And in the midst of it all, there were the Monkees. Micky Dolenz ... in part, to amazing songs written by talented writers like Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart, Neil Diamond, John Stewart (of the ...

22. 'You Just May Be the One' (1967) Nesmith wrote more Monkees songs than any other member of the group, although the show’s producers foolishly rejected “Different Drum,” a Nesmith song ...

According to The Billboard Book of Number 1 Hits, Little Eva’s “The Loco-Motion” topped the Billboard Hot 100 for a week in 1962. The track’s success was not a huge surprise. Early 1960s radio was ...

The title of Justus was a reference to the fact that, for the first time, The Monkees wrote all the songs for one of their albums. No one was there in the studio with them, with the exception of ...

Micky Dolenz is headed to Mesa with a show called Mickey Dolenz: Songs and Stories. And it makes perfect sense that the last Monkee standing would find himself gravitating toward a storyteller ...

In this Tapioca Tundra of a world, it’s a blessing when you can find a kindred spirit. I knew I’d done that in college in the ...

“The Monkees was more than the four of us,” Dolenz ... permission to go in the studio and record our own stuff, our own songs — the instrumentation, the production, the album cover, the ...