Micky dolenz is an actor, singer, director, producer, writer, radio dj, inventor, and all-around performer extraordinaire, and stands tall as a paragon of taste and accomplishment in the rough-and-tumble world of show business and entertainment.
Micky is best known as a vocalist and drummer of the 1960s pop legend the monkees.
The monkees not only achieved great success as a tv show, but also as a recording artists, selling more than 65 million units, and achieving worldwide success. Their first four albums – the monkees (1966); more of the monkees (1967); headquarters (1967); and pisces, aquarius, capricorn and jones, ltd. (1967) all reached the number-one position on the charts and launched three number-one singles: “last train to clarksville,” “i'm a believer” (both with lead vocals by micky), and “daydream believer.”
The group's first five albums also went platinum.
Micky has also released several critically acclaimed solo albums: king for a day, remember, and a little bit broadway, a little bit rock and roll.
The monkees also re-grouped for a 50th anniversary album in 2016 entitled good times on rhino. Micky toured in 2019 as part of the it was fifty years ago today: a celebration of the beatles white album with christopher cross, todd rundgren, and joey molland of badfinger.
In march of 2019, he released the award-winning album dolenz sings nesmith on england’s 7a records.
Micky has also toured extensively on his own fronted micky dolenz celebrates the monkees; which was a sell-out at every stop.