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The Monkees' Mike Nesmith dies at age 78
The news comes less than a month after Nesmith wrapped the Monkees’ farewell tour with an emotional gig in L.A., during which he broke into tears several times.
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Micky Dolenz recalls ill-fated Monkees tour with opening act Jimi Hendrix: ‘Yeah, it was kind of embarrassing’
"All I knew was, I liked it. And to this day, I don't care much what people thought," Dolenz says of how teenybopper fans treated the then-little-known guitar god in 1967.
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The Monkees’ Peter Tork dies at age 77
Peter Tork, the endearingly goofy musician and actor who came to fame in the 1960s as a member of the Zeitgeist-capturing television rock band the Monkees, has passed away at age 77. While no cause of death has yet been confirmed, Tork was diagnosed with a rare form of tongue cancer, adenoid cystic carcinoma, in 2009.
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'Head' trip: How the Monkees and Jack Nicholson shattered the 4th wall and the Hollywood mold 50 years ago
In 1968, “the most extraordinary adventure western comedy love story mystery drama musical documentary satire ever filmed" detonated the Monkees' careers, but ushered in the New Hollywood era and kickstarted the career of a future Oscar-winning actor.
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Watch Micky Dolenz perform for the first time with the New Monkees... and with Catherine Bach
It took 31 years, a worthy cause, and Daisy Duke to bring an original Monkee and members of the New Monkees together.
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Turn it up: An oral history of the forgotten New Monkees
Thirty years ago, in September 1987, Columbia Pictures Television and Straybert Productions (headed by Steve Blauner, a former partner of original Monkees producers Robert Rafelson and Bert Schneider) monkeyed around with an old showbiz formula. Attempting to capitalize on the nostalgia sparked by MTV’s Monkees marathon the previous year (which had inspired original band members Micky Dolenz, Davy Jones, and Peter Tork to reunite for a hugely successful tour), Columbia and Straybert controversi
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Watch Mike Nesmith Play His Final Concert With The Monkees
SEPTEMBER 16: (L – R) Musicians Michael Nesmith, Micky Dolenz and Peter Tork of The Monkees perform at the Pantages Theatre on September 16, 2016 in Hollywood, California. On Friday, Sept. 16, four days after the 50th anniversary of the Monkees’ groundbreaking television show, on/off band member Mike Nesmith joined his fellow Monkee men Micky Dolenz and Peter Tork for what he said would his last-ever Monkees show — fittingly in Hollywood, where it all began for the TV band, at the 2,700 seat Pa
