Micky Dolenz says the Monkees weren't a band, they were a TV show about a band. The Beatles got it. To John Lennon, they were ...

"The Monkees" made its mark as one of the most memorable TV shows of the 1960s. Years before David Cassidy of "The Patridge ...

And in the midst of it all, there were the Monkees. Micky Dolenz, Michael Nesmith, Peter Tork, and Davy Jones, first came together as the cast of a TV show (which aired from 1966 to 1968), then ...

To this day, it feels like The Monkees have never received their due. Granted, they were manufactured in the beginning. But ...

Regardless of how many Monkees actually responded to the Hollywood Reporter advertisement seeking "4 insane boys, age 17-21" for a TV show inspired by the Beatles film "A Hard Day's Night,” it ...

A look into the effect the monkees had on music TV, from their 1960s heyday to the role Michael Nesmith had in conceptualising what would later become MTV ...

The Monkees Celebrated by Micky Dolenz is at 8 p.m. on Sept. 22 at the Ace Hotel in Los Angeles. For tickets and more information, visit MickyDolenz.com. This segment aired on the KTLA 5 Morning ...

The actual Monkees’ lack of input in their own musical careers was already bothering them. Some of them were OK with the idea that they were actors on a TV show, and others were mad that they ...

So the Beatles got it. They got what the Monkees were, which was a TV show. It was not a band. It was not a group. It was a television show about a group. And then it did become a group and go out ...