Many people have fond memories of 'The Monkees.' I fondly remember it, too.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
My guilty pleasure, to be frank with you, is 'The Monkees.'
Wherever I go, people still shout out: 'Hey, hey, we're The Monkees.' And I never tire of that.
When I was 11 I became a massive fan of The Monkees. We had a so-called 'band' of kids on my street and we'd go along to people's houses and mime to Monkees records.
When I was 20, in 1957, and maybe you would say I was old enough to know better, but nevertheless, I was completely nuts about Buddy Holly. And I loved pop bands that had absolutely no intellectual pretensions whatsoever. I loved the Monkees.
My most favourite gigs that ever happened were solo, before The Monkees ever happened.
It was so much fun to do, play the blues and then play a Monkees' set on the same night.
The Monkees changed my life but ruined my acting career.
The only people who didn't like The Monkees were the French, and they don't even like themselves, so what's the point?
Original Monkees' songs were produced very thinly, on purpose.
Thelonious Monk was one of the musicians I most connected with early on. I'm a huge Betty Carter fan, and the way that Abbey Lincoln and Shirley Horn grew immensely from the time they were young is so inspirational.