The Monkees’ label, Colgems, briefly toyed with making this extremely trippy 1967 track the follow-up to “Pleasant Valley Sunday,” ultimately landing on the far more accessible “Daydream Believer,” ...

The Monkees and punk rock debuted in the same year: 1966. The two battled for chart supremacy. Interestingly, Jim Morrison of The Doors had a similar view of both. 1 of the masterminds behind the 1st ...

The Monkees‘ song “I Wanna Be Free,” released in 1966, is a standout song in the band’s catalog. It wasn’t as big of a hit as some of their other songs. “I Wanna Be Free” is a track that deserved more ...

In 1966, the world was introduced to the television show The Monkees. While decades later bands like the Backstreet Boys and NSYNC would be put together for pop fame, the Los Angeles-born group The ...

The death of Davy Jones from a heart attack at the age of 66 earlier today (February 29) came as a massive shock. Alongside Americans Micky Dolenz, Michael Nesmith and Peter Tork, the Manchester-born ...

The Monkees were widely accused of ripping off The Beatles. “Ripping-off” was usually too strong a word for the inspiration that the Prefab Four took from the Fab Four, but the word applied well to a ...

Micky Dolenz is headed to Mesa with a show called Mickey Dolenz: Songs and Stories. And it makes perfect sense that the last Monkee standing would find himself gravitating toward a storyteller format ...

Bobby Hart, one half of the legendary songwriting partnership Boyce and Hart who crafted some of The Monkees' most memorable hits including their famous theme tune, has died at the age of 86. The ...

Bucks Burnett isn’t a journalist. He’s a namedropper. He may not have met every one of his music idols, but he’s met 90 percent of them. And he’s here to tell you all about it, however he sees fit, in ...