Linda Ronstadt is going to be admitted and one of her biggest hits "Different Drum" was written by none other than Michael Nesmith a Monkee! They were the first band to use a Moog Syntesizer and Mickey Dolenz bought the 3rd one sold. They are the only artists to outsell the Beatles an...
No. 1 Hits CBS News Their first, eponymous album, released in 1966 just a few weeks before the TV series' debut, featured such songs as "Last Train to Clarksville"; "I Wanna Be Free"; Papa Gene's Blues"; and "Sweet Young Thing" (written by Gerry Goffin, Carole King and Nesmith)....
The group collaborated early with some of the major songwriters and session musicians of the day, including Neil Diamond, Carole King, Glen Campbell and Hal Blaine. Their hits included "Mary, Mary," "You Told Me" and "You Just May Be the One." Nesmith "expressed the high...
“Good Times!” is a fascinating record. Mike Nesmith, Peter Tork and Micky Dolenz each put in a track they penned for the group, but the bulk of this album is written by newer stars that obviously grew up as Monkees fans. Rivers Cuomo ofWeezerwrote the punchy, “She Makes Me Lau...
” Nevertheless, the songs, written by such respected composers asNeil Diamond(“I’m a Believer”), John Stewart (“Daydream Believer”), and Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart (“Last Train to Clarksville”), became hits. Tork and Nesmith were accomplishedguitarists, though studio musicians provided...
Videos by VICE When I decided to interview The Monkees, I knew it would be a really meaningful experience. As a kid, I would watch reruns of theshow on “Nick at Nite,” and the first album I ever owned was a Monkees’ Greatest Hits record that my mother gave me in my Christmas st...