Jones was born in Manchester, England, and began to behave like a child. In 1964, he had the misfortune to be in the cast of Oliver! in the same episode, where the Beatles got their start. The following year he was cast in The Monkees, comedy show / band inspired by the success of Beatles. They were an instant success in the estimates, and music stores, marking a massive single, "Last Train To Clarksdale", "I believe," "step" and "Pleasant Valley Sunday." Jones - who played the tambourine in the band - the singer was on the classics " Daydream Believer "and at the peak of its popularity in 1967, they sold more albums than the Beatles" I want to be free. ".
Photos: Davy Jones Through the Years
The music was written by The Monkees are one of the best songwriters in the day, including Carole King and Neil Diamond. As the group became more popular, they insisted on writing his own music and play their own instruments. Despite their work later, attracted a huge cult for many years, their main success and quickly threw the band broke up in 1971. Jones continued his solo career, and he made his memorable song "Girl" in episode Bunch Brady.
Jones came into operation in 1970, when his solo career failed to take off, but it was hard to escape the shadow of Monkees. By the mid-1980s, interest was revived when the Monkee MTV and other stations started regular broadcasting old episodes. Groups - Mike Nesmith least - came to a successful tour in 1986. They toured on and off until the end of 2001, when the fight led to another division. Last summer, they have patched things 45h anniversary on a trip, but it was named because of the short guitarist Peter Tork is called the "problem".
Jones was on solo tour at the time of his death, playing as recently as last week.