Obituary: Davy Jones
Davy Jones, the diminutive, cherubic-faced vocalist of The Monkees, achieved worldwide fame as the heartthrob pin-up of the first manufactured pop band. Answering an advert for "four insane boys", the one-time child actor found himself at the centre of a unique music-television hybrid that went on to achieve six million-selling singles and four chart-topping albums in a three-year burst of activity that saw The Monke…