When The Monkees producers Bob Rafelson and Bert Schneider conceived what would eventually become the television show, little did they know their wordplay would generate a group of enduring ...

Before founding Buffalo Springfield and Crosby, Stills, and Nash, Stephen Stills took a shot and tried to join this classic ...

When The Monkees reunited for a 20th anniversary tour in the mid 1980s, Nesmith didn't participate. After Jones died in 2012, ...

Micky Dolenz is headed on the road to perform The Monkees third album Headquarters live. This watershed third Monkees LP proved the band was more than a made-for-television musical group. As the tour ...

The Monkees were one of the most beloved pop bands in the 1960s. Even with the “British Invasion” of the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Herman’s Hermits, the Zombies, and many others, The Monkees’ Davy ...

Mike Nesmith officially ended his tenure with the Monkees during an April 14, 1970, commercial for Kool-Aid and Nerf balls. Fittingly, he signed off by saying "Enerf's enerf!" At that point, the band ...

Some things can’t be explained. Take The Monkees. In the mid-sixties, a comedic television show parodying a struggling rock band living on a California beach unexpectedly caught fire on NBC, the host ...

Band member Michael Nesmith led a rebellion against music impresario Don Kirshner, who oversaw their early recordings and kept his hand on the pipeline of pop songs flowing to the Monkees from ...

Early on in his life as one-fourth of the Monkees, Peter Tork learned a cruel truth about the gargantuan gulf between image and reality in Hollywood. He dutifully arrived at a recording studio one day ...

Two decades after their original formation and launch of their TV show, the Monkees came roaring back to life in 1986. And it was all thanks to MTV, after the network aired a marathon of the series on ...