In 1967, The Monkees achieved a chart record that remains unbroken 58 years later. In 1967, the band created for the television series of the same name released four albums in just one year, and each ...
The Monkees ’ 1986 reunion was a surprise to fans and to the band’s members, who hadn’t expected the overwhelming response and renewed interest in their music after 16 years. Subsequently, only half ...
Nearly six decades later, Micky Dolenz still remembers the excitement and uncertainty surrounding The Monkees' first single release. This month marks the anniversary of "Last Train to Clarksville" ...
NEW YORK — Bobby Hart, a key part of the Monkees’ multimedia empire who teamed with Tommy Boyce on such hits as “Last Train to Clarksville” and “I’m Not Your Steppin’ Stone,” has died. He was 86. Hart ...
“Check this out — yesterday in 1965, I got my original contract for The Monkees pilot!” the 80-year-old singer wrote. “I was paid a whopping $600 for the pilot, and if the show got picked up, my ...
The Doors and The Monkees were two of the bands that helped define rock in the 1960s. Despite this, The Doors' Jim Morrison didn't see The Monkees as his peers.
Peter Tork, a struggling musician who became an overnight teenage idol in the 1960s with The Monkees, died Thursday at a family home in eastern Connecticut. He was 77. A Anita Gates Follow His son, ...
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 underdog really made it out on top when these three now-famous songs topped the Billboard charts in the 1960s.
The television Western was among the most popular sort of program to air on the Big Three in the 1960s. Even in an age of pop music, the sexual revolution, and civil rights, most audiences flocked to ...