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Ep 9 - The Monkees and their surreal career suicide

19 min · 7. juni 2026
episode Ep 9 - The Monkees and their surreal career suicide cover

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Today we take a deep dive and look at The Monkees - How a manufactured band fought for creative legitimacy, made one of the strangest films in Hollywood history, and were destroyed for it.

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