Micky Dolenz and Paul McCartney got here collectively within the ’60s.
The Monkees drummer, 80, is trying again on the first time he met the Beatle, 82, many years in the past.
“The first Beatle I met was Paul [McCartney], the night before at dinner at his house,” Dolenz instructed Individuals in an interview revealed Wednesday. “I’d gone over to England to do a press junket, just myself. As it turned out, a publicist got involved and made it a ‘Monkee Meets Beatle’ thing at Paul’s house for dinner. Just me, him and Martha the sheepdog.”
From what transpired subsequent, it looks as if the guy musicians rapidly fashioned a friendship.
“He invited me to Abbey Road [studios] the next day,” recalled Dolenz. “I don’t even know if he told me the name at the time, but they were working on ‘Sgt. Pepper.’ I just about peed in my pants, but I’m trying to be cool. I got all dressed up thinking … I don’t know what I was thinking.”
“I guess I thought it was gonna be some sort of Beatlemania fun-fest freakout psycho-jello happening thing,” the singer confessed. “So I got dressed up in paisley bell bottoms and tie-dyed underwear and my glasses and beads and hair. I looked like a cross between Ronald McDonald and Charlie Manson.”
However when Dolenz bought to the session, issues weren’t what he anticipated.
“I walk in and, well … there’s nobody there! I was like, ‘Where are the girls?!’ ” he shared. “It was just the four guys sitting there under fluorescent lighting, like my high school gymnasium, in the middle of the day. John Lennon looks up and says, ‘Hey Monkee Man, you want to hear what we’re working on?’ From then on he called me Monkee Man.”
Together with McCartney, the Beatles included the late John Lennon and George Harrison and Ringo Starr, 84.
Dolenz rose to fame after being solid within the 1966 tv sitcom “The Monkees” earlier than touchdown the position because the drummer and lead vocalist within the band that was created for the sequence.
The performer is the one surviving member of the group after Michael Nesmith died in 2021. Peter Tork handed in February 2019, and Davy Jones died in 2012.
The present ran for 2 seasons from 1966 to 1968.
Trying again at what he would inform his youthful self when first being solid in “The Monkees,” Dolenz instructed the outlet, “Get an excellent lawyer. I’m not kidding. I gained’t say rather more besides this: Have you ever heard the time period ‘unconscionable bargain’? How concerning the phrase ‘pact with the devil’? Faust? You recognize the musical ‘Damn Yankees?’ I’m doing one referred to as ‘Damn Monkees!’ “
This summer time, he’s set to tour the nation and sing these Monkees classics.
“I’ve tried so much different material over the years. It’s all about the audience, as far as I’m concerned … You know, I’m not the kind of artist who’s gone down the path of reinventing,” Dolenz stated about what followers can anticipate.
“Not less than musically. We’ve all seen it occur with large acts. I’ve been to live shows for large acts who’ve numerous nostalgic hit tunes they usually don’t do ’em. Or in the event that they do, they do it with some contempt. Like, ‘Oh, I guess you want to hear this piece of s–t.’ “
