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Monkees to pay tribute to Jones at public memorials

By: Staff Writer

Posted: 03/8/2012 1:00 AM | Comments: 0

LOS ANGELES -- The three surviving Monkees aren't planning to attend Davy Jones' funeral because it would likely bring too much unwanted attention to his family during their time of grief, the group's Micky Dolenz said.

He and fellow Monkees Peter Tork and Michael Nesmith have talked of attending one of the memorials that Jones's family is planning to hold in New York and in the late singer's native England, Dolenz said. And he added he's considering organizing a memorial himself for Jones's friends in Los Angeles.

Whether the surviving Monkees would perform at any of the gatherings, or at any other time in the future, is an open question.

"We've been talking, we've been communicating, but it's way too early, I think, to project or predict anything like that."

A private family funeral will take place in Florida this week, Jones spokeswoman Helen Kensick said Tuesday, declining to give any further details. Planning for a family service in England and a public memorial in the U.S. were still underway.

Dolenz said he wasn't surprised by the outpouring of public affection for Jones that followed his death from a heart attack last week at age 66.

The youngest member of the group, Jones played the role of the heartthrob in the made-for-TV band that shot to fame in 1966 with the The Monkees television show and such hit songs as Daydream Believer and Last Train to Clarksville.

And Jones, he said, was pretty much the lovable character he played on TV.

"What you saw is what you got," Dolenz said. "He was very much a song-and-dance man, life of the party, always telling jokes, always on, an entertainer and just a great guy to be around."

-- The Associated Press

Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition March 8, 2012 D2

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