Davy Jones Funeral: Surviving Monkees can not participate

Public memorials planned for the end of Davy Jones might be where the surviving members of the Monkees express their farewell their colleague.

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Kensick spokeswoman Helen Jones said the family plans a private funeral in Florida, where he died on 29 February, and The Monkees Micky Dolenz It tells Billboard.com that he, Peter Tork, and / or Mike Nesmith to attend the ceremony may be contrary to their wishes for "low-key funeral."

"My understanding is that they want to avoid a media circus and ... family wants to keep it very, very low-key and very, very private," Dolenz said. "I can not imagine how just one, two or any of us were to show up, it very quickly deteriorate into something that I do not think his immediate family will want to deal with. So I'm kind of looking forward to their will, regardless their wishes might be. "

Kensick also said that it would be a public monuments in New York and Britain, which Dolenz Monkees hope to bring the survivors together. "Apparently he had fans and family and colleagues on both (U.S.) coast, and two continents," notes Dolenz. "It's very early days, you know, to make too many plans. I am still in shock." No date has been announced yet for public events, and the Jones family asks for donations to be made to the National Multiple Sclerosis Society.

Jones, Dolenz and Tork toured in 2011 to commemorate the 45 anniversary of The Monkees. The whole group last played together in 1997 in the UK to promote the "Justus" album Reunion.

Dolenz, who was in New York doing a workshop for the musical "Company Garage" when Jones died, says he is pleased but not surprised by the outpouring of his colleague - and for the Monkees after the move Jones. "It means that he was very famous and well-loved character and person," says Dolenz, who closed the initial phase of the Monkees with Jones in 1971, recording the final group album, 1970 "Changes" as a duet. The two also recorded and toured with the Monkees producers Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart in the mid 70s. "There are many people who are grieving pretty hard. Monkees, of course, had the following ... and so did (Jones) on his own. So I'm not surprised, but I was flattered and honored to be recognized as one of his friends and cohort Monkee Business . It's like losing a brother. "

Says Dolenz, Tork and Nesmith said since Jones died, and all are "yes, like, in shock. Peter went through a major cancer scare not too long ago ... and I was like," Oh no, I can not believe it. "He survived now ... and we all have our little weaknesses, but Davy was the youngest and had a pretty healthy lifestyle and it was ... the last I thought I would be first. "A Dolenz added, any future work by him, Tork and Nesmith as Monkees is "a huge if."

"We had a kind of unspoken, I believe, an agreement over the years that if you are just two of us together never called the Monkees' Dolenz explains. "And we must remember that four of us and do not and never had the right to Monkees, we can not use the name without the permission of anyone Monkeys is happening is right at the moment a lot. People do not realize that. See us together to do memorial concert, of course, but now I can not imagine anything else happens for a Cowboy Manchester. "