Love that he just made up the fact that the Monkees sold more records than the Beatles and the Stones combined and the media just swallowed it without even checking
For the first time ever, I heard him performing some of his solo stuff because they played some of one of his live performances on Six Music a few days ago; I was stunned by how good it was.
Love that he just made up the fact that the Monkees sold more records than the Beatles and the Stones combined and the media just swallowed it without even checking
Love that he just made up the fact that the Monkees sold more records than the Beatles and the Stones combined and the media just swallowed it without even checking
Better than the Beatles Stones but not the Stones Beatles
Love that he just made up the fact that the Monkees sold more records than the Beatles and the Stones combined and the media just swallowed it without even checking
Better than the Beatles but not the Stones
Not a patch on either but good in their way. Never eally listened to his solo stuff but after @iainment's comment I must give it a listen.
Love that he just made up the fact that the Monkees sold more records than the Beatles and the Stones combined and the media just swallowed it without even checking
Better than the Beatles but not the Stones
Not a patch on either but good in their way. Never eally listened to his solo stuff but after @iainment's comment I must give it a listen.
RIP
Try the albums with the First National Band especially Magnetic South. I love that album.
Love that he just made up the fact that the Monkees sold more records than the Beatles and the Stones combined and the media just swallowed it without even checking
Better than the Beatles but not the Stones
Not a patch on either but good in their way. Never eally listened to his solo stuff but after @iainment's comment I must give it a listen.
RIP
I need to listen to more of his solo stuff as well.
No, they were not as good as The Beatles or The Stones, or indeed The Who, The Kinks or Small Faces - very few bands ever came close.
But The Monkees were and generally are still massively underrated by music snobs, just because they were a manufactured for TV band. All bands are manufactured!
It's silly to compare the Monkees to the Beatles or Stones.
However, if you were to compare them to every other "manufactured" band/boyband, they stand very high.
Above all it was a brilliant TV show. I'm amazed something similar has never been replicated with that mixture of comedy and music. A modern day Monkees type show would be massive
The Monkees filled a teenybopper niche created when the Beatles music and their audience matured. That said, they were vastly underrated and made some classic pop songs, particularly through 1967. Michael subsequently found his own country style niche. RIP and thanks for the memories
It's silly to compare the Monkees to the Beatles or Stones.
However, if you were to compare them to every other "manufactured" band/boyband, they stand very high.
Above all it was a brilliant TV show. I'm amazed something similar has never been replicated with that mixture of comedy and music. A modern day Monkees type show would be massive
Not interested in if he was controlled or not, as a kid with access to a whopping 3 channels, his show made me smile, everything about it was decent and good. RIP and your beaney sir 👍🏻
his mother supposedly 'invented Tippex' .. question is, which had more impact on the world, the white word wiper outer or the music of the Monkees ? .. R I P
The Monkees filled a teenybopper niche created when the Beatles music and their audience matured. That said, they were vastly underrated and made some classic pop songs, particularly through 1967. Michael subsequently found his own country style niche. RIP and thanks for the memories
At the age of 10, I saw them at the Empire Pool, Wembley in 1967. I came out of the concert totally deaf from all the screaming.
Sad news that another of my heroes has passed away.
The Monkees and their TV show were part of my childhood. I still like a lot of their music and I don't care they were put together by some media moguls.
RIP, the world is a poorer place for your passing.
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I’m devastated.
Clearly a very talented man, RIP.
RIP.
RIP Mike.
However, if you were to compare them to every other "manufactured" band/boyband, they stand very high.
Above all it was a brilliant TV show. I'm amazed something similar has never been replicated with that mixture of comedy and music. A modern day Monkees type show would be massive
That said, they were vastly underrated and made some classic pop songs, particularly through 1967.
Michael subsequently found his own country style niche.
RIP and thanks for the memories
Rio was a classic.
Loved The Monkess show and music
Sad news that another of my heroes has passed away.
RIP, the world is a poorer place for your passing.
Sic transit gloria mundi.