“I knew what he was going through,” remembers Dolenz. “He was frustrated because he was misled. He was not an actor, he was a ...

The Monkees were arguably the first ‘manufactured’ band, the Prefab Four as they were sneeringly-known to some at the time. Of the four, only Mike Nesmith was an accomplished musician, though as ...

Micky Dolenz is the last Monkee standing ... I remember sleeping behind the drums overnight sometimes.” Some of those songs Dolenz hadn’t performed for decades and revisiting them was a ...

Micky Dolenz - the last surviving Monkee - has been ... I’d sat behind the drums and played around, so I wasn’t starting from square one. "But I didn’t have to learn every rhythm and tempo ...