72 Very Personal Fax About Davy Jones

All About The Monkees!—Part 1

For the first time anywhere, FLIP answers everything about The Monkees

1. His favorite group is The Beatles

2. He likes especially “Hey You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away”

3. He likes to have his clothes made specially for him in Britain

4. He loves girls

5. He enjoys going to night clubs

6. He used to go fishing with his dad

7. He was once on “Ben Casey”

8. He likes eggs

9. He once played trumpet

10. He hates yogurt

11. He was born December 30, 1945

12. He lived on Learnington [sic] Street in Manchester

13. He played in the play “Pickwick” at the Huntington Hartford in LA

14. He wears specially made boots

15. He now plays a bit of bass guitar

16. He has a color TV

17. He plans to buy some English horses and race them in the U.S.

19. His father was a railroad worker

20. He attended the Congregational Church

21. He likes to dance

22. He frequently has old friends from England visiting on the set

23. He likes The Byrds

24. He used to bite his fingernails

25. He loves American girls

26. He likes swimming

27. He likes steak

28. He played in “Oliver” for two years on Broadway

29. He was taught a Cockney accent by Jane Asher

30. He was not good at arithmetic

31. He is a Capricorn

32. He once played Tom Sawyer

33. He liked to play doctor when he was a child

34. He once had his own single on the Colgems label

35. He was an apprentice jockey

36. He was born in Manchester, England

37. He lives on Holloway Drive in Los Angeles

38. He has three sisters, Lynda, Hazel, Beryl

39. His first girl friend was named Beryl

40. He was once on “Farmer’s Daughter”

41. He likes Bill Cosby

42. He admires Winston Churchill

43. His favorite singer is Anthony Newley

44. He bought his father a new house a year ago

45. His mother died in 1960

46. He does not like certain airlines

47. He likes Donovan

48. He likes tall girls

49. He appeared on Los Angeles TV as a single artist

50. He has long legs

51. His best friend in school was Harry Hoskinson

52. He performed on BBC Radio in England

53. He drives a Pontiac GTO

54. He had a birthmark on his cheek which went away in his teens

55. He has moved about a dozen times since becoming a Monkee

56. He once played banjo

57. He reads a lot

58. He used to box

59. He attended Varna Secondary School

60. He likes blue

61. He spent seven months on the road in “Oliver”

62. His first singing engagement was on the Isle of Wight

63. He sang “Donna” and “Worried Man”

64. His real name is David Thomas Jones

65. He likes to drive his motorcycle through the guard rails at Screen Gems

66. He likes oranges

67. He ran obstacle courses (and won) when he was young

68. He was in the same British TV serial (“Coronation Street”) as Herman

69. He has a seven foot circular bed

70. He drives a Honda

71. He entered show business when he was 15

72. His favorite actress is Ursula Andress

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