Why The Monkees Matter: Teenagers, Television and American Pop Culture
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I remember I would try not to miss any episode, being a fan of the band and the stories , as well as being crazy about the car.
It was another era, another moment in US history.
It was one of the few programs in color at the time, but most TVs were still black and white in Puerto Rico.
I was just a kid , and The Monkees were my inspiration, of “fun times ahead” for me.
At the time, I was un aware they were not a “real band”, just a script played , as if they were.
It would of been a real dissapointment; so Im happy I came to know of this many decades later.
I do know they eventually tried their luck and became a band playing on stage, live , ( what there rolls were in the series ).
This was news for me, as I always thought of them as the real thing…In a way they were, under the reality of what the nation was at that moment in time…
That said, Im still a fan of all the songs as well as the converted GTO into the Monkeemobil….great memories that will last for ever.
The theme song is always in my memory, “yey yey were the Monkees”…..