It’s surprisingly difficult to come up with a definitive ranking of the Monkees’ songs. I mean, it’s hard to come up with a ranking of any popular band’s songs, but I think the Monkees pose a ...

The Monkees were quietly one of the most influential music acts of their generation. With four No. 1 albums in one year (a feat that has yet to be topped), the musical partnership of Mike Nesmith, ...

The Monkees and punk rock debuted in the same year: 1966. The two battled for chart supremacy. Interestingly, Jim Morrison of The Doors had a similar view of both. 1 of the masterminds behind the 1st ...

Bobby Hart, a songwriter who co-wrote some of the greatest hits of the Monkees, and a performer in his own right who made the top 10 as a member of the duo Boyce and Hart, died Wednesday at age 86.

Bobby Hart, a songwriting dynamo who partnered with Tommy Boyce to write iconic hits for “The Monkees” has died, the band announced. He was 86. Hart had been in poor health since breaking his hip last ...

The last surviving member of The Monkees shared a tribute to a beloved colleague who has died. Micky Dolenz shared, "Another great is gone," after learning that songwriter Bobby Hart died at the age ...

Before starring in his 1970 film Five Easy Pieces, Jack Nicholson learned to play the piano for his role as a former prodigy pianist who gives up music to work in the oil fields. Before then, music ...

The star - one half of the legendary Boyce and Hart songwriting duo, who were behind some of The Monkees' smash-hit songs, including I Wanna Be Free and Last Train to Clarksville - passed away at his ...