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Micky Dolenz is an American musician and actor, best known as a member of the Monkees. Learn about his life, career, discography, filmography, and personal life on this comprehensive Wikipedia page.
Micky Dolenz is an actor, producer, director, and singer best known as a member of The Monkees. Learn about his life, career, achievements, and projects on IMDb, the world's most popular and authoritative source for movie, TV, and celebrity content.
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- Los Angeles, California, USA
- 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
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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...
Micky Dolenz, 77, is the only member of the Monkees left after Michael Nesmith's death in 2021. He talks about his career, the TV show, the music and his solo tour this month.
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- Ed Masley
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Singer Musician Actor The Monkees.
Aug 31, 2022 · Micky Dolenz is the last surviving member of The Monkees. In the lawsuit, Mr Dolenz says he has "exhausted all necessary required administrative remedies" to access the files, after...
20 hours ago · Micky Dolenz in a publicity portrait for the TV series 'The Monkees', 1966. | Credit: Getty The Monkees were in a category all their own. Initially they weren't a band at all, just four guys who ...
Learn about the life and career of Micky Dolenz, the actor, singer, and director who was a member of The Monkees. Find out his achievements, awards, trivia, and upcoming projects on IMDb.
