Charles Manson may have had strange connections to rock music, but did he actually have a shot at being in the limelight with ...

One of The Monkees said the band outsold The Beatles and The Rolling Stones combined in a facetious interview.

Nesmith added. “I said ’35 million. It’s bigger than The Rolling Stones and The Beatles combined in 1963.'” For the record, The Monkees wouldn’t even form until 1966! Nesmith wondered ...

Best known as a primary voice and energy behind The Monkees (the band inspired by The Beatles and, in particular, their film A Hard Day's Night), Dolenz first captured hearts in 1966 when he and ...

Therefore, The Monkees were originally conceived as a TV band, but they defied expectations by becoming a legitimate ...

Micky Dolenz, last survivor of hit 1960s sitcom The Monkees, is keen to stress that he, Davy Jones, Mike Nesmith and Peter Tork were cast primarily as actors — though as a result they were to become a ...

Producers Bob Rafelson and Bert Schneider were inspired by the antics of the Beatles in Richard ... Kirshner put the newly formed Monkees into the studio, where it soon became apparent that ...

I was four and loved him. Then it was The Monkees, then Johnny Cash. At the age of 12, I was struck by a lightning bolt by the gods of rock and roll, The Beatles, Little Richard, Chuck Berry, The ...