Mickey Dolenz says The Monkees was "heavily weighted toward improvisation" rather than musicality.
The 80-year-old drummer - who is the only surviving member of the I'm A Believer hitmakers, which included Mike Nesmith, Davy Jones and Peter Tork - has recalled the group's beginnings on a sitcom of the same name from 1966 to 1968, and how that impacted the way the act were handled behind the scenes in the early days.
