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Micky Dolenz, the last surviving member of The Monkees, was part of a unique band of entertainers who continue to have a great impact on both the music and television industries for nearly 60 years.

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 ...

When Beatlemania was sweeping the world in the 1960s, some American TV producers decided to create their own version of the Beatles. Thus, the Monkees were born. Soon, the first band created for TV ...

A fictional TV quartet seemingly created to take advantage of Beatlemania, The Monkees took flight from their manufactured beginnings to become a legitimate band and one of the top-selling acts in the ...

Micky Dolenz is celebrating his late Monkees bandmates Davy Jones, Mike Nesmith and Peter Tork with a sentimental 60th ...

The Monkees music came from the cream of contemporary songwriters in the ’60s in that period just before songwriters increasingly began to sing their own work. Neil Diamond, Carole King, Tommy Boyce ...

“MOVIES WITH…,” a new one-hour weekly podcast series, debuted last month, the first episode featuring Micky Dolenz, last surviving member of The Monkees. The shows, produced by the NJR Media Group, ...

The series took on NBC's censors in 1967 during a Season 2 episode titled "The Devil and Peter Tork.” It was a rare example of a lighthearted sitcom openly testing broadcast standards in the late ...

9-11-66: Del Mar was renamed “Clarksville” for the day, as part of a promotion for The Monkees TV show, which would debut the following night. The Sunday event marked the first time the foursome ever ...

The Monkees weren’t like most other bands from the 1960s. It wasn’t started by its members. Entertainment industry insiders Bob Rafelson and Bert Schneider came up with the idea for the band before ...