Monkee Business
The Revolutionary Made-For-TV Band

I am a huge fan of the Monkees, but this book was mostly just focusing on the negatives it seems. It was like reading a very long tabloid magazine article. Just showcased all the bickering and madness, but didn't really address the magic that was the Monkees. I was really hoping for more from this.......more

When I told a friend I was reading this book they were like "oh I couldn't read that, it would ruin my childhood vision of them" Why didn't I do the same? Because OOF. The egos. The pretentiousness. The ungratefulness. The drama! These grown men were petty AF with uncontrollable egos from the moment......more

If you only knew the Monkees as the four young musicians "too busy singing to put anybody down", you have two choices--don't read this book or be prepared for a harsh awakening. I was somewhere in the middle and, WOW, was *I* in for some unexpected surprises. Starting from the beginning of how the M......more

Lots of information and context. The writing itself was spotty and the book was poorly edited.......more

This poor little book needed a much better proofreader and editor than it had. Misused homophones abound, his prepositions are all over the shop, and like the Monkees themselves Lefcowitz takes his "mission" as biographer a tad too seriously. If he had only hired a decent proofreader, this fluffy re......more