The Monkees' Front Man
Keith Altham, NME, 25 February 1967
DAVY JONES the little Monkee with a big heart arrived via Nassau last week wearing a battered black top hat, purchased from a hotel doorman, and accompanied by his friend Stephen Pearl, who was once a journalist and is now a karate expert "for the use of!"
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