The Monkees were widely accused of ripping off The Beatles. "Ripping-off" was usually too strong a word for the inspirat ...

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 ...

The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame’s continued snubbing of the Monkees is, of course, beyond ridiculous. The impact of the show alone should be enough to warrant their induction. And the catalog they ...

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 ...

For example, Little Eva’s “The Loco-Motion” was written ... The Monkees’ “Pleasant Valley Sunday,” and The Shirelles’ “Will You Love Me Tomorrow.” While those songs are all ...

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 ...