For Micky Dolenz, being the last surviving member of The Monkees doesn’t mean he’s carrying the legacy alone.
It means, as he put it, his bandmates are still there with him—every single night.
During a TalkShopLive interview on Monday, February 2, Dolenz opened up about performing after the deaths of Davy Jones in 2012, Peter Tork in 2019, and Michael Nesmith in 2021.
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“Well, now that it's been quite a while since we lost Davy a number of years,” Dolenz said. “Yeah. And there was that… the stress and, you know, pain of that. And then Peter and then Mike. But by now, you know, in a way… they have never left me because every night they're there.”
Dolenz explained that even though he’s now the only living member of the band, their presence is woven into every performance.
“Every night they're there. In the songs that I sing, because I sing songs that Mike might have done originally or Davy or Peter,” he said. “And I play a lot of video from the show and from, you know, our lives together, behind me all the time.”
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That wasn’t always easy.
“If there was a point after Davy passed and after Peter and Mike, that I couldn't turn around and watch some of the footage because I would frankly just choke up,” Dolenz admitted. “But like I say, they've never gone. It's like they're still there every night.”
The Monkees, formed for an NBCsitcom that debuted in 1966, became a cultural phenomenon almost overnight. What began as a television project quickly evolved into a real touring band, with chart-topping singles and albums that dominated the late ’60s.
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But for Dolenz, the legacy isn’t about chart statistics or accolades. It’s about the emotional bond that still exists between the music and the people who grew up with it.
“These fans in the audience that are out there, they were listening to these songs at 10, 12, 14 years old,” he said. “Those are your very, very formative years emotionally.”
Dolenz said that over the decades, countless fans have told him how deeply The Monkees’ music affected their lives.
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“I can't tell you the number of people that have come to me that, as children, were watching the show, listening to the music and saying, ‘Oh, you saved my life. I had a lousy childhood. Or you made my life. Or my friends and I would get in the living room and, you know, I'd be you, and somebody would be Davy. And those are very powerful moments in our lives, those years," shared Dolenz.
For Dolenz, that enduring connection is what keeps the band alive, not just in reruns or old records, but in living rooms, concert halls, and memories that continue to resurface decades later.
“The music, of course, is incredibly powerful and always has been, always will be,” he said.
And as long as those songs are still being sung, Dolenz made it clear: the Monkees never really left.
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