The Hidden Clues Behind A Pop Phenomenon's Early Death: The Monkees' Davy Jones | Our History

breaking news right now from Florida Davey Jones, the lead singer of the 1960s band The Monkeys, has died, aged just 66. Davey Jones was the frontman and heartthrob of the 1960s, made for television pop band

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, The Monkeys, he was the biggest teenager. Idol on the planet, the intensity and level of appreciation was frenetic, the kids were outside the hotel, uh, I had that little monkey after the initial separation from the monkey. Davey pursued a solo career, he loved acting, he loved it, it was him. He was a natural, but his energetic and enigmatic performances masked

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pressures.

What I heard was that Dave had a drinking problem. He knew there was unhappiness in his personal life. The tabloids published with Davey Jones. The autopsy of Cheech and Chong level pot smoker Davey Jones. lists the cause of his

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as ventricular fibrillation, the deadliest form of cardiac arrhythmia that prevents blood from being pumped through the body, but this erratic heart rhythm does not occur on its own, so what could have caused such a failure review, what is particularly intriguing is that there seemed to be no warning signs or

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of poor health. Instead, Davey appeared to be an active and fit 66-year-old man, so I need to unlock the mystery of what was happening inside Davey Jones' body to discover the real cause of his unexpected

death

. -Renowned medical examiner and forensic pathologist Dr.

Michael Hunter has performed thousands of autopsies in close collaboration with authorities and other forensic specialists. His pivotal role in investigating suspicious cases has revealed the truth behind mysterious deaths for more than 20 years. These are documents from the medical examiner who conducted the autopsy on Davey Jones along with other information I have found and firsthand accounts. I am going to examine Davey's life in forensic detail to establish what killed this artist so tragically suddenly. May 12, 2011 Echo Arena Liverpool England Nine months before his death, Davey, 65, is preparing to begin an international reunion tour with the Monkeys. It was their 45th anniversary tour and it was the first tour that Davey had artistic control over, so it was very unique in the late '60s.

The Monkeys were one of the most successful pop groups in the world with number one hits, including Daydream Believer and Last Train to Clarksville. Now, 45 years later, they are still packing Arenas and lead singer Davey, once one of the biggest Teen Idols in the world leads the band. Throughout a hit-packed two-hour show, Davies always stayed pretty fit and always looked great. Debbie continued to perform because she, I mean, first of all, she loved it, she could see the joy that she was bringing to people. This guy knew how to work a crowd having been Married twice before and a father of four, Davey is now married to his third wife, Jessica, 34, who joins him on stage.

Jessica is a very striking young woman and Davey entered into what they call a May-December type relationship in which he was considerably older than Jessica. She was an actress and dancer, Davey appeared on a show she was on and was instantly captivated and that's how they met Jessica, she performed with us on a lot of shows, they had a lot of dance choreography together, little skits and things they did. Looking at footage from the monkey tour, Davey is cl

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full of energy and physically capable, but at 65 there are signs that he is getting older, his graying hair indicates that the production of melanin, the cells responsible for color, is slowing down. slowing down and his autopsy shows that he has bilateral disease.

Arcus sinalis which is a discoloration around the eye that also occurs with age, as we age our blood vessels become less flexible making it difficult for blood to move easily through them so I can't ignore Davey's age when considering the cause of death. Manchester, England, 30 December 1945, to Harry and Doris Jones, a railway worker and housewife. Davey was the youngest of four children who lived in a small terraced house. The rooms were only 12x8, two upstairs, two downstairs. I slept in a room with my three. my sisters and my mom and dad were in the other room, bathroom in the backyard, there was no bathroom, we washed in the sink.

Davey loved to entertain and his mother discovered his natural talents when he was performing on the local stage, she saw me in the school play and she saw me in the Christmas Nativity church and I remember she said to my father, you know what David wants to do this, he wants to be, you know, an actor and he wants to, he will, but when Davey was just 14, his special bond with his mother was shattered when she died after a long battle with emphysema. The tragedy of his life is that he lost his mother at a very young age and Davey basically had the fight himself.

He's a little boy, so he had to be bellicose when my mother passed away. far away my dad said son, I never want to see you in a monkey. I told him, but dad, you know you've worn a jumpsuit your whole life, he says so you don't have to wear them, encouraged by his father's acting skills. Davy saw him chosen. the famous English soap opera Coronation Street in the year after his mother's death, hello, grandmother, the smallest place it was and yet I delivered the dialogue that was my first experience in professional showbiz. Leslie Morgan is only eight and doesn't have to kiss his Grandma doubted acting could provide a living when Davey was 15 and just under five feet tall.

His father helped him get job training to be a jockey. He developed a love for horses that lasted literally to the end of his life. but Davey's natural Persona was recognized by an influential horse owner and that led to him landing the role of The Artful Dodger in the musical Oliver, first in London and then in New York. The Artful Dodger was doing was talking different, man, you know, he was nominated for a Tony Award and got his own fan club and really was a rising star, but it was his next television role that catapulted Davey to stardom.

What a beggar, I don't understand. Okay, let me ask you something. I mean, like you. make a folk or rock sound or something like that. I make a terrible sound, but at 19, Davey was the first of four young people cast in The Monkeys, a wacky TV show about the life of a struggling pop band. The Monkeys were an instant hit Peter has a thin and hungry look yes and I'm afraid he's sinking we must operate immediately here were these four guys sweetened milk 90 cc of Kellogg's Rice Krispies I think the patient is responding to the Rice Krispies doctor they all had his favorite monkey but Davey was popular, much more than the other guys, he's banned from the planet.

All albums went to number one for 31 weeks in a row. The monkey albums kept the Beatles and the Rolling Stones out of the number one spot, but although they sang on their records, the ban wasn't real and the boys didn't actually play their music, we became a band over the course of the year. filming and then they said, well, would you guys want to go on tour? I said, do we want to go on the tour? way, yeah, that's good, don't you think? Mike Nesmith actually had a big blind, he said it was like Pinocchio turning into a real boy, taking the band on the road started an international monkey mania no one could have predicted the girl's screams, that was incomprehensible .

To me, he was completely baffled here, especially as a drummer. I couldn't hear anything except screams and the sound coming from the back wall. It was brutal at its peak in 1967, the monkeys sold more than the Beatles and the Rolling Stones combined and over the years they have recorded. with record sales exceeding 75 million Davy Jones died of ventricular fibrillation, a dangerous form of cardiac arrhythmia, but I need to understand what caused this. Looking at the autopsy report, I see that Davey had serial fractures of the left and right anterior lateral ribs. I wonder if Davey had some kind of accident that could have impacted his heart in the spring of 2011 in Indiantown, Florida, when at home Davey works long days cleaning the stable of his 14 retired racehorses to say that he had a habit of talking of the horses as if they were close. relatives of his, he wasn't an orgy guy, he was the Manchester cowboy ever since he bought a stable in the UK in the 1980s.

Davey has always owned and ridden horses and may have been slowly fading away, but now is flying as they come in 1996. Davey even achieved his ultimate goal of winning a race and Dick's past will hold up well for David Jones. Horseback riding can be a great way to stay in shape. Fractured foam ribs are a common injury and an uneven bone could damage major blood vessels. and causing blood clots and a subsequent heart attack when he exercised his horses, it wasn't just a casual stroll around the ring like he said, it was knees to the chin and letting it go, honey, he ran, but I can't find evidence that Davey he ever had any significant monitoring of his horses and it is clear from the autopsy that his fractures are the result of the paramedic team's attempts to resuscitate him in order to remove these fractures as they have some influence on Davies' cardiac arrhythmia.

Heart disease is responsible for n

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25 percent of deaths in the United States, many of which could have been prevented with simple lifestyle changes, a pop star's unhealthy life on tour has been the cause. of Davies' tragic untimely death. I need to examine the forensic details for

clues

. The CT report checks Davy's blood. and urine to detect the existence of legal or illegal drugs. I have learned from accounts from the 1960s that to keep his energy up during his time with the monkeys, Davey was given amphetamines. Could this have started a lifelong habit? The monkeys television series initially.

It aired for only two years, but in that time the boys recorded 58 episodes and more than 100 songs. We went into the studio at 7:30 to put on makeup. We started filming at eight. We had an 11-hour shooting day. We were leaving the television studio. The sound stage. grab a burger on our way to RCA Victor where we were recording, so we'd say start an episode on Monday and finish on Wednesday. On Thursday we would start another episode, two days on the weekend, come back, finish that episode on Monday, it would continue like that. 26 episodes Davey used to say he could only sleep four hours a night because they had to film commercials they had to do autograph sessions they did concerts Davey started having to use stimulants and depressants to get up and down we asked them if they took drugs drink coffee, that's the worst drug i think xlax does to me in the 1960s, amphetamines, also known as speed or stimulants, were often used to combat tiredness, speed temporarily speeds up the heart rate and increases adrenaline, it is a dangerous drug that has a high potential for abuse and addiction now Davey ended up in a couple of fights and had fights with all the monkeys.

Did you wonder how much amphetamine use had to do with it? Despite Davey's claims of using amphetamines in the '60s, I can find no reports about him. He abused the drug in later years and the toxicology report is negative for amphetamines, so I can rule out any influence on his death, but there is a positive reading for cannabinoids. Cannabinoids are any of the naturally occurring biologically active chemical components of marijuana. Cannabinoids can remain in urine for up to four weeks, suggesting that at some point towards the end of his life, Davey Jones was smoking marijuana after Davey's death, the tabloids were looking for some kind of thing to exploit, so who exploited the fact that there was cannabis. in his system that he had smoked a joint.

I think it's fair to say that Davey had enjoyed cannabis over the years and I think Davey was a part-time marijuana smoker. Kind of funny because he was such a clean God that they were looking for something and they found out that cannabis is a big deal. Marijuana is often thought of as a relaxant, but marijuana smoke contains many of the same toxins, irritants, and carcinogens found in cigarette smoke. It is also known to increase heart rate, forcing the heart to work harder and faster to pump blood. around the body, this puts pressure on the arteries, increasing the chances of a heart attack, so I can't ignore that it could have something to do with Davey's death.

There was a tremendous amount of stress and drama in the last year of Davy's life, mainly having to do with his marriage to Jessica Pacheco, but in 2009 it was a very different story when the couple married for the first time, he was in love. I'll tell you that he was crazy about her, he thought that sheShe was beautiful and he was in fabulous shape, actually he was. Surprised that he was so fit, it seemed that Davy's young third wife had given him a new lease of life, but within months there were reports in the press of trouble.

It is alleged that Jessica hit Davey when she was hungry and it is also alleged that there was a lot of drinking and yelling, things at home got worse for Davey and I think he would have eventually freed himself from the situation but it wasn't quite there yet. May 25, 2011 Nottingham England Nine months before Davey's death, the stress in their relationship comes to a head on the final night of the UK leg of the Monkey Anniversary Tour. Jessica showed up and did a dance that was artistically a little out of character for someone to suddenly come on stage. and a dance that never happened in any monkey show, ever part of the monkey fantasy is that these are guys who live in a beach house in Malibu and then when you see this amazing young woman walk on stage, that it just doesn't work.

Linda McCartney in Wings was really needed and she could really sing No, but did her husband really want her there? Yes Jessica's late-night appearance on stage is seen as an intrusion by the other monkeys and she is told she cannot perform on the American leg of The Show, while this didn't sit well with Jessica, suddenly she wasn't on the stage. act, so he left the co-op and returned to Florida, leaving Davey quite, you know, distraught and sad, now you've got the makings of trouble right now, although outwardly he's projecting this to mean that he's fine internally. , this would have caused you to feel conflicted, you know you have two very important entities, you have your career and then you know your home life.

He loved her and you have to wonder how the internalization of all that stress would have affected him later. The impact of persistent stress on Davie's life cannot be underestimated when it comes to understanding why she died. Stress can expose the body to elevated levels of stress hormones. Like adrenaline and cortisol, which have been directly linked to increased blood cholesterol levels, excess cholesterol can build up on artery walls, narrowing the arteries and restricting blood flow to the heart. If stress raised Davey's cholesterol levels, then perhaps it exacerbated the problem. Eating an unhealthy diet according to the autopsy, I see that Davey was five feet four inches tall and weighed 155 pounds, making him medically overweight.

Touring could lead to an unhealthy lifestyle if you're not disciplined, and as far as Davey was concerned, I was. practically a health fanatic, he was a vegetarian, a pescetarian, he ate fish, he liked to eat, you know, salads and vegetables, and it wasn't pizza, hamburgers and hot dogs, you know? I think he was always conscious of his health, he ran on the beach every day. Tomorrow he was preparing for a good and long life, according to his friends, Davey was very conscious of eating a healthy diet, so it is unlikely that it affected his cholesterol levels.

Any extra weight he carried could be attributed to his age as he gets easier. You accumulate fat around your stomach once you hit 60. Davey Jones died from a catastrophic heart arrhythmia called ventricular fibrillation that stopped blood flow around his body. There are many different causes of cardiac arrhythmia and I am investigating all aspects of Davey's life. To find out why he died so far, I have learned that despite his upbeat performances on stage, Davey was suffering stress from his marriage and within the band. I also know that in the weeks before he died, Davey smoked marijuana.

Both could affect his health. and exacerbate any existing heart problems he may have had and found evidence that Davey may have known he had heart problems the year before his death July 23, 2011 Milwaukee Wisconsin seven months before Davey's death It's the last night of the two... The month-long international tour artistically was probably the best theatrical performance of the monkey's career and Davey was in control of directing the show he stars in, so I think it took a tremendous physical toll, from what I understand, of some members of the other band. The members saw him out of breath and expressed concern, but he ignored it and said, don't worry about me, friend.

Davey was always charismatic, charming and funny, if he had any symptoms that would lead to his heart attack, I mean, I would do it. I didn't know that if something was going on, he would just roll a barrel, you know, nothing would let the show falter. Shortness of breath can be caused by many things, including overexertion and emotional stress, both of which we know were affecting Davey and also indicate that the heart is failing and becoming less efficient at pumping blood around the body. According to reports, despite warnings Davey was not worried about his heart's time he discovered a detail in the medical examiner's report that could explain why the spring of 2011 in Hialeah, Florida, just weeks before the start of The Monkey's Tour Davey visited a cardiologist to make sure he was healthy enough to do it.

Cardiologists will monitor blood pressure and perform a stress test designed to detect whether his heart is receiving enough blood during exercise. Positive stress tests would indicate problems with the coronary arteries such as narrowing or blockage. Davey was told he had the heart of a 25-year-old and I guess any man who is getting older and hears that he has the heart of a 25-year-old years he is not going to take any precautions with his life. Davey is negative. The stress test told him that 10 months before his death his blood was pumping around his heart without problems, but unfortunately it is not unusual for someone to have a negative stress test and then have a major cardiovascular event because the stress test only detects issues. in coronary arteries that are severely narrowed by 70 or more by a disease called atherosclerosis.

Atherosclerosis is caused by a slow buildup over years of blood waste products, including fats, calcium, and cholesterol, which form plaque hardening inside the arteries in Davies' autopsy there. There are clear indications that he suffered from atherosclerosis, but at the time of the stress test the plaque buildup did not evidently restrict the blood supply to his heart. Did something happen in the last year of Davy's life that could have caused a catastrophic blockage of his heart? arteries July 28, 2011. Hollywood Florida seven months before Davey's death Davey arrives home from the monkey tour and learns that his third wife, Jessica, is filing for divorce.

I think he got embarrassed that another marriage of his was failing once he realized it wasn't going to get better and I think that's when he went into the bottle a little bit. JV was a recreational drinker. He loved going to the pub for a pint. It was part of his lifestyle. Davey had a policy of no drinking on a show day. Okay, but after the show you could have a drink. He loved Guinness and loved having a glass of wine. If Davey was drinking a couple of alcoholic drinks after his performances, it may have caused a temporary increase in his heart rate and blood pressure, which should not have had a major impact on his heart health, but upon reviewing the stories of his life there is evidence of alcohol abuse that he committed.

Rockstar's Behavior He probably drank too much and did some things that his peers would also do. December 11, 2009 Just four months after his marriage to Jessica, an excessively drunk Davey Jones challenged the entire crowd in a bar to a fight. There was a press report. He got into a fight in a bar. He didn't really swing or hit, you know, he hit anyone, but he was threatening to take. all over the bar and they had to kick him out, so there were warning signs that psychologically he was having a very difficult time. There's research to suggest that drinking too much can be worse for you than drinking a little consistently, so it seemed that way.

This kind of All or Nothing was the way he approached drinking and that would have had an impact on him; Certainly, if Davey had been drinking alcohol excessively for a prolonged period, it would have caused him a steadily increased heart rate and high blood. High blood pressure causes blood to pump harder than normal through the arteries, as Davey's arteries were narrowing due to atherosclerotic plaque buildup. Any additional pressure caused by drinking alcohol could have created a fatal blockage. Sin is difficult for arrhythmia, but if you look at the toxicology report I see that when he died, Davey had no alcohol in his blood, suggesting that alcohol abuse did not play a direct role in his death.

October 2011, Hollywood, Florida, four months before Davey's death, he and Jessica reconciled and their relationship appears to have reconciled. They calmed down, basically reunited after that and gave the marriage one more chance. He's an artist, right? He's someone whose job it is to imbue happiness and joy, and I think he takes this personally and puts it into pieces. of his life that you know are not on stage and that's why we see him not only avoiding conflict but actively going out to make sure that you know that there is peace around him. It's the last day of 2011. and Davey is on TV. in San Diego promoting their New Year's Eve performance at 46 concerts last year and we were at Rollout Hall and we were talking earlier and we went to the, you know, we ended up at the Greek Theater and it was very successful and it's something that you may know will continue this summer once again, but in less than two months Davey Jones will be dead.

I now know that 10 months before his death Davey Jones was told that he had a healthy heart, although his autopsy revealed that he needed to strengthen it. a plaque in his arteries called atherosclerosis, if this plaque continued to build up, Davy's arteries would have narrowed so much that his blood would have difficulty pumping to the heart muscle, causing chest pains and difficulty breathing, so did the fact that Davy's heart had been given the all-clear. in a stress test means he misunderstood his own body's warnings February 18, 2012 New York Eleven days before Davey's death he is with his solo band performing to a packed audience at the BB King Blues Club the atmosphere of the Davey's BB King show was uh electric, it was like always it was a full house David came out full of energy, he never stopped moving and I had a hard time keeping him in my viewfinder and what caught my attention about that show was the level of stories comics and jokes he had. going on and on now that Justin Bieber was 66 at the time, but you would never have known it, he was the same old Davey, he seemed strong.

I wish I could say I saw something in him and thought, wow! He wasn't doing well, you know what I mean, but no, he was fine, but not everyone thought that in the crowd Joe Russo noticed that things weren't quite right when he came out for his Encore, he came out and sat on a stool. which was something he had never seen before, uh, the second thing was that he didn't come out to greet the fans after the show, which is a standard, something he always did. Davey loved his fans, he was extremely grateful and he knew it.

They were the people who gave him his fame and made him who he was, he gave back a lot, we would spend the extra hour and a half after a show signing everyone's merchandise or shirts and buttons and everything listening to the reports from that night. People said that Davey was struggling to catch his breath, it could be that he simply overexerted himself, but this could also have been a warning that his heart muscle was malfunctioning as it would have directly affected blood flow through his lungs. February 29, 2012 Indian Town Florida It's early tomorrow and Davey is coming back from horseback riding, he had gone for a ride around the track on one of his horses and wasn't feeling well for days.

Davey has been suffering from what he believes is indigestion and heartburn. The medical report indicates that Davey took heartburn medication for several days before his heart attack. Heartburn is a condition in which excess acid from the stomach returns to the esophagus. The esophagus has no protection against acid so it literally burns the lining giving a painful sensation around the chest area. The symptoms of heartburn and a heart attack can be very similar thinking that Davey has heartburn the stable owner's wife brings him some antacid tablets they gave him some medicine some water so you know how to relieve his heartburn but When the chest pains do not go away Davey decides to return home he went to his car and tried to recover, but instead he was injured and was discovered by a ranch hand. 805 am Davey has lost theknowledge and a call is made to 9-1-1.

Ambulance, please hurry, there is no chance. 8 15 am Paramedics arrive at the scene and find no pulse. The team immediately begins working on Davey giving him oxygen and CPR. The paramedics are able to create an artificial circulation in an attempt to keep Davey's organs alive in the ambulance. A defibrillator is used to try to restart Davey's heart. 30 a.m. Martin Memorial South Hospital Stuart Florida Davey is handed over to the team in the emergency room I can see what the emergency medical team did to try to save Davey the endotracheal tube through which they provided oxygen the EKG pads to monitor activity electric shock in his heart, broken ribs, a sign of the efforts to keep his blood pumping, they were trying their best to say it ten minutes later, at 9:23 in the morning of February 29, 2012.

Davey Jones is declared dead, today's sad news about death. by Davey Jones was a huge reminder of mortality for an entire American generation it was just horrible I barely could really comprehend it oh god it was devastating I was devastated I mean he was 66 I mean he was in great shape you know he looked Great, the fact That he passed away was totally unexpected, yeah, it's strange, you know, it's like it's still a little hard to believe. The strange cause of death was ventricular fibrillation, the ventricles, which are the pumping chambers in his heart. He spasmed instead of pumping blood, this would have caused his blood pressure to plummet and cut off the blood supply to his major organs.

So far I have identified marijuana stress and atherosclerosis as potential factors causing his heart to malfunction, but they are

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in his autopsy. found another clue that could reveal the real reason why a catastrophic cardiac arrhythmia killed Davey Jones. There is significant damage to Davey's left ventricle, which is the thickest chamber of the heart and is responsible for pumping oxygenated blood to tissues throughout the body, the medical examiner found. Occasional minimal foci of primary fibrosis and also minimal myocardial fibrosis, meaning that the heart muscle and muscle tissue have died and been replaced by scar tissue. This is a sign of cardiac ischemia, a condition in which blood flow to the heart muscle is restricted when the arteries narrow.

The part of the heart where blood does not reach begins to die as scar tissue forms. Very significantly, unbeknownst to Davey, atherosclerotic plaque was building up in his arteries and his heart was, in fact, slowly dying, putting him in danger of collapsing due to cardiac arrest at any time. Cardiac ischemia often causes chest pain or discomfort known as angina. After his stress tests, Davey believed his heart was in good shape and I know he took antacid medication, so it seems likely that he understood chest pains as symptoms. of indigestion and heartburn. The extent of the damage observed in Davey's heart by Dr.

Hunter could suggest that Davey was masking the intensity of the pain he was suffering towards the end of his life. I think for Davey there was something about everyone always seeing him as a young man, you know, a fun, energetic guy that was almost incongruous with someone who was very sick, he comes from school. He never let them see you sweat and The Show Must Go On and he never liked to expose his vulnerabilities. He would never have said "I'm getting older", it's getting harder if he was dealing with some kind of chest pain or indigestion.

I wasn't aware of the fact and I think that's part of being a great performer, is not letting those things get to you so that you can be one hundred percent if you love being on stage, he just loved it, he lived for it, He was always exuberant and Number one was his smile Davey was the Eternal teenager, how could this guy die? And Dr. Hunter believes there could be one final factor in Davey Jones' untimely death and it's something Davey couldn't prevent. In recent medical research, I have found that for every two and a half inches below the average male height of 5 feet 10 inches, there is a 13.5 percent increased risk of heart diseases such as atherosclerosis, so just by At five feet four inches, Davey's height could have been another factor that could have played a role after examining all the evidence.

Dr Michael Hunter can now reveal how much-loved 60s idol Davey Jones died. Examining the microscope, I see that Davey's right coronary artery, which is responsible for pumping oxygen-rich blood to the heart, had almost complete occlusion of the lumen, indicating that plaque buildup due to atherosclerosis was so severe. that Davy's coronary artery was almost completely blocked, so when he got off his horse that day his blood was pumping strongly but could not flow to Davey's heart and caused such tissue damage that he had a myocardial infarction. o heart attack The heart attack triggered ventricular fibrillation which prevented blood from being pumped to Davey's other major organs and caused him to go into cardiac arrest when his blood pressure dropped.

Davey's brain ran out of oxygen and he lost consciousness, although the resuscitation team tried to save him. It was too late when the oxygen levels in his blood plummeted, he would have experienced catastrophic organ failure and, ultimately, that coroner's death. I'm afraid this is a classic presentation and warning from an elderly but healthy man who is unaware of warnings. that his body was sending if Davey had been able to recognize what his body was trying to tell him before his heart attack, medical intervention could have played its part and he could possibly still be here today.

I think it's better to say it like David used to say. It reminds me of the way you hoped it would be. That guy in the overalls, part of me wants to say Davey would want to be remembered as Horseman. I think that was his greatest love. Music is a fact. He really really. He was the number one Teen Idol of all time and that's something because that brings a lot of joy to people's lives and that's what Davey excelled at, bringing joy. He had never had a brother. He was the closest thing to a brother I've ever had, but. but he was so funny and he was such a lovely guy and he would kill for you, he would take the shirt off his back.

I'm going to miss him very much, thank you, thank you.