Check out our list of 12 AMAZING Monkees facts. You won’t BELIEVE number 7!!!.
British frontman Davey Jones watched the Beatles’ first appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show from the side of the stage. He was on the same show performing as the Artful Dodger from the musical Oliver!
The mother of woolly-hatted Monkee Mike Nesmith invented Liquid Paper (Tipp-Ex).
The Monkees only recorded one album as a band: their third album ‘Headquarters’. The rest were mostly made by session musicians.
Mickey Dolenz directed 1980s UK kid’s TV show Metal Mickey (catchphrase “Boogie Boogie”).
The then relatively unknown Jack Nicholson directed the Monkees psychedelic movie ‘Head’.
Stephen Stills unsuccessfully auditioned for the Monkees.
Mike Nesmith invented MTV.
Charles Manson did not audition for the Monkees, successfully or unsuccessfully.
I’m A Believer was written by Neil Diamond but made famous by the Monkees. It does not include the phrase “hey, hey, hey”. You have seen Shrek too many times.
The video for Lionel Richie’s All Night Long was produced by Mike Nesmith.
On 1 February 1996, Davey Jones rode Digpast to win the one-mile Ontario Amateur Riders Handicap at Lingfield Racecourse.
I’ve been listening to the audio book of Mike Nesmith’s autobiography which is why a lot of these are about him.