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

Not quite two weeks before the single was released, fans got an early taste of “Listen to the Band” on the Monkees television special “33 1/3 Revolutions Per Monkee.” The single peaked at No.

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 ...

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 ...

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’ ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...