Hey hey it's the Monkees, and they're back on TV! The Smithsonian Channel's new documentary "Making the Monkees" takes a look into one of the biggest musical sensations of the 1960s. In November 1965, ...

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Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart were a songwriting duo known as Boyce and Hart. The duo wrote a number of The Monkees’ songs, including “(I’m Not Your) Steppin’ Stone,” “Last Train to Clarksville,” “I ...

The stigma, which shadowed the Monkees throughout their original run from 1966 to 1970, was that the group was not assembled organically. The same could be said, however, for the Sex Pistols, who were ...

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 ...

The Monkees’ theme inspired the most successful song by a 2000s band. A music executive thought the 2000s song was much older because of its style. The track in question was a bigger hit than The ...

Being a Monkee was always more complicated than it looked from the outside. The Monkees were history’s most famous made-for-TV band, a virtuous counter to ’60s counterculture. They broke up for the ...

Hey hey, they’re the Monkees. But not for much longer. With their other two partners gone — Davy Jones in 2012 and Peter Tork in 2019 — Micky Dolenz and Michael Nesmith have decided to close the cage ...

Frank Zappa was known as a bold and unpredictable artist who never played by the music industry's rules. It was that same fearless unpredictability that made his guest spot on The Monkees so ...

In 1966, a group of scruffy television execs created a situation comedy that combined Top 40 music with a silly avant-garde look, and years of subsequent syndication testify to the fact that this ...

As this year’s edition of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony gets underway on Saturday, April 14, the focus won’t be so much on who is being inducted but who isn’t: the Monkees. It took ...