{"id":1442,"date":"2012-02-29T19:00:07","date_gmt":"2012-02-29T19:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/02\/29\/the-monkees-singer-davy-jones-dies-at-66\/"},"modified":"2012-02-29T19:00:07","modified_gmt":"2012-02-29T19:00:07","slug":"the-monkees-singer-davy-jones-dies-at-66","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2012\/02\/29\/the-monkees-singer-davy-jones-dies-at-66\/","title":{"rendered":"The Monkees singer Davy Jones dies at 66"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.librarising.com\/astrology\/celebs\/images2\/D\/davyjones.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"137\" height=\"156\" \/><br \/>Davy Jones, former lead singer of the 1960s made-for-television pop band The Monkees, died on Wednesday at a hospital in Florida, according to an official from the local medical examiner&#8217;s office.  <!--more-->  Jones, 66, born in Manchester, England, became the principal teen idol of the rock quartet featured on the NBC comedy series &#8220;The Monkees,&#8221; which was inspired in part by the Beatles film &#8220;A Hard Day&#8217;s Night&#8221; and ran from the fall of 1966 to August of 1968.<\/p>\n<p>Although not allowed to play their own instruments on their early records, Jones and his three cohorts &#8211; Micky Dolenz, Michael Nesmith and Peter Tork &#8211; had several hits that sold millions of copies, including &#8220;Daydream Believer,&#8221; &#8220;Last Train to Clarksville&#8221; and &#8220;I&#8217;m a Believer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Jones, who joined The Monkees in 1965, is survived by his wife Jessica and 4 daughters from previous marriages.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Chicago Tribune<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Davy Jones, former lead singer of the 1960s made-for-television pop band The Monkees, died on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}