Which came first, the Monkees’ music or television show? After hiring Nesmith, Davy Jones, Peter Tork, and Micky Dolenz as The Monkees stars, producers worked on creating music that would push forward ...
Over 50 years earlier, NBC cast four young men in a television series featuring a struggling rock band. The Monkees found inspiration from The Beatles film A Hard Day’s Night. Nesmith and Dolenz ...
The late Michael Nesmith loved returning to the Monkees and the foursome’s hit catalog in recent years as a celebration of his friendship with Mickey Dolenz. But during his tenure with the Monkees in ...
Michael Nesmith, who died Friday at his California home of heart failure at age 78, never lost his ambivalence about his best-known musical endeavor: The Monkees. On the one hand, most people know him ...
Michael Nesmith, the Grammy-winning, wool-capped singer and guitarist of the Monkees and a pioneer of the music video, died today of natural causes his home in Carmel Valley, CA, his family has ...
The late Michael Nesmith loved returning to the Monkees and the foursome’s hit catalog in recent years as a celebration of his friendship with Mickey Dolenz. But during his tenure with the Monkees in ...