The Monkees talk us through their albums in the new issue of Uncut – dated August 2015, it's on sale in UK shops and available to download now. In the piece, Micky Dolenz and Peter Tork explain how they were essentially a garage band, recall making the film Head with Jack Nicholson and discuss th...
The Monkees talk us through their albums in the new issue of Uncut – dated August 2015, it’s on sale in UK shops and available to download now.
In the piece, Micky Dolenz and Peter Tork explain how they were essentially a garage band, recall making the film Head with Jack Nicholson and discuss the reasons they split after just a few productive years.
Talking about the group’s unheard recordings, Dolenz explains that there are still unreleased songs in the archives.
“When the [TV] show was on the air,” he explains, “they wanted at least a couple of new songs every week, so the producers and us were told, ‘Just get in there, and make stuff!’
“So we ended up with a library [of songs], and there’s really good stuff to this day still sitting in the vaults.”
“Going our separate ways was a grave disappointment to me,” says Peter Tork. “I was hoping we had something as a band, but I didn’t know how to make it happen.”
The Monkees’ Micky Dolenz and Peter Tork perform at London’s Eventim Apollo on September 4th.
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