After answering a casting call for “4 insane boys,” Davy Jones, Micky Dolenz, Peter Tork and Mike Nesmith were selected to portray The Monkees, whose similarities to The Beatles were entirely ...

Peter Tork might start laughing Wednesday night. It will come without warning, provoked by a quick glance, a smirk or a goofy gesture from his lifelong friend and Monkees bandmate Micky Dolenz. You ...

Death Cab for Cutie's Ben Gibbard wrote a song for The Monkees' new album, titled Good Times! NPR's Stephen Thompson shares "Me & Magdalena" with... Hey, Hey, It's 50 Years Of The Monkees! The ...

Much has been written about the Monkees over the years, but much of it has been ill-informed and based on rumor rather than fact. The biggest slight that has been repeatedly thrown at the band is that ...

“Hey Hey, We’re the Monkees” was a familiar tune that drew us all to our black-and-white television sets with the “bunny-ear” antenna and crumpled aluminum foil at the ends on Monday nights in 1966 ...

Last week, The Monkees’ Micky Dolenz filed a lawsuit to retrieve his records — and not the wax kind that spin on a turntable. As the Washington Post reported Aug. 30, Dolenz has sued the Justice ...

The world of pop music just lost one of its quiet powerhouses. Bobby Hart, half of the famed songwriting duo Boyce and Hart, has passed away at the age of 86. If you’ve ever found yourself humming ...

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In 1966, the world was introduced to the television show The Monkees. While decades later bands like the Backstreet Boys and NSYNC would be put together for pop fame, the Los Angeles-born group The ...

Monkees singer and songwriter Michael Nesmith died on Friday, December 10. Nesmith, who was a founding member of the 1960s pop group, was 78. “With Infinite Love we announce that Michael Nesmith has ...

New Year’s Day 1967. Sunday. I was one of four 13-year-old little girls from Shelbyville, dropped off at the Nashville Municipal Auditorium early in the day for the Monkees concert that evening. We ...