrs\_Ducky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mrs_Ducky)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2012, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/davy-jones-passes-away/614367/55 "2012-02-29T22:29:30Z")
I saw the Monkees in Cincinnati during the 1986 20th anniversary reunion tour. I still have the T-shirt. Peter Tork was my fav back in the day, but my sister was in love with Davy… ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2012, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/davy-jones-passes-away/614367/56 "2012-02-29T22:38:46Z")
I had a weird crush on him in my late teens- weird because my crush was on the 1960s Davy who was always in syndication because the Monkees were, at the time, off the radar. When the big comeback happened and I saw him as he looked then, the crush went away. It wasn’t that he had aged, which was to be expected, but at the time he had really long ‘rocker’ hair and was dressed in a Don Johnson style '80s suit, and nobody looks sillier than a [then] 40-ish guy trying to look 22. ## Once he cut his hair and dressed a bit more age appropriately he was cute again. Michael Nesmith plans to attend Jones’ funeral once the cameras get there but plans to leave once they’re gone. ---
**Author:** ![Eugene\_of\_Sandwich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c37758/32.png) [@Eugene\_of\_Sandwich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eugene_of_Sandwich)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2012, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/davy-jones-passes-away/614367/57 "2012-02-29T23:02:10Z")
This is very sad. Also, kind of weird. Davy Jones dead. Doesn’t make sense. I was 10/11 years old during the Monkees heyday. My first LP was a Monkees album. All the little gals had crushes on them and naturally all the little dudes wanted to be cool like them. Everybody had their fave. Mine was Mickey but Davy was second. They were the most popular with the girls, too. Coincidence? They also had Monkees baseball cards back then. I collected a couple of packs (lost to posterity). They were big for us tweens back in the 60s before we graduated to full-on rock. Wow, I feel old and weird. RIP Davy. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2012, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/davy-jones-passes-away/614367/58 "2012-02-29T23:08:47Z")
The NYT article says he was also a jockey in a pre-Monkee life. Never knew that. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2012, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/davy-jones-passes-away/614367/59 "2012-02-29T23:17:37Z")
I always (and I was a fan during the 1st incarnation of their show) felt a little bad for Davy…hired to be the singer/front man, a la Mick Jagger; and then they wound up giving half the vocals to Mickey Dolenz, leaving him nothing to do but play the maracas. I always worried that he didn’t find his job fulfilling. (OK, I was a bit odd as an adolescent) ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2012, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/davy-jones-passes-away/614367/60 "2012-02-29T23:24:08Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > The NYT article says he was also a jockey in a pre-Monkee life. Never knew that. He was passionate about horses all of his life. He owned a horse farm in Pennsylvania and even rode professionally in later years (never super successful, but I think more for fun). Short as he was, he was apparently a bit too tall for a good jockey. Trivia: When he proposed to his girlfriend at the height of his initial Monkees success his handlers actually asked him to just date her, and live with her if he had to, but NOT marry her or make the engagement public because they were afraid it would ruin his popularity with teens and tweens. When she became pregnant that was also kept secret from the press; they married secretly shortly after their daughter was born. He was “outed” when a fan took a picture of him in England with wife and baby, but by that time Monkeemania was subsiding anyway. (They had another daughter after Monkeemania and divorced in the '70s, probably because of him taking Marcia Brady to her prom in spite of having a wife and kids.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/davy-jones-passes-away/614367.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/davy-jones-passes-away/614367.md?page=4)