How did The Monkees get involved with ‘Head’? The last episode of The Monkees Emmy-winning television show aired in March 1968, during its second and final filming season. Moreover, the world’s ...

The Monkees‘ songs are very different from Neil Young’s songs. Despite this, Young and another notable guitarist performed on one of the Prefab Four’s tracks. Notably, the tune appeared in The Monkees ...

Peter Mills, in addition to being an author, is also Senior Lecturer in Media and Popular Culture at Leeds Beckett University. He has used The Monkees’ bizarre 1968 film Head in his teaching. It’s ...

While the 1960s was a flourishing time for music both in America and abroad with the British Invasion, The Monkees still managed to carve a lane all their own. Introduced to audiences via The Monkees ...

It’s surprisingly difficult to come up with a definitive ranking of the Monkees’ songs. I mean, it’s hard to come up with a ranking of any popular band’s songs, but I think the Monkees pose a ...

The late Michael Nesmith loved returning to the Monkees and the foursome’s hit catalog in recent years as a celebration of his friendship with Mickey Dolenz. But during his tenure with the Monkees in ...

Micky Dolenz is the last of The Monkees, that madcap quartet who took pop culture by storm in the 1960s. A made-for-TV band, The Monkees had four albums hit #1 in 1967 – a feat not even a real band ...

The Monkees may be more known from their ’60s “television show about a band,” but they made some outstanding and underrated records. Their catalog is very diverse. Bubblegum, psychedelia, vaudeville, ...

The world of pop music just lost one of its quiet powerhouses. Bobby Hart, half of the famed songwriting duo Boyce and Hart, has passed away at the age of 86. If you’ve ever found yourself humming ...

The late Michael Nesmith loved returning to the Monkees and the foursome’s hit catalog in recent years as a celebration of his friendship with Mickey Dolenz. But during his tenure with the Monkees in ...