When The Monkees producers Bob Rafelson and Bert Schneider conceived what would eventually become the television show, little did they know their wordplay would generate a group of enduring ...

The Monkees were one of the most successful bands of the 1960s. Sixty years later, their made-for-TV backstory didn’t hurt them in a ranking list of the top Los Angeles-based bands of the era. In ...

The Monkees may be the most successful producer-arranged band of all time. The band started as a group of actors hired for a television show about a band. The comedy series, titled The Monkees, led to ...

During the '60s, the Monkees belted out family-friendly tunes that managed to sum up young love in all its bittersweet glory, ...

Some things can’t be explained. Take The Monkees. In the mid-sixties, a comedic television show parodying a struggling rock band living on a California beach unexpectedly caught fire on NBC, the host ...

The Monkees closed out 1966 with a bang. Fifty-nine years ago, the beloved pop-rock band—which featured Micky Dolenz, Peter Tork, Michael Nesmith, and Davy Jones—ended a very successful year with the ...

The Monkees consisted of four fresh-faced actors who were hired through newspaper ads in the 1960s to star in a TV series about a fictional rock band made up of goofballs. But in their heyday, few in ...

He’s no longer monkeying around. The Monkees’ Micky Dolenz sued the Justice Department on Tuesday to try to get secret files the FBI compiled on the pop rock band while they protested the Vietnam War ...

Initially a chart flop, one track decrying the commercialization of rock and roll became a favorite among future rock stars.

Ruth is a correspondent who covers TV shows such as Younger, Jersey Shore and The Affair. She will write you a drinking game for any show you want and will remain loyal to Britney Spears no matter how ...

The 80s proved a fertile breeding ground for unlikely comeback stories. When The Monkees came busting back onto the scene in the mid-80s, it just might have been the unlikeliest of all. They even made ...

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