As their tour wound down at Berkeley’s Greek Theatre in the fall of 2021, Micky Dolenz didn’t know it would be the last time he’d perform with fellow Monkee Mike Nesmith. “He was a little bit frail, ...

The Beatles may have popularised the zany band movie in the 60s, but The Monkees killed the genre stone dead with ‘Head’: the weirdest pop movie ever made. You can accuse popular 60s beat combo The ...

His death leaves Micky Dolenz as the only living member of The Monkees. Michael Nesmith, singer, guitarist and songwriter for The Monkees who went on to become a respected songwriter, producer and a ...

Micky Dolenz of the Monkees will play at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 10 at the Performing Arts Center of Kent State Tuscarawas in New Phildelphia. The show will feature personal stories and the Monkees hits like ...

To be fair, nobody really knows why anything connects with the audience in the way that it does, and why one piece of pop culture entertainment becomes a phenomenon while others don't. The Monkees TV ...

'West Side Story' and 'Oklahoma!' are classic musicals. The Monkees' Micky Dolenz memorized their soundtrack albums and those albums influenced his work. “My father was the one who got me playing ...

The Monkees told the story of four young musicians who lived together in a California beach house. The series had a light touch. The series took a lot of its comedy from the legendary Marx Brothers.

And then there was one. Micky Dolenz is the last surviving member of the Monkees, those irresistible 1960s stars of stage and screen unfairly derided as a “Prefab Four.” With the benefit of time, we ...

Marvin Gaye. Jimi Hendrix. The Beatles. John Denver. The Monkees. All successful musical acts … with FBI files. In this week’s episode of Late Edition: Crime Beat Chronicles, the Tulsa World’s Randy ...

With nearly 60 years of hindsight, having the Jimi Hendrix Experience open for the Monkees back in 1967 was clearly not a good idea. Then again, it should have seemed so at the time — but not to Micky ...

Peter Tork, the bassist for 1960s rock favorites the Monkees, is dead at 77. Tork's cause of death is not yet public, though he was diagnosed with a rare tongue cancer, adenoid cystic carcinoma, in ...