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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
Jun 14, 2022 · The official site for The Monkees - Michael Nesmith, Micky Dolenz, Davy Jones and Peter Tork
With an innovative style and presentation, augmented by the distinctive vocals of Michael Stipe, the band from Athens, Georgia left an indelible mark in the history of Rock & Rol MICKY DOLENZ: NEW EP, NEW VIDEO, NEW BOOK!
Jan 7, 2024 · MUSIC. Best Monkees songs of all time: 30 classics, from their biggest hits to album tracks. Ed Masley. Arizona Republic. 0:02. 0:53.
- Ed Masley
- Pop Music Critic
Sep 9, 2020 · A fictional TV quartet seemingly created to take advantage of Beatlemania, The Monkees took flight from their manufactured beginnings to become a legitimate band and one of the top-selling acts...
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The Monkees ' discography spans over 50 years, from the release of their first single, "Last Train to Clarksville" in August 1966 to their final live album The Mike and Micky Show in April 2020.
