A 1969 clip of The Monkees on The Johnny Cash Show performing a Nesmith original is a reminder they were the real deal.

The way Micky Dolenz sees it, the Monkees’ success was neither predictable nor replicable. “You can't reduce it, you can't take it apart,” he says of the beloved made-for-TV band, soon to turn 60.

The 81-year-old rocker stunned fans with the release of a very special new song.

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Micky Dolenz, the last surviving member of The Monkees, was part of a unique band of entertainers who continue to have a great impact on both the music and television industries for nearly 60 years.

It’s rare that an act gets to go out just the way they always imagined. At the end of a significant run together, a band often is so beset by baggage that their final release can seem a distant echo ...

The 80s proved a fertile breeding ground for unlikely comeback stories. When The Monkees came busting back onto the scene in the mid-80s, it just might have been the unlikeliest of all. They even made ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Pam Windsor lives in Nashville, Tennessee and writes about music. The 1960s were an incredible time for music. There was Elvis, ...

The Doors and The Monkees were two of the bands that helped define classic rock from the 1960s. Despite this, The Doors’ Jim Morrison didn’t see The Monkees as his artistic peers. He once attacked the ...

Micky Dolenz and Paul McCartney came together in the ’60s. The Monkees drummer, 80, is looking back at the first time he met the Beatle, 82, decades ago. “The first Beatle I met was Paul [McCartney], ...