THE BAND THAT BEGAN AS MAKE-BELIEVE: What started in 1966 as a television experiment soon became something the cameras could never fully contain. Davy Jones, Michael Nesmith, Micky Dolenz, and Peter Tork were cast to pretend to be a band — but their chemistry, their laughter, and their undeniable rhythm turned fiction into truth. Within months, The Monkees were everywhere: on record players, on posters, in hearts. They blurred the line between story and reality, proving that sometimes art doesn’t imitate life — it creates it. And even now, decades later, those bright harmonies remind us that a dream, once believed in enough, can sing its way into forever.
phil THE BAND THAT BEGAN AS MAKE-BELIEVE: THE MONKEES’ UNLIKELY JOURNEY FROM SCRIPT TO LEGEND It all started in 1966—not in…