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NOTE: The Monkees
brand of zany humor and light folk/pop music
revolutionized television, and they remain very
popular to this day, so much so that even
decades after their dissolution, references to
them can be found in mass media all over the
world. Here's where I'll list news items from
television, radio, and newspaper articles all
around the world that make reference to the Monkees.
Also,
I'll list any updates to the site here, so check
back weekly!
 
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Boston.com
Peter Tork is as
busy entertaining audiences today as
he was when he started to “Monkee
around” in 1966. One-fourth of the Monkees,
a made-for-TV pop-rock ...
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The Guardian
... of
the article was: they were my age
and they couldn't play and they
were terrific fun, and they did
covers of Dave Berry and the Monkees
and the Small Faces.
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Evansville
Courier & Press
Not until 1967
did anything even resembling rock
or teen-oriented music win Album
of the Year, that being “More of
the Monkees.'' DEAR
JERRY: In the early ...
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Chicago
Tribune
"In This
Generation: My Life in the Monkees
and So Much More": Monkees
band member Peter Tork shares
photos, footage and songs from his
musical career.
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WFJA Classic
Hits and Oldies 105.5 FM
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and “Jump into the Fire” — while
also writing big hits for other
artists, such as Three Dog Night
who recorded “One” and The Monkees
who cut “Cuddly Toy.” ...
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xoJane
(blog)
Julieanne: The
Monkees. I used to play
"Daydream Believer" every day when
I woke up. Ugh, I wish I could go
back in time so I could hate
myself as a small kid.
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Irish Times
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the younger brothers of one of the
Monkees was a classmate,
and everyone from sophomore year
up was pretending they'd been at
the Summer of Love.
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Huffington
Post Canada
The man best
known as the toque-wearing Monkee
has had an astoundingly ...
Speaking of The Monkees,
did you know that Stephen Stills,
soon to achieve ...
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Federal Way
Mirror
Other Seattle
hip-hop artists featured in "The
Otherside" include the Blue
Scholars, Fresh Espresso, Massive
Monkees, Mad Rad, RA
Scion, Grynch, The Physics ...
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Examiner.com
On Friday, May
17, Monkee
Micky Dolenz is scheduled to perform
a solo show at the beautiful Lake of
the Torches Resort Casino in Lac du
Flambeau, Wis.
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Los Angeles
Times
Looking to
attract younger female viewers,
Koenig fit the bill because he
resembled the Monkees'
heartthrob Davy Jones. Koening
studied acting at the ...
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Richmond
Times Dispatch
Peter Tork (of
The Monkees),
7:30 p.m. Tuesday, $29.50. Nicole
Henry and Vinx, 7:30 p.m.
Wednesday, $27.50. 9:30 CLUB, 815
V St. NW, Washington, (202) ...
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Post-Bulletin
She also fell
head over heels for The Monkees.
She and her childhood girlfriend
have been to three of their
concerts over the years. Myself, I
was more of a ...
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Exclaim!
(blog)
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weights of a home gym set up. On
the whole, it gives the clip a bit
of a Monkees
vibe, and you can see the wacky
weight room hi jinx for yourself
down below.
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Examiner.com
Of course this
might be the same group that
decided The Monkees
were America's answer to The
Beatles. But I've been fighting my
whole life against being ...
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EntertainmentToday.net
The Monkees
(August 11): After a surprisingly
successful mini-tour the three
surviving members added a host of
dates for this summer. Backed by a
solid band, ...
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Montgomery
Newspapers
His musical
arrangements allow him to play the
same songs very differently, whether
he is solo or with the Monkees
or performing as part of Shoe Suede
Blues.
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TheNewsTribune.com
A celebrated
car customizer who painted James
Dean's Porsche and made the
"Monkeemobile" for "The Monkees"
TV show has died. Dean Jeffries
was 80.
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Village
Voice
In another
corner, Peter Tork—of the '60s
pre-fab four, the Monkees—was
hawking a blues album as his
handler added her own capital
letters by shrieking, ...
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PR Newswire
(press release)
NEW YORK, May
14, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The
profound musical gifts of Harry
Nilsson, an artist whose fans
ranged from all four Beatles to
the Monkees,
Randy ...
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May 14, 2013
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Gazette
Newspapers
“A Midsummer
Night with the Monkees”
is coming to Long Beach on Aug. 13
at the Terrace Theater. Michael
Nesmith, Mickey Dolenz and Peter
Tork will perform ...
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Contactmusic.com
He was famed
for the fun vehicle he created for
The Monkees'
sitcom in the 1960s, and
customised cars for Steve MCQueen,
Tony Martin, Harry Belafonte and ...
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Today.com
(blog)
The young
singer is just the latest in a
proud line of mop-topped musicians
(The Beatles and The Monkees
paved the way). But he's the only
one who inspired a ...
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Burleson
Star
Singer-musician
Peter Tork (The Monkees)
is 71. Actress Stockard Channing
is 69. Talk show host Jerry
Springer is 69. Actor Bo Svenson
is 69. Singer Peter ...
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Drowned In
Sound
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You'; 'Stand' is a gloriously
throwaway piece of Monkees-indebted
bubblegum silliness; 'Get Up' is a
sweet, dreamy exhortation to seize
the day by the horns.
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Chicago
Sun-Times
LOS ANGELES (—
A celebrated car customizer who
painted James Dean's Porsche and
made the “Monkeemobile” for “The Monkees”
TV show has died.
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May 13, 2013
UPDATE: This week on
MonkeeVision:
Official theme song of Wild West posse's
everywhere.
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Hartford
Courant
They also gave
energetic deliveries to the theme
songs of several popular small
screen shows including "The Monkees,"
"Gilligan's Isle," "Happy Days,"
"The ...
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San Antonio
Express
Shows that
would've worked well here (the
reunited Monkees,
for example) are bypassing the
Alamo City. But rock, country,
hip-hop, pop and comedy fans ...
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Washington
Post
Dean Jeffries,
80, a celebrated car customizer
who painted James Dean's Porsche
and made the “Monkeemobile” for
“The Monkees”
TV show in the 1960s, died ...
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Examiner.com
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DVD Talk
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much of the episodes are spent on
the way the group works with each
other in a way that feels inspired
by The Monkees'
light, fun sense of plot
motivation.
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May 10, 2013
UPDATE: I've added
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89.3 KPCC
(blog)
Dean Jeffries,
famed car customizer known for
creating the Black Beauty for “The
Green Hornet” and the Monkeemobile
for “The Monkees”
TV show and giving ...
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The Union
Leader
HERE THEY COME:
Peter Tork, the late Davy Jones,
Micky Dolenz and Mike Nesmith
forever will be tied to the TV
show that propelled the Monkees
into the ...
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MyFox
Atlanta
A celebrated
car customizer who painted James
Dean's Porsche and made the
"Monkeemobile" for "The Monkees"
TV show has died. Dean Jeffries
was 80.
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Newsday
The Monkees
NYCB Theatre at Westbury, Westbury
, NY. Jul27 · Leon Russel,
Southside Johnny and The Asbury
Jukes NYCB Theatre at Westbury,
Westbury , ...
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May 9, 2013
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USA TODAY
Other cars from
the Jeffries stable include the
Monkeemobile, created for the 1960s
TV show The Monkees;
the original Green Hornet's Black
Beauty; and the ...
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Rochester
Democrat and Chronicle
Fans check out
a car with "Monkees"
painted on the side during the
Dream Cruise on Woodward Ave. just
north of 13 Mile Road in Royal
Oak, Mich., in 2008.
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New York
Times (blog)
The name Dean
Jeffries may not be all that
familiar, but many people will
recall the flamboyantly customized
1966 Pontiac GTO the Monkees
drove on their ...
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Aquarian
Weekly
In addition to
the trademark wool cap he sported
as guitarist/vocalist/songwriter
for the Monkees,
Nesmith has enjoyed success as the
author of Linda Ronstadt's ...
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Den Of Geek
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lounge-act rendition of The Monkees'
I'm A Believer. In the background,
his cohort Bob Mortimer looked on
admiringly, dressed in the
stovepipe hat and vast ...
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Irish
Independent
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have permitted Wigan one song to
be played before kick-off on
Saturday, and the club have chosen
their fans' favourite 'I'm a
Believer' by the Monkees.
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Western
Queens Gazette
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The Rolling Stones in the Maysles
Brothers' Gimme Shelter; The Who
in Quadrophenia; The Monkees
in Head, directed by Bob Rafelson;
David Byrne in True ...
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Inventorspot
Now I could get
a little memorial one and let it
drive around on my old Monkees
and ABBA albums. Things could go
from groovy to rad in a heartbeat.
It is totally ...
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May 8, 2013
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Telegraph.co.uk
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club have chosen their fans'
favourite “I'm a Believer” by the Monkees.
Their fans believed in survival, in
Roberto Martinez's ability to guide
them out of trouble.
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RollingStone.com
He worked with
the Monkees'
Michael Nesmith on an influential
pre-MTV video company, was a
president of video-equipment
company Panavision and served ...
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Hot Rod
Magazine (blog)
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TV and film, including the
Monkeemobile for the Monkees
TV show, and the Green Hornet's
Imperial. Since he built some of
the cars used in numerous movies ...
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Waterford
Today
The Tarts play
a variety of covers ranging from
The Beatles and The Monkees
to The Cure and The Stone Roses,
from Al Green and Smokey Robinson
to Prince ...
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Examiner.com
Also, check out
our new Monkees
Examiner or our Vintage Rock n'
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Examiner columns for all our
othernews coverage. Copyright ...
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Express.co.uk
For their 1997
comeback The Monkees
refitted the Pontiac GTO
Monkeemobile as a time machine to
return to the Sixties. HG Wells's
original gadget was even ...
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May 7, 2013
UPDATE: This week
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Artistdirect.com
The Monkees
are returning to the road in July
and August for a 24-date tour they
are calling "A Midsummer's Night
With the Monkees."
It will feature surviving ...
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Sonoma State
Star
The Massive Monkees
came together in 1999 in Seattle
and this group of over 20 b-boys
and b-girls has been dominating
the breakdance world ever since.
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Kalamazoo
Gazette - MLive.com
In the early
years, the series tried to bring
in a relatively big-name group,
such as Peter Noone and Herman's
Hermits, Al Hirt, Mickey Dolenz of
the Monkees,
...
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Express.co.uk
For their 1997
comeback The Monkees
refitted the Pontiac GTO
Monkeemobile as a time machine to
return to the Sixties. HG Wells's
original gadget was even ...
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Manchester
Evening News
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a young fan base to guitar-toting
20-somethings with a bank of
well-crafted pop songs that could
also win over fans of Duran Duran,
The Monkees
and Queen.
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Tulsa World
(blog)
The Monkees
set Tulsa tour stop. The Monkees
return for an Aug. 3 concert at
Brady Theater for the band's A
Midsummer's Night with the Monkees
tour.
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Irish
Independent
Wigan's
supporters have also got in on the
act, adopting The Monkees'
song 'I'm a Believer' as a tribute
to their latest relegation scrap.
History suggests that they ...
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The
Spokesman Review (blog)
But if Three
Dog Night wasn't as cloying as The
Monkees,
the band was awful close. There
always seemed something artificial
about it, as if they were just a ...
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