he was a believer

Jesse Marinoff Reyes:

ALL YESTERDAY’S COMIC BOOKS Bonus: R.I.P. Davy Jones.

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The Monkees
Dell Comics, July, 1968 issue, #13

…Davy Jones passes away at 66 …

Reuters:Jones got his start as an 11-year-old actor on the still-running British soap opera “Coronation Street” before landing a role as the Artful Dodger in a West End production of “Oliver!” He went on to originate that role for the Broadway production and earned a Tony nomination.

But Jones gained wider stardom after answering a casting call for a TV series being created about the zany misadventures of four Beatles-like rock musicians called the Monkees. Two members of the group, Nesmith and Tork, were musicians with performing and recording experience, while Jones and Dolenz were primarily actors who more or less dabbled in music. Read More:http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/02/29/us-davyjones-idUSTRE81S1T520120229

Daily Mail: We meet at his house on the shores of the Atlantic in Florida. He and Jessica are on the beach every day, and sometimes enjoy a midnight swim.
At close quarters, Davy has weathered the passing of the years better than any of his bandmates. Maybe it’s because he’s so compact. ‘I used to be 5ft 4in,’ he says, ‘but I’ve lost an inch.’
What he has not lost is the nagging sense of inadequacy which, he says, has plagued him for his entire career.
‘Even today, I have an inferiority complex,’ he confesses at one point. ‘I always feel I’m there at the window, looking in. Except when I’m on stage, and then I really come alive.’ When Davy first got together with Jessica in 2006, his four daughters from his first two marriages were, to say the least, a little wary (his word) of the relationship.
‘First, she was half my age, and second, or so they’ve since said, they didn’t want me to get hurt any more.’
Each of his two previous wives had been pregnant by him before he’d slipped a ring on their finger. His first wife, an American named Linda, produced Talia, now 42, then Sarah, 39, whose two children make Davy a grandfather.
But the marriage fell apart in the mid-Seventies. ‘She was drifting away from me,’ he recalls. ‘She’d spend the weekend in LA. I had the kids. It was only years later that I found she’d had other interests.’
Other men? ‘Yeah.’
He admits, though, that he was far from the perfect parent. ‘I missed the school play. I missed the Christmas nativity. These are times when an entertainer works. But that doesn’t mean the guilt ever goes away.’

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