Davy Jones News
A Winner!
T.E. Jones, Davy's prized thoroughbred horse, named for his daughter Talia, came in First Place at Gulfstream Park on Sunday, April 18th 2004. Davy and the band were performing in Orlando at the EPCOT Flower Power Festival when they received the news. Davy had every confidence that T.E. would triumph and she did not disappoint! T.E. Jones was jockeyed by Hernan Parra.
Update on Talia's Marathon Talia finished the Marathon in 4 hours and 32 minutes! The race was in Hawaii, and Davy surprised Talia by traveling to Hawaii to watch her compete! Talia was thrilled to have her Dad on hand, and gave Davy her finisher's medal from the race! Thanks to everyone who helped sponsor Talia by sending in a contribution to the National Aids Marathon. |
Coronation Street NewsFor Davy's British Fans!
On Tuesday November 30, ITV1 is taking a look back at some of them in The Kids From Coronation Street. The line-up, believe it or not, even includes Davy Jones of The Monkees, who kicked off his TV career on the show. Coronation Street is one of the longest running continuing drama series in the world. Started in 1960 and set in the Manchester borough of Weatherfield the show depicts incidents in the lives of the people living in the terraced Coronation Street of the title. One of these characters -- Ken Barlow -- has been in the show since episode one. Amazing to think that the show was just supposed to run for 13 episodes and was to have been called Florizel Street. The early years of the show followed the kitchen sink school of realism then current in UK TV and Cinema with the show dominated by the feisty Elsie Tanner and the hairnet wearing battle axe Ena Sharples. The focal point of the show has always been the Rovers Return the pub on the corner of Coronation Street and in the shows early years there was a snug bar where Ena and her two friends Martha Longhurst and Minnie Caldwell would hold court. Early editions of the show were even broadcast live. Arthur Lowe now most famous for playing Captain Mainwaring in Dad's Army was also a regular in the sixties playing shop owner Leonard Swindley. Other key characters from the sixties and seventies were Len Fairclough (tough builder who later married nightclub singer and paper shop owner Rita), Hilda and her layabout husband Stan Ogden, Jerry Booth, second longest running character Emily Bishop, pub landlady Annie Walker and her put upon husband Jack along with Albert Tatlock (Ken Barlow's uncle). The seventies and early eighties also saw the introduction of characters who are still in the show today including Mike Baldwin, Jack and Vera Duckworth, Deidre Langton-Barlow-Rashid and Curly Watts. The show has had guest appearances from practically every well known UK actor at some stage (with most appearing in small roles before they became famous (Martin Shaw, Gorden Kaye, Joanne Whalley, Prunella Scales, Richard Beckinsale, Davy Jones, Ben Kingsley and Joanna Lumley to name just a few). Amazingly the show has stayed at the top of the ratings in the UK throughout its history and though thousands of actors have come and gone the shows storylines have basically stayed the same (Ordinary people doing ordinary things). There have been over fifty weddings in Coronation Street over the years (quite a few of them it has to be said involving Ken Barlow and Mike Barlow). On Friday 8 December 2000 the programme celebrated its 40th anniversary by broadcasting a special hour-long live edition.
VIOLET CARSON as Ena Sharples / DORIS SPEED as Annie Walker / PAT PHEONIX. as Elsie Tanner / WILLIAM ROACHE as Ken Barlow / LYNNE CAROL as Martha Longhurst / MARGOT BRYANT as Minnie Caldwell / JACK HAWORTH as Albert Tatlock / EILEEN DERBYSHIRE as Emily Nugent/Bishop / PETER ADAMSON as Len Fairclough / JEAN ALEXANDER as Hilda Ogden / BERNARD YOUENS as Stan Ogden / NEVILLE BUSWELL as Ray Langton / BRYAN MOSELY as Alf Roberts / BETTY DRIVER as Betty Turpin / JULIE GOODYEAR as Bet Lynch / BARBARA KNOX as Rita Fairclough/Sullivan / THELMA BARLOW as Mavis Riley/Wilton / ANNE KIRKBRIDE as Deidre Langton/Raschid / GEOFFREY HUGHES as Eddie Yeats / HELEN WORTH as Gail Tilsley/Platt / JOHNNY BRIGGS as Mike Baldwin / LYNNE PERRIE as Ivy Tilsley / SUE NICHOLLS as Audrey Roberts / LIZ DAWN as Vera Duckworth / BILL TARMEY as Jack Duckworth / SARAH LANCASHIRE as Racquel Wolstenholme/Watts / KEVIN KENNEDY as Curly Watts / AMANDA BARRIE as Alma Baldwin / ROY BARRACLOUGH as Alec Gilroy / PHILIP MIDDLEMISS as Des Barnes / CHARLIE LAWSON as Jim McDonald / BEVERLY CALLARD as Liz McDonald / DENISE WELCH as Natalie Barnes / VICKY ENTWHISTLE as Janice Battersby / BRUCE JONES as Les Battersby / JANE DANSON as Leanne Battersby/Tilsley / GEORGIA TAYLOR as Toyah Battersby / JULIE HESMONDHALGH as Hayley Cropper / DAVID NEILSON as Roy Cropper / JOHN SAVIDENT as Fred Elliott / SEAN WILSON as Martin Platt / TRACY SHAW as Maxine Heavy-Peacock / TRACIE BENNETT as Sharon Gaskell / MICHAEL LE VELL as Kevin Webster / SALLY WHITTAKER as Sally Webster / IAN MERCER as Gary Mallett / GAYNOR FAYE as Judy Mallett / SIMON GREGSON as Steve McDonald / STEVEN ARNOLD as Ashley Peacock / KEN MORLEY as Reg Holdsworth.
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