But behind the scenes, Micky Dolenz, Davy Jones, Michael Nesmith, and Peter Tork were desperate to break free from the group's squeaky-clean image. Then, they met a young actor and screenwriter named Jack Nicholson.
So why did The Monkees want to deliberately make a film that squashed the lighthearted image that made them so successful? According to NPR, it was to shatter the world's perception of them and, hopefully, come out on the other side as more respected musicians.
In an interview with Vulture, Dolenz recalled creating the film with his fellow Monkees members, Nicholson and Rafelson. “We sat around all day long and part of the night talking about what we wanted to do, what we didn’t want to do, and what kind of a movie it would be,” he explained.
Ultimately, Head tanked spectacularly at the box office and ultimately set off a chain reaction that changed the band’s legacy forever. But did it actually end the band? Dolenz didn't think so.
“The TV show was off the air [it ran from 1966 through 1968], so in a sense there was no Monkees. The Monkees was not a group or a band. The Monkees was a television show about a band, an imaginary band that didn’t really exist and still doesn’t exist in that sense," he explained.
The Monkees Mike Nesmith, Micky Dolenz, Peter Tork, and Davy Jones/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty ImagesTo The Guardian, Peter Tork once declared, “The movie dropped like a ball of a dark star. The simile of a rock in the water is too mild for how badly that movie did.”
Ultimately, Head's legacy did alter the band's career. Although it was said not to be a catalyst for The Monkees' dissolution, Peter Tork left the band two months after the film's release, in December 1968. Mike Nesmith departed less than two years later, in early 1970. Micky Dolenz and Davy Jones continued as a duo until later that same year, when they recorded their final single.
Although it wasn't a hit initially, Head has quietly built a devoted following over the last six decades. The film's legacy proves that four guys hired to play a band on TV were far more adventurous artists than anyone gave them credit for.
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