It’s surprisingly difficult to come up with a definitive ranking of the Monkees’ songs. I mean, it’s hard to come up with a ranking of any popular band’s songs, but I think the Monkees pose a ...

The Monkees may be more known from their ’60s “television show about a band,” but they made some outstanding and underrated records. Their catalog is very diverse. Bubblegum, psychedelia, vaudeville, ...

Regardless of how many Monkees actually responded to the Hollywood Reporter advertisement seeking "4 insane boys, age 17-21" for a TV show inspired by the Beatles film "A Hard Day's Night,” it wasn’t ...

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, ...

Micky Dolenz is headed to Mesa with a show called Mickey Dolenz: Songs and Stories. And it makes perfect sense that the last Monkee standing would find himself gravitating toward a storyteller format ...

The hit songwriting duo he and Tommy Boyce formed in the 1960s was best known for the unexpectedly popular tunes of a made-for-TV band. By Alex Traub Bobby Hart, who alongside his best friend, Tommy ...