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     Mbfg (Mbfg) Username: Mbfg Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 212.219.63.204 |
Okay, so I'm a veteren headbanger from the seventies, Zep, Sabbaf, Purple, Vand der Graf, Yes, ELP and all the rest, but I always had a soft spot for a few very unlikely bands and artistes; Andy Williams, Matt Munro, Abba and The Monkees to name a few, so I'm genuinely sad to hear that Davey Jones has gone. I have fond memories of Saturday early evenings, watching "The Monkees" television show round my fearsome Nan's house with my lovely cousin Sue (who was desperately in love with Mike Nesmith - and Dr Kildare). Yeah they were aritficial (at first) but they did front some great songs and they are part of my childhood. Cheers Terry | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 82.18.174.156 |
Completely agree, Terry. 'The Greatest Hits Of The Monkees' is one of the best feelgood pop discs in my collection and I have very fond memories of the TV show as a kid as well. Frank Zappa even appeared, as "The Critic", in their weirdly brilliant one-off movie, 'Head' (1968), and if they were good enough for Frank they were good enough for me! Sad news. RIP Davey. | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 92.232.199.129 |
Me too. They were part of my childhood too - and Davey Jones was always my favourite. Very sad to hear this on the news last night. RIP from me too.  | ||
| Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 92.8.17.230 |
According to Jack Nicholson Head drew quite a bit on the LSD experiences of some of those involved (if we even needed to be told!) | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.32.31.1 |
Wasn't he from Manchester? | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.37.199.45 |
RIP Davey Jones. Another reminder that boy bands used to be attractive and listenable rather than sterile and boring. 'Daydream Believer' and 'I'm a Believer' (hint of a common theme there) are both enduring pop classics. | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 92.232.199.129 |
"Wasn't he from Manchester?" He was, Stevie. I keep getting a medley of Monkees tunes running round my head now. Lovely feel-good stuff. And that's coming from another old headbanger, just like Terry! | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 178.116.59.249 |
I used to have a Corgi Toys Monkeemobile  And a Jones haircut! The music was bubblegum, of course, but there's quite a few good ditties there - my vote is on "Daydream Believer". Beautiful chorus! | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 81.153.249.1 |
I remember him on Corrie in the Sixties. Or am I thinking of someone else? | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.32.31.1 |
I've always been inordinately fond of their version of 'Pleasant Valley Sunday'. One of those tracks that seemed to have been gifted to us by the gods, imo. There's nothing wrong with bubblegum as long as it's from the heart rather than the production line. The very fact Morrissey was making when he proclaimed pop music dead back when Stock-Aitken-Waterman had just sold their souls to the devil. | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 81.153.249.1 |
Yes, I've checked: he was in Corrie in 1961 (very early days for that series). (As Ena Sharples' grandson, Colin Lomax). | ||
| Mbfg (Mbfg) Username: Mbfg Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 212.219.63.204 |
Dear old Arthur Lowe started his TV career in that particular programme (when it was a drama not soap and was watchable and had decent story lines, I haven't watched it since Ena Sharples left!) as well if I remember rigtly, working for a Greek chap you never ever saw called Mr Popodopolus or something similar. And yes,Stevie, "Pleasant Valley Sunday" is a classic, bitter-sweet song. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.126.164.88 |
"Wasn't he from Manchester?" He was, Stevie. Yes, listening to an old interview with him yesterday, he talked about the sometimes violent fights the Monkees would get into behind the scenes; and how he once gave I think it was Peter something I'd not heard of before, a "Manchester kiss": smashing your forehead directly into the other's face. He nearly broke Peter's nose doing it... which brings to mind Marcia Brady's getting hit by that football, and her own school-girl crush on Davey Jones... thank god there were no Drudge Reports or TMZs around then, to tabloid everyone's rumbles or illicit affairs... at least, if there were equivalents, thank god the very young me didn't know of them... R.I.P. | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.66.23.11 |
Wasn't (Isn't) Mr Popodopolous the name of the owner of the launderette in Eastenders? | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 81.153.249.1 |
Leonard Swindley (Arthur Lowe) was manager of the Rosamund Street branch of clothing retailer Gamma Garments from 1962 to 1965, owned by Greek tycoon Niklos Papagopolous. Regarding Davy Jones, interesting to hear he was from Manchester: no doubt he was picked up as a boy actor for Corrie (based in Manchester Granada TV) and without, Corrie, he'd probably never have been in the Monkees. | ||
| Pete_a (Pete_a) Username: Pete_a Registered: 07-2011 Posted From: 108.231.165.81 |
"Without Corrie, he'd probably never have been in the Monkees." That's probably true, Des. But he was also the Artful Dodger in the broadway production of OLIVER (and, in odd pre-figuring, appeared with the rest of the OLIVER cast on the very same episode of the Ed Sullivan show that introduced The Beatles to America). | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 27.252.135.20 |
'RIP Davey Jones. Another reminder that boy bands used to be attractive and listenable rather than sterile and boring. 'Daydream Believer' and 'I'm a Believer' (hint of a common theme there) are both enduring pop classics.' Couldn't and didn't want to get these two songs out of my head yesterday. |