![]() But I only had to learn what I had to learn. And not long after that, we were rehearsing to go on the road to perform. But in all honesty, I don’t think we could have recorded Headquarters before we did. That’s what he had been promised from the get-go. We can be writing, singing, and playing.” I was quite happy singing the stuff I was singing, getting the hit records, but Nesmith kept saying, “We can do this, guys. We sort of had a palace coup, I guess you’d call it, led by Nesmith. ![]() It was the first time they sort of gave us the reins. That isn’t stopping Micky Dolenz from finally following through on that dream: On The Monkees Celebrated by Micky Dolenz tour, which he kicks off on April 1, he hopes to play Headquarters straight through at every stop. Sadly, Davy Jones, Peter Tork, and Michael Nesmith all died before it could happen. And for the past decade, there’s been talk of staging a special tour to celebrate the album. This seemed like a crazy move to many in the industry who saw little need to alter a winning formula, but Headquarters debuted at Number 1 on the Billboard 200 and sold by the millions. They also wrote half the songs, and handpicked the others. With the exception of bass, the Monkees play all the instruments on the album. This led to giant hits like “I’m a Believer” and “Last Train to Clarksville,” but the Monkees felt like frauds and successfully lobbied to be given complete control with Headquarters. Prior to the June 1967 LP, the band’s songs were selected by outside producers and largely played by studio pros, leaving the four members of the actual group little to do beyond providing vocals. The musical career of the Monkees can be neatly divided into two distinct periods: before Headquarters and after Headquarters.
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