.

Anniversary of Tommy Boyce Suicide

11/23/2010
.
(Gibson) One of rock and roll and pop music's most prolific and successful songwriters committed suicide in Nashville on this day in 1994. Tommy Boyce was 55. Boyce's wife, Caroline, found him dead in the living room of their Nashville condo, where he had shot himself.

One of the most successful songwriters of the'60s, Tommy and his writing partner Bobby Hart played a major role in The Monkees TV show, writing many of the group's early hits.

But the writing success had begun back in the pre-Beatles rock and roll era when the young Boyce, only recently moved to Los Angeles from Arizona, pestered Fats Domino enough for the star to listen to his song "Be My Guest." Fats recorded it and Boyce saw it rise to the top of the charts. Teaming up with Hart in 1959, Boyce and his new pal would pen hits for numerous acts � notably "Come a Little Bit Closer" for Jay and the Americans in 1964. - more on this story

Gibson.com is an official news provider for the Day in Rock.



Preview and Purchase Tommy Boyce CDs

Tommy Boyce MP3 Downloads





advertisement