Micky Dolenz Biography

Musician Micky Dolenz was born in 1945 and began a career in the entertainment industry while still a very young boy. At the age of eleven, he starred in Circus Boy, a children’s show which ran for thee years. He learned to play guitar and sing, and performed with a number of local bands in Los Angeles before being picked up as the drummer for the band The Monkees.

The audition for the Monkees drew hundreds of hopefuls who responded to the ad, but only four - Michael Nesmith, Peter Tork, Davy Jones, and Dolenz - were lucky enough to make the cut. “Last Train to Clarksville” was the single that launched the group, and a successful television series and a string of additional hits followed.  The Monkees (1966), More of the Monkees (1967), Headquarters (1967), and Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones, Ltd (1967), with the hit singles “Daydream Believer” and “I’m a Believer,” hit the charts and reached gold status. The television series The Monkees maintained high ratings for two complete years.

Eventually, the Monkees disbanded, and Micky Dolenz embarked and a career as an actor, director, and musician. His television credits include Days of our Lives, The Drew Carey Show, and General Hospital, and he has directed episodes of Pacific Blue and Boy Meets World. A fortuitous turn of events brought the Monkees back to popularity for a new generation after MTV re-aired the series in 1986, and the group reunited for a new single, “That Was Then, This is Now,” a new album (Pool It!), a tour, and a reissuing of all their previous albums, to great success.

Micky Dolenz has continued to actively tour and perform. In addition to the occasional cameo in film and on television, Dolenz teamed up with his former Monkees members Peter Tork and Davy Jones for a 45th anniversary tour in 2011. After the untimely passing of Davy Jones in 2012, Tork and Dolenz reunited with Michael Nesmith to continue tours in 2012, 2013, and 2014. Most recently, Dolenz teamed up with Peter Noone to record An Evening with Peter Noone & Micky Dolenz, a spoken word album, in 2016.