The Monkees’ Davy Jones Dies of Heart Attack

The Takeaway

Davy Jones, the pint-size lead singer for the Monkees perhaps best known for singing “I’m a Believer,”  died of a heart attack on Wednesday at his home in Indiantown, FL. He was 66 years old. The Takeaway remembers the mop-topped front man of the one of the first “boy bands.”

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