On September 8, 1965, Daily Variety ran an advertisement calling for "Folk & Rock Musicians-Singers" and "4 Insane Boys, Age 17-21" for "Acting Roles in a New TV Series." The 437 young hopefuls who...

"One black, one white, one blonde." That was one way to describe the three members of The Mod Squad, executive producer Aaron Spelling's enormously successful late-1960s "hippie-oriented" cop drama. With a broadcast...

The Monkees were a pop-rock quartet created and based in Los Angeles in 1965 for an NBC American television series of the same name. The show, which ran from 1966 to 1968, helped make them one of the most popular music acts of the decade. The members of...

Hey, hey! Those were the Monkees at the Patriot Center Saturday night, celebrating their 30th anniversary in front of a cross-generational crowd that greeted them as if they were the second coming of the Beatles. Actually, only three Monkees are touring: Davy Jones, Peter...

Byline: GEOFFREY WANSELL THE moment is etched for ever in my memory. It was 1967, at the old Wembley Arena, and I saw The Monkees play their first British concert. Jimmy Savile introduced them, and as their theme tune Hey, Hey, We're...

In the summer of 1966, odd little ads popped up in TV Guide magazine.“What has 8 legs and swings?” one blurb declared.“ ‘The Monkees’ is spelled rong!” read another.All ended with the same message: “See ‘The Monkees’ premiere, Monday, Sept. 12, on NBC-TV.”More ads followed,...

John Stewart recorded some of pop music's most acclaimed solo albums, helping create a style that came to be called Americana, but he was always best known for writing the Monkees' enduring hit "Daydream Believer."Stewart, who came to prominence in the 1960s as a member...