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As one 'Rolling Stone' writer got to know Nesmith over the past decade, the Reluctant Monkee surprised him again and again. By the very end of his life, the man who was legendarily disgruntled over the Monkees' prefab ways had come to love the band as much as anyone
Death Cab for Cutie frontman remembers his friend and Monkees legend with acoustic takes on “The Crippled Lion” and “Joanne”
“You could never, never have talked him out of the farewell tour,” says Dolenz of his 55-year Monkees bandmate. “He was absolutely determined to finish that tour”
He was a musical visionary who fought for the group to write its own songs, and helped to invent country-rock on a series of cult-classic solo LPs
His new book ‘The Monkees: The Day-by-Day Story’ is packed with previously unknown info drawn from 2,000 pages of unearthed legal documents from 1967
