How many songs did Carole King write for The Monkees? Carole King was one of the dozen or more songwriters enlisted to write music for The Monkees’ television series. King was among the many ...

The "Head" cult turned out in enthusiastic force for the weirdly countercultural movie vehicle for the TV-bred 1960s band. The rough, sometimes druggy genesis of the American independent movie ...

LOS ANGELES — Michael Nesmith, the singer-songwriter, author, actor-director and entrepreneur who will likely be best remembered as the wool-hatted, guitar-strumming member of the made-for-television ...

Why do rock bands break up? The new Peter Jackson documentary series “The Beatles: Get Back,” about the late stage of the Beatles’ career, touches on some of the reasons bands succumb: personality ...

To be fair, nobody really knows why anything connects with the audience in the way that it does, and why one piece of pop culture entertainment becomes a phenomenon while others don't. The Monkees TV ...

While the 1960s was a flourishing time for music both in America and abroad with the British Invasion, The Monkees still managed to carve a lane all their own. Introduced to audiences via The Monkees ...

Fifty years ago, Columbia Pictures and Raybert Productions released a fascinating ’60s celluloid artifact promised to be “the most extraordinary adventure western comedy love story mystery drama ...

The Monkees 'Royal Flush' was not only Davy Jones' favorite episode, but also an Emmy-Award winning triumph for director James Frawley. The Monkees episodes may not have been the first to feature ...

The television Western was among the most popular sort of program to air on the Big Three in the 1960s. Even in an age of pop music, the sexual revolution, and civil rights, most audiences flocked to ...

A hit new album and tour prove that Monkee Mania is alive and well in the 21st century When was the last time you thought about The Iron Horse? Or The Time Tunnel? How about The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.?

Michael Nesmith, who attained TV and pop stardom in the Monkees and later became a prophetic figure on the Los Angeles country-rock scene and then a multimedia entrepreneur, died Friday of natural ...