Arts & Entertainment

Davy Jones Dead at 66; Share Your Memories

'The Monkees' was a generational marker of sorts.

They were known as the "pre-Fab Four," and the show was one of those that defined a generation.

Now, one is gone. Davy Jones, one of the band's singers and perhaps the one that most fit the "teen idol" label, died Tuesday at age 66.

"When I was a kid, I wanted to BE Davy Jones," actor Kevin Bacon said on Twitter when the news broke.

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"I just wanted to be in the show, fall in love twice in each episode and kiss the girls," Jones told The Republican of Springfield, Mass., last month. "I had no ambition to be Steven Spielberg or Cecil B. DeMille."

So we want to know, what are your memories of Davy Jones? The Monkees? Tell us in the comments.

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