When I was 11 I became a massive fan of The Monkees. We had a so-called 'band' of kids on my street and we'd go along to people's houses and mime to Monkees records.
Davy Jones was the grooviest of the Monkees, which makes him one of the grooviest pop stars who ever existed. He was the best dancer in the Monkees, the Cute One, the one with the coy English accent, the bowl-cut boy-child who shook those cherry-red ...
The Monkees are like the mafia. You're in for life. Nobody gets out.
The Monkees changed my life but ruined my acting career.
Original Monkees' songs were produced very thinly, on purpose.
My guilty pleasure, to be frank with you, is 'The Monkees.'
It was so much fun to do, play the blues and then play a Monkees' set on the same night.
My most favourite gigs that ever happened were solo, before The Monkees ever happened.
The Monkees were never cancelled for a start. NBC wanted to do a third year.
Many people have fond memories of 'The Monkees.' I fondly remember it, too.
We've all had our thing. I listened to the Monkees when I was little kid.
The Monkees was a straight sitcom, we used the same plots that were on the other situation comedies at the time. So the music wasn't threatening, we weren't threatening.
During the summer, Screen Gems launched the New Monkees, which miserably failed I understand. I never saw it.
After high school I was going to be an architect. In fact, I was studying to be an architect when the audition for 'The Monkees' came along.
Wherever I go, people still shout out: 'Hey, hey, we're The Monkees.' And I never tire of that.
The only people who didn't like The Monkees were the French, and they don't even like themselves, so what's the point?
I grew up listening to pop; I grew up listening to '60s pop music, the Beatles, the Monkees, Herman's Hermits and all that stuff. So I had a very strong background of listening to great pop music.
When I was 20, in 1957, and maybe you would say I was old enough to know better, but nevertheless, I was completely nuts about Buddy Holly. And I loved pop bands that had absolutely no intellectual pretensions whatsoever. I loved the Monkees.
I liked back in the sixties where you'd turn on the radio and go 'Oh that's Hendrix, that's Creedence Clearwater, that's The Doors, there's The Grass Roots, The Monkees, there's Big Brother.' You could just instantly hear it and tell. But in the eigh...
