This band was feeling like 'jaded old men' when they wrote the song.

“It was a hell of a shock,” says Monkees singer and drummer Micky Dolenz about the loss of bandmate Davy Jones, who suffered a fatal heart attack in February 2012. But the passing of the British-born ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. After working with The Monkees, producer Don Kirshner wanted a change of pace, with a band that "wouldn't talk back," so he ...

Mike Nesmith had an upfront seat to the madness that was The Monkees. The band and its members, Nesmith, Davy Jones, Peter Tork, and Micky Dolenz, subsequently topped the Billboard charts and ...

The Monkees scored four No. 1 albums in 1967, as well as one massive Billboard Hot 100 hit — but it was never supposed to ...

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 ...

Micky Dolenz is the last Monkee standing. That makes his current tour a bittersweet affair for the 78-year-old music, TV and film veteran, whose “The Monkees Celebrated by Micky Dolenz” tour includes ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the crowded landscape of 1960s pop music, few achievements still feel as startling decades later as this one: The Monkees once ...

The Monkees guitarist Mike Nesmith has long been applauded for his fusion of rock and country music as far back as the late 1960s. However, Nesmith squashed the idea he was a “pioneer” of country rock ...

The Monkees were a prefab rock band created by TV executives for an eponymous sitcom that ran from 1966 to 1968. During that time, the group racked up six top 10 hits on the Billboard Hot 100, ...

While the 1960s was a flourishing time for music both in America and abroad with the British Invasion, The Monkees still managed to carve a lane all their own. Introduced to audiences via The Monkees ...