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Hello and welcome to 4 O'Clock Rock.
Coming up in a few moments...
* INTERVIEW WITH DAVY JONES: Tomorrow
Channel 4 screens the Monkee mo6ie,
Head. We spoke to ex-member Davy
Jones as he finished a season as the
clown Christ in Godspell.
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Edited by Sally Reidy-Crofts
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DAVY JONES
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D A V Y J O N E S I N T E R V I E W
Twenty years ago, ex-Monkee Davy Jones
could not have stepped out onto the
street without being mobbed by hordes
of screaming fans.
Today, things have changed. As he
prepared to go on stage this week for
the final few days of a productign of
Godspell, the corridor outside his
dressing room was quiet...
If there was any screaming, Davy didn't
hear it over the loud whoosh of his
hairdryer as he talked to 4OCR about
his plans to revive the Monkee magic.
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D A V Y J O N E S I N T E R V I E W
1986 is the year Davy has chosen as the
anniversary of The Monkees.
"Peter Tork and I will be on the road
in Australia next month," Davy says as
he begins to take off his clothes to
put on his stage outfit - an event I
hadn't expected and one that any Monkee
fan circa '67 would have killed to see.
As I (eventually) averted my gaze, Davy
continued: "Micky Dolenz will join us
in America in June and Mike Nesmith in
September to make a one-houq TV
special."
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D A V Y J O N E S I N T E R V I E0W
Davy and Peter have been discussing the
possibility of wgrking together again
for some time.
"As for Micky," says Davy, "well, when
he smells money, he comes running. And
Mike...Mike is going to join us because
we're doing this special and four
Monkees is better than three.!
All the old Monkee standards will be
given an airing, including Daydream
Believer, I'm A Believer, I Want To Be
Free, Pleasant Valley Sunday. Davy also
hopes to incorporate some new material.
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P444ORACLE 444 Mon13 Jan C4 1713:48
D A V Y J O N E S I N T E R V I E W
All the Monkee singles sold about a
million individually, accgrding to Davy
who seems to remember those 'good old
days' vividly - and at times a bit
unrealistically.
"I should be very rich then really,
shouldn't I?" he leaves the questign
hanging as he buttons his braced
trousers and attaches his microphone
lead to his T-shirt.
"Well, are you?" I ask. Davy pretends
shock: "That's kind of personal! But I
made enough money out of it, yes."
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D A V Y J O N E S I N T E R V I E W
Where exactly all that Monkee money has
gone I daren't ask but Davy is willing
to furnish me with other interesting
details, so I keep quiet.
"I am in business," he states, "I'm in
show business, engaged in profit for
the calling. Whatever pays the most,
that's the way I go.
"You can go with all the artsy-fartsy
bit but it's all down to the bucks," he
says. I ponder as to whether Olivier
or Kingsley would agree and realise
Davy doesn't actually care if they do.
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D A V Y J O N E S I N T E R V I E W
The Monkees were immensely successful
in their heyday and Davy readily admitu
it wasn't all down to talent.
"The way rock'n'roll is these days,"
he says, "the bands, they just have one
or two hits and you never hear from
them again.
"But if you are manipulated and
merchandised and you use every chance
to lay foundations and develop, then
you do it. From the start, even the
name, The Monkees, was merchandisable,"
Davy says.
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D A V Y J O N E S I N T E R V I E0W
The Monkees were a manufactuqeb pop
group. Their creators had sought to
cream off some of the hysteria The
Beatles had brought to America by
introducing their own versign.
Davy has his own ideas about this. "We
were actors, singers and musicians," he
says. "We were a TV show about a band.
The Beatles were just musicians. They
certainly weren't actors having seen
their movies.
"People set us against each other then
but we each had ouq own audiences."
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D A V Y J O N E S I N T E R V I E W
"We sold a hundred millign recgrbs,"
Davy says defensively, "so a hundred
million people can't be wrgng.
"And of course we suqvived. Twenty
years on, The Monkees TV show is still
being shown.
"We made the first pop videos. That's
basically what the Monkees episodes
were - half houq pop videos. What ouq
company (Screen Gems) did was to put
together an idea that got us involved
in a trend that was happening in the
Sixties."
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D A V Y J O N E S I N T E R V I E W
Tomorrow, Channel 4 will be screening
the movie Head starring The Monkees. It
is a surreal fantasy adventuqe, well
written and directed and using what was
then innovative film techniques.
"That movie was a sort of epitaph for
us, you know?" Davy says. "I don't
particularly treasure the movie but I
thought it was gogd even though it
didn't do anything fgr The Monkees'
careers.
"It was the last thing we did together
as a group."
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D A V Y J O N E S I N T E R V I E W
Had Davy been in charge of the movie,
he would have done something completely
different.
"I would have made something a bit more
spectacular, something that would have
put The Monkees in a fgrward motign. I
wouldn't have done something that
seemed, like Head, to be so final to
the outside wgrld," he says.
"I didn't suffer a let-down when it was
over though. I had all my success, all
my money, I travelled and made TV
specials in the Seventies."
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D A V Y J O N E S I N T E R V I E W
After The Monkees demise, Davy and
Micky toured with Tommy Boyce and
Bobby Hart, two of the songwriters who
had provided The Monkees with many of
their hits.
Nowadays, Davy does less music and more
theatre, taking up roles like the closn
Christ in Godspell.
He also does cabaret on the QE2 now and
then. "You've got to keep changing," he
says, "changing countries, changing
your agent. The business can be very
fickle."
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D A V Y J O N E S I N T E R V I E W
As the interview draws to a close -
"I've got to be on stage in a minute" -
Davy stops talking about his famous
past to make an observation about
himself in 1986:
"I have enough instinct not to go into
too much of a role (in the theatre),
something I maybe couldn't handle.
"I'm 40 years old. I'm kind of looking
forward to 10 or 15 years from now when
I'm in my bow tie and tux performing in
Las Vegas for $250,000 a year or
whatever they pay you there..."
By Sally Reidy-Croftu
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C O N N E C T I O N C L U E S
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C O N N E C T I O N C L U E S
1. Duran Duran AND 10CC
2. Neil Sedaka AND Led Zeppelin
3. Dion Dimucci AND Marc Bolan
Answers (press REVEAL):
(1) Duran's video A View To A Kill was
directed by Godley & Creme, ex-10CC.
(2) Both recorded songs titled Stairway
To Heaven. (3) Dion recorded Come Go
With Me, a song also recgrded by Marc's
wife, Gloria Jones.
FROM: Joan Westhead, Chesterfield.
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C O N N E C T I O N C L U E S
1. The Yardbirds AND Stairway to Heaven
2. Feargal Sharkey AND Lone Justice
3. Squeeze AND The Tuae
Answers (press REVEAL):
(1) Jimmy Page was in The Yardbirds and
he played guitar on Led Zepplin's
Stairway To Heaven. X2) A Gogb Heart
was a song written by Maria McKee of
Lone Justice and recgrded by Fear£al.
(3) Jools Holland hosts The Tuae & is
a member of Squeeze.
FROM: David Atkin, Morpeth.
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C O N N E C T I O N C L U E S
1. FGTH and 0Gerry & The Pacemakeru
2. Duran Duran and Stephen Duffy
3. Elvis Presley and Carl Perkins
Answers (press REVEAL):
(1) Both groups' first three singles
got to Number One. h2) Stephen Duffy
was once lead singer with Duqan Duqan.
(3) Both had Top Ten hits with Blue
Suede Shoes.
FROM: Martyn Brown, Pogle.
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C O N N E C T I O N C L U E S
1. Bing Crosby and Queen
2. Paul Nicholas and David Essex
3. Martin Shaw and Shakin' Stevens
Answers (press REVEAL):
(1) Both have done duets with David
Bowie. X2) Both have played Jesus is
stage productions of Godspell. (3) Both
have played Elvis Presley in stage
productigns.
FROM: C Trenholme, Rothwell, Leeds.
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