" Bassist Peter Tork said, " Adios to the Manchester Cowboy ", and speaking to CNN, drummer / singer Micky Dolenz said, " He was the brother I never had and this leaves a gigantic hole in my heart ".

Dolenz claimed that he knew something bad was about to happen and said " Can't believe it ..

He referred to his Liverpudlian son-in-law as " Shirley Temple " or a " randy Scouse git " ( Randy Scouse Git as a phrase caught the ear of Micky Dolenz of The Monkees who heard it while on tour in the UK-and who co-opted it as the title of the group's next single-though their record label renamed it " Alternate Title " in the UK market to avoid controversy ) and to his wife as a " silly moo " ( a substitute for " cow " which was vetoed by the BBC's head of comedy Frank Muir ).

Dolenz was born at the Cedars of Lebanon Hospital, Los Angeles California, the son of actors George Dolenz and Janelle Johnson.

In 1965, Dolenz was cast in the television sitcom The Monkees and became the drummer and a lead vocalist in the band created for the show.

By the time The Monkees went on tour in late 1966, Dolenz was competent enough to play the drums himself.

According to Mike Nesmith, it was Dolenz's voice that made the Monkees ' sound distinctive, and even during tension-filled times Nesmith and Peter Tork voluntarily turned over lead vocal duties to Dolenz on their own compositions, such as Tork's " For Pete's Sake ", which became the closing title theme for the second season of the TV show.

Tork claimed later that he had not been asked, although a Christmas single ( credited to Micky Dolenz, Davy Jones and Peter Tork ) was produced by Chip Douglas and released on his own label in 1976.

The flip side was " Beverly Hills ", written by Dolenz.

Early in the development of Batman Forever, Dolenz was a contender for the role of The Riddler, which ultimately went to Jim Carrey.

On April 25, 2007, Dolenz was featured on American Idol on the " Idol Gives Back " episode when the show filmed celebrities singing and dancing to " Stayin ' Alive " by the Bee Gees.

Several months later, Dolenz was invited back afterward for him to do his long postponed 101st show, and his final in-studio appearance there at the station, by guest hosting on a three-hour broadcast stint during its Sunday evening New York Radio Greats program on February 3, 2008.

In Tork's commentary, he stated that Jones was a good drummer and had the live performance lineups been based solely on playing ability, it should have been Tork on guitar, Nesmith on bass, and Jones on drums, with Dolenz taking the fronting role, rather than as it was done ( with Nesmith on guitar, Tork on bass, and Dolenz on drums ).

In commentary for the DVD release of the second season of the show, Tork said that Dolenz was " incapable of repeating a triumph ".

Tork was credited with co-arranging a Micky Dolenz solo single on MGM Records in 1971 (" Easy On You ", b / w " Oh Someone ").

When she was 14, Micky Dolenz cast her as Tallulah in Bugsy Malone.

Micky Dolenz, on the strength of his performance as a biker on an episode of Adam-12, was Garry Marshall's original choice to play Fonzie.

Dolenz was several inches taller than the other cast members, and Marshall thought it might be better for Fonzie to be on the same eye level as the other characters.

" Kicks " was also covered by Micky Dolenz and Peter Tork of the Monkees as one of three new recordings included on their 1986 compilation Then & Now ...

Pip was once Prince Gofern of the planet Laxidazia, in the Dolenz System, in the Milky Way Galaxy.

Dolenz also released 2 CD's on the Kid Rhino label, " Micky Dolenz Puts You to Sleep " ( containing Dolenz chosen songs originally released by many major artists, given a " dreamy " touch too ) and " Broadway Micky " ( Dolenz singing choice Broadway standards ).

Three new songs were recorded by Tork and Dolenz for a greatest hits release.

In 1994, he released his first album length solo project, Stranger Things Have Happened, which featured brief appearances by Micky Dolenz and Michael Nesmith.

( See The Monkees # Independence ) " Randy Scouse Git ," a song written by Monkee Micky Dolenz about partying in London with The Beatles may be the first song reference to The Beatles in the line " the four kings of EMI ," EMI being the Beatles ' label.

Head is a 1968 psychedelic adventure comedy film starring TV group The Monkees ( in credit order: Peter Tork, Davy Jones, Micky Dolenz, and Michael Nesmith ), and distributed by Columbia Pictures.

* Yelnah Mij as Frodis ( Jim Hanley as ' Frodis ' – a slang term for marijuana coined by Micky Dolenz )

* Lead vocal by Mike Nesmith with backing vocals by Micky Dolenz, Davy Jones and Chip Douglas

* Harmony vocal by Micky Dolenz

* Harmony vocal by Micky Dolenz

* Lead vocals by Micky Dolenz and Peter Tork with backing vocals by Mike Nesmith and Davy Jones.

* Lead vocal by Micky Dolenz

* Lead vocal by Micky Dolenz

* Written by Diane Hilderbrand, Peter Tork, Michael Nesmith, Micky Dolenz and David Jones

The program ran for three years, after which Dolenz made sporadic appearances on network TV shows and pursued his education.

Dolenz wrote a few of the band ’ s songs as well as providing the lead vocals for such hits as " Last Train to Clarksville ", " Take a Giant Step " and " I'm a Believer ".

They also released an album of new material as Dolenz, Jones, Boyce & Hart ( they could not use the Monkees name for legal reasons ).

After the Monkees television show ended, Dolenz continued performing providing voice-overs for a number of Saturday-morning cartoon series including The Funky Phantom, Partridge Family 2200 A. D., Scooby-doo, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kids, Devlin and Wonder Wheels ( from The Skatebirds ).

In June 2006, Dolenz played Charlemagne at the Goodspeed Opera House for the revival of the musical Pippin in East Haddam, Connecticut.

Since 1986, Dolenz has joined the other ex-Monkees for several reunion tours, most recently in 2011 with a series of concerts in England and the United States, and has toured extensively as a solo artist.

" Dolenz has studied for a bachelor of arts degree with the Open University in the UK.

In the DVD commentary for the 33⅓ Revolutions Per Monkee TV special — originally broadcast April 14, 1969 — Dolenz noted that Nesmith gave Tork a gold watch as a going-away present, engraved " From the guys down at work ".

Peter Tork joined ' Dolenz, Jones, Boyce & Hart ' onstage for a guest appearance on their concert tour on July 4, 1976 at Disneyland, and following on from this later that year he reunited with his fellow former bandmates Davy Jones and Micky Dolenz in the studio for the recording of the single " Christmas Is My Time of The Year " b / w " White Christmas ", which saw a limited release for fan club members that holiday season.

In 1986, Tork rejoined fellow Monkees Davy Jones and Micky Dolenz for a highly successful 20th anniversary reunion tour.

The quartet performed live in the United Kingdom in 1997, but for the next several years only the trio of Tork, Dolenz and Jones toured together.

Also in late 2010, Keaggy did some session work with former Monkees member Micky Dolenz for Dolenz's solo album King for a Day.