In a February 2026 essay for Uncut, Dolenz, the last surviving member of The Monkees, detailed the moment he first knew he was famous 60 years ago.
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“We had a Christmas break, our first hiatus from filming,” Dolenz continued. “I had to get Christmas presents for my family in San Jose. So I went to this mall I’d been using since I was a child, right there in San Fernando Valley where I grew up. I opened the doors, walked in and suddenly heard screaming! There were people running towards me. I thought there was a fire. So I turned round and opened the door I had just come through saying, ‘Don’t run!' Walk! Calm down!’ That’s when I realized it was a herd of kids and they were running at me. I had to get in my car and drive away fast. That was the first time I saw how big it had become.”
Micky Dolenz said ‘nothing’ could have prepared him for the Monkees fame
“That was the first time I realized, “Holy s---! Something is going on here,” he said. “I had only been at the studio and at home. I had no idea what was happening.”
The actor and singer, who had been a child star on the 1950s adventure western series Circus Boy, told Music Radar that while he had a “taste“ of fame as a child star, it was nothing like what he experienced at the height of The Monkees craze.
"By the time The Monkees came along, I knew the score. But nothing could have prepared me for what happened with The Monkees," Dolenz added.
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