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  The Monkees - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
All four Monkees were trained in both improvisational comedy and stage presence as a group before the pilot episode was filmed, so that they could look and act like a cohesive band even though it was only their voices being used on the initial recordings.
The Monkees, selected specifically to appeal to the youth market with their manufactured personae and carefully produced singles, are sometimes popularly seen as the original precursor to the modern proliferation of studio and corporation-created bands.
The Monkees found unlikely fans among musicians of the punk rock period of the mid-1970s.
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 The Monkees - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Monkees were a four-person band of the 1960s, as well as a television show of the same name featuring the band.
Critics of the Monkees complained that they were a made-for-TV knockoff of The Beatles (although John Lennon was allegedly a fan of the show), and that the Monkees were a group chosen by a casting director.
In 1986, a Monkees TV show marathon on the video music channel MTV re-launched the Monkees, sparking worldwide interest by both original fans and their children, who flocked to see the Monkees in sold-out shows.
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 The Monkees - Voyager, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Critics of The Monkees complained that they were a made-for-TV knockoff of The Beatles (although John Lennon was a fan of the show, comparing its humor to The Marx Brothers), and that The Monkees were a group chosen by television producers Schneider and Rafelson.
A Monkees TV show marathon on the video music channel MTV re-launched the group, sparking worldwide interest by both original fans and their children, who flocked to see Dolenz, Jones and Tork on their "20th Anniversary Tour." The marathon effectively resurrected Monkeemania, and the tour was forced to move from smaller venues to larger stadiums.
The Monkees, selected specifically to appeal to the youth market with their manufactured personae and carefully produced singles, can be seen as the original precursor to the modern proliferation of studio and corporation-created bands, or the modern boy band.
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 The Monkees   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Without hesitation, my answer is "The Monkees Greatest Hits." Their upbeat music has stood the test of time...
The Monkees Music Vault offers a complete and easy to navigate discography of every release made by the Monkees and their members...
THE MONKEES BIOGRAPHY: Unlike most bands, The Monkees were not formed by its members but rather by TV producers.
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 Edge: THE GUARDIAN
He went on to become a successful literary agent, specialising in top science writers and — with an online 'intellectual salon' — building a reputation as a tireless promoter of influential ideas.
In 1968 John Brockman was promoting a film called Head, starring the Monkees.
His idea of publicity was simply to have the whole town covered in posters showing a head, with no caption.
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