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Boy Meets World’s Slasher Episode Was Scarier Than it Had Any Right To Be

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Blood-curdling screams. Taunting phone calls from a psycho killer. Creepy, ominous music with lyrics like “Here’s a knife. Here’s a gun. There’ll be fun for everyone. Death is on the menu tonight!” Elements of a forgotten ‘90s slasher classic? Nope. Just some highlights from the most memorable episode of ABC’s family sitcom Boy Meets World.

With the launch of Disney+ and ample time to get nostalgic and revisit old movies and TV shows due to the pandemic, many older millennials are diving back into Boy Meets World, which ran for seven seasons from 1993 through 2000 as a staple of ABC’s TGIF lineup. The show centered on Philadelphia teenager Cory Matthews (Ben Savage) navigating life with his best friend Shawn Hunter (Rider Strong), his love interest Topanga Lawrence (Danielle Fishel), and brother Eric (Will Friedle), while perpetually receiving life lessons from longtime teacher and eventual principal Mr. Feeny (William Daniels).

Boy Meets World had no shortage of standout moments and episodes, like WWE wrestler Vader appearing as the father of a misunderstood school bully, a young Linda Cardellini being the girl who almost destroyed the Cory and Topanga love story for good, and Peter Tork (who briefly played Topanga’s father), Micky Dolenz, and Davy Jones staging an impromptu Monkees reunion. And who could forget when Ben Savage’s famous brother Fred guest starred as a creepy college professor and was shoved through a glass door?

But perhaps no other Boy Meets World episode made a bigger impact to impressionable young minds than the fifth season highlight “And Then There Was Shawn,” a format-breaking homage to the popular slasher films of the moment, like Scream and I Know What You Did Last Summer (the latter of which hit theaters just four months earlier). Serving as a metaphor for the fear and uncertainty Shawn feels over the recent breakup of Cory and Topanga, the episode is a mini-horror movie that operates in dream logic and features shocking cast deaths, zeitgeisty jokes, and a big ‘90s teen idol cameo. Many young fans were genuinely frightened by the scares conjured up in the episode, while older fans loved the campy, winking references and the change of pace storytelling.

“And Then There Was Shawn” writer Jeff Menell was typically happy to do what was asked of him on the series, but he jumped at the chance to write a horror-influenced episode. “I’m a diehard movie fan. I have been my entire life. But as a writer on set, I just did whatever I was told,” Menell said in a phone interview with Den of Geek. “I never went after anything. But I begged to write this one because I just knew I could do it.”

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The episode finds the high school-aged cast members serving detention with Mr. Feeny after a fight, springing from Cory and Topanga’s recent breakup, disrupts the class. Things quickly take a turn when the kids see a message in blood written on the chalkboard that reads “No One Gets Out Alive!” and hear a discomforting jingle with menacing lyrics playing over the high school’s PA system. Initially, the kids believe that Mr. Feeny is playing a prank on them, but things take a turn for the serious — and scary – when classmate Kenny is murdered in the dark by the masked killer wielding a pencil (prompting a very timely “You Killed Kenny!” reference). None other than Mr. Feeny himself bites the dust shortly thereafter via scissors to the back.

“You know, usually you go off for two weeks and you go write this draft and you bring it back, and then the room rewrites it. That always was the process. I wrote this one like in two days, and I had to pretend that it took longer because if you’ve written the script in two days, they assume it sucks, or that you didn’t really care or make an effort,” Menell says.

When Menell brought the initial draft to the writer’s room, however, there were minimal changes to his script. The episode’s director, Jeff McCracken, was impressed.

“Jeff (Menell) went out and wrote his episode and when it came in it was perfect. It was an absolutely perfect flow of the script. He just nailed it.”

Emulating classic slasher film elements, McCracken had to approach the filming of “And Then There Was Shawn” differently than a typical episode.

“It was so much fun,” McCracken says. “Because it had all these special sequences, we really had to shoot it like a film. We rehearsed for two days, then shot it for three, and then we showed it before a live audience. The film style is generally single style or two cameras, but I shot a lot of it with three to four cameras so that we wouldn’t have to do multiple retakes. You couldn’t have done the whole thing in front of a live audience because it would have taken too much time to set everything up and run through a show with an audience sitting there.”

The pencil kill is the most memorable moment from the episode, but McCracken nor Menell can take credit for it. “I remember the one gag that was not in the script, the one gag that Michael Jacobs (creator/executive producer) came up with, which was genius, was the pencil dynamic,” McCracken recalls. After classmate Kenny is shown impaled through the head with a pencil, his body slumps down the wall, leaving a lead pencil mark behind him. Cory quips, “We’ll always remember he was this tall.”

Kenny and Feeny’s deaths are bloodless, but they leave a mighty impression for a network family-friendly series. Both writer and director knew that they’d have to tread lightly if they were going to be faithful to the slasher genre (“I’m surprised they let us have Feeny with (scissors) in his back, to tell you the truth,” Menell says) but they both made a concerted effort to surround the kills with humor.

“We had to make it funny,” McCracken says.” I mean, you put (scissors) in someone’s back, it can be very disturbing for a young audience. You can’t traumatize them. We did it with some sense of humor and it wasn’t so graphic.”

Part of the humor was derived from the very specific references made in the episode. Like Scream standout character Randy, Shawn makes meta references to the rules of the horror genre, telling his friends that virgins are the only ones who are safe. Eric says, “I’m dead,” Jack says, “I’m dead,” and Shawn says, “I’ll get as sick as you can without dying.”

This slightly scandalous joke wasn’t anything new for the series, but the violent nature of the episode led to “And Then There Was Shawn” receiving the show’s first TV-PG-V rating. According to Menell, Michael Jacobs had a way of pushing the boundaries with network executives. “He got away with a lot more stuff than most people because he could really browbeat some network executives at times to get what he wanted.”

One major addition to the cast for “And Then There Was Shawn” probably helped Jacobs catch the network in the right mood. Jennifer Love Hewitt, coming off Party of Five and at the height of her scream queen powers, guest stars as new John Adams High student Jennifer Love Fefferman. Hewitt at the time was dating Will Friedle and it’s believed their relationship inspired her cameo.

“We maybe asked him to ask her, because obviously she was in I Know What You Did Last Summer, so having her there just adds horror film credibility to it,” Menell says. “She was great. She was such a great sport, and it was fun having her on.”

McCracken concurs: “It was such a pleasure. It was one of those things that you don’t know how a major star walking in on your set, how they’re going to be, what their demands are going to be, what their personality is going to be like, what their disposition for the script’s going to be like, and she just came in full guns blazing and just had a blast and that made everything just wonderful. She was game for anything.”

One thing that Hewitt was game for was a big makeout scene with Friedle’s Eric, that may or may not have been improvised. “I don’t think we wrote that in, I think they just wanted to do it and we let it,” Menell laughs.

Amongst all of the horror homage fun, the episode ends with Shawn removing the killer’s mask to find himself starring back, having gone through this whole slasher bit just to get his friends back together. It’s quite the philosophical ending for a show primarily aimed at tweens and teens.

“When it did get serious with Shawn at the end, it was more poignant than it was scary and it was also a great reveal that it was him,” McCracken says. “It was metaphorical in the sense that that component of Shawn is in us all and it’s always lurking and it’s always out there. And so, be vigilant.”

The Jeffs knew that they had a special episode on their hands with “And Then There Was Shawn,” but who could have guessed the episode would have this sort of longevity 22 years later?

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“We got a few letters from people that were so scared, couldn’t believe we would kill Feeny. And we got some people that were upset,” Menell says. “But we had no idea until years later when the internet came on how popular that episode became. We did some crossovers, some time flashbacks, and some other really cool episodes, but this was a show that was nothing like any other episode we had aired or would air. It was probably the most fun … it’s certainly the most scary.”

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2019 in memoriam.

Margaret “Pegi” Young, 66

Daryl Dragon, 76

“Mean” Gene Okerlund, 76

Herb Kelleher, 87

Verna Bloom, 80

Bonnie “Guitar” Buckingham, 95

Carol Channing, 97

Andrew G. Vajna, 74

Kaye Ballard, 93

Cardinal Fernando Sebastian Aguilar, 89

Richard Miller, 90

Betty “Julie” Adams, 92

Kristoff St. John, 52

Albert Finney, 82

Frank Robinson, 83

Jean-Thomas “Tomi” Ungerer, 87

Carmen Argenziano, 75

Jan-Michael Vincent, 74

Betty Ballantine, 99

Stanley Donen, 94

Peter Tork, 77

(Thomas) Morgan Woodward, 93

(Robert) Ted Lindsay, 93

Hal Blaine, 90

Cardinal Godfried Danneels, 85

Richard Dale, 81

Larry Cohen, 82

Nancy Gates, 93

Ermias “Nipsey Hussle” Asghedom, 33

Georgia Engel, 70

Berit “Bibi” Andersson, 83

Ken Kercheval, 83

John Havlicek, 79

John Singleton, 51

Peter Mayhew, 74

Leonard “Red” Kelly, 91

Jean Vanier, 90

Alvin Sargent, 92

Margaret “Peggy” Lipton, 72

Cardinal Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir, 98

Doris Day, 97

Thomas “Tim” Conway, 85

Ashley Massaro, 39

I.M. Pei, 102

(Bryan) Bart Starr, 85

Bill Buckner, 69

Cardinal Elio Sgreccia, 90

Malcolm “Dr. John” Rebennack; Jr., 77

Richard “Bushwick Bill” Shaw, 52

Dave Bartholomew, 100

(Hilda) Isabel Sarli, 89

(George) Max Wright, 75

Lido “Lee” Iacocca, 94

Arte Johnson, 90

(Henry) Ross Perot, 89

Elmore “Rip” Torn; Jr., 88

Cardinal Paolo Sardi, 84

Jus. John Stevens, 99

(Albert) David Hedison; Jr., 92

Rutger Hauer, 75

Cardinal Jose Manuel Estepa Llaurens, 93

Russi Taylor, 75

Cardinal Jaime Lucas Ortega y Alamino, 82

George Hilton, 85

D.A. Pennebaker, 94

Chloe “Toni” Morrison, 88

Cardinal Sergio Obeso Rivera, 87

Peter Fonda, 79

Richard Williams, 86

(Samuel) Larry Taylor, 77

David Koch, 79

Jessi Combs, 39

Cardinal Achille Silvestrini, 95

Valerie Harper, 80

Cardinal Jose De Jesus Pimiento Rodriguez, 100

Cardinal Roger Etchegaray, 96

Eddie Money (Mahoney), 70

Ric Ocasek, 75

(William) Barron Hilton, 91

Sid Haig, 80

Robert Hunter, 78

Cardinal William Levada, 83

Diahann Carroll, 84

Peter “Ginger” Baker, 80

Cardinal Serafim Fernandes De Araujo, 95

Robert Forster; Jr., 78

Robert Evans, 89

Branko Lustig, 87

Wat Misaka, 95

Michael J. Pollard, 80

George Atkinson III, 27

Chalmers “Bump” Elliott, 94

Jarad “Juice Wrld” Higgins, 21

Caroll Spinney, 85

Pete Frates, 34

Chuck Heberling, 94

Herman Boone, 84

Alta Willis, 72

J. Charles Jones, 82

Leland “Lee” Mendelson, 86

(John) Don Imus; Jr., 79

Claudine Auger, 78

Sue Lyon, 73

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Ginger Baker dead: Cream drummer dies, aged 80

Ginger Baker, the legendary drummer and co-founder of rock band Cream, has died at the age of 80.

Last month, the musician’s family announced he was critically ill in hospital, but no further details of his illness were disclosed.

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Baker had suffered from a number of health issues in recent years. He underwent open heart surgery in 2016 and was forced to cancel a tour with his band Air Force after being diagnosed with “serious heart problems”.

The drummer, who is widely considered to be one of the most innovative and influential drummers in rock music, co-founded Cream in 1966 with Eric Clapton and Jack Bruce. The band released three albums before splitting in 1968, after which he formed the short-lived band Blind Faith with Clapton, Steve Winwood and Ric Grech. A fourth Cream album was released after the band disbanded.

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Freeman appeared on season 13 of the TV singing competition The Voice, making a strong impression early on with her cover of ‘Radioactive’ by Imagine Dragons, performed during the blind auditions. She had an extreme case of pneumonia and had a blood clot that travelled to her heart. She died in hospital on 2 March.

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23/61 Keith Flint

Flint quickly became one of the figureheads of British electronic music during the Nineties as a singer in the band The Prodigy. He died, aged 49, on 4 March.

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24/61 Luke Perry

Perry rose to fame as teen heartthrob Dylan McKay in ‘Beverly Hills, 90210’, and most recently played Fred Andrews in The CW’s ‘Riverdale’. He died on 4 March after suffering a ‘massive stroke’, his representative said in a statement.

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25/61 Jed Allan

Allan was best known for his role as Rush Sanders, the father of Ian Ziering’s Steve Sanders, on Beverly Hills, 90210; Don Craig on Days of Our Lives; and CC Capwell on Santa Barbara. He died on Saturday, 9 March, aged 84.

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26/61 Hal Blaine

As part of the Wrecking Crew, an elite group of session players, Blaine played drums on some of the most iconic songs of the 1960s and 1970s, including The Beach Boys’s “Good Vibrations”, the Ronettes’s ”Be My Baby”, and Simon & Garfunkel’s “Mrs Robinson”. He died on 11 March, aged 90.

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27/61 Pat Laffan

The Irish-born actor had roles in almost 40 films and 30 television shows, including in BBC’s Eastenders, Stanley Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon, and RTE’s The Clinic. He died on Friday, 15 March, aged 79

28/61 Mike Thalassitis

Mike Thalassitis was a semi-professional footballer before finding fame on the third season of Love Island. He died aged 26.

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29/61 Dick Dale

Dale is credited with pioneering the surf music style, by drawing on his Middle-Eastern heritage and experimenting with reverberation. He is best known for his hit “Misirlou”, used in the 1994 film Pulp Fiction. He died on Saturday, 16 March, aged 81.

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30/61 Bernie Tormé

Guitarist Bernie Tormé rose to fame in the seventies before joining Ozzy Osbourne on tour in 1982, following the death of guitarist Randy Rhoads in a plane crash that same year. The Dublin-born musician died on 17 March, 2019 at the age of 66.

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31/61 Andre Williams

R&B singer and songwriter Andre Williams co-wrote “Shake a Tail Feather” among many other hits, signing first with Fortune Records then with Motown. The Alabama native, who relocated to Detroit as a young man, died on 17 March, aged 82.

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32/61 Scott Walker

The American British singer-songwriter and producer who rose to fame with The Walker Brothers during the Sixties and was once referred to as “pop’s own Salinger”, died on 22 March, aged 76. He was one of the most prolific artists of his generation, despite shunning the spotlight following his brief years as a teen idol, and released a string of critically acclaimed albums as well as writing a number of film scores, and producing albums for other artists including Pulp.

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33/61 Agnès Varda

French New Wave filmmaker Agnès Varda died on 29 March, aged 90. She was best known for the films “Cléo from 5 to 7” and “Vagabond” and was widely regarded to be one of the most influential experimental and feminist filmmakers of all time.

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34/61 Tania Mallet

Model and Bond girl Tania Mallet died on 30 March, aged 77. She earned her only credited acting role opposite Sean Connery in 1964 film Goldfinger, playing Tilly Masterson.

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35/61 Boon Gould (right)

One of the founding members of Level 42, Boon Gould, died on 1 March, aged 64. He was a guitarist and saxophone player.

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36/61 Freddie Starr

Comedian Starr was the star of several eponymous TV shows during the 1990s such as Freddie Starr, The Freddie Starr Show and An Audience with Freddie Starr. Starr was the subject of one of the most famous tabloid headlines in the history of the British press, splashed on the front page of The Sun in 1986: “Freddie Starr ate my hamster.” Starr was found dead in his home in Costa Del Sol on 9 May 2019.

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37/61 Peggy Lipton

Twin Peaks star Peggy Lipton died of cancer, aged 72 on 11 May.

38/61 Doris Day

Doris Day became Hollywood’s biggest female star by the early 1960s starring in Calamity Jane, Pillow Talk and Caprice to name a few. Day died on 15 May after a serious bout of pneumonia.

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39/61 Andrew Hall

Andrew Hall died on 20 May, 2019 after a short illness, according to his management group. The actor was best known for playing Russell Parkinson in the BBC show Butterflies and Marc Selby in Coronation Street. He had also recently appeared as The Gentleman in Syfy’s Blood Drive.

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40/61 Carmine Cardini

Carmine Cardini, who was most famous for playing two different roles in the Godfather franchise, died on 28 May, 2019 at Cedars Sinai Hospital, aged 85. He played Carmine Rosato in The Godfather Part II (1974) before returning to the franchise in 1990 as Albert Volpe in The Godfather Part III.

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41/61 Leon Redbone

Leon Redbone died on 30 May, 2019, aged 69. The singer-songwriter, who was noticed by Bob Dylan in the Seventies and was an early guest on Saturday Night Live, released more than 15 albums over the course of four decades.

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42/61 Cameron Boyce

Disney Channel star Cameron Boyce died in his sleep on 6 July, aged 20. His family later confirmed the actor, who appeared in Jessie and descendants, had epilepsy.

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43/61 Rip Torn

Rip Torn, the film, TV and theatre actor, died on 9 July, 2019, aged 88. His career spanned seven decades.

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44/61 Michael Sleggs

Michael Sleggs, who appeared as Slugs in hit BBC Three sitcom This Country, died from heart failure on 9 July, 2019, aged 33.

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45/61 Rutger Hauer

Dutch actor Rutger Hauer famously played replicant Roy Batty in Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner. As Batty, he delivered the iconic “tears in the rain” monologue. Hauer died on 19 July, 2019 aged 75.

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46/61 Paula Williamson

Actor Paula Williamson, who starred in Coronation Street and married criminal Charles Bronson, was found dead on 29 July, 2019.

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47/61 David Berman

David Berman, frontman of Silver Jews and Purple Mountains, died by suicide on 7 August, 2019, aged 52.

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48/61 Peter Fonda

Peter Fonda died of respiratory failure due to lung cancer on 16 August, 2019. aged 79, his family said. He was the co-writer and star of counterculture classic Easy Rider (1969).

49/61 Ben Unwin

Home and Away star Ben Unwin was found dead aged 41 on 14 August, according to New South Wales Police. He starred as ‘bad boy’ Jesse McGregor on the popular Australian soap between 1996-2000, and then 2002-2005 before switching to a career in law

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50/61 Franco Columbu

Italian bodybuilder, who appeared in The Terminator, The Running Man and Conan the Barbarian, died on 30 August, 2019, aged 78. The former Mr Olympia enjoyed a successful career as a boxer and was best friends with Arnold Schwarzenegger.

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51/61 Kylie Rae Harris

The country singer died in a car crash on 4 September, 2019, at the age of 30. Harris, of Wylie, Texas, she was scheduled to perform at a music festival in New Mexico the next day.

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52/61 LaShawn Daniels

Songwriter and producer LaShawn Daniels died 4 September aged 41. He was best known for his collaborations with producer Darkchild, and had songwriting credits on a number of pop and R&B classics by artists including Beyonce, Destiny’s Child, Janet and Michael Jackson, Lady Gaga, Brandy and Whitney Houston.

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53/61 Carol Lynley

The actor, best known for her role as Nonnie the cruise liner singer in The Poseidon Adventure, died on 3 September at the age of 77.

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54/61 Jimmy Johnson

Jimmy Johnson, revered session guitarist and co-founder of the Muscle Shoals Sound Studios, died 5 September 2019, aged 76.

55/61 John Wesley

John Wesley, the actor who played Dr Hoover on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, died in September 2019 aged 72 of complications stemming from multiple myeloma, according to his family. His other acting credits included Baywatch as well as the the 1992 buddy cop comedy film ‘Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot’.

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56/61 Daniel Johnston

Influential lo-fi musician Daniel Johnston died in September 2019 following a heart attack, according to The Austin Chronicle. His body of work includes the celebrated 1983 album ‘Hi, How Are You’.

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57/61 Ric Ocasek

Ric Ocasek, frontman of new wave rock band The Cars, died 15 September at the age of 75.

Ocasek was pronounced dead after police were alerted to an unresponsive male at a Manhattan townhouse. A cause of death has yet to be confirmed, though The Daily Beast reports that an NYPD official said Ocasek appeared to have died from “natural causes”.

Ocasek found fame as the lead singer of The Cars, who were integral in the birth of the new wave movement and had hits including “Drive”, “Good Times Roll” and “My Best Friend’s Girl”.

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58/61 Suzanne Whang

The former host turned narrator of HGTV’s House Hunters died on 17 September. She was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2006 and initially recovered, until the disease returned in October 2018.

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59/61 Robert Hunter

The lyricist, who’s behind some of the Grateful Dead’s finest songs, died on 23 September at the age of 78. His best known Grateful Dead songs include ‘Cumberland Blues,’ ‘It Must Have Been the Roses,’ and ‘Terrapin Station’.

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60/61 Linda Porter

Linda Porter, best known for her role as elderly supermarket employee Myrtle on the US sitcom Superstore, died 25 September after a long battle with cancer. She also appeared in series including Twin Peaks, The Mindy Project, ER and The X-Files

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61/61 Ginger Baker

Ginger Baker, the legendary drummer and co-founder of rock band Cream, died at the age of 80 on Sunday 6 October after being critically ill in hospital. The musician co-founded Cream in 1966 with Eric Clapton and Jack Bruce.

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2/61 Pegi Young

A singer, songwriter, environmentalist, educator and philanthropist, she was also married to Neil Young for 36 years. She died of cancer on 1 January, aged 66, in Mountain View, California.

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4/61 Darius Perkins

The actor was best known for playing the original Scott Robinson on Neighbours when the show launched in 1985 on Australia’s Channel Seven. Perkins died from cancer on 2 January, aged 54

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6/61 Carol Channing

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11/61 Michel Legrand

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13/61 Dick Miller

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14/61 Jeremy Hardy

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15/61 Clive Swift

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16/61 Julie Adams

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17/61 Albert Finney

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20/61 Andy Anderson

Musician Andy Anderson, former drummer for The Cure and Iggy Pop, died aged 68 from terminal cancer, after a long and successful career as a session musician

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21/61 Lisa Sheridan

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23/61 Keith Flint

Flint quickly became one of the figureheads of British electronic music during the Nineties as a singer in the band The Prodigy. He died, aged 49, on 4 March.

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24/61 Luke Perry

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25/61 Jed Allan

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26/61 Hal Blaine

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27/61 Pat Laffan

28/61 Mike Thalassitis

Mike Thalassitis was a semi-professional footballer before finding fame on the third season of Love Island. He died aged 26.

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29/61 Dick Dale

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30/61 Bernie Tormé

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31/61 Andre Williams

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32/61 Scott Walker

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33/61 Agnès Varda

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34/61 Tania Mallet

Model and Bond girl Tania Mallet died on 30 March, aged 77. She earned her only credited acting role opposite Sean Connery in 1964 film Goldfinger, playing Tilly Masterson.

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35/61 Boon Gould (right)

One of the founding members of Level 42, Boon Gould, died on 1 March, aged 64. He was a guitarist and saxophone player.

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36/61 Freddie Starr

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37/61 Peggy Lipton

Twin Peaks star Peggy Lipton died of cancer, aged 72 on 11 May.

38/61 Doris Day

Doris Day became Hollywood’s biggest female star by the early 1960s starring in Calamity Jane, Pillow Talk and Caprice to name a few. Day died on 15 May after a serious bout of pneumonia.

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39/61 Andrew Hall

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40/61 Carmine Cardini

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41/61 Leon Redbone

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42/61 Cameron Boyce

Disney Channel star Cameron Boyce died in his sleep on 6 July, aged 20. His family later confirmed the actor, who appeared in Jessie and descendants, had epilepsy.

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43/61 Rip Torn

Rip Torn, the film, TV and theatre actor, died on 9 July, 2019, aged 88. His career spanned seven decades.

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44/61 Michael Sleggs

Michael Sleggs, who appeared as Slugs in hit BBC Three sitcom This Country, died from heart failure on 9 July, 2019, aged 33.

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45/61 Rutger Hauer

Dutch actor Rutger Hauer famously played replicant Roy Batty in Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner. As Batty, he delivered the iconic “tears in the rain” monologue. Hauer died on 19 July, 2019 aged 75.

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46/61 Paula Williamson

Actor Paula Williamson, who starred in Coronation Street and married criminal Charles Bronson, was found dead on 29 July, 2019.

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47/61 David Berman

David Berman, frontman of Silver Jews and Purple Mountains, died by suicide on 7 August, 2019, aged 52.

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48/61 Peter Fonda

Peter Fonda died of respiratory failure due to lung cancer on 16 August, 2019. aged 79, his family said. He was the co-writer and star of counterculture classic Easy Rider (1969).

49/61 Ben Unwin

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50/61 Franco Columbu

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51/61 Kylie Rae Harris

The country singer died in a car crash on 4 September, 2019, at the age of 30. Harris, of Wylie, Texas, she was scheduled to perform at a music festival in New Mexico the next day.

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52/61 LaShawn Daniels

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53/61 Carol Lynley

The actor, best known for her role as Nonnie the cruise liner singer in The Poseidon Adventure, died on 3 September at the age of 77.

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54/61 Jimmy Johnson

Jimmy Johnson, revered session guitarist and co-founder of the Muscle Shoals Sound Studios, died 5 September 2019, aged 76.

55/61 John Wesley

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56/61 Daniel Johnston

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57/61 Ric Ocasek

Ric Ocasek, frontman of new wave rock band The Cars, died 15 September at the age of 75.

Ocasek found fame as the lead singer of The Cars, who were integral in the birth of the new wave movement and had hits including “Drive”, “Good Times Roll” and “My Best Friend’s Girl”.

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58/61 Suzanne Whang

The former host turned narrator of HGTV’s House Hunters died on 17 September. She was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2006 and initially recovered, until the disease returned in October 2018.

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59/61 Robert Hunter

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60/61 Linda Porter

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61/61 Ginger Baker

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Baker was named number three on Rolling Stone’s 100 Greatest Drummers of All Time list, and is the subject of the documentary Beware of Mr. Baker.

“Gifted with immense talent, and cursed with a temper to match, Ginger Baker combined jazz training with a powerful polyrhythmic style in the world’s first, and best, power trio,” said the Rolling Stone article. “The London-born drummer introduced showmanship to the rock world with double-kick virtuosity and extended solos.”

Lewisham-born Baker was known for being a mercurial and argumentative figure, whose temper frequently led to on-stage punch-ups.

His father, a bricklayer, was killed in the Second World War in 1943, and Baker was brought up in near poverty by his mother. He joined a local gang in his teens and when he tried to quit, gang members attacked him with a razor.

Baker suffered from heroin addiction, which he acquired as a jazz drummer in the London clubs of the late 1950s and early 1960s. He once told The Guardian he came off heroin “something like 29 times”.

Tributes for the drummer have been pouring in on Twitter.

Paul McCartney called Baker a “wild and lovely guy”, writing: “We worked together on the ‘Band on the Run‘ album in his ARC Studio, Lagos, Nigeria. Sad to hear that he died but the memories never will.”

Baby Driver director Edgar Wright wrote: “RIP the music giant that was Ginger Baker. The beat behind too many favourite songs from Cream, The Graham Bond Organisation and Alexis Korner’s Blues Incorporated.”

Rock journalist Mark Paytress tweeted: “Like Hendrix, Ginger Baker was a name synonymous w/ early days rock. Once you heard him play, saw pics & footage, he seemed to embody the music’s power, the culture’s adventure. Spending a day w/ him in 2014 magnified it all. Lost a big one this morning.”

Slipknot’s Jay Weinberg simply wrote: “Thank you Ginger Baker.”

from CVR News Direct https://cvrnewsdirect.com/ginger-baker-dead-cream-drummer-dies-aged-80/

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Photo 1: Peter in 1964, screenshot from his My Generation interview (photo © Andrew Sandoval). Photo 2: Peter Tork and Adam Di Petto (assuming this is at the opening of Zilch in New York City on October 20, 1967; photo courtesy of the Daily News). Photo 3: with Fabio Piangiani Naradamuni and Andriette Redman at Trax, early 1980s (photo via Facebook); photos 5 & 6 from the early 1980s and circa 2013.

Photo 2: “Notice the shot of me bending Peter Tork’s ear. Or is it he bending my ear? (No fair counting my chins!) Actually, I’m hitting him up for a loan — after learning he, Davy, Micky and Mike are now all millionaires! Especially with all the royalties pouring in for their latest lp, ‘Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn and Jones, Limited.’ (Wot, no kitchen sink?)” - Adam Di Petto, Daily News, December 10, 1967

“Money doesn’t mean anything to me. If you can’t be happy poor, you can’t be happy rich.” - Peter, Seventeen, August 1967

Peter Tork: “[The music scene in Greenwich Village during the early 1960s was] Dreamsville. Total wonderfulness. Yeah, I was liberated, I was free, I was a hippie in Greenwich Village. It was great, you couldn’t ask for a better life.” Q: “Were you playing music for a living?” PT: “Yeah.” Q: “Did that pay the bills?” PT: “Yeah, such as they were. I mean, you know, I lived — shared a run-down apartment with a couple of other guys, and went out at night, we played the coffee house circuit in Greenwich Village from seven — quarter of the hour, from seven in the evening until four in the morning, six nights a week. It was a lot of fun.” - GOLD 104.5, 1999

"[N]ow here I am, broke in New York City,’ [Tork] said. But the 38-year-old [sic] singer is far from calling it quits. ‘I’m going to keep plugging,‘ he vowed. ‘I’m not done — this is my craft, my trade.’” - The Tampa Tribune, March 27, 1982 (x)

“I never knew how New York would welcome me back after all those years. It’s a cynical place and, sadly, The Monkees gave a lot of people a chance to exercise their cynicism. New York welcomed me. I started playing again in The Village and I’m doing OK.” - Peter Tork, Countdown, April 1987

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People, March 11

Cover: Meghan Markle -- Ready to Be a Mom

Page 3: Chatter -- Courteney Cox on Jennifer Aniston’s birthday present, Sandra Oh on Killing Eve, John Stamos on his son’s first birthday party, Mark Consuelos on wife Kelly Ripa, Gwyneth Paltrow on Shakespeare in Love, Miley Cyrus on smoking pot

Page 4: 5 Things We’re Talking About -- Marie Kondo inspires Goodwill donations, Peeps debuts seven new flavors for Easter, Chris Hemsworth will play Hulk Hogan, Ariana Grande makes music history, North West lands her first solo magazine cover, A Chat with Ariel Winter

Page 7: Contents

Page 8: Contents

Page 10: Star Tracks -- Pink at the Brit Awards

Page 11: Kaia Gerber, Tom Brady and Gisele Bundchen, Lester Holt and his dog Lucy, Halle Berry

Page 12: Angelina Jolie and her children Shiloh and Zahara and Maddox and Pax with Prune Nourry at the premiere of Serendipity, sneak peak at Sam Rockwell and Michelle Williams in Fosse/Verdon

Page 13: Christy Carlson Romano and husband Brendan Rooney and new daughter Sophia Elizabeth Rooney, Hugh Jackman shirtless on the beach, Kristen Bell, Halsey and rumored boyfriend Yungblud

Page 14: The Hottest Oscar Pre-Parties -- Liam Hemsworth and Miley Cyrus, Ava DuVernay, Jeffrey Katzenberg and Glenn Close and Regina King and Rami Malek and George Clooney, Allison Janney and Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Tilda Swinton and Dakota Johnson

Page 17: Khloe Kardashian rebuilds after betrayal

Page 18: Was Jussie Smollett’s attack a hoax?

Page 20: Heart Monitor -- Liza Weil and Charlie Weber of How to Get Away with Murder have split, Ben Affleck and Lindsay Shookus date night, Rihanna and Hassan Jameel going strong, Brittany Snow and Tyler Stanaland engaged

Page 22: John Legend and Adam Levine and Blake Shelton and Kelly Clarkson on The Voice, will R. Kelly go to prison

Page 24: Jenna Bush Hager is Hoda Kotb’s new cohost on Today, Danny Wood of New Kids on the Block makes new music

Page 26: American Chopper’s Paul Teutul Sr. and Jr. repairing their relationship

Page 29: Stories to Make You Smile -- Jonah Larson puts his talent for crocheting to a good cause, neighbors learn sign language in support of a little deaf girl, a mama beagle and an orphaned baby possum form a very special family bond

Page 30: Passages, R.I.P. Peter Tork of The Monkees

Page 33: People Picks -- The Real Housewives of New York City

Page 34: The Widow with Kate Beckinsale, The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, Q&A with Amara La Negra

Page 35: Captain Marvel’s scene-stealing cat Goose played by rescue cat Reggie, This Land by Gary Clark Jr.

Page 36: Let’s Be Frank by Trisha Yearwood, Good Girls

Page 37: American Idol, Paddleton, Q&A with Chloe Grace Moretz

Page 39: Books

Page 40: Cover Story -- Meghan Markle ready for baby, after a baby shower with her closest friends in New York City, she jets to Morocco with Prince Harry and prepares for her April due date

Page 46: David Temple says his pregnant wife Belinda was killed in a home invasion, but authorities say he killed her

Page 49: Karl Lagerfeld 1933-2019

Page 57: Steffanie Strathdee fought the superbug killing her husband Tom Patterson with sewage

Page 60: Kathy Carroll’s Lanai Cat Sanctuary in Hawaii offers a safe haven to stray cats in need of a home

Page 63: Skater Gracie Gold on healing from depression

Page 66: The Oscars -- Rami Malek with Gary Oldman and Allison Janney

Page 68: Best Dressed -- Constance Wu, Charlize Theron, Brie Larson, Regina King

Page 69: Glenn Close, Jennifer Hudson, Emma Stone, Jennifer Lopez

Page 70: Pink Power -- Gemma Chan, Linda Cardellini, Angela Bassett, Julia Roberts

Page 71: Sarah Paulson, Kacey Musgraves, Helen Mirren, KiKi Layne

Page 72: Runway to Red Carpet -- Danai Gurira, Michelle Yeoh, Rachel Weisz, Tessa Thompson

Page 74: Stylish Couples -- Lisa Bonet and Jason Momoa, Bradley Cooper and Irina Shayk, Lucy Boynton and Rami Malek

Page 75: Melissa McCarthy and Ben Falcone, Olivia Colman and Ed Sinclair, Alex Rodriguez and Jennifer Lopez, Mahershala Ali and Amatus Sami-Karim

Page 76: Lady Gaga’s winning style

Page 78: Snazzy Suits -- Spike Lee, Stephan James, Henry Golding, Billy Porter, Chadwick Boseman, Chris Evans in fairy-tale blue

Page 81: Dazzling Necklaces -- Charlize Theron

Page 82: Helen Mirren, Amy Adams, Laura Harrier, Laura Dern, Allison Janney, Sarah Paulson

Page 84: Party Ponytails -- Kacey Musgraves, Serena Williams, Angela Bassett, Constance Wu

Page 86: Behind the Scenes -- Constance Wu, Kerry Washington, Sofia Vergara and Joe Manganiello, Gemma Chan, Gabrielle Union, Octavia Spencer and Christian Siriano, Emilia Clarke, Kate Bosworth, Helen Mirren

Page 91: Red Carpet Moments -- Allison Janney and Emma Stone, Melissa McCarthy and Richard E. Grant, Jenifer Lewis and Shangela

Page 92: All in the Family -- Charlize Theron and mom Gerda Maritz, Michael B. Jordan and mom Donna Jordan, Bradley Cooper and Irina Shayk and mom Gloria Campano, Chris Evans and brother Scott Evans

Page 94: The Show Heats Up -- Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga

Page 96: Maya Rudolph and Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, Rami Malek and Lucy Boynton

Page 97: Mahershala Ali, Adam Lambert and Brian May and Roger Taylor of Queen, Julia Roberts

Page 98: Melissa McCarthy and Brian Tyree Henry, Ruth E. Carter, Keegan-Michael Key

Page 100: Olivia Colman, Spike Lee, Samuel L. Jackson, Helen Mirren and Jason Momoa

Page 102: Regina King

Page 104: Time to Celebrate -- Danai Gurira and Lupita Nyong’o and Hannah Beachler

Page 106: Spike Lee and Barbra Streisand and James Brolin, Mahershala Ali and wife Amatus Sami-Karim, Rami Malek

Page 108: Sam Rockwell and Darrell Britt-Gibson, Melissa McCarthy and Ben Falcone, Nina Dobrev and Emily Ratajkowski and Julianne Hough and Ciara

Page 110: Maya Rudolph and Jon Hamm and Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, Henry Golding and wife Liv Lo, Renee Zellweger

Page 112: Sofia Vergara, Chadwick Boseman and Michael B. Jordan, Jessica Alba and Gabrielle Union

Page 114: Alex Rodriguez and Jennifer Lopez, Priyanka Chopra and Nick Jonas, Rowan Blanchard and Amandla Stenberg, James McAvoy and Sarah Paulson and Amanda Peet

Page 116: Paul Rudd and Elizabeth Banks and Adam Scott and wife Naomi Scott

Page 117: Chrissy Teigen and John Legend, Lucy Boynton and Brian May, Rami Malek and mom Nelly

Page 118: Kate Mara and Jamie Bell and Elton John, Taron Egerton, Heidi Klum and Tom Kaulitz

Page 121: Madonna and Lady Gaga

Page 123: Food -- please try a vegan diet

Page 127: Second Look -- Billie Lourd

Page 128: One Last Thing -- Trisha Yearwood

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This date in music history…

April 22nd

1957 - Elvis Presley

Elvis Presley had his custom built 'Music Gates' installed at Gracelands. The gates were designed by Abe Saucer and custom built by John Dillars Jr, of Memphis Doors inc.

1964 - The Rolling Stones

The President of The National Federation Of Hairdressers offered a free haircut to the next No.1 group in the UK pop charts. He said The Rolling Stones are the worst, one of them looks as if he's got a feather duster on his head.

1966 - Reg Presley

'Wild Thing' by The Troggs (who were originally called The Troglodytes) was released in the U.S. on both the Atco and Fontana labels. The song went on to reach No.1. Fronted by Reg Presley, 'Wild Thing' became a major influence on garage rock and punk rock.

1967 - Davy Jones

In the most popular Monkee poll conducted in the music paper Disc & Music Echo, Davy Jones received 63% of the votes, Mickey Dolenz 22%, Peter Tork 8% and Mike Nesmith 7%.

1972 - Deep Purple

Deep Purple scored their second UK No.1 album with Machine Head. The album which features 'Smoke on the Water' and 'Highway Star', is often cited as a major influence in the early development of the heavy metal music genre and commercially, it was Deep Purple's most successful album.

1991 - Dave Matthews

The Dave Matthews Band played their first ever-live show when they appeared at The Earth Day festival in Charlottesville, Virginia.

2003 - Felice Bryant

Songwriter Felice Bryant died of cancer. Wrote many hits with her husband Boudleaux including; The Everly Brothers, 'Bye Bye Love', 'All I Have To Do Is Dream', 'Wake Up Little Susie' and 'Raining In My Heart' a hit for Buddy Holly. Other acts to record their song include Bob Dylan, The Beatles, Tony Bennett, Simon And Garfunkel, Sarah Vaughan, Grateful Dead, Dolly Parton, Elvis Presley, The Beach Boys, Roy Orbison, Elvis Costello, Count Basie, Dean Martin, Ruth Brown, Cher, R.E.M. and Ray Charles.

2008 - Tommy Steele

It was revealed that 60s singer Tommy Steele took Elvis Presley on a secret tour of London in 1958 after Presley struck up a friendship with Steele. When the rock legend flew into London for a day, Steele apparently took him round the city, showing him famous landmarks such as the Houses of Parliament. For more than 50 years, Presley fans had believed the only time Elvis ever set foot in the UK was during a stop-over at Prestwick Airport in Scotland in March 1960.

2013 - Richie Havens

Richie Havens, the folk singer who opened the legendary 1969 Woodstock rock festival, died of a heart attack at 72. He died at his home in Jersey City, New Jersey.

2020 - Bruce Springsteen

At the Jersey 4 Jersey virtual benefit concert, surviving members of Fountains of Wayne reunited with Sharon Van Etten to pay tribute to Adam Schlesinger, who died of coronavirus three weeks earlier. Bruce Springsteen also performed with his wife Patti Scialfa and played an emotional version of 'Land Of Hope And Dreams' followed by 'Jersey Girl'. Bon Jovi debuted a new song called 'Do What You Can.' The event raised nearly $6 million for coronavirus relief.

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Long-debated questions: Did The Monkees' push for musical stardom hurt their careers? Did it hurt their popularity?

I'm gonna say "no." And now I'm gonna explain why, based on my own observations. (BTW, there's quite a bit of rambling here, because the fans and audiences I'm referring to here are not hard-core fans. Most people I know like The Monkees, but they're not in love with them, like we are. Maybe I've just always lived in a Monkees-deprived part of the world, I don't know. So my observations might be a little skewed. If any of you have had different responses from the fans, please let me know!)

First of all, let's look at the typical man-on-the-street's responses upon hearing the names of each Monkee, without knowing they are Monkees:

Michael Nesmith. "Who?"

Peter Tork. "Who?" or maybe "Did he invent those big paper napkin dispensers in restaurants?"

Micky Dolenz. "The name's kinda familiar..."

Davy Jones. "Oh, yeah, everybody knows him!"

Even people who grew up with them are like this. They may remember the songs, but not so much the guys, or even most of the episodes. Maybe "Fairy Tale" and the Frankenstein's android, but that's it. In fact, I have a friend that has the whole series in her collection, and when she sees Richard Kiel in another show, she's like, "Oh, it's that 'Doo-rah, doo-rah' guy!" And then she asks, "What show was that from, again?" *rolls eyes*

Funny, isn't it? Back in the sixties, so many people- including Davy and, originally Micky- thought the show was more important than the music, but people today remember the music better than the show. So I don't think the Monkees dabblers- the ones who hear a "greatest hits" collection, watch a dozen episodes, and think they've seen it all- or the TV fans- the ones who agree with Davy and Kirshner, that the boys should have just minded their business and concentrated on the show- were ever gonna remember them as anything but four zany guys who could sorta sing and play. It's only the really big fans, the ones that get into the back story and take the time to learn about them, who seem to see them for the talented young men they were. I suppose that's true of any show, and equally true of any group- but the Monkees were both actors and musicians, and there's two different factions in the fandom because of it.

My observation is that the TV fans don't really seem to think of them, at least not all of them, as anything special. My Monkees-watching friend favorably compares Micky to Jerry Lewis, and she sorta appreciates Davy's talent ("he's kinda funny, for an English guy"), but doesn't think Mike is funny at all, and thinks Peter "became" funny as time went on! She also doesn't really like Mike's or Peter's voices. She does, at least, think Peter is very talented musically. In her eyes, Micky is the funniest, Davy was the sweetest in real life- and, BTW, she's seen Daydream Believers, and she believes every word of it- Peter is the best musician, and Mike was nothing but a you-know-what-kind-of-hole. And I seem to get similar reactions from other fans. And from the ones who have only ever heard the songs, I get all those "Who?" responses I mentioned above.

And I've had TV fans ask me, "Well, what have they done since that was so great?" Everybody remembers Davy on The Brady Bunch. Some younger people remember the Boy Meets World episodes. I mention that Micky was turned down for the role of Fonzie, and then later became a director in England, and they're like, "Oh, well, that's what happens when you get typecast." I say that I heard Peter went broke and became an algebra teacher, and they're like, "Well, he wasn't that great of a singer, anyway." And I mention all the things Mike's done, and I get, "Oh, so he couldn't stick with anything, huh? Nobody liked his music? So all that garbage he pulled in the sixties didn't get him anywhere, did it?" And at that point, I give up. You can't make people listen. And then if they know anything of their personal lives- well, never mind. I'm not here to discuss the hypocrites in the fandom.

Now, can we just take an honest look at the way the television world works? Mike and Peter were never going to big-name TV stars, and if the world didn't like their music, then "The Monkees" was going to be the only thing they were known for. Excellent actors that they were, they were primarily musicians. If "The Monkees" had lasted ten seasons, and all four boys had stuck it out that long, the world in general still would not have remembered them as anything but their TV personas. They had no ambitions of becoming leading men or sitcom stars; they just wanted respect for their music, especially Michael. TV, especially a crazy sitcom, was never going to give them that.

As proof of this, let's look at what "The Monkees" did for Micky. He was typecast so bad, he could hardly get any other acting jobs after that. And nothing serious. To quote Daffy Duck, "You're typecasting me to death! Comedy, always comedy! 'Hoo-hoo! Hoo-hoo! Yak-yak!'" Come on, anybody that can do crazy comedy that well can do serious drama, too. Like, one of my favorite Robin Williams movies is Bicentennial Man. But for some reason, nobody ever gave Micky that chance. He couldn't even get into comedies! He had to go to England and start directing, and we lost a wonderfully talented actor. Thanks a lot, Hollywood.

You wanna know what I think is the real reason everyone remembers Davy? Cuz he was so darned cute. No, really! Talk to anybody that's not a huge fan like us. They can't tell you a single one of Davy's lines, not even "little metal bottle caps" or "you must be joking" (well, maybe they remember that one). They know "Daydream Believer" and the stars-in-the-eyes. That's about it. And they usually complain because every other episode is about Davy falling in love. But they still remember him for it. It was his sex appeal that sold him to the public, because that's the way the producers worked it out. So even if he did become the most well-known, it was still a raw deal, because it was for the wrong reason. Look at the Brady Bunch episode. He got to sing, and Marcia was in love with him because he was cute. His looks and his musical talent- but no recognition of his acting talent or respect for him as a member of The Monkees. (I mean, if they respected the Monkees, might not they have brought Micky in on another episode, considering how popular the Davy episode was?)

So, in answer to my original question- no, the music did not hurt their careers or their popularity. Their acting careers did fizzle out, not because of their mistakes, but because they were Monkees. It was gonna happen. That's just the fate of a sitcom star, especially a one-of-a-kind sitcom like theirs. Reminds me of what Don Adams said- "I was gonna be completely typed as 'Get Smart,'" and he was. Bob Denver was Gilligan, Fran Drescher is The Nanny, Vicki Lawrence is Mama- they get into these larger-than-life characters and they have so much trouble getting back out. And the exact same thing happened to the Monkees.

The main problem with the music is, I think, the fact that The Monkees WERE born out of a TV show. People don't take them seriously. "Oh, they were a group on a show. They were just supposed to tour to promote the show. The music was cool, but it didn't mean anything on its own." At least, that's the reaction I usually run across. Because of that, they were never gonna get respect for their music, unless they did push to be seen as a legitimate band. If the general public knows them for anything, it's usually their music that comes to mind. I asked somebody if they remembered the TV show "The Monkees," and he broke into "I'm a Believer." It's the music that sticks in people's heads. So you know what? I think the push for musical fame may actually have helped them.

We'll never know for sure. This is just how I see it. And, like I said, my views are skewed because I run across so many people who hate The Monkees (or at least, Mike and Peter), or who think of them as only a TV show, or who know nothing about them, or who just plain don't understand them and don't really want to, either. It's only online that I've been able to find people who can actually remember more than just a handful of episodes, and who actually still listen to their albums. I thank all of you for supporting my love of the best group of musicians and mayhem-makers in the world, and I would once again like to invite you to share your opinions and your experiences within the fandom.

#monkees #mike nesmith #micky dolenz #davy jones #peter tork #my opinion

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