The Monkees leads were hired to portray a band on television. However, they also had an abundance of musical talent. Therefore, it was bound to come to pass that Davy Jones, Mike Nesmith, Micky Dolenz ...
The Monkees have a few hit singles which receive airplay to this day. That’s more than most bands from the 1960s can say. However, this obscures how huge they were at their peak. These numbers make ...
The Monkees reached their creative zenith in 1967 on their third LP Headquarters, which marked the first time the made-for-TV band was given complete control of a project, and Micky Dolenz is ...
People initially labelled them a fabricated band, but we’ve got the Monkees to thank for being pop's first ever synth players ...
The Monkees appeared live on "Good Morning America" today. — -- After five decades, the Monkees are still monkeying around. The group performed live on TV this morning, for the first time since ...
The other day at The Record Room I found a mint copy of The Monkees’ Instant Replay on Colgems. It was the last album I needed to complete my collection of early-era Monkees records; the first LP they ...
The impact of the show alone should be enough to warrant their induction. And the catalog they left behind is every bit as worthy of the honor, from those first four albums, all of which hit No. 1, ...
On their new album, he said, “Rhino and the producer wanted to document Mike and I doing the show for heritage sake. We were getting such great reaction from the fans that they planned on recording ...