In 1967, The Monkees achieved a chart record that remains unbroken 58 years later. In 1967, the band created for the television series of the same name released four albums in just one year, and each ...

The Monkees occupy a curious place in the history of pop. In equal parts derided for setting the mold for the artificial boyband via their manufactured, television-based origins, and in other quarters ...

Micky Dolenz didn’t care about having no control over The Monkees’ first two albums. The 78-year-old singer was cast in the band alongside Michael Nesmith, Peter Tork and Davy Jones for a TV sitcom, ...

Peter Tork, a struggling musician who became an overnight teenage idol in the 1960s with the Monkees, died Thursday at a family home in eastern Connecticut. He was 77. His son, Ivan Iannoli, said the ...

The Monkees and punk rock debuted in the same year: 1966. The two battled for chart supremacy. Interestingly, Jim Morrison of The Doors had a similar view of both. 1 of the masterminds behind the 1st ...

Peter Tork was positioned as the goofy one, the court jester of The Monkees. Director Bob Rafelson, one of the show’s creators, compared him to Harpo Marx. Ray Howard ASSOCIATED PRESS Peter Tork, a ...