New Year’s Day 1967. Sunday. I was one of four 13-year-old little girls from Shelbyville, dropped off at the Nashville Municipal Auditorium early in the day for the Monkees concert that evening. We ...

Whenever “Hey, hey, we’re the Monkees” reverberated from TV sets throughout American neighborhoods in 1966, excited youngsters settled themselves before the screen awaiting a half-hour of madcap ...

Much has been written about the Monkees over the years, but much of it has been ill-informed and based on rumor rather than fact. The biggest slight that has been repeatedly thrown at the band is that ...

Last week, The Monkees’ Micky Dolenz filed a lawsuit to retrieve his records — and not the wax kind that spin on a turntable. As the Washington Post reported Aug. 30, Dolenz has sued the Justice ...

The world of pop music just lost one of its quiet powerhouses. Bobby Hart, half of the famed songwriting duo Boyce and Hart, has passed away at the age of 86. If you’ve ever found yourself humming ...

After answering a casting call for “4 insane boys,” Davy Jones, Micky Dolenz, Peter Tork and Mike Nesmith were selected to portray The Monkees, whose similarities to The Beatles were entirely ...

Jack was fabulous,” said Peter Tork. “We adored him, all of us. Michael practically fell in love with him, in a manly sort of ...