Neil Diamond also wrote songs for The Monkees. The Monkees pre-date Deep Purple by three years, but Deep Purple was more Rock than The Monkees, so Deep Purple gets inducted first. The Monkees will be inducted next. Neil Diamond ---> Deep Purple ---> The Monkees Posted by Roy on ...
and the title track is built around an impressive Harry Nilsson demo and converted into a call-and-response duet with Dolenz. Songs written byCarole King& Gerry Goffin and Tommy Boyce & Bobby Hart are also
they didn't like a lot of the music they were forced to do in the early shows. Speaking of the songs, this show was also a great showcase for many of the greatest songwriting talents of the 60's including Goffin and King, Neil Diamond, Boyce and Hart, John Stewart and Harry Nillson...
Schlesinger reached out to other indie rock stars who love the band. Ben Gibbard of Death Cab for Cutie; Britons Paul Weller and Noel Gallagher; and Weezer's Rivers Cuomo have all written songs for the new Monkees record, titled "Good Times!" "It's a pretty impressive list," Mason said...
The three Monkees have recorded a 50th anniversary album, "Good Times!" which includes new songs as well as an unreleased vintage track, "Love To Love" by Neil Diamond, that features Davy Jones. "Good Times!" is the first studio album by the group since 1996, and the first since Jones...
” 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...
“It was completely rejected,” Nesmith said. “They wanted ‘I’m A Believer,’ that Neil Diamond stuff. That’s fine, I wouldn’t know a pop song if it bit me on the nose. I don’t know how to write those,” he said frankly, while pondering even the newest of Monkees songs....
they didn't like a lot of the music they were forced to do in the early shows. Speaking of the songs, this show was also a great showcase for many of the greatest songwriting talents of the 60's including Goffin and King, Neil Diamond, Boyce and Hart, John Stewart and Harry Nillson...