In the mid-1960s, The Monkees shot to fame with hit records fueled by their self-titled TV show. The pop-rock band, which featured Micky Dolenz, Davy Jones, Michael Nesmith, and Peter Tork, scored ...

One of the Monkees most catchy and enduring songs was written by none other than Neil Diamond. The track was a No. 1 hit for ...

The Beatles‘ “A Day in the Life” is the band’s magnum opus because of the way it combines multiple genres and tones to create a miniature symphony. Interestingly, The Monkees released a song with a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Monkees were one of the most successful bands of the 1960s. Sixty years later, their made-for-TV backstory didn’t hurt them in ...

In 1966, the world was introduced to the television show The Monkees. While decades later bands like the Backstreet Boys and NSYNC would be put together for pop fame, the Los Angeles-born group The ...

The Monkees were widely accused of ripping off The Beatles. “Ripping-off” was usually too strong a word for the inspiration that the Prefab Four took from the Fab Four, but the word applied well to a ...

Mickey Dolenz says The Monkees was "heavily weighted toward improvisation" rather than musicality. The 80-year-old drummer - who is the only surviving member of the I'm A Believer hitmakers, which ...

Musician-songwriter Bobby Hart, half of a composer duo who penned the Monkees’ theme song and many of the group’s mega-hits, has died. He was 86. His friend and co-author, Glenn Ballantyne, said Hart ...