When The Monkees producers Bob Rafelson and Bert Schneider conceived what would eventually become the television show, little did they know their wordplay would generate a group of enduring ...
Micky Dolenz is headed on the road to perform The Monkees third album Headquarters live. This watershed third Monkees LP proved the band was more than a made-for-television musical group. As the tour ...
Playing on stage is not stopping anytime soon for Dolenz. This month, he announced the 60 Years of The Monkees tour for 2026, ...
To be fair, nobody really knows why anything connects with the audience in the way that it does, and why one piece of pop culture entertainment becomes a phenomenon while others don't. The Monkees TV ...
It’s been 50 years since The Monkees appeared in a psychedelic movie titled “Head” in 1968, but bandmate Micky Dolenz still doesn’t know what it’s all about. “I wish I knew,” the 73-year-old told ...
Peter Tork, the bassist for The Monkees, has died at age 77. Tork's death was announced on his official Facebook page The REAL Peter Tork on Thursday. "It is with beyond-heavy and broken hearts that ...
Plenty of musicians spoke out against and wrote songs about the Vietnam War during the late 1960s — it was part of the counterculture. Apparently, the FBI kept a close eye on these artists, one of ...
Two decades after their original formation and launch of their TV show, the Monkees came roaring back to life in 1986. And it was all thanks to MTV, after the network aired a marathon of the series on ...
The Monkees may be gearing up for their farewell tour, but don’t expect Micky Dolenz to retire anytime soon. This September, the 76-year-old will reunite with Mike Nesmith, the other surviving member ...
Band member Michael Nesmith led a rebellion against music impresario Don Kirshner, who oversaw their early recordings and kept his hand on the pipeline of pop songs flowing to the Monkees from ...
Micky Dolenz marked the 60th anniversary of 'The Monkees' by sharing rare photos from the show’s pilot and reflecting on the ...
It's easy to dismiss The Monkees as a "made for TV" rock band. But they are so much more. The group members are pictured here at the 1967 Emmy Awards, from left to right, Mike Nesmith, Davy Jones, ...