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Last-Surviving Member of the Monkees Shares Exciting News: 'How Cool' originally appeared on Parade.
What happened to the members of The Monkees? Discover the stories of each band member, their careers post-fame, and how the ...
At its core, The Monkees television series was about a struggling band of musicians. Ultimately, its short, two-season run has been more impactful years later than it ever was from 1966 through 1968.
The Monkees’ label, Colgems, briefly toyed with making this extremely trippy 1967 track the follow-up to “Pleasant Valley Sunday,” ultimately landing on the far more accessible “Daydream ...
The Monkees’ Micky Dolenz sued the Justice Department on Tuesday to try to get secret files the FBI compiled on the pop rock band while they protested the Vietnam War in their 1960s counter ...
The Monkees may not be seem like the kind of band that would attract the FBI’s attention, especially during a time when groups like Country Joe and the Fish and the MC5 were leading the ...
The Monkees were the creation of filmmaker Bob Rafelson and his producing partner Bert Schneider. Rafelson’s original idea for a fictional rock band predated the success of the Beatles, but the ...
The Monkees consisted of four fresh-faced actors who were hired through newspaper ads in the 1960s to star in a TV series about a fictional rock band made up of goofballs. But in their heyday, few … ...
2 of The Monkees’ songwriters left the band’s production company. Bobby Hart co-wrote many Monkees songs with Tommy Boyce, such as “Last Train to Clarksville,” “I Wanna Be Free,” and ...
The Monkees’ self-titled debut album established a sound for the band that straddled the lines between pop rock and country. The group got a tad heavier with their second album, More of the Monkees.
The Monkees — Micky Dolenz, Michael Nesmith, Peter Tork — celebrate 50th anniversary with a new archival LP.
PHOTOS: The Monkees at the Greek. Toward the end of the two-hour show, in the midst of a lengthy sequence devoted to the group’s trippy 1968 film “Head,” Nesmith uttered a phrase that might ...