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.

Micky Dolenz will be hitting the Riviera Theatre stage in North Tonawanda this fall, the last of three New York State tour ...

The latter song, written by legendary songwriting duo Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart, was released on Nov. 12, 1966, and was ...

The Monkees beat out big-name L.A. bands such as the Byrds, the Mamas & the Papas, and Frank Zappa's Mothers of Invention for ...

The Monkees star was isolated from the world for months in 1966.

Early during his concert Thursday night, March 5, at the Royal Oak Music Theatre, while singing the Monkees’ “Take a Giant Step,” Micky Dolenz advised those listening to ...

He may be the last man standing, but Micky Dolenz is happy to keep Monkee-ing around. Dolenz was, of course, one of the four actor-musicians hired for the NBC comedy show “The Monkees,” a show ...

The song topped the Billboard Hot 100 in September 1969 and remained at No. 1 for 4 weeks. It also ranked No. 1 on ...

Micky Dolenz is headed on the road to perform The Monkees third album Headquarters live. This watershed third Monkees LP proved the band was more than a made-for-television musical group. As the tour ...

The Monkees music came from the cream of contemporary songwriters in the ’60s in that period just before songwriters increasingly began to sing their own work. Neil Diamond, Carole King, Tommy Boyce ...

The Monkees are one of the most storied bands of the 1960s. For example, there is a common rumor that notorious cult leader Charles Manson tried to join The Monkees. A member of the band explained how ...

Mickey Dolenz says The Monkees was "heavily weighted toward improvisation" rather than musicality. The 80-year-old drummer - who is the only surviving member of the I'm A Believer hitmakers, which ...