In a three-hour conversation with USA TODAY for 60 years of the Monkees, Micky Dolenz shares a detailed oral history of the TV show and the music.

One of The Monkees‘ most famous slow songs is “I Wanna Be Free.” One of the song’s writers said he was independent from his co-writer in some ways. Despite this, the duo was perfectly in sync when ...

Micky Dolenz is the last of The Monkees, that madcap quartet who took pop culture by storm in the 1960s. A made-for-TV band, The Monkees had four albums hit #1 in 1967 – a feat not even a real band ...

Micky Dolenz looked back on The Monkees’ fast rise to fame. The made-for-TV rock band made their debut on their self-titled ...

The Monkees‘ “I Wanna Be Free” is strikingly similar to The Beatles’ “Yesterday.” That was no accident. One song has a more universal meeting than the other but they’re both great. The Monkees’ ‘I ...

Some things can’t be explained. Take The Monkees. In the mid-sixties, a comedic television show parodying a struggling rock band living on a California beach unexpectedly caught fire on NBC, the host ...

Micky Dolenz kicked off his 60 Years of the Monkees tour on Thursday at the Belly Up Tavern in Solana Beach, California, delivering a mammoth 32-song set that comprised the Monkees’ biggest hits, a ...

“MOVIES WITH…,” a new one-hour weekly podcast series, debuted last month, the first episode featuring Micky Dolenz, last surviving member of The Monkees. The shows, produced by the NJR Media Group, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hey, hey, they’re the Monkees! Sort of. Or … maybe not. A nationwide talent search ensued, and out of 3,000 applicants, casting ...