Sad news. I grew up with the Monkees in endless reruns on TV during the '70s and '80s.
My son has started collecting vinyl and bought some Monkees LPs at our local used record store. The owner and I concurred that even though they didn’t play their instruments (not at first, anyhow), they had the best songwriters in the business writing for them and the best LA session musicians (the Wrecking Crew) playing for them, so it was still some really good music.
