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Henry Winkler celebrated his 78th birthday by visiting with the ladies of “The View.” He is best known for being the king of cool Arthur Fonzerelli, also known as “The Fonz” on the classic television sitcom “Happy Days.”Henry Winkler is 78. He has a long list of credentials. But first and foremost, the iconic actor is best known for his role in”Happy Days” as Arthur Fonzerelli.

Mickey Dolenz has 19 huge concerts remaining on his spring tour that will send him all over North America from April 4 until May 5.Along the way, the 78-year-old will bring his stable of hits to both New York and New Jersey.First, he’ll drop into Atlantic City’s Ovation Hall at Ocean Casino Resort on April 7.After that, Dolenz is set to perform at Chester, NY’s Sugar Loaf Performing Arts Center on April 10, Huntington, NY’s The Paramount on April 11 and Englewood, NJ’s Bergen Performing Arts Center on April 12.At all shows, Mickey D will play the Monkees’ seminal 1967 record “Headquarters” in full along with the hits you know and love while celebrating bandmates Michael Nesmith, Peter Tork and Davy Jones who are no longer with us.And some tickets are cheap.In fact, we found last-minute seats for the April 4 show on the tour going for as low as $14 before fees on Vivid Seats.Want to hear Dolenz play “Last Train To Clarksville,” “I’m A Believer” and “The Monkees Theme Song” for decent prices live?Here’s everything you need to know and more.All prices listed above were found at the time of publication and are subject to fluctuation.A complete calendar including all Mickey Dolenz 2023 tour dates, venues and links to buy tickets can be found below.As noted earlier, Dolenz is treating fans to “Headquarters” in its entirety for the first time since 1982 while on tour.However, he is also playing a number of other songs as well.What made the set list?Well, based on recent concerts from the tour this is a pretty good snapshot of what Mickey is playing on the road (along with a few videos thrown in for good measure) this year.01.) “Last Train to Clarksville”02.) “Take a Giant Step”Michael Nesmith tribute video03.) “Papa Gene’s

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Whenever country-rock pioneers of the late ‘60s and very early ‘70s come up — whether it’s the Byrds, Burritos, Poco, Michael Nesmith, et al. — the Rolling Stones tend to be left out of the conversation. Maybe that’s fine: It’s not as if there aren’t other reasons to bring them their (dead) flowers. Still, they were experimenting with hybrid genre elements as early as 1968’s “Beggars Banquet” LP. Those latent elements mostly stayed kind of latent: Even though Keith Richards — admirer of Merle Haggard, close pal of Gram Parsons — took it very seriously, Mick Jagger admitted, “I don’t know if I’m able to do it without being tongue-in-cheek.” But if the group could only move so close to country in the end, country was sure able to move closer to them over the years. Think of how many cues the loud and rowdy Southern rock movement took from the Stones before it started crossbreeding with country later in the century.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic California is in the house, and will be for the next three years, at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville. A major exhibition, “Western Edge: The Roots and Reverberations of Los Angeles Country-Rock,” has just opened and will run through 2025. The must-see walk-through traces a history of roots music in L.A. rock that expands to include the Byrds, Flying Burrito Brothers and Michael Nesmith in the 1960s; the Eagles, Linda Ronstadt and Emmylou Harris in the ’70s; and Dwight Yoakam, Lone Justice and Los Lobos in the ’80s, among many other influential and sometimes commercially impactful figures. Variety recently visited the museum and spoke with co-curators Michael Gray, the facility’s executive senior director of editorial and interpretation, and Michael McCall, the museum’s senior editor, about why the ’60s through ’80s were a golden age for country-inflected rock in Los Angeles. The two curators also spoke about a number of the artifacts on display, from numerous Nudie’s-tailored jackets that set the visual tone for the era to key musical instruments to handwritten scores and setlists and even band flyers — see the gallery of photos below.

John Legend took the stage at the 2022 Emmy Awards to honor all the stars that are now gone. The In Memoriam segment was one of the highlights of the night with the EGOT winner performing his new song “Pieces.”

The Monkees’ Micky Dolenz is not monkeying around with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).

A.D. Amorosi Though regarded by cinephiles as one of the architects of the “New Hollywood” largely because of moody character studies like 1970’s “Five Easy Pieces,” filmmaker Bob Rafelson — who died Saturday at 89 — will also always be adored for his co-creation and production of the decidedly less moody, madcap television series “The Monkees,” and for further directing that makeshift band in the comically avant-garde 1968 film “Head.”Rafelson is very fondly remembered by vocalist and drummer Micky Dolenz, the final surviving member of the Monkees, who shared his thoughts about Rafelson’s role in the creation and development of the group with Variety.  A wildly silly sitcom about a faux teeny-bop band meant that its producer-showrunners, Rafelson and Bert Schneider (who died in 2011), had to find a willing quartet of actor-musicians.

The Hollywood Reporter.Along with his late partner Bert Schneider, Rafelson co-created the classic NBC sitcom The Monkees, which premiered in 1966. The pair had been inspired by The Beatles‘ 1964 film A Hard Day’s Night, and they decided to develop a TV series about a fictional band.Rafelson served as a producer and later executive producer on the show, and also directed several episodes.

Every year, some notable names are left out of the Academy’s tribute to those who passed away in the last year.

Bob Saget's fans took to Twitter after the94th Academy Awards to express their discontent for the star being left out of the show's memorial montage.The show honored show business greats who passed away in the past year, but they left out the Full House star, who died in January at age 65.One disappointed fan took to Twitter to tweet, 'Cancel the #oscars for not mentioning Bob Saget in the Memoriam.'The Monkees' Michael Nesmith, Norm Macdonald, Sex and the City star Willie Garson, Mary Tyler Moore Show star Ed Asner and Robert Downey Jr’s actor-director father Robert Downey Sr were also left out. Snub: Bob Saget fans took to Twitter after the 94th Academy Awards to express their discontent for Bob Saget being left out of the show's memorial montageSaget's career was primarily based in TV, but the star directed the comedy Dirty Work and also the satirical documentary Farce of the Penguins.One disgruntled viewer wrote online, 'How do you [forget] Bob Saget in the Memorium...

Pat Saperstein Deputy EditorThe Oscars In Memoriam segment gave viewers a chance to remember the memorable names in film who died over the past year. But every year, viewers are surprised to see that a few recognizable names were omitted.Beloved comedian Bob Saget, who had a small handful of film appearances in movies including Richard Pryor’s “Critical Condition,” drew the most outrage on social media.

Chris Willman Music WriterMicky Dolenz has announced a “Micky Dolenz Celebrates the Monkees” tour, in which he’ll keep the torch for the band alive with a series of shows that will utilize multi-media elements to honor the legacy of the ’60s band, and put to further use the “Mike and Micky Show” band that accompanied him and late member Michael Nesmith on tour in recent years.For now, the tour has only seven dates, all concentrated in the Midwest and South. It may be a test run for a longer tour, as manager Andrew Sandoval indicated in a social media post that they don’t know yet whether there will be further dates beyond these or not.The opening night is at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium April 6, and will be followed by shows in Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio and Illinois before a concluding date, for now, in Madison, Wisconsin April 16.

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Michael Nesmith, who has died aged 78 of heart failure. As the songwriterly intellectual of the hugely successful 1960s pop group, he was deeply frustrated by the shallowness of teen idoldom.

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Chris Willman Music WriterIn the future, when they talk about performers who did it all the way to the end, they may talk about Michael Nesmith, who died Friday of heart failure at 78. When he enthusiastically pushed to do a Monkees farewell tour this fall with his longtime compatriot Micky Dolenz, he probably had little idea that the end was so close at hand, but certainly he and others knew that the window was closing on how long he had to put himself out in front of fans for any extended trek.

The Monkees star Michael Nesmith has died aged 78. The singer and guitarist of the famous 1960s group has passed away at the age of 78 while surrounded by loved ones, his family confirmed on Friday (10.

The Monkees, which told the story of four young men trying to make their names as America’s answer to The Beatles. The other members were Micky Dolenz, Peter Tork and Davy Jones.

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A.D. Amorosi The late Michael Nesmith loved returning to the Monkees and the foursome’s hit catalog in recent years as a celebration of his friendship with Mickey Dolenz.

Michael Nesmith, a singer and guitarist for the 1960s group The Monkees, died on Friday at his home in Los Angeles at the age of 78. His family announced his passing in a statement, reading: 'With infinite love, we announce that Michael Nesmith has passed away this morning in his home, surrounded by family, peacefully of natural causes.