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 ...
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 ...
Whenever “Hey, hey, we’re the Monkees” reverberated from TV sets throughout American neighborhoods in 1966, excited youngsters settled themselves before the screen awaiting a half-hour of madcap ...
“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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Micky Dolenz didn’t get out much in 1966. Dolenz spent his days filming “The Monkees” TV show with Davy Jones, Michael Nesmith and Peter Tork, and his nights laying down vocals for albums “The Monkees ...