Micky Dolenz

George Michael Dolenz Jr., popularly known as Micky Dolenz, is an American actor, television and theatre director, radio personality, and musician. He is famous as the vocalist and drummer of the pop/rock band ‘The Monkees.’ Starting his acting career with the stage name Micky Braddock, he starred in the adventure series ‘Circus Boy’, where he played an orphan adopted by a traveling circus. This role brought him to prominence. Passionate about music, he sang in two different groups—the Missing Links and the Micky and the One-Nighters. In 1965, he auditioned for a television series about a rock band called ‘The Monkees’ and was selected. A few days before the show ‘The Monkees’ was launched, the band released their first single, ‘Last Train to Clarksville’, which featured Dolenz as the lead singer. The song became a number 1 hit. The show was also a hit and won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series. He also directed of one of the episodes. Director Jack Nicholson made ‘The Monkees’ into a feature film called ‘Head’. Unfortunately, it flopped at the box office. After the series was canceled, the group eventually split. Dolenz then started performing on stage. He eventually moved to London to appear in a musical, ‘The Point,’ and stayed in England for 12 years, working as a director and producer in television series. He captured his experiences as a rock star in the book, ‘I'm a Believer: My Life of Monkees, Music, and Madness’.