Nesmith went on to revisit the song with his post-Monkees country-rock group, the First National Band, sans horns, in 1970. Another Andy Partridge composition, “Unwrap You at Christmas” opens ...

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

The Monkees‘ songs don’t get classified as punk rock ... The Monkees’ self-titled debut album established a sound for the band that straddled the lines between pop rock and country.

And in the midst of it all, there were the Monkees. Micky Dolenz ... to 1968), then later became a real band. They recorded a collection of chart-topping songs and would end up touring all ...

“The Monkees Celebrated by Micky Dolenz.” There was plenty of old footage and some funny stories, but not at the expense of the music. The band performed more than 25 songs over two hour ...

The Monkees' only theatrically-released movie, 'Head', was a middle finger to Hollywood from someone who changed movies.

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 ...

Frankie Avalon- Venus (#46): The original, from 1959, was Avalon's best song, and was recorded in nice stereo. This is an attempt to hop on the disco bandwagon, with some generic disco musicianship.

Some of those songs Dolenz hadn’t performed for decades ... it from the first audition until this moment — The Monkees was not a band in any classic sense. It was a television show about ...

A Groovy Kind of Love” is a brand-new song to me in this year of 2025, as I had never heard of “The Mindbenders,” at least not until I landed […] ...

Music legend Micky Dolenz is getting sentimental on his new “songs and stories” tour and with it he’s bringing his long history in rock and roll to Arizona – where he also has plenty of history.