Death of Davy Jones

December 30, 1945 - February 29, 2012
Indiantown, Florida | Age 66

Lead singer of The Monkees dies at 66
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JOHN ROGERS, The Associated Press

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Before there was MTV, before "American Idol" made overnight stars of people you never heard of, there was "The Monkees," a band fronted by a diminutive singer named Davy Jones who was so boyishly good looking that teenage girls swooned the first time they ever saw him.

That was at the end of the summer of 1966, when Jones and his three Monkee cohorts, Michael Nesmith, Peter Tork and Micky Dolenz, arrived on weekly...

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