Shades Of Grey / Barry Mann, Cynthia Weil

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Always loved that song..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncd1yTTk5rw

David Thomas Jones (30 December 1945 - 29 February 2012 ). A singer, an actor, a multi-instrumentalist, a businessman, a jockey, a father..a teen idol. Another great artist from Manchester. He wanted to be a jockey, but resigned when his mother died when Davy was 14 years old. Very early success on stage in 'Oliver!' on West End in London and on Broadway in New York. He was nominated for Tony for it. And appeared on the same historic Ed Sullivan show as The Beatles. Davy Jones : ' I watched The Beatles' from the side of stage, I saw the girls going crazy and I said to myself, 'that is it, I want a piece of that.'

Signed a contract with...Screen Gems, and debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 being 19. That's his first solo hit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dG82nvGC4X0

The rest is history..And this is amazing that after many years of writing that The Monkees was a manufactured band, an opinion has changed so much. Of course the audience, fans loved them from the start, but also music critics at last noticed that The Monkees had become a self-directed group, playing their own instruments and writing many of their songs..But let's listen again to the song which always makes me smile

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvqeSJlgaNk

And Davy Jones and our David..

David Cassidy : (it was in 1971) 'his manager lived in a house above mine in the Hills and all of a sudden he was standing at the front door'.

But they became real friends when met again in 2006 at the horse track at Saratoga Springs. Both of them loved horses, David Cassidy bred throughbreds, and Davy Jones specialised in training, riding and jump-racing.

On the early morning of 29th February 2012 he went to tend his 14 horses at the farm in Florida, and after riding his fav horses he complained of chest pain. It was too late when he was taken to a hospital and Davy Jones was pronounced dead of a heart attack..Such a sad day for millions..

David and Davy singing together in 2011

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnazCwiocuQ


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