Micky Dolenz says the Monkees weren't a band, they were a TV show about a band. The Beatles got it. To John Lennon, they were ...

To this day, it feels like The Monkees have never received their due. Granted, they were manufactured in the beginning. But ...

Here’s a look at how The Doors inspired this track. The Monkees’ self-titled debut album established a sound for the band that straddled the lines between pop rock and country. The group got a ...

there were the Monkees. Micky Dolenz, Michael Nesmith, Peter Tork, and Davy Jones, first came together as the cast of a TV show (which aired from 1966 to 1968), then later became a real band.

The Monkees‘ hardest-rocking hit might be “(I’m Not Your) Steppin’ Stone.” Surprisingly, the song was originally by another classic rock band. The band in question didn’t give “(I’ ...

His song “Cherry Cherry” made it to #6, and Don Kirshner, producer of The Monkees, heard it on the ... your prefabricated mid-’60s sitcom boy band, “I’m A Believer” is your platonic ...

A look into the effect the monkees had on music TV, from their 1960s heyday to the role Michael Nesmith had in conceptualising what would later become MTV ...

The band name TrueVines may not immediately ring a bell. But if you know the local scene and have a thing for great ...

but Dolenz doesn’t hesitate in calling “The Monkees” a television series, not a band … at least initially. “I’ve felt the same way about it from the first audition until this moment ...

Music legend Micky Dolenz is getting sentimental on his new “songs and stories” tour and with it he’s bringing his long ...

So the Beatles got it. They got what the Monkees were, which was a TV show. It was not a band. It was not a group. It was a television show about a group. And then it did become a group and go out ...