‘After producing, directing, writing and creating my own TV shows and films, and starring in The Monkees, I can tell you there s no formula for a hit.’
guess the monkees, river, a band launched as part of the children s tv show, hijinks and putting music to it, and they were a result of simon fuller be fired from the spice girls, and the rumour as it actually stands for simon s club. they were a big group, selling the type of units that you could not contemplate these days for a pop group, and then paul was actually the first to leave in 2002, trying to form his own credible band, i think it was a ska punk band or something like that, but that did not really work out and a few of them got back together a few years ago. figs a few of them got back together a few years age- a few of them got back together a few years ago. as you are talking we have a picture few years ago. as you are talking we have a picture of few years ago. as you are talking we have a picture of recent few years ago. as you are talking we have a picture of recent times - few years ago. as you are talking we have a picture of recent times of- have a picture of
when someone from youth culture dies at such a young age. only a few weeks ago, maybe a month or so ago we were doing this light hearted, joyful story about the reunion which sparked so many imaginations and sent so many people back to their use and had whole social media talking. only a few weeks later we re talking about this and it is very shocking. remind viewers, people will be watching around the world, in their heydayjust how big is this band? big was this band? they were one of the biggest pop bands of their early 90s. it was one of the things, i guess the monkees, one of those bands that were large is a children s tv show getting up to hijinks and putting music to it. they were a result of simon pollard being fired from the spice girls. he thought i ll put
look at them as bubble gum pop, but they were such a hard working band as well. and yeah, i mean, you know, i grew up in australia and we knew the band. so, as you say, a huge british band, but also they had tv shows in about 100 countries. they did, yes. and miami seven, because they were meant to be a sort of cheeky modern version of the monkees. and i remember going over when they were filming in la, they re filming one of their shows and, you know, the monkees would turn up and just be seeing what was going on. so they were sort of loved globally and they actually broke america. they had a top ten hit, which a lot of bands, of course, don t do, but would love to. they were loved in asia. they were really global. and i think they shouldn t be underestimated. no, absolutely not. just tell us a little bit more about this comeback. obviously, this is a setback, a shock, and we don t know if that will continue the tour in october. butjust the lead up, the talks around this.