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sadTopic: Save travels, Nez...
Well...the day we dreaded as fans has unfortunately arrived. A Monkee wrench which has not only thrown a damper on our holiday season, but reduced The Monkees, the greatest made-for-television rock band ever assembled, to next to nothing.
Robert Michael Nesmith, The Monkees' equivalent to John Lennon, has, 20 days before his 79th birthday, hung up his wool hat...for the last time. (How ironic that he pass a good 2 days after the anniversary of Lennon's death!) Nesmith joins former mates David Jones (1945-2012) and Peter Tork (1942-2019) in that Monkee beach pad in The Great Beyond...where they are currently hard at work rehearsing for the ultimate: The Monkees Heavenly Tour.
Thus leaving Micky Dolenz as Last Monkee Standing. (Nothing more depressing than being saddled with that distinction...)
Nesmith was a man with many hats---Monkee, Christian Scientist, National Band front man, composer, solo artist, inheritor of Liquid Paper, video pioneer, movie producer----and he wore them well. Despite being saddled with his own business obligations, he always found time for appearing occasionally with his former mates during their many reunion tours from 1986 thru the recent 55th Anniversary Farewell Tour. Nesmith even wrote and directed the group's 1997 reunion special on ABC, Hey Hey It's The Monkees (a.k.a. "A Lizard Sunning Itself On A Rock"); it turned out to be the last nationally televised original appearance of The Monkees as a quartet.
They've always been there for us.
For over half of a century....they have thrilled us with their weekly adventures, amused us with their comedy, and entertained us with their music. Their popularity has journeyed beyond imagination. Their name has become legend. The quartet, the finest ever assembled. We have travelled beside them for one corner of the earth to the other. They have been our guides...our protectors...our babysitters...our jukeboxes...our inspiration...and our friends. Now, as we mourn the loss of a Monkee for the third time, we take solace in the fact that they have shared a lot of their talents with us, and will continue to, for numerous generations of Monkeedevotees to come.
To put it bluntly, David, Peter, Micky and Michael gave us the best years of our lives.
Thanks for the music, mirth, madness and mayhem, Michael. And say hi to David, Peter and Phyllis for us ...
In Fondest Memoriam:
ROBERT MICHAEL NESMITH
(December 30, 1942 - December 10, 2021)
Posted by monkeesfilmtv
at 10:07 AM EST
