The Monkees‘ album The Monkees was a massive success. The Prefab Four’s regular songwriters created a whole other band to work on that album. Subsequently, one of the songs from The Monkees ...

The Monkees were the creation of filmmaker Bob Rafelson and his producing partner Bert Schneider. Rafelson’s original idea for a fictional rock band predated the success of the Beatles, but the ...

Mike Nesmith always believed that, left to their own devices, The Monkees would have evolved into a music group akin to a great garage band. He always knew the group was tight musically due to ...

The great charm of the Monkees rock band is that they have never taken themselves too seriously. They first hit America’s music scene back in 1966, as a goofy, wise-cracking ...