Micky Dolenz on How The Monkees Went from TV Band to Real-Life Band

Published: June 16, 2020, 4 p.m.

Micky Dolenz was a successful child-actor, but he became a full-fledged star at 20 in 1966 as the exuberant singer and drummer of The Monkees -- or rather, as the actor playing that character.\xa0 At first, the\xa0band was a creation of NBC and only existed on