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nakedpersimmon:

Long article from around when Micky performed at Epcot, and very tear-inducing. (Read only if you have a box of Kleenex nearby.) A few notable excerpts:

“On this day, Dolenz will perform Daydream Believer for the first time since he broke down while singing that song at a memorial for Jones in New York. He was holding up OK, Dolenz remembers, until he turned his head in the middle of the song and caught a glimpse of the video being played, a clip fans have adored for 46 years: Davy Jones, so young and so cute, blithely dancing, singing, swaying, a rainbow of psychedelic colors behind him. Dolenz’s voice broke: ‘I lost it.’” 

“‘He [Davy] was the closest thing to a brother I ever had,’ Dolenz says. ‘If you have any siblings, you know what it’s like, not only the closeness, but the relationship - you have good days, you have bad days, you love ‘em and you hate ‘em.’”

“When you listen to the lyrics [of “You and I,” from Justus], you assume it’s a love song between a man and a woman. But ‘it’s about us,’ Dolenz says. It’s a love song about two brothers and the magic they made when their stars aligned: After all the music and the madness, After all the late-night fantasies, We knew that we would make it through. There was little in our way, Nothing they could do. ‘Cause it was you and I and promises not broken, You and I and magic memories. After all was said and done, they never understood, How we always made it. We knew we always would. ‘Cause it was you and I, You and I…”