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- With widespread allegations that the band members did not play their own instruments—followed by the cancellation of The Monkees TV series, diminishing success on the charts, and waning popularity overall—band members began to leave the group. The Monkees held a final recording session in 1970 before breaking up.
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Jul 12, 2021 · Micky Dolenz and Michael Nesmith will help fans say farewell to the Monkees this fall with a final run of dates. Truthfully, however, any of their previous treks could have been the last. “Every...
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Micky Dolenz is not sure he has fully grasped the idea of...
- Micky Dolenz on Continuing the Monkees’ Legacy: Interview
Over the subsequent 35 years, the Monkees intermittently reunited for reunion tours, a major-network television special, and the production of new studio albums. After the deaths of Jones in 2012 and Tork in 2019, Dolenz and Nesmith undertook a farewell tour in 2021.
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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...
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Dec 10, 2021 · Michael Nesmith, singer, guitarist and songwriter with 1960s pop group The Monkees, has died at the age of 78. The quartet enjoyed hits like Daydream Believer and I'm A Believer, and starred in...
Dec 11, 2021 · Monkees’ Manager on Michael Nesmith’s Final Months: ‘He Died Knowing They Were Beloved — He Finally Got It’. Andrew Sandoval talks about how the drive to go out and say thank you to the fans on...
Apr 24, 2023 · Micky Dolenz is not sure he has fully grasped the idea of being the last member of the Monkees hanging around after the deaths of his three bandmates, most recently Mike Nesmith at the end of...
Dec 10, 2021 · Michael Nesmith, singer, guitarist and songwriter with 1960s pop group The Monkees, has died at the age of 78. The quartet enjoyed hits like Daydream Believer and I'm A Believer, and starred in...
