
Micky Dolenz to Honor Departed Monkees Bandmates With Special Tour
"They were like my brothers," Dolenz says in a statement, "and I want to share some of the great joy we had together”
"They were like my brothers," Dolenz says in a statement, "and I want to share some of the great joy we had together”
As one 'Rolling Stone' writer got to know Nesmith over the past decade, the Reluctant Monkee surprised him again and again. By the very end of his life, the man who was legendarily disgruntled over the Monkees' prefab ways had come to love the band as much as anyone
"You could never, never have talked him out of the farewell tour," says Dolenz of his 55-year Monkees bandmate. "He was absolutely determined to finish that tour"
“With infinite love we announce that Michael Nesmith has passed away this morning in his home, surrounded by family, peacefully and of natural causes,” his family said in a statement
From "special guest" Mark McGrath to an ongoing pandemic, there's a lot to unpack here
The set featured all their big hits along with never-before-played Sixties deep cuts "While I Cry" and "Love Is Only Sleeping"
In this excerpt from his deeply candid memoir, the comedian and Best Show host opens up about how the Monkees helped him at a desperate time in his life, and a failed audition for a doomed new iteration of the group
"I will always be Micky, the wacky drummer on that classic old television show," says Dolenz, "just like Leonard Nimoy was always Mr. Spock"
His new book 'The Monkees: The Day-by-Day Story' is packed with previously unknown info drawn from 2,000 pages of unearthed legal documents from 1967
It's Christmas Time Once More also features Jones' daughter Annabel
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