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Mr. Adamowicz, who died on Feb. 9 at 43, was a concept artist whose paintings of exotic landscapes, monsters and elaborately costumed heroes and villains formed the visual foundation for two of the most popular single-player role-playing video games of all time.
In Fallout 3, he envisioned a post-apocalyptic Washington; in the other, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, he co-created the look of a vast fantasy world. Together the games have sold more than 15 million copies and earned more than $900 million since they were released, Fallout in autumn 2008 and Skyrim in autumn 2011.
His death, at a hospital in Washington, of complications of lung cancer, was confirmed by Pete Hines, a vice president of Bethesda Softworks, the company that created both games.
Whether sketching out a mutant-riddled, atomically ravaged downtown Washington or a sprawling continent populated by wizards and trolls, Mr. Adamowicz was, in a sense, the costume designer, prop master and set designer for highly cinematic games. Other team members would render Mr. Adamowicz’s drawings on computers once the writers and art director approved them.
“All of the designs evolve through contributions from the whole team,” he wrote in an essay about conceptual design on the Fallout Web site. “I like to feel that it’s my job to instigate the process with a cool drawing that inspires everyone else here into making something really cool.”
Mr. Adamowicz (pronounced a-DOM-oh-wits) conceptualized virtually everything in Fallout 3: locations like a crumbling Washington Monument and coin-operated personal bomb shelters; items like the Pip-Boy 3000 — an electronic wrist computer that serves as a player’s conduit to menus, maps and other vital information — and the Fat Man, a weapon that launches miniature nuclear bombs; and monsters ranging from mutated naked mole rats to 30-foot-tall super mutant behemoths.
“He was one of the first people on Fallout 3 and he drew every concept image we had,” said Todd Howard, the game director for both Fallout 3 and Skyrim. “We’re talking over a thousand images, for years.”
Mr. Adamowicz worked with a fellow concept artist, Ray Lederer, on Skyrim, but came up with the look and feel of the game’s marquee monster, fearsome dragons that would intimidate Smaug, the venerable wyrm from “The Hobbit.” Skyrim is the first of the Elder Scrolls series to let players battle them.
Mr. Adamowicz worked with a fellow concept artist, Ray Lederer, on Skyrim, but came up with the look and feel of the game’s marquee monster, fearsome dragons that would intimidate Smaug, the venerable wyrm from “The Hobbit.” Skyrim is the first of the Elder Scrolls series to let players battle them.
Mr. Adamowicz worked as a freelance illustrator for Dark Horse Comics and Malibu Graphics and held down odd jobs, like haunted house builder and erotic cake artisan, according to his blog, before landing his position at Bethesda in 2005.
He is survived by his mother, Moira Adamowicz.
Fallout 3 is suffused with humorous touches of nostalgia for the time before a nuclear war had ended the world as we know it. (For example, the Ink Spots’ 1941 song “I Don’t Want to Set the World on Fire” plays on the radio as a player explores the radioactive rubble.)
Mr. Adamowicz actually had the wholesomeness of “Leave It to Beaver” in mind when he imagined a post-apocalyptic world. The game really begins when the protagonist escapes from a technologically advanced 1950s-style society that has survived for hundreds of years in a huge subterranean bomb shelter.
“I have an interest in all things ’50s because I think there’s a certain charisma with the music, with the automobiles, with the clothing style,” Mr. Adamowicz said in an interview included as bonus content when Fallout 3 was released. “So designing any of these characters and then throwing them into the wasteland, the dark humor for me kicked in when I imagined Ward Cleaver being pushed out of his bunker and he’s looking for fresh tobacco for his pipe and then here comes a raider over the top of the horizon.”
Fallout 3 (2008), Bethesda Softworks LLC
Goblin Commander: Unleash the Horde (2003), Jaleco Entertainment, Inc.
Nightcaster II: Equinox (2002), Jaleco Entertainment, Inc.
Nightcaster: Defeat the Darkness (2001), Microsoft Corporation
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Severin was inducted into the Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame in 2003.
"I was sometimes selling 19 or 20 of them a week. Not every week, naturally. But I didn’t have to get a regular job to carry me through high school. It was almost every week—not every week—but almost every week. I didn’t have to get a job. I hated to work, I’ll tell you. I didn’t have to get a job then, because I was in high school."
He attended the High School of Music & Art in New York City, together with future EC Comics and Mad artists Harvey Kurtzman, Will Elder, Al Jaffee and Al Feldstein. After graduating from the High School of Music & Art in 1940, he worked as an apprentice machinist and then enlisted in the Army, serving in the Pacific during World War II.
In a 1980 interview, Severin recalled his start as a professional artist:
"I had decided to exhibit some paintings of mine in a High School of Music and Art exhibition for the alumni. Charlie Stern was in charge of it, so I went to see him at his studio. He was the "Charles" of the Charles William Harvey Studio, the other two being William Elder and Harvey Kurtzman. They asked me if I'd like to rent space with them there. I did, and started working with them. When Charlie left... I became the third man, but they didn't want to change it to John William Harvey Studio, so they left the name... Harvey was doing comics, Willie and Charlie were doing advertising stuff, and I just joined in... [I did] design work, logos for toy boxes, logos for candy boxes, cards to be included in the candy boxes."
Inspired by the quick money Kurtzman would make in-between advertising assignments with one-page "Hey Look!" gags for editor Stan Lee at Timely Comics, Severin worked up comics samples inked by Elder. In late 1947, he recalled, the writer-artist-editor team of Joe Simon and Jack Kirby at Crestwood Publications "gave us our first job."
Since it was not standard practice to credit comics creators during this era, a comprehensive list of his early work is difficult to ascertain. Author and historian Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr., based on Severin's description of "a crime story about a boy and a girl who killed somebody... I think it was their stepfather. They lived on a farm, or out in the suburbs," believes that first Severin/Elder story was the eight-page "The Clue of the Horoscope" in Headline Comics #32 (cover-dated Nov. 1948), from the Crestwood-affiliated Prize Comics. The standard reference Grand Comics Database has no credits for that story, and lists Severin's first confirmed work in comics as two stories published the same month: the ten-page Boy Commandos adventure "The Triumph of William Tell" in DC Comics' Boy Commandos #30; and the eight-page Western story "Grinning Hole In the Wall" in Prize Comics' Prize Comics Western vol. 7, #5 (each Dec. 1948), both of which he penciled and the latter of which he also inked.
Through 1955, Severin drew a large number of stories for the latter title and other Western series from Prize, and as penciler, he co-created with an unknown writer the long-running Native American feature "American Eagle" in Prize Comics Western vol. 9, #6 (Jan. 1951), inked by his high-school classmate turned fellow pro Will Elder.
Around this time, Severin did his first confirmed work for two publishers with whom he would long be associated, Marvel Comics and EC Comics. For the future Marvel Comics, he penciled the seven-page romance comic story "My Heart Had No Faith" in Timely Comics' Actual Romances #1 (Oct. 1949).
For EC Comics, he broke in with the seven-page "War Story" in Two-Fisted Tales #19 (Feb. 1951), continuing to work in tandem with his friend Elder as his inker, notably on science fiction and war stories. Severin drew stories for both Two-Fisted Tales and Frontline Combat. When Kurtzman dropped the war comics to devote more time to Mad, Severin became sole artist on Two-Fisted Tales for four issues and scripted some stories. He also illustrated stories written by his friend Colin Dawkins and future Mad art director John Putnam. Severin and Dawkins were the uncredited co-editors of Two-Fisted Tales #36-39.
Severin and Elder eventually split as a team at EC. They both were in the group of the five original artists who launched editor Harvey Kurtzman's landmark satiric comic book Mad, along with Kurtzman, Wally Wood and Jack Davis. Severin appeared in nine of Mad's first ten issues, drawing ten pieces between 1952 and 1954. According to accounts by both Severin and Kurtzman, the two had a falling out over art criticisms Kurtzman made during this period. It was Kurtzman who suggested that Severin ink with a pen as opposed to brush inking. Though Severin eventually took this advice in his later work, he was annoyed at Kurtzman at the time, for this and other remarks, and refused further work with him. Kurtzman insisted on doing the layouts for all the artists, which some resented, including Severin.
His ability to draw people of different nationalities convincingly was highly admired by his peers, as was his eye for authentic details. Upon Severin's death, writer Mark Evanier remembered, "Jack Kirby used to say that when he had to research some historical costume or weapon for a story, it was just as good to use a John Severin drawing as it was to find a photo of the real thing. They don’t make ‘em like that anymore."
Following the cancellation of EC's comic book line in the wake of the Comics Code in the mid-1950s, Severin began working for Atlas Comics, the 1950s forerunner of Marvel Comics. Artist and colorist Stan Goldberg, a company colleague recalled in 2005,
"I was in the [company's artist room known as the] Bullpen with a lot of well-known artists who worked up there at that time. We had our Bullpen up there until about 1958 or 1959. [sic; the Bullpen staff was let go in 1957] The guys... who actually worked nine-to-five and put in a regular day, and not the freelance guys who'd come in a drop off their work... were almost a hall-of-fame group of people. There was John Severin. Bill Everett. Carl Burgos. There was the all-time great Joe Maneely... We all worked together, all the colorists and correction guys, the letterers and artists... We had a great time."
After Atlas transitioned to become Marvel Comics in the 1960s, Severin did extensive work as penciler, inker or both on such series as The Incredible Hulk, The 'Nam, Conan the Barbarian, Captain Savage, What The?! and Semper Fi. Herb Trimpe, the primary Hulk penciler during this period comics fans and historians call the Silver Age of comic books, said in 2009, "I was kind of thrilled when John Severin inked me, because I liked his work for EC comics, and he was one of my idols." As inker, Severin teamed with penciler Dick Ayers on an acclaimed run of the World War II series Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos, beginning with #44 (July 1967). In the 1970s, he collaborated with his sister, artist Marie Severin, on Marvel's sword and sorcery series, King Kull.
During this time he was by far the most prolific contributor to the satiric Cracked magazine, drawing television and movie parodies along with other features, including most of the magazine's covers.
For Warren Publishing in the 1970s, he drew for the black-and-white comics magazines Blazing Combat and Creepy. Severin also contributed to Topps' line of bubble gum trading cards.
Circa 2000, writer Jeff Mariotte recalled in 2002, Severin phoned Scott Dunbier, a group editor at DC Comics' WildStorm imprint, "and said he was looking to do comics again" after working primarily for Cracked at the time. "I happened to pass by Scott's office as he hung up the phone, and he sounded kind of awestruck as he told me that John Severin wanted to do something with us. I said something like, 'Gee, a Desperadoes story by Severin would be great,'" referring to Mariotte's Western miniseries for DC. "Scott agreed. We needed to hurry, before he was snapped up by someone else, so I went home and worked up a proposal overnight. We had sent him, right after that first call, copies of the original Desperadoes books. That was followed up by the proposal, the next day. He liked what he saw and wanted to play along." This led to Severin drawing the sequel miniseries Desperadoes: Quiet of The Grave.
He went on to illustrate the controversial 2003 Marvel limited series The Rawhide Kid, a lighthearted parallel universe Western that reimagined the outlaw hero as a kitschy though still formidably gunslinging gay man. Severin, who had drawn the character for Atlas in the 1950s, refuted rumors that he had not known of the subject matter, saying at the time of the premiere issue's release, "The Rawhide Kid is rather effeminate in this story. It may be quite a blow to some of the old fans of Rawhide Kid. But it's a lot of fun, and he's still a tough hombre." Also in the 2000s, Severin contributed to Marvel's The Punisher; DC Comics' Suicide Squad, American Century, Caper, and Bat Lash; and Dark Horse Comics' Conan, B.P.R.D. and Witchfinder.
Severin's family members working in the publishing and entertainment fields include his sister Marie Severin, a comic book artist, who was the colorist for EC's comics; his son John Severin, Jr., the head of Bubblehead Publishing; his daughter, Ruth Larenas, a producer for that company; and his grandson, John Severin III, a music producer and recording engineer.
Severin died at his home in Denver, Colorado, on February 12, 2012 at the age of 90. His wife of 60 years, Michelina, survived him, as did his comics-artist sister Marie Severin and six children.
Severin was inducted into the Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame in 2003.
With writer Gary Friedrich and penciler Dick Ayers, Severin's inking contributed to Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos winning the Alley Award for Best War Title of 1967 and 1968.
He was among the winners of the Cartoon Art Museum's 2001 Sparky Award.
His artwork was exhibited three times at the Words & Pictures Museum in Northampton, Massachusetts — in the grand-opening group show (October 9, 1992 – January 5, 1993), in the group exhibit "War No More" (May 18 – August 8, 1993) and in the group show "Classic Comics: A Selection of Stories from EC Comics" (December 7 – February 11, 1996).
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During the Depression, a Chicago man named Steve Kordek got a job as a solderer at Genco Pinball Co. and worked his way up from the production line to the engineering department. When the company's head designer fell ill, Kordek was told to fill in and design a new pinball game — one to beat all others.
Then 26, he had never designed a game himself. So he borrowed a concept — the flipper — from a competitor. But instead of having six flippers in the upper playing field, he reduced it to two electrified flippers near the drain at the bottom, which resulted in more power to rocket the ball back to the top.
At a 1948 pinball trade show, Kordek's groundbreaking "Triple Action" game stole the show and rendered every other arcade game obsolete.
"I just figured, what the hell, two flippers on a game was enough," Kordek told the Chicago Tribune in 2009. "I was taught to be very conservative to hold down costs. There was no way I was going to put six flippers on a game when I could get away with two."
Kordek died Sunday at a hospice in Park Ridge, Ill., of complications related to a fall a year and a half ago, his family said. He was 100.
"What Steve did was revolutionize the game of pinball," said Larry DeMar, a video game and pinball designer and president of Leading Edge Design in Northbrook, Ill. "It now became a defensive battle."
Considered one of the industry's best designers, Kordek later developed the drop target for the 1962 pinball game "Vagabond" and multi-ball play for 1963's "Beat the Clock."
During his career, his other bestselling games included "Grand Prix," "Pokerino" and "Space Mission."
"It wasn't just about the machine as a working mechanical device," Jim Schelberg, editor of the Pingame Journal, told the Chicago Tribune in 2009. "He loved pinball."
Kordek is credited with designing over 100 pinball machines. The last game Kordek helped design was 2003's Vacation America, based on the National Lampoon's Vacation movies.Among the companies that Kordek designed for are Genco, Williams and Bally.
Born Dec. 26, 1911, and reared in Chicago's Bucktown neighborhood, Kordek was the son of a Polish immigrant and the eldest of 10 children.
In his early 20s, Kordek joined the Civilian Conservation Corps and worked for a few years with the Forestry Service in Idaho before returning to Chicago.
In the 1950s, he left Genco to work for Bally Manufacturing Corp., and later Williams Manufacturing Co., both in Chicago. Through the 1970s, he designed up to 20 games a year. He eventually became chief advisor and mentor to up-and-coming designers.
He retired from Williams in 1999 after the company closed its pinball division, but remained on for several years as a volunteer archivist, helping to preserve the game's rich history.
Kordek's wife of 62 years, Harriet, died in 2003. He is survived by two sons, two daughters, two brothers, a sister, six grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.
"The secret to designing a good game is to attract the player," Kordek said in the 2009 Chicago Tribune interview. "What attracts a player, first, is the pictures on the back glass of the game. Second, if what he sees on the play field is different, that's a success. And when the features are so exciting that he wants to put more money in it, you've got him."
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Foster was approached by a friend who worked in a theatre in the West End of London during casting for the musical Oliver!. Foster replied, "I've got the kid." Jones was cast and appeared to great acclaim as the Artful Dodger. He played the role in London and then on Broadway and was nominated for a Tony Award. On 9 February 1964, he appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show with Georgia Brown who was playing Nancy in the Broadway production of Oliver!. This was the same episode of the show in which The Beatles made their first appearance. Jones said of that night, "I watched the Beatles from the side of the stage, I saw the girls going crazy, and I said to myself, this is it, I want a piece of that."
Following his Ed Sullivan appearance, Jones signed a contract with Ward Sylvester of Screen Gems (then the television division of Columbia Pictures). A pair of American television appearances followed, as Jones received screen time in episodes of Ben Casey and The Farmer's Daughter.
Jones debuted on the Hot 100 in the week of 14 August 1965, with the single "What Are We Going To Do?" The 19 year old singer was signed to Colpix Records, a label owned by Columbia. His debut album David Jones, on the same label, followed soon after (CP493). On 1967 the album was issued in the UK, in mono only, on the Pye Records label (NPL 18178).
From 1966 to 1971, Jones was a member of The Monkees, a pop-rock group formed expressly for a television show of the same name. With Screen Gems producing the series, Jones was shortlisted for auditions, as he was the only Monkee who was signed to a deal with the studio, but still had to meet producers Bob Rafelson's and Bert Schneider's standards. Jones sang lead vocals on many of the Monkees' recordings, including "I Wanna Be Free" and "Daydream Believer".
The NBC television series The Monkees was popular, and remained so in syndication. After the band disbanded in 1971, Jones reunited with Micky Dolenz as well as Monkees songwriters Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart in 1974 as a short-lived group called Dolenz, Jones, Boyce & Hart.
Monkees television show marathon ("Pleasant Valley Sunday") broadcast on 23 February 1986 by MTV resulted in a wave of Monkeemania not seen since the group's heyday. Jones reunited with Dolenz and Peter Tork from 1986 to 1989 to celebrate the band's renewed success and promote the 20th anniversary of the group. A new top 20 hit, "That Was Then, This Is Now" was released (though Jones did not perform on the song) as well as an album, Pool It!.
Monkees activity ceased until 1996 when Jones reunited with Dolenz, Tork, and reluctant member Michael Nesmith to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the band. The group released a new album entitled Justus, the first album since 1967's Headquarters that featured the band members performing all instrumental duties. It was the last time all four Monkees performed together.
In February 2011, Jones confirmed rumours of another Monkees reunion. "There's even talk of putting the Monkees back together again in the next year or so for a U.S. and UK tour," he told Disney's Backstage Pass newsletter. "You're always hearing all those great songs on the radio, in commercials, movies, almost everywhere." The tour (Jones's last) came to fruition entitled, An Evening with The Monkees: The 45th Anniversary Tour.
In 1967, Jones opened his first store, called Zilch, at 217 Thompson Street in the Greenwich Village section of New York City. The store sold "hip" clothing and accessories and also allowed customers to design their own clothes.
After the Monkees officially disbanded in 1971, Jones kept himself busy by establishing a New York City-style street market in Los Angeles called "The Street," which cost him approximately $40,000. He also collaborated with musical director Doug Trevor on a one-hour ABC television special entitled ‘’Pop Goes Davy Jones’’, which featured new artists The Jackson Five and The Osmonds.
Bell Records, then having a string of hits with The Partridge Family, signed Jones to a somewhat inflexible solo record contract in 1971. Jones was not allowed to choose his songs or producer, resulting in several lackluster and aimless records. His second solo album, Davy Jones (1971) was notable for the song "Rainy Jane", which reached #52 in the Billboard charts. To promote the album, Jones performed "Girl" on an episode of The Brady Bunch entitled "Getting Davy Jones". Although the single sold poorly, the popularity of Jones's appearance on the show resulted in "Girl" becoming his best remembered solo hit. The final single, "Road to Love," was poorly received.
Jones also continued acting after the Monkees, either as himself or another character. He appeared in an episode of Here Come the Brides, as well as two episodes each of Love, American Style and My Two Dads. Jones also appeared in animated form as himself in 1972 in an hour-long episode of The New Scooby-Doo Movies.
Despite his initial high profile after the end of the Monkees, Jones struggled to establish himself as a solo artist. Glenn A. Baker, author of Monkeemania: The True Story of the Monkees, commented in 1986 that "for an artist as versatile and confident as [Davy] Jones, the relative failure of his post-Monkees activities is puzzling. For all his cocky predictions to the press about his future plans, Davy fell into a directionless heap when left to his own devices."
In 2009, Jones made a cameo appearance as himself in the SpongeBob SquarePants episode "SpongeBob vs. The Big One" (his appearance was meant to be a pun on Davy Jones' Locker). Other appearances include Sledge Hammer!, Boy Meets World, Hey Arnold!, The Single Guy (where he is mistaken for Dudley Moore), and Sabrina the Teenage Witch in which he sang "Daydream Believer" to Sabrina (Melissa Joan Hart). The continued popularity of his 1971 Brady Bunch appearance led to his being cast as himself in The Brady Bunch Movie. Jones sang his signature solo hit "Girl", with a grunge band providing backing, this time with middle-aged women swooning over him. Micky Dolenz and Peter Tork also appeared alongside Jones as judges.
Jones also returned to theater several times after the Monkees. He appeared in several productions of Oliver! as Fagin, and also co-starred with Micky Dolenz in Harry Nilsson's play The Point at the Mermaid Theatre in London in 1978.
In 2001, Jones released Just Me, an album of his own songs, some written for the album and others originally on Monkees releases. In the early 2000s he was performing in the Flower Power Concert Series during Epcot's Flower and Garden Festival, a yearly gig he would continue until his death.
In April 2006, Jones recorded the single "Your Personal Penguin", written by children's author Sandra Boynton, as a companion piece to her new board book of the same title. On 1 November 2007, the Boynton book and CD titled Blue Moo was released and Jones is featured in both the book and CD, singing "Your Personal Penguin". As a result of the collaboration, Jones became a close friend of Boynton.
In December 2008, Yahoo! Music named Jones the "Number 1 teen idol of all time". In 2009, Jones was rated second in a list of 10 best teen idols compiled by Fox News.
In 2009, Jones released a collection of classics and standards from the 1940s through the 1970s entitled "She".
Jones was married three times. In January 1968 he secretly married Linda Haines. Their marriage was kept out of the public eye for nearly 18 months, and when made public, in June 1969, caused a considerable backlash for Jones from fans accusing him of deception. Jones later stated, in Tiger Beat magazine, "I kept my marriage a secret because I believe stars should be allowed a private life." Jones and Haines had two daughters: Talia Elizabeth (born 2 October 1968) and Sarah Lee (born 3 July 1971). The marriage ended in 1975.
Jones married his second wife, Anita Pollinger, on 24 January 1981, and also had two daughters with her: Jessica Lillian (born 4 September 1981) and Annabel Charlotte (born 26 June 1988). They divorced in 1996, during the Monkees’ 30th Anniversary reunion tour. Jones married for a third time, on 30 August 2009, to Jessica Pacheco, a Telemundo television presenter. The two remained married until his death.
In addition to his career as an entertainer, Jones' other first love was horses. Training as a jockey in his teens, Jones later said "I made one huge mistake. When The Monkees finished in 1969–70, I should have got away from Hollywood and got back into the racing game. Instead I waited another 10 years. Everyone makes mistakes in life and for me that was the biggest." He held an amateur rider's licence and rode in his first race at Newbury for trainer Toby Balding.
On 1 February 1996, he won his first race, on Digpast, in the one-mile Ontario Amateur Riders Handicap at Lingfield. Jones also had horse ownership interests in both the U.S. and the U.K., and served as a commercial spokesman for Colonial Downs racetrack in Virginia. In tribute to Jones, Lingfield Park announced that the first two races on the card for 3 March 2012 would be renamed the "Hey Hey We're The Monkees Handicap" and the "In Memory of Davy Jones Selling Stakes" with successful horses in those races accompanied into the Winners' Enclosure by some of The Monkees' biggest hits. Plans were also announced to erect a plaque to commemorate Jones next to a Monkey Puzzle tree on the course.
On the morning of 29 February 2012, Jones was found seated in his car complaining of chest pains and having difficulty breathing. He was rushed to Martin Memorial South Hospital in Stuart, Florida, where he was pronounced dead of a severe heart attack due to atherosclerosis.
The news of Jones' death triggered a surge of Internet traffic, causing sales of The Monkees' music to increase dramatically. In a feature on Inside Edition, host Deborah Norville related that she was once president of a Monkees' fan club. Entertainment Tonight, and NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams also led special[vague] broadcasts. Jones' Monkees bandmates also led tributes throughout the days after his passing. Guitarist Michael Nesmith stated that Jones's "spirit and soul live well in my heart among all the lovely people." In a 8 March interview with Rolling Stone magazine, Nesmith stated "For me, David was The Monkees. They were his band. We were his side men."Bassist Peter Tork said, "Adios to the Manchester Cowboy", and speaking to CNN, drummer/singer Micky Dolenz said, "He was the brother I never had and this leaves a gigantic hole in my heart". Dolenz claimed that he knew something bad was about to happen and said "Can't believe it.. Still in shock.. had bad dreams all night long." Dolenz was gratified by the public affection expressed for both Jones and the Monkees in the wake of his bandmate's death. "He was a very well-known and well-loved character and person. There are a lot of people who are grieving pretty hard. The Monkees obviously had a following, and so did (Jones) on his own. So I'm not surprised, but I was flattered and honored to be considered one of his friends and a cohort in Monkee business."
Monkees co-creator Bob Rafelson commented that Jones "deserves a lot of credit, let me tell you. He may not have lived as long as we wanted him to, but he survived about seven lifetimes, including being perhaps the biggest rock star of his time."
Brady Bunch co-star Maureen McCormick commented that "Davy was a beautiful soul." She says that he "spread love and goodness around the world. He filled our lives with happiness, music, and joy. He will live on in our hearts forever. May he rest in peace."
Yahoo! Music commented that Jones's death "hit so many people so hard" because "Monkees nostalgia cuts across generations: from the people who discovered the band during their original 1960s run; to the kids who came of age watching 1970s reruns; to the twenty- and thirtysomethings who discovered the Monkees when MTV (a network that owes much to the Monkees' influence) began airing old episodes in 1986."
Time magazine contributor James Poniewozik praised the Monkees' classic sitcom, and Jones in particular, saying "even if the show never meant to be more than entertainment and a hit-single generator, we shouldn’t sell The Monkees short. It was far better television than it had to be; during an era of formulaic domestic sitcoms and wacky comedies, it was a stylistically ambitious show, with a distinctive visual style, absurdist sense of humour and unusual story structure. Whatever Jones and The Monkees were meant to be, they became creative artists in their own right, and Jones's chipper Brit-pop presence was a big reason they were able to produce work that was commercial, wholesome and yet impressively weird."
Mediaite columnist Paul Levinson noted that "The Monkees were the first example of something created in a medium – in this case, a rock group on television – that jumped off the screen to have big impact in the real world."
On Wednesday, 7 March 2012, a private funeral service was held at Holy Cross Catholic Church in Indiantown, Florida. The three surviving Monkees did not attend in order to not draw more attention to the grieving family. Instead, the group attend memorial services in New York, as well as organizing their own private memorial in Los Angeles along with with David's family and close friends. There was also a public memorial on 10 March in Beavertown, Pennsylvania near the church Jones had purchased and had intended to renovate.
Date
1965
Label/Catalogue #
Colpix CP-493 (mono) / Colpix SCP-493 (stereo)
Titles
David Jones
Billboard Top Albums
185
Cashbox
–
Notes
(US) Credited as "David Jones"
Date
1967
Label/Catalogue #
Pye NPL 18178 (mono)
Titles
David Jones
Billboard Top Albums
–
Cashbox
–
Notes
(UK) Credited as "David Jones"
Date
June 1971
Label/Catalogue #
Bell 6067
Titles
Davy Jones
Billboard Top Albums
205
Cashbox
–
Date
January 1978
Label/Catalogue #
MCA MCF2826
Titles
The Point
Billboard Top Albums
–
Cashbox
–
Notes
Jones sings most of the songs on this original cast recording of Harry Nilsson's stage performance of "The Point!". Album was initially released in England only, followed by a release in Japan.
Date
June 1981
Label/Catalogue #
Japan JAL-1003
Titles
Davy Jones Live
Billboard Top Albums
–
Cashbox
–
Notes
Released in Japan only.
Date
March 1982
Label/Catalogue #
Pioneer K-10025
Titles
Hello Davy (Davy Jones Live)
Billboard Top Albums
–
Cashbox
–
Notes
Released in Japan only. According to some sources, this is an unauthorised LP release, with the audio having been lifted from the Japanese-released LaserDisc of this concert.
Date
February 1965
Label/Catalogue #
Colpix CP-764
Titles (A-side/B-side)
"Dream Girl" / "Take Me to Paradise"
Billboard Top Albums
–
Cashbox
–
Notes
Credited as "David Jones"
Date
July 1965
Label/Catalogue #
Colpix CP-784
Titles (A-side/B-side)
"What Are We Going To Do?" / "This Bouquet"
Billboard Top Albums
93
Cashbox
94
Notes
Credited as "Mr. David Jones"
Date
1965
Label/Catalogue #
Colpix CP-793
Titles (A-side/B-side)
"The Girl From Chelsea" / "Theme For A New Love"
Billboard Top Albums
–
Cashbox
–
Notes
Credited as "David Jones"
Date
1967
Label/Catalogue #
Pye 7N.17302
Titles (A-side/B-side)
"It Ain't Me Babe" / "Baby It's Me"
Billboard Top Albums
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Cashbox
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Notes
Credited as "Davy Jones"
Date
May 1971
Label/Catalogue #
Bell 986
Titles (A-side/B-side)
"Do It In The Name Of Love" / "Lady Jane"
Billboard Top Albums
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Cashbox
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Notes
By Micky Dolenz and Davy Jones. Released as by "The Monkees" in some countries, this is technically the group's last single during their original run, although by then they had lost the rights to the name.
Date
June 1971
Label/Catalogue #
Bell 45–111
Titles (A-side/B-side)
"Rainy Jane" / "Welcome to My Love"
Billboard Top Albums
52
Cashbox
32
Date
October 1971
Label/Catalogue #
Bell 45–136
Titles (A-side/B-side)
"I Really Love You" / "Sittin' in the Apple Tree"
Billboard Top Albums
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Cashbox
98
Date
November 1971
Label/Catalogue #
Bell 45–159
Titles (A-side/B-side)
"Girl" / "Take My Love"
Billboard Top Albums
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Cashbox
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Notes
A-side featured in The Brady Bunch episode "Getting Davy Jones"
Date
January 1972
Label/Catalogue #
Bell 45–178
Titles (A-side/B-side)
"I'll Believe in You" / "Road to Love"
Billboard Top Albums
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Cashbox
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Date
1972
Label/Catalogue #
MGM K14458
Titles (A-side/B-side)
"You're a Lady" / "Who Was It"
Billboard Top Albums
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Cashbox
–
Date
1973
Label/Catalogue #
MGM K14524
Titles (A-side/B-side)
"Rubberene" / "Rubberene"
Billboard Top Albums
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Cashbox
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Notes
This single was released as a promotional copy only.
Date
May 1978
Label/Catalogue #
Warner Brothers 17161
Titles (A-side/B-side)
"(Hey Ra Ra Ra) Happy Birthday Mickey Mouse" / "You Don't Have to Be a Country Boy to Sing a Country Song"
Billboard Top Albums
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Cashbox
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Notes
Issued in England only to commemorate Mickey Mouse's 50th Birthday
Date
May 1981
Label/Catalogue #
Japan JAS-2007
Titles (A-side/B-side)
"It's Now" / "How Do You Know"
Billboard Top Albums
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Cashbox
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Notes
Released in Japan only.
Date
June 1981
Label/Catalogue #
Japan JAS-2010
Titles (A-side/B-side)
"Dance Gypsy" / "Can She Do It (Like She Dances)"
Billboard Top Albums
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Cashbox
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Notes
Released in Japan only (on 25 June 1981). "Dance Gypsy" (a.k.a. "Dance Gypsy Dance") written by Reiko Yukawa.
Date
March 1982
Label/Catalogue #
Pioneer K-1517
Titles (A-side/B-side)
"Sixteen (Baby, You'll Soon Be Sixteen)" / "Baby, Hold Out"
Billboard Top Albums
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Cashbox
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Notes
Released in Japan only.
Date
December 1984
Label/Catalogue #
(no label) JJ2001
Titles (A-side/B-side)
"I'll Love You Forever" / "When I Look Back on Christmas"
Billboard Top Albums
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Cashbox
–
Notes
Released in England only.
Date
1987
Label/Catalogue #
Powderworks 374
Titles (A-side/B-side)
"After Your Heart" / "Hippy Hippy Shake"
Billboard Top Albums
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Cashbox
–
Notes
Released in Australia only. Recorded in 1981.
They Made a Monkee Out of Me, autobiography (print book) by Davy Jones, Dome PR, 1987, ISBN-13: 978-0961861407.
They Made a Monkee Out of Me: Davy Jones Reads His Autobiography, (audiobook), Dove Entertainment Inc (November 1988).