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- Micky Dolenz says he had a feeling something bad was going to happen today... saying he "had bad dreams all night long"... only to later learn about the death of his friend Davy Jones. Dolenz released a statement moments ago... saying, "Can't believe it...Still in shock...had bad dreams all night long."
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Feb 29, 2012 · Micky Dolenz says he had a feeling something bad was going to happen today ... saying he "had bad dreams all night long" ... only to later learn about the death of his friend Davy...
Mar 8, 2024 · Back in 2008 and 2014, this author, who has a long history with the sole surviving member of the Monkees, interviewed Mickey Dolenz, born March 8, 1945. Those conversations were never before published until Best Classic Bands did so in 2022. Here are highlights from both sessions…. Best Classic Bands: You were in show business as a preteen ...
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- 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
Oct 18, 2022 · 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.
- Ed Masley
- Pop Music Critic
Sep 15, 2023 · Dolenz, 78, is the only surviving member of the group. He is now on the road again to pay tribute to the Emmy Award-winning, made-for-TV band that made him a star in the mid-1960s. And he has a ...
- George Varga
- george.varga@utsandiego.com
Aug 28, 2012 · The sync lit up Twitter’s music-centric community and had the “Monkee-net abuzz,” Dolenz, who sings “Goin’ Down,” tells The Hollywood Reporter. Although the singer and drummer was on ...
Mar 13, 2023 · Micky Dolenz Won’t Let the Monkees Die. 'It's weird being the last man standing,' the Sixties pop band's last surviving member says as he prepares to take their classic album 'Headquarters' on ...
