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The biggest and most comprehensive Monkees book ever! In 1965 America launched its assault on The Beatles - a blueprint boy band assembled by audition called The Monkees who against all the odds triumphed with their music, their personalities and their zany halfhour TV shows. Remembered now for hits like 'I'm A Believer', 'Last Train To Clarkesville and 'Daydream Believer', the quartet of Davy Jones, Micky Dolenz, Peter Tork and Mike Nesmith spent three years in a blazing spotlight before disintegrating into a mess of recriminations and ill-feeling. With contributions from all the major players in the Monkees' saga - including the four Monkees themselves - Reel To Real is an oral history of the group that follows their adventures from the concept dreamed up by businessmen through to their eventual split. Along the way we learn how they came together in the first place, how each record and TV show was made, how they fared when they toured the world, the background to their controversial movie Head! and the financial chaos that loomed with the realization that the only ones who didn't make any money out of The Monkees were The Monkees themselves.

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The biggest and most comprehensive Monkees book ever! In 1965 America launched its assault on The Beatles - a blueprint boy band assembled by audition called The Monkees who against all the odds triumphed with their music, their personalities and their zany halfhour TV shows. Remembered now for hits like 'I'm A Believer', 'Last Train To Clarkesville and 'Daydream Believer', the quartet of Davy Jones, Micky Dolenz, Peter Tork and Mike Nesmith spent three years in a blazing spotlight before disintegrating into a mess of recriminations and ill-feeling. With contributions from all the major players in the Monkees' saga - including the four Monkees themselves - Reel To Real is an oral history of the group that follows their adventures from the concept dreamed up by businessmen through to their eventual split. Along the way we learn how they came together in the first place, how each record and TV show was made, how they fared when they toured the world, the background to their controversial movie Head! and the financial chaos that loomed with the realization that the only ones who didn't make any money out of The Monkees were The Monkees themselves.

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