Singer, guitarist, songwriter of 1960s band The Monkees’ Michael Nesmith dies at 78

The band had three Top 10 Billboard hits during the show's two-year run. Three others, I'm a Believer, Daydream Believer and Last Train to Clarksville

Nesmith was a struggling singer-songwriter in September 1966 when The Monkees television debut turned him and fellow band members Micky Dolenz, Peter Tork and David Jones into overnight rock stars. Each episode rolled out two or three new Monkees songs, six of which became Top 10 Billboard hits during the show's two-year run. Three others, I'm a Believer, Daydream Believer and Last Train to Clarksville, reached No 1.

Nesmith and Tork, the group's two most accomplished musicians, railed against the program's refusal to allow them to play their own instruments at recording sessions. But when Nesmith revealed that fact to reporters, music critics quickly turned on The Monkees, dismissing the show as a fraud and the band as the"Prefab Four," a mocking reference to the Beatles' nickname, Fab Four.

At that, Nesmith rose from his seat and smashed his fist through a wall, telling Kirshner it could have been his face. "I really enjoyed being in the show. I really enjoyed working with Davy and Micky and Peter," he told Australian Musician magazine in 2019.Over the years he recorded more than a dozen albums and toured with the First National Band, the country-rock-folk group he assembled.

His 1981 comedy-music video Elephant Parts won a Grammy and led to PopClips, a series of music videos broadcast on the Nickelodeon cable network that in turn led to the creation of MTV.

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