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Teens in London marching to the US Embassy protesting Davy Jones being eligible to be drafted by the US Army in Spring, 1967. Even though Davy was a British subject he was eligible for the US Draft since he was a permanent US citizen on a green card since he worked and lived in the US. All men 18-25, US citizens or those with permanent citizen status were required to register for the draft back then.

Micky Dolenz ⋆ The Monkees ♪₊ ˚♬ ﾟ March 8, 1945

I think it’s reallyyyyyy funny that paul mccartney only had to share music with john lennon and that would’ve been haunting enough but he actually decided to pick up a camera and make his entire hobby as a photographer about him too. and then later in life he picked up a pencil and decided you know what I’m gonna make painting and drawing about john lennon too. matter of fact every book I’ve ever read is about john too.

Davy and Peter driving the Monkeemobile

what i would do if i saw him

thinking about them always

How much emotional damage can one Monkee and a steel guitar do?

Princess Gwen was so beautiful here ignore the lowly peasant

WE ARE NOT GAY!

this isn't even a sketch to me. he's talking to me

Mijacogeo/The Frodis Caper The Monkees 𖦹 2x26

It is kinda insane how wild the Monkees are when you look into it. They were hired for a TV show but started an internal revolution where they kicked out their music supervisor to have control of their own music. They made a movie deconstructing their image and Hollywood in general. Their music spanned several genres including some very experimental stuff that would influence later music. They met and befriended the Beatles. They wrote and/or directed some of their episodes. One of them is the son of the woman who invented liquid paper (white-out) and then he would go on to basically invent MTV before he sold the concept to those who made MTV. They have some of the first music videos. They fucked. One of them even was known for his orgies. They sometimes hated each other but still loved each other as brothers. There is an FBI file on them allegedly spreading communist and anti-american propaganda at their concerts. They had a song that had to have its lyrics changed because it was too intensely political, even alluding to JFK’s assassination not being done by Lee Harvey Oswald in 1969. Their TV show was revolutionary in structure and content. Disney stars and boy bands would not exist without them. They had Jimi Hendrix open for them. One of them was a member of the Hollywood vampires. And that isn’t even all.

And yet most people don’t take them seriously.

Davy: “Well, I was brought it in the slums, I had to fight my way out of filth and poverty!” Mike: “Davy, you were raised in a residential area.”

Davy: “I had to fight my way out of a residential area!”

They were silly together…

They hated the way he served

"The Royal Flush" - The Monkees

unused shots from head (1968), from the NY action promo

it’s so cold today

I noticed that Davy crossdresses a LOT in The Monkees

Original image under the cut lol

i think it’s really funny that no one has ever truly been able to play john lennon without coming off a little cringe. it’s fascinating because john did say and do some TRULY cringe and horrendous things and yet had such innate star power and charisma within him that he just came off as cool. and absolutely no one has ever been able to successfully capture that. you can’t say that about anyone else. even elvis’ godlike charisma is copyable. but not john.

beatles fans in the 60s didn’t have tumblr so they had to meet up outside paul mccartney’s house every day. and if he occasionally had sex with one of them that was beside the point they were mostly there to see their mutuals <3

Morning routine

wake up

shriek with laughter

get out of bed