And the catalog they left behind is every bit as worthy of the honor, from those first four albums, all of which hit No. 1, through “The Monkees Present,” which gently grazed the album charts ...

To this day, it feels like The Monkees have never received their due. Granted, they were manufactured in the beginning. But how many other artists or bands that were guided by management or record ...

His song “Cherry Cherry” made it to #6, and Don Kirshner, producer of The Monkees, heard it on the radio and figured it was exactly the kind of thing that The Monkees needed. So Kirshner asked ...