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How many monkees.....

Post by macliam » Fri Dec 10 2021 8:32pm

Hey Hey… Mike Nesmith has died of natural causes, age 78.
https://www.theguardian.com/music/20...s-dies-aged-78
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The Monkees were a thing.... cringingly, embarassingly American but the music was good.

Nesmith was the most vocal against the confected image of the Monkees and paid the penalty when he left in 1970, having to pay $450k to get out of his contract, a sum that left hm financially crippled for a decade.

He had to cancel the last four dates of his 2018 tour with Micky Dolenz and it later transpired that he had undergone quadruple bypass heart surgery, and had been hospitalized for over a month.
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Re: How many monkees.....

Post by blythburgh » Sat Dec 11 2021 9:33am

sad news
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Re: How many monkees.....

Post by macliam » Sun Dec 12 2021 1:03pm

blythburgh wrote:
Sat Dec 11 2021 9:33am
sad news
Bless you bb, you appear to be the only person who appreciates these posts, which take considerably more effort to put together than a simple cut and paste or clever comment on an existing thread......

kev is no longer with us, there are no longer any imutual quizzes or competitions and the overall content level has diminished. As seems to have happened with our regular "on this day" posts, etc., a poster will only shout into the vaccuum for so long before giving up - and if we all give up posting such content then the forums will die.
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Re: How many monkees.....

Post by MrsXfile » Sun Dec 12 2021 1:39pm

Thank you macliam for posting this. I wasn't aware that Mike Nesmith had died. just last week I watching a TV programme about the Monkeys and how they were formed. I used to love watching their shows when I was a kid and years later my own children liked to watch the re runs.

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