There are Many articles rightly calling The Monkees the world's first or original manufactured boy band most of them don't even mention The Beatles at all. The June 2000 NY Daily News Article Is Called,Monk-eeing Around With The First Boy Band In the New York Daily News article by Richard Huff which is about the then June 2000 VH1 movie about the Monkees, DayDream Believers:The Monkees Story he says the fact is The Monkees were arguably the first boy band long before anyone had actually coined the term,he then said the group started as a premise for a 60's television sticom built around a Pre-Fab Four meant to pick up where Richard Lester's two Beatles films -Help! in particular left off.He says later in the article that The Monkees were The Back Street Boys before any of the current Back Street Boys were born. He also quotes VH1's vice president of motion pictures Michael Larkin who says this film depicts them as they really were,the first boy band. A 2019 article in Naples News Hey,hey It's A Monkee :Micky Dolenz Talks Early Years Of Original Boy Band The author Bill Lamb of a May 2019 article The Top Monkees Songs Best Of The Pioneer Boy Band rightly says, The Monkees were the first boy band put together through auditions to take over the top of the Billboard pop charts. He then rightly says they were a boy model for countless boy bands to come over the next decades. There was also a great January 2002 Toronto Star article that unfortunately isn't online anymore and quotes from Micky Dolenz of The Monkees, The Monkees: The Original Boy Band? It compares them to The Back Street Boys, and New Kids On The Block and Micky Dolenz says The origin of the term boy band came from those only male vocal groups who wrote no music & played no instruments and were manufactured, and The Monkees were hired as actors to play a fictional genuine rock and roll band like The Beatles, The Monkees didn't even play any instruments on their first several albums, and even though Mike Nesmith wrote some good songs, all of their big best known hit songs were written by professional song writers. Thankfully there is no ludicrous mention of The Beatles in this article either. Hey, Hey It's The First Boy Band March 31,2001 by John Kelly in The Irish Times An article from July 2001 Orlando Sententinel says The Monkees are considered the Godfather of today's boy bands. Here They Come (again) The Monkees Return to TV in Documentary, Film The June 27, 2000 CNN article about the VH1 movie, Daydream Believers: The Monkees Story also rightly describes them as the original version of the manufactured boy band, The Monkees were Davy Jones,Mickey Dolenz,Mike Nesmith and Peter Tork.
In the UK Music Reviews May 2016 interview by Keven Cooper with Peter Tork of The Monkees, he's asked by the interviewer, Looking Back How Does It Feel When You Realize That You Were A Part Of The World's Very First Boy Band? In a May 2016 interview in Florida Today with Peter Tork in Florida Today, the interviewer Mike Nunez asks him, As one of the first bands to be branded through TV shows, merchandising and more, do you ever think of yourselves as the original boyband? And Peter laughs and says he's been asked that before. He then says it never really occurred to him spontaneously, but depending on how you define a boy band, he says I guess so on some level.
First of all, please refrain to label this wonderful rock and roll group as a boy band. It's insulting to them and even to this long timed admirer's of them. Second of all, at that time back in the 1950's no one used it. Thank you. .
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Ugh!!!! Not a boy band. By definition, they don’t tick a single box of what a boy band is.
There are Many articles rightly calling The Monkees the world's first or original manufactured boy band most of them don't even mention The Beatles at all.
The June 2000 NY Daily News Article Is Called,Monk-eeing Around With The First Boy Band
In the New York Daily News article by Richard Huff which is about the then June 2000 VH1 movie about the Monkees, DayDream Believers:The Monkees Story he says the fact is The Monkees were arguably the first boy band long before anyone had actually coined the term,he then said the group started as a premise for a 60's television sticom built around a Pre-Fab Four meant to pick up where Richard Lester's two Beatles films -Help! in particular left off.He says later in the article that The Monkees were The Back Street Boys before any of the current Back Street Boys were born.
He also quotes VH1's vice president of motion pictures Michael Larkin who says this film depicts them as they really were,the first boy band.
A 2019 article in Naples News Hey,hey It's A Monkee :Micky Dolenz Talks Early Years Of Original Boy Band
The author Bill Lamb of a May 2019 article The Top Monkees Songs Best Of The Pioneer Boy Band rightly says, The Monkees were the first boy band put together through auditions to take over the top of the Billboard pop charts. He then rightly says they were a boy model for countless boy bands to come over the next decades.
There was also a great January 2002 Toronto Star article that unfortunately isn't online anymore and quotes from Micky Dolenz of The Monkees, The Monkees: The Original Boy Band? It compares them to The Back Street Boys, and New Kids On The Block and Micky Dolenz says The origin of the term boy band came from those only male vocal groups who wrote no music & played no instruments and were manufactured, and The Monkees were hired as actors to play a fictional genuine rock and roll band like The Beatles, The Monkees didn't even play any instruments on their first several albums, and even though Mike Nesmith wrote some good songs, all of their big best known hit songs were written by professional song writers.
Thankfully there is no ludicrous mention of The Beatles in this article either.
Hey, Hey It's The First Boy Band March 31,2001 by John Kelly in The Irish Times
An article from July 2001 Orlando Sententinel says The Monkees are considered the Godfather of today's boy bands.
Here They Come (again) The Monkees Return to TV in Documentary, Film
The June 27, 2000 CNN article about the VH1 movie, Daydream Believers: The Monkees Story also rightly describes them as the original version of the manufactured boy band, The Monkees were Davy Jones,Mickey Dolenz,Mike Nesmith and Peter Tork.
In the UK Music Reviews May 2016 interview by Keven Cooper with Peter Tork of The Monkees, he's asked by the interviewer, Looking Back How Does It Feel When You Realize That You Were A Part Of The World's Very First Boy Band?
In a May 2016 interview in Florida Today with Peter Tork in Florida Today, the interviewer Mike Nunez asks him, As one of the first bands to be branded through TV shows, merchandising and more, do you ever think of yourselves as the original boyband? And Peter laughs and says he's been asked that before. He then says it never really occurred to him spontaneously, but depending on how you define a boy band, he says I guess so on some level.
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First of all, please refrain to label this wonderful rock and roll group as a boy band. It's insulting to them and even to this long timed admirer's of them. Second of all, at that time back in the 1950's no one used it. Thank you. .
Yes finally someone has said it 👍^