The Monkees star was isolated from the world for months in 1966.

Nearly six decades later, Micky Dolenz still remembers the excitement and uncertainty surrounding The Monkees' first single release. This month marks the anniversary of "Last Train to Clarksville" ...

Bobby Hart, who has died aged 86, was a songwriter and producer who played a leading role in the rise of the Monkees; he co-wrote some of their biggest hits, including their debut single, Last Train ...

In a three-hour conversation with USA TODAY for 60 years of the Monkees, Micky Dolenz shares a detailed oral history of the TV show and the music.

The 80s proved a fertile breeding ground for unlikely comeback stories. When The Monkees came busting back onto the scene in the mid-80s, it just might have been the unlikeliest of all. They even made ...

Micky Dolenz, the last surviving member of The Monkees, is reflecting on the band’s debut single “Last Train to Clarksville” as it approaches its 60th anniversary since first hitting radio waves in ...

The Monkees beat out big-name L.A. bands such as the Byrds, the Mamas & the Papas, and Frank Zappa's Mothers of Invention for ...

To this day, it feels like The Monkees have never received their due. Granted, they were manufactured in the beginning. But how many other artists or bands that were guided by management or record ...

9-11-66: Del Mar was renamed “Clarksville” for the day, as part of a promotion for The Monkees TV show, which would debut the following night. The Sunday event marked the first time the foursome ever ...

The Monkees music came from the cream of contemporary songwriters in the ’60s in that period just before songwriters increasingly began to sing their own work. Neil Diamond, Carole King, Tommy Boyce ...