“Daydream Believer” by The Monkees is completely inoffensive; however, Peter Tork revealed one word from the original song was removed because it was considered obscene at the time. Interestingly, ...

Back in June at New York’s Beacon Theatre, The Monkees, sans Michael Nesmith, were nearing the end of a trippy jaunt down a winding memory lane, when the spotlight shined on Davy Jones, who, with a ...

As all songwriters know, the song is such a small form that every aspect of it is consequential. The choice of one word, for example, can be momentous, and change the entire tone of the song. The ...

In The Number Ones, I’m reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart’s beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present. There’s a ...