I don't think, as a teenage fangirl, that I realized exactly how bitter, how cynical, how teeth-grittingly furious the Monkees' 1968 movie Head is. How it starts with — more or less — a suicide: Micky ...

1968 saw the beginning of what would become the end of The Monkees. Their NBC television series was canceled. The movie they were working on with a young Jack Nicholson (the bizarre Head) had been ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Michael Nesmith, who attained TV and pop stardom in the Monkees and later became a prophetic figure on the Los Angeles ...

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 ...

Hey, hey, they were the Monkees, and by 1968 they were sick and tired of their manufactured boy-band image, so they took a sledgehammer to it in... I don't think, as a teenage fangirl, that I realized ...

The Monkees TV series featured countless guest stars, but one music icon famously crashed an episode, creating an unforgettable television moment. Zappa built a career on defying convention, yet even ...

In Head, the Monkees made a play for creative and cultural respect. Did it work? No. Was it a strangely great movie? Heck yeah. I don't think, as a teenage fangirl, that I realized exactly how bitter, ...