The Monkees
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Instant Replay: Does Anyone Dare Remember The Monkees?
Interview by Harold Bronson, Coast, 1 September 1971
Here we come, Walkin' down the street.We get the funniest looksFrom everyone we meet. ...
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Profile by Louise Criscione, KRLA Beat, 10 September 1966
JUST PICTURE one very pretty princess who is about to become queen and one very jealous uncle who is determined to do her in before ...
Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 25 September 1966
Monkees Ape Their Betters ...
Profile by Louise Criscione, KRLA Beat, 19 November 1966
MOST GROUPS happen. The Monkees were made. If they weren't intentionally created, it is conceivable that they would not exist for it is highly unlikely ...
The Story Of Tommy Boyce And Bobby Hart
Report by Derek Taylor, World Countdown News, 1967
THE HOTEL CHESTERFIELD is not one of New York’s most majestic hotels, but it has a virtue prized by lyricists and tunesmiths for it is ...
The Monkees — They're What's Happening Baby!
Profile by Derek Taylor, Rave, January 1967
An exclusive story by Derek Taylor ...
The Monkees: Olympia Stadium, Detroit MI
Live Review by Loraine Alterman, Detroit Free Press, 15 January 1967
Monkees Swing into City And Put Teens in Frenzy ...
Monkees a Target on Stage — 'Please Don't Throw Things'
Report by Loraine Alterman, Detroit Free Press, 20 January 1967
SCREAMING. Jumping up on seats. Flashbulbs popping and then whizzing by onto the stage. Sobbing and hysteria. Police dragging kicking, clawing insanely crying girls out. ...
Their Buddy Tells You About the Real Monkees
Report by Loraine Alterman, Detroit Free Press, 20 January 1967
FOG DELAYED the plane carrying Mike Nesmith, Peter Tork, Davey Jones and Micky Dolenz to Detroit last Saturday. So the Monkees arrived only an hour ...
The Monkees: The Monkees (RCA)
Review by Penny Valentine, Disc and Music Echo, 21 January 1967
CATCHEE MONKEES — on their first great LP ...
Why All This Hoo-Ha About The Monkees?
Report and Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 21 January 1967
OH, THE bitchiness! Oh, the arguments! Oh, the rows! It's amazing how pop can still cause furore and uproar from one side of the Atlantic ...
The Monkees: Cow Palace, Daly City CA
Live Review by Philip Elwood, The San Francisco Examiner, 23 January 1967
A Gleeful Time With the Monkees Spoofing, Chatter Thrill Youngsters ...
Monkees Amid Controlled Confusion
Report by Louise Criscione, KRLA Beat, 11 February 1967
WHAT IS THIS, Knock The Monkees Year? Some sort of a giant conspiracy to destroy, devour and flush four people down the drain to wallow ...
I Was Hungry, Ugly, Skinny, Poor! By MIKE NESMITH
Interview by Ann Moses, New Musical Express, 18 February 1967
IT'S VERY hard for me to write about my life, since I can't remember farther back than two years! I don't think there's much of ...
Pop Eye — Ike & Tina Turner: 'River Deep, Mountain High' et al
Review by Richard Goldstein, The Village Voice, 23 February 1967
PHILLERS ...
Boyce and Hart: What It's Like Cutting The Monkees
Interview by Eden, KRLA Beat, 25 February 1967
"WE'VE HAD many, many funny experiences with the Monkees in the studio, beginning with the first session we ever had with them. We met them ...
Report and Interview by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 25 February 1967
DAVY JONES – the little Monkee with a big heart – arrived via Nassau last week wearing a battered black top hat, purchased from a ...
The Monkees: Monkee Davy Talks About The Beatles
Interview by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 4 March 1967
"GEORGEP AULJOHNRINGO," our very own pop monster, has now grown to that exalted position where it is a kind of sacred cow whom none may ...
Davy Jones: Davy Jones (Pye NPL 18178)
Review by Peter Jones, Record Mirror, 25 March 1967
Davy — What's his singing voice like? Here's the answer... ...
Mike Grant meets Davy Jones, the Mini Monkee
Interview by Mike Grant, Rave, April 1967
MY ADVICE to anyone thinking of making a "monkey" out of Davy Jones is to forget it! ...
The Monkees: More Of The Monkees (RCA)
Review by Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, 8 April 1967
IT'S A STRANGE thing to review an LP which you know will go to the top of the LP charts and sell a load of ...
Pop Concerts — Essential or Obsolete in '68?
Report by Tony Barrow, KRLA Beat, 20 May 1967
THE BEATLES have decided that it is no longer possible for them to gain anything other than dollars galore from putting on concert performances. ...
Film/DVD/TV Review by Alan Smith, New Musical Express, 27 May 1967
DAVY JONES is sitting in a chair facing the camera. His face has a rich brown tan, and his brown eyes and brown hair stand ...
The Monkees: Monkees' Headquarters
Review by June Harris, Tracy Thomas, New Musical Express, 27 May 1967
MONKEES' NEW LP TRACK-BY-TRACKFrom June Harris & Tracy Thomas in America ...
Interview by Dawn James, Rave, June 1967
Fans make success for a pop star — more than money, more than influence, more than talent. But what are fans? Why do they remain ...
The Monkees: Headquarters (Colgems); Moby Grape: Moby Grape (Columbia)
Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 18 June 1967
Monkees Upgrade Album Quality ...
The Monkees, Ike & Tina Turner: Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles CA
Live Review by Tracy Thomas, New Musical Express, 24 June 1967
WELCOME MONKEES! And here is a preview of what you may see at Wembley... ...
Tommy Boyce & Bobby Hart On Monkees, Music & Mayhem
Interview by Jim Delehant, Hit Parader, July 1967
Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart are responsible for a lot of Monkee music and soon, a lot of their own music. In the following interview ...
The Monkees: Empire Pool, Wembley, London
Live Review by Peter Jones, Record Mirror, 8 July 1967
CERTAINLY THE best-produced pop-music presentation I've ever seen — that's a summary of the Monkees in concert at the massive 10,000-seater Wembley Pool. Constant changes ...
Monterey Pop Festival: Inside Looking Out
Interview by uncredited writer, KRLA Beat, 15 July 1967
BEAT: Just wanted to get your comments on what's happening here in Monterey this weekend. ...
The Monkees, Jimi Hendrix Experience: Forest Hills Stadium, Queens NY
Live Review by Richard Goldstein, The Village Voice, 27 July 1967
DAVY JONES pretended to dip his microphone in a goblet of water. And Micky Dolenz admitted he had bought a Moog synthesizer ("I'm fooling around ...
Boyce & Hart On Monkees, Music & Mayhem (part 2)
Interview by Jim Delehant, Hit Parader, August 1967
IF YOU own the first two Monkees' albums, you know that Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart wrote 'Last Train To Clarksville', 'I'm Not Your Steppin' ...
Bob Rafelson: Man Behind The Monkees
Interview by Alan Smith, New Musical Express, 12 August 1967
Why I picked THESE four ...
The Monkees: Olympia Stadium, Detroit MI
Live Review by Loraine Alterman, Detroit Free Press, 14 August 1967
12,000 SHRIEKERS Monkees' Show is a Happening ...
New Singles from the Stones, Monkees, Jimi Hendrix et al
Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 19 August 1967
STONES — CONSIDERABLY TOO MUCH ...
It's Monkeeteers Now! — all forone and one for all
Interview by Alan Smith, New Musical Express, 30 September 1967
Says MONKEE friend, SAMANTHA JUSTE to ALAN SMITH ...
Interview by Alan Walsh, Melody Maker, 13 January 1968
IT WAS hard to tell Peter Tork from the mutter of a fierce press of journalists. ...
Jimi Hendrix Experience, Eric Burdon & the Animals: Anaheim Convention Centre, Anaheim CA
Live Review by Ann Moses, New Musical Express, 24 February 1968
Peter Tork gives party guests healthfood ...
The Monkees: Here is the most amazing article EVER-WRITTEN about a MONKEE
Report by Ann Moses, New Musical Express, 4 May 1968
Mike Nesmith wanted me to expose how rude he is reveals Ann Moses in this NMExclusive from Hollywood. ...
Interview by Alan Walsh, Melody Maker, 1 June 1968
MICKEY DOLENZ reveals their plans for a change of image in the future ...
The Monkees: Question Time With Monkee Davy
Interview by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 6 July 1968
BEFORE Davy Jones completed his famous disappearing trick and returned to America, I joined the hordes of reporters and photographers waiting to see "Mighty-Monkee" at ...
A Very Personal Day With The Monkees!
Report by Carol Deck, Flip, August 1968
CAROL DECK (FLIP'S GIRL IN HOLLYWOOD) TAKES YOU ALONG TO SPEND A DAY ON THE MAD, MAD SET OF THE MONKEES' MOVIE! ...
Interview by Mike Grant, Rave, August 1968
HAVE YOU ever wondered what its like to hardly ever finish a meal in peace without someone thrusting an autograph book under your nose – ...
Mike Nesmith Tells It Like It Really Is!
Interview by Carol Deck, Flip, December 1968
MIKE NESMITH has always been the most outspoken of the Monkees, but in this exclusive FLIP interview Mike reveals an astonishing honesty and candor about ...
Interview by Gene Guerrero, The Great Speckled Bird, 20 September 1971
MIKE NESMITH was a member of the Monkees, now he's doing his own thing, come see him at the press party at the Bistro. That's ...
Don Kirshner: I Discovered Carole King
Interview by James Johnson, New Musical Express, 12 February 1972
THEY MOST often call Don Kirshner the King of Bubble-gum. But he's not worrying. Sitting high in his suite at the Dorchester he has the ...
Retrospective by Ken Barnes, Who Put The Bomp!, 1976
I WROTE A prototype version of this piece in 1973, at a time when admitting you liked the Monkees was about as cool as driving ...
Michael Nesmith: On The Road To ‘Rio’
Interview by John Tobler, ZigZag, May 1977
IT WAS INEVITABLE that when Michael Nesmith returned to London recently to promote jet lag and his single, 'Rio', we should meet again. My vibrant ...
Peter Tork: The Monkees and After
Interview by Bruce Pollock, When The Music Mattered, 1982
IT WAS PROBABLY late 1966 or early 1967 when word first began to circulate through the Village. "You know the Monkees, that plastic-fantastic pop group, ...
Peter Tork Takes A Joyride Down Memory Lane
Interview by Jim Sullivan, The Boston Globe, 21 January 1982
"Hey, hey we're the Monkees/Kids say we monkey around/But we're too busy singing/To put anybody down." — The Monkees' theme song, 1966 ...
Retrospective and Interview by Bill Holdship, Creem, December 1986
ONE OF THE worst aspects of rock 'n' roll is that it's often centered on this debate as to whether something is "cool" or not. ...
Report and Interview by Andy Gill, Q, December 1986
TWENTY YEARS ago, Mickey Dolenz, a former child actor best known in the title role of Circus Boy, answered an ad for "Four Insane Boys, ...
Retrospective by Tom Hibbert, MOJO, April 1995
"Hear this, and remind yourself why pop music was invented in the first place." ...
Interview by Tom Hibbert, MOJO, March 1997
Here they come. Walking down the street. Spouting more long words than they ever did on TV. Tom Hibbert meets The Monkees, re-formed and playing ...
The Monkees: People Said They Monkeyed Around
Interview by David Quantick, Q, April 1997
...only they didn't. At all. For being The Monkees was no fun. They couldn't play on their records; their film was crap, but, unlike the ...
The Monkees: Daydream Believer Film
Film/DVD/TV Review by Stephen Dalton, Uncut, September 1998
Stephen Dalton profiles Daydream Believers, a new documentary tracing the lives of Hollywood wannabes who flunked the audition to join the most famous manufactured pop ...
Retrospective and Interview by Bill Holdship, MOJO, June 2002
"WHAT IS HEAD? HEAD IS THE most extraordinary adventure Western comedy love story mystery drama musical documentary ever filmed. And that's putting it mildly." ...
Review by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, 2004
The "Prefab Four" star in self-deconstructing Help!-on-acid, scripted by joker Jack Nicholson. ...
Andrew Sandoval: The Monkees – The Day-to-Day Story of the '60s TV Pop Sensation (Thunder Bay Press)
Book Review by Bill Wasserzieher, Ugly Things, Summer 2005
IF SOCRATES, the George Carlin of his day, was right that "the unexamined life is not worth living," then The Monkees have nothing to worry ...
Wheelchair Legends: How Some Rockers Grow Old Gracefully and Others Do Not
Essay by Charles Bermant, Rock's Backpages, October 2006
PUYALLUP, WA – Are there gatherings like this anywhere outside of the modern American West? A million people come to a converted dusty field over ...
Various Artists: Where The Action Is! – Los Angeles Nuggets 1965-1968 (Rhino)
Review by Jeff Tamarkin, MOJO, October 2009
The latest in the Nuggets franchise documents the most fertile few years in southern Californian music history, taking in curios, weirdos, hipsters, freaks and a ...
Obituary by Adam Sweeting, The Guardian, 20 January 2011
IT IRKED Don Kirshner, who has died of heart failure aged 76, that he was never inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. ...
Obituary by Dave Laing, The Guardian, 29 February 2012
Former child actor who became a star with the '60s pop group the Monkees. ...
The Monkees: This Boy Band Never Monkeyed Around
Retrospective by Bob Stanley, Daily Telegraph, 1 March 2012
Fact and fantasy were intertwined in the Monkees, but we'll never see their like again ...
The day I performed for Davy Jones
Memoir by Beverley Glick, Rock's Backpages, 12 March 2012
IN HONOUR OF the late Monkee, I feel compelled to share with you this vignette from my sadly-still-unpublished memoir, Hit Girl: My Bizarre Double Life ...
see also Michael Nesmith
see also Candy Store Prophets
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