Nobody called them real.

On this day 59 years ago, what many consider the "greatest guitarist of all time" quit a tour with one of the more prominent ...

A 1969 clip of The Monkees on The Johnny Cash Show performing a Nesmith original is a reminder they were the real deal.

The Monkees were one of the most successful bands of the 1960s. Sixty years later, their made-for-TV backstory didn't hurt them in a ranking list of the top Los Angeles-based bands of the era. In ...

Micky Dolenz, the last surviving member of The Monkees, was part of a unique band of entertainers who continue to have a great impact on both the music and television industries for nearly 60 years.

The 80s proved a fertile breeding ground for unlikely comeback stories. When The Monkees came busting back onto the scene in the mid-80s, it just might have been the unlikeliest of all. They even made ...

The 1968 film Head was a watershed moment in The Monkees’ career. The film depicted a series of vignettes amounting to a loosely interpretive message by the band signaling the end of their pop star ...

NEW YORK (CNN) -- Hey hey they're the Monkees, and with more than 65 million in record sales, they're not monkeying around. While their hit TV show went off the air more then three decades ago, Davy ...

It’s rare that an act gets to go out just the way they always imagined. At the end of a significant run together, a band often is so beset by baggage that their final release can seem a distant echo ...

Micky Dolenz, the only surviving member of The Monkees, has announced a new EP of R.E.M. covers, fittingly titled Dolenz Sings R.E.M., due out November 3. As a preview of the impending set, the ...