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Monkees likely to miss bandmate’s funeral to avoid media circus, but considering memorial shows
By CMU Editorial | Published on Tuesday 6 March 2012
The family of Davy Jones are planning a small private funeral in Florida for the late Monkees singer, so much so his former bandmates are planning on staying away to reduce the chances of the service becoming a big media event. Though there are talks of memorial gigs involving all three surviving members of the group in both the UK and US.
Commenting on Jones’ upcoming funeral service, fellow Monkee Micky Dolenz told Billboard: “My understanding is they [Jones’ family] want to avoid a media circus and the family wants to keep it very, very low-key and very, very private. You can imagine as soon as one or two or any of us were to show up, it would very quickly be degraded into something that I don’t think his immediate family would want to deal with. So I’m kind of respecting their wishes, whatever their wishes may be”.
Dolenz added that public memorial events in New York and the UK – Jones being from Manchester – were a possibility, maybe involving all three of his former bandmates, including Michael Nesmith who sat out of the most recent Monkees reunion. Though he added that it was too soon to confirm anything on that front, adding that he and his bandmates were still in shock at Jones’ sudden passing.
Other than possible one off memorial shows, though, Dolenz said he thought any future Monkees reunion was now unlikely. He told the trade mag: “I can see us getting together to do a memorial concert, of course, but right now I can’t imagine anything else happening without the Manchester Cowboy”.
