Spurred by the success of the monkees television series, they were one of the most successful bands of the late 1960s. Despite the synthetic premise, their rich crop of popular singles remains 1960s pop at its tunefully rambunctious best Learn more about their background and their music. By the time the series aired its final episode on march 25, 1968, the monkees had sold 16 million albums and 7.5 million singles Few could have predicted the impact the monkees would have. One beatland books, which has previously published the extensive deluxe rewrite of andrew sandoval’s ‘the monkees
The day by day story’ book, has followed up with another outstanding release with ‘i’m told i had a good time Created by paul mazursky, larry tucker With davy jones, micky dolenz, michael nesmith, peter tork The misadventures of a struggling rock group. The monkees were one of the first manufactured pop groups (hence the prefab four nickname), being put together by filmmaker bob radelson and producer bert schneider. Click here to pick up cool monkees stuff (including some freebies) for your fave monkees fan.
[1] the series follows the adventures of four young men (the monkees) trying to make a name for themselves as a rock 'n roll band
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