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The Monkees were an American pop rock band formed in Los Angeles in the mid-1960s. The band consisted of Micky Dolenz, Davy Jones, Michael Nesmith, and Peter Tork. Spurred by the success of the television show of the same name, the Monkees were one of the most successful bands of the late 1960s.
- Losing Davy Jones and Peter Tork
- How Circus Boy Became A Monkee
- 'The Ratings Came in and The Show Was A Hit'
- Why 'The Monkees' Worked So Well
- Beyond 'A Hard Day's Night'
- The Monkees' Fight For Creative Control
It's been 10 years since Davy Jones became the first Monkee to leave us. "He was the youngest one of all of us, and he was in pretty good health, supposedly. But they missed something. So that was a huge shock," Dolenz says. Jones' final outing as a Monkee was a 45th Anniversary Tour in 2011, which Nesmith did not join. The three surviving Monkees ...
Dolenz never saw the famous advertisement in the Hollywood Reporter seeking "4 insane boys, age 17-21" for a TV show inspired by the Beatles film "A Hard Day's Night." As a preteen using the name Micky Braddock, Dolenz played an orphaned water boy for elephants in the title role of a children's television show called "Circus Boy." "I had an agent,"...
"The Monkees" premiered as a Monday night lead-in to "I Dream of Jeannie" on NBC in 1966 with an episode called "Royal Flush," in which the Monkees save Princess Bettina, Duchess of Harmonica, from her evil uncle Archduke Otto. Did Dolenz know the show would be a hit when they filmed those early episodes? "You never do," he says. "Anybody that tell...
Dolenz has his theories as to why "The Monkees" was a hit. For one, they kept it light. "'The Monkees' was like an old Marx Brothers movie. It was John Lennon that first made that comment. And he's absolutely right," Dolenz says. "That's one of the reasons it stands up over the decades." It also also had great writers and directors, Dolenz says. An...
Despite all that, the Monkees did have their detractors. "Everybody has compared it to 'A Hard Day's Night' or said we were the Prefab Four, which is just not accurate," Dolenz says. "The show was about trying to become the Beatles, trying to be famous. We had a poster of the Beatles on the wall that we threw darts at. And on the show, we never mad...
By their third album, 1967's "Headquarters," the Monkees had won more creative control over the music, relying less on session players and outside writers. Nesmith was the only Monkee with a writing credit on the first two albums, placing one song on "The Monkees" and two songs on "More of the Monkees." Eight of 14 songs on "Headquarters" had membe...
- Ed Masley
- Pop Music Critic
May 6, 2024 · Notable Works: “Headquarters”. Related People: Davy Jones. the Monkees, American pop-rock group created as a made-for-television answer to the Beatles in the mid-1960s. The members were Micky Dolenz (byname of George Michael Dolenz; b. March 8, 1945, Los Angeles, California, U.S.), Davy Jones (byname of David Jones; b.
Jan 3, 2023 · Artists. The Monkees facts: Members, songs, break-ups, reunions, deaths of the Prefab four. 3 January 2023, 09:51 | Updated: 26 September 2023, 13:38. The Monkees reveal how they proved critics wrong. By Mayer Nissim. The Monkees were manufactured for a TV show, but shrugged off those prefab beginnings and strike out on their own.
Website. mickydolenz .com. George Michael Dolenz Jr. (born March 8, 1945) is an American musician and actor. He was the drummer and one of two primary vocalists for the pop rock band the Monkees (1966–1970, and reunions until 2021), and a co-star of the TV series The Monkees (1966–1968).
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Sep 9, 2020 · The Monkees (L-R): Davey Jones, Micky Dolenz, Peter Tork and Michael Nesmith. The band's members had to learn how to play together. A rejiggered version of the pilot, with the...
The Monkees were an American pop rock band formed in Los Angeles in the mid-1960s. The band consisted of Micky Dolenz, Davy Jones, Michael Nesmith, and Peter Tork. Spurred by the success of the television show of the same name, the Monkees were one of the most successful bands of the late 1960s.
