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Davy Jones has died. That’s all I know at the moment. Follow-up: Heart attack.
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Mike Nesmith has released this remembrance:
All the lovely people. Where do they all come from?
So many lovely and heartfelt messages of condolence and sympathy, I don’t know what to say, except my sincere thank you to all. I share and appreciate your feelings.
But let’s not get ahead of ourselves here.
While it is jarring, and sometimes seems unjust, or strange, this transition we call dying and death is a constant in the mortal experience that we know almost nothing about. I am of the mind that it is a transition and I carry with me a certainty of the continuity of existence. While I don’t exactly know what happens in these times, there is an ongoing sense of life that reaches in my mind out far beyond the near horizons of mortality and into the reaches of infinity.
That David has stepped beyond my view causes me the sadness that it does many of you. I will miss him, but I won’t abandon him to mortality. I will think of him as existing within the animating life that insures existence. I will think of him and his family with that gentle regard in spite of all the contrary appearances on the mortal plane.
David’s spirit and soul live well in my heart, among all the lovely people, who remember with me the good times, and the healing times, that were created for so many, including us.
I have fond memories. I wish him safe travels.
Joan – The time between the Monkees appearing on TV and their movie ‘Head’ coming out was only a little more than two years. For that matter, the time between the Beatles coming to America and officially announcing their split was only six years.
Hi! Wow, what a shock when I found out Davy Jones had died. I had just watched 2 appearances of his on Biography & a PBS Sounds of the 70s from 2011 and thought, “We should go see him in concert sometime!”. He & his wife had renovated a church into a home & thought that would be cool to see. Time flies, let me tell you! Joan
I suspect Paul’s response could have been terse because of the shock of that particular situation…Anyway, about Davy. Very sad. Today, Katie is wearing her Monkees T-shirt from last summer’s concert, in his honor. We are both very glad we seized the day and went.
Wow. Compare Nesmith’s send-off to Paulie’s rather cold “yeah, it’s a drag,” when John was shot. Since Davy lived near here in Beavertown, Pa, during the summer months, his obit will appear in “The Lewistown Sentinel” tomorrow, since all Beavertown death notices go there. So with Davy’s death, and Joe-Pa’s death, central Pa has lost its two biggest celebrity residents within less than two months of each other.