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PopFanDoug: /* Zappa about The Monkees */ typo

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Zappa about The Monkees: typo

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-[[Category:Favorite Artists|Monkees, The]]
+[[Category:Favorite Pop Musicians|Monkees, The]]
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 [[Category:Favorite Artists|Monkees, The]]
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 * [http://donlope.net/fz/videography/Head.html| Article about Zappa's appearance in "Head"]
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 [[Category:The Real Frank Zappa Book (The List)|Monkees, The]]
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-[[Category:Interviews with Zappa|Monkees, The]]
+[[Category:TV Interviews with Frank Zappa|Monkees, The]]
 [[Category:Side Projects|Monkees, The]]
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	'''The Monkees''' were an American pop group who were popular from 1966 until the end of the decade. They were the stars of their own surreal comedy TV show and obviously inspired by [[The Beatles]]. They scored hits like ''"I'm A Believer", "(I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone", "Daydream Believer" and "Last Train to Clarksville"''.		'''The Monkees''' were an American pop group who were popular from 1966 until the end of the decade. They were the stars of their own surreal comedy TV show and obviously inspired by [[The Beatles]]. They scored hits like ''"I'm A Believer", "(I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone", "Daydream Believer" and "Last Train to Clarksville"''.

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 * [[Wikipedia:The Monkees| Wikipedia article about The Monkees]]
 * [http://www.dangerousminds.net/comments/frank_zappa_the_monkees/| Article about Zappa and The Monkees]
-* [http://globalia.net/donlope/fz/videography/Monkees.html| Article about Zappa's appearance in the Monkees' TV show]
+* [http://donlope.net/fz/videography/Monkees.html| Article about Zappa's appearance in the Monkees' TV show]
-* [http://globalia.net/donlope/fz/videography/Head.html| Article about Zappa's appearance in "Head"]
+* [http://donlope.net/fz/videography/Head.html| Article about Zappa's appearance in "Head"]
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 ==Frank Zappa==
-[[File:Mike Nesmith & Frank Zappa.jpg|350px|thumb|right|Mike Nesmith (left) and Frank Zappa (right). 11 March 1968.]]
+[[File:Mike Nesmith & Frank Zappa.jpg|500px|thumb|right|Mike Nesmith (left) and Frank Zappa (right). 11 March 1968.]]
 Zappa surprised quite some people by sympathizing with the Monkees and even appearing in a few of their projects. He appeared in The Monkees' TV series in the episode ''"The Monkees Blow Their Minds"'' (air date: March 11, 1968). There he appears in a sketch were Monkee Mike Nesmith interviews him. Zappa asks Nesmith if he can be ''"Mike Nesmith"''? Nesmith agrees but only on the condition that he can be Zappa. In bad disguise the interview continues. A later segment shows Zappa "playing" a car by beating it into submission. This is done in a Monkees-style montage to the Zappa song ''[[Mother People]].''
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-'''The Monkees''' were an American popgroup who were popular from 1966 until the end of the decade. They were the stars of their own surreal comedy TV show and obviously inspired by [[The Beatles]]. They scored hits like ''"I'm A Believer", "(I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone", "Daydream Believer" and "Last Train to Clarksville"''.
+'''The Monkees''' were an American pop group who were popular from 1966 until the end of the decade. They were the stars of their own surreal comedy TV show and obviously inspired by [[The Beatles]]. They scored hits like ''"I'm A Believer", "(I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone", "Daydream Believer" and "Last Train to Clarksville"''.
 ==Career==
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−	- ''"Everybody else ~~though~~ [[The Beatles]] were God! I think that was not correct. They were just a good commercial group. I preferred The Monkees."'' - Quoted from ''[[The Fabulous Furry Freak Brother!]]'' interview in Classic Rock, December 2012, by Mick Wall.	+	- ''"Everybody else thought [[The Beatles]] were God! I think that was not correct. They were just a good commercial group. I preferred The Monkees."'' - Quoted from ''[[The Fabulous Furry Freak Brother!]]'' interview in Classic Rock, December 2012, by Mick Wall.

	==See also==		==See also==

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 ==Career==
-While presented as a ''band'', the members actually playbacked during most of their performances. Most of their shows centered more on sketches and skits than music too, with [[Rodney Bingenheimer]] acting as a double for Davy Jones. This made them controversial among many fans of ''real music''. <ref>https://books.google.com/books?id=FB0O_HCpBy0C&q=monkees#v=snippet&q=monkees&f=false </ref> Nevertheless [[The Beatles]] themselves liked them. But after their third album they rebelled against their producers and managed to win their independence. They started recording their own music in their own style.  <ref>https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc19808/m1/#track/3 </ref> After their show was cancelled in 1968 their popularity gradually sank away.
+While presented as a ''band'', the members actually playbacked during most of their performances. Most of their shows centered more on sketches and skits than music too, with [[Rodney Bingenheimer]] acting as a double for Davy Jones. This made them controversial among many fans of ''real music''. <ref>https://books.google.com/books?id=FB0O_HCpBy0C&q=monkees#v=snippet&q=monkees&f=false </ref> Nevertheless [[The Beatles]] themselves liked them. But after their third album the Monkees rebelled against their producers and managed to win their independence. They started recording their own music in their own style.  <ref>https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc19808/m1/#track/3 </ref> After their show was cancelled in 1968 their popularity gradually sank away.
 In the mid-1980s, though, old episodes of ''The Monkees'' were rebroadcast on [[MTV]], which launched a revival. At this point the Monkees gained more respect from music fans too.
 ==Frank Zappa==