We Love The Monkees (Mon, 9pm, ITV1)
Micky Dolenz and Peter Tork talk about their experiences in the first manufactured boyband and reveal all about the early days. There is some rare footage of Davy Jones, who began his showbiz career as Ena Sharples’ grandson in ‘Coronation Street’. Micky and Peter talk about Monkeemania sweeping England and their time in America in the hastily-assembled TV show that reacted to The Beatles’ astonishing 1964 ...
more We Love The Monkees (Mon, 9pm, ITV1)
Micky Dolenz and Peter Tork talk about their experiences in the first manufactured boyband and reveal all about the early days. There is some rare footage of Davy Jones, who began his showbiz career as Ena Sharples’ grandson in ‘Coronation Street’. Micky and Peter talk about Monkeemania sweeping England and their time in America in the hastily-assembled TV show that reacted to The Beatles’ astonishing 1964 conquest of that country. As Micky says of the knockabout 60-episode caper: “There was nothing like that on television. The only time you saw long-haired kids on television, they were being arrested.” Fans talk about their experiences of meeting their heroes, and the anguish and betrayal they feel when it was eventually revealed that Davy had a girlfriend. Teenage girl fans: scary, then as now.
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