Michael Nesmith, who has died aged 78 of heart failure. As the songwriterly intellectual of the hugely successful 1960s pop group, he was deeply frustrated by the shallowness of teen idoldom.
Throughout the run of the Monkees’ 1966–68 television series, he agitated for a larger role in the writing and playing of their music – which was largely made by more skilled session players and writers – while agonising over the very nature of pop bands.
To hear him tell it, he had thought he was signing up to be a musician in a real group, only to find himself an actor playing one.
It threw the introspective Texan, whose visual trademarks were a woollen hat and muttonchop sideburns, into a spin. “What constitutes a critical path for a band?
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