How did The Monkees get involved with ‘Head’? The last episode of The Monkees Emmy-winning television show aired in March 1968, during its second and final filming season. During that time, the ...

The 1968 film Head was a watershed moment in The Monkees’ career. The film depicted a series of vignettes amounting to a loosely interpretive message by the band signaling the end of their pop star ...

Peter Mills, in addition to being an author, is also Senior Lecturer in Media and Popular Culture at Leeds Beckett University. He has used The Monkees’ bizarre 1968 film Head in his teaching. It’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An 85-minute exodus into the heart of American media wasn't for the fans who were buying Monkees-branded lunchboxes, and those who ...

I don't think, as a teenage fangirl, that I realized exactly how bitter, how cynical, how teeth-grittingly furious the Monkees' 1968 movie Head is. How it starts with — more or less — a suicide: Micky ...

Limited edition 50th anniversary collection will feature all 58 'Monkees' episodes plus bonus features In August 2012, following the death of Jones, the three surviving Monkees reconnected, with ...

Rafelson "helped tear down the walls to essentially almost single-handedly create a new independent Hollywood film industry," Dolenz says — with the director's work on the Monkees' TV series and their ...

– Davy Jones, R.I.P. A post-flick panel will feature comedy scribe Julie Klausner, who hosts podcast “How Was Your Week,” Monkees historian Eric Lefcowitz, longtime rock journalist Kurt Loder, and ...

Forty years ago, Jack Nicholson and a bunch of dudes who would go on to do Easy Rider and Five Easy Pieces co-wrote their first avant-garde, marijuana-laced cinematic masterpiece. It’s purpose: to ...

This nearly nonsensical pastiche – co-written by an out-of-his-acid-dropping-mind Jack Nicholson, by the way – is like an American version of the Beatles’ Magical Mystery Tour, but with the Monkees ...

Hey, hey, they were the Monkees, and by 1968 they were sick and tired of their manufactured boy-band image, so they took a sledgehammer to it in... I don't think, as a teenage fangirl, that I realized ...