Davy Jones Has Died(转载)

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　　Singer Davy Jones has died. The Monkees singer died this morning in a Florida hospital after suffering a heart attack. He was 66. As NPR's Neda Ulaby reports, Jones was a teen idol. And in the 1960s, he became the nonthreatening face of rock 'n' roll on network television.
　　Floppy hair, goofy grin - Davy Jones was the kind of rock star a girl could take home to Grandma back in 1966. And that's even how he came across in an NPR interview four decades later - sweet, sincere and mildly idealistic.
　　JONES: It brings people together. And so this is what The Monkees does all the time. I don't think that's very good grammar - that Monkees does. But never mind that because, as they used to say, The Monkees is coming. The Monkees is coming.
　　He was the British boy in an American band specifically designed to mimic The Beatles, says Ben Greenman. He's the music editor for The New Yorker.
　　You know, they were sort of lighter versions of what people saw in other pop stars, so there was slight brooding or, you know, slight sex appeal.
　　Davy Jones was The Monkees' slight sex appeal - and he was slight, at 5-4.
　　JONES: What number is this chip?
　　MICKY DOLENZ, PETER TORK, MICHAEL NESMITH: (In unison) 7A.
　　JONES: OK. I mean, don't get excited, man. It's because I'm short, I know.
　　But Jones was the cute one in the band known as the Prefab Four, and he sang the lead in one of its biggest hits.
　　JONES: (Singing) Oh, I could hide beneath the wings of the bluebird as she sings...
　　Jones was born in England in 1945, and he got his start as a child actor - first on TV, and then on stage. He gained attention as the Artful Dodger in a London production of "Oliver!" that made its way to New York, and earned him a Tony nomination.
　　That's how The Monkees came to be. Producers Bob Rafelson and Bert Schneider picked Davy, Micky, Michael and Peter not for their ____3____, but their stage presence. And even though their TV show aired for only two years, it generated eight top-10 hits, and half a dozen songs that everybody knows.
　　JONES: (Singing) Cheer up, sleepy Jean. Oh, what can it mean to a daydream believer and a homecoming queen?
　　The Monkees were eviscerated by someone who accused them of basically being a capitalist conceptual art project. It didn't help that at first, not all of them knew how to play their own instruments. But they got better, says Ben Greenman.
　　GREENMAN: They used the best session musicians and had access to the best songwriters, and performed fine.
　　Even after The Monkees broke up in 1970, Greenman says Davy Jones came across as deeply - well, affable.
　　GREENMAN: Happy to be recognized, happy to sing the songs on ____5____later he appeared on.
　　JONES: (Singing) Girl, look what you've done to me...
　　Like when he famously wooed oldest sister Marcia on "The Brady Bunch," in 1971.
　　MAUREEN MCCORMICK: (as Marcia Brady) You'll really come to the prom?
　　JONES: (as himself) Well, there is one, little problem.
　　MCCORMICK: (as Marcia Brady) What?
　　JONES: (as himself) Well, I don't have a date. Do you know a girl that would like to go with me?
　　MCCORMICK: (as Marcia Brady) Do I!
　　Some people might recall Marcia refusing to wash her cheek after Davy Jones pecked it.
　　The Monkees enjoyed a second life in the 1980s, when MTV replayed the series. And Davy Jones continued appearing on TV and radio - on "This is Your Life," "Hollywood Squares," "The Howard Stern Show" and "SpongeBob SquarePants."
　　JONES: (as himself) Yeah. That's right, baby. Welcome to my locker.
　　A few years ago, Davy Jones remembered the appeal of The Monkees as happy and uncomplicated. The music, he said, never promised its listeners anything more.
　　JONES: It was simple. And they want that simplicity, and they want that release from this high-powered society, goal-oriented world.
　　A reminder, maybe, of what is was like to be a teenager - or a dream of a teenager.
　　JONES: (Singing) I love my Valleri.
　　JONES: (Singing) There's a girl I know who makes me feel so good, and I wouldn't live without her, even if I could. They call her Valleri. I love my Valleri.